Kaylee Herrig set out early on her engineering journey, encouraged by the confident women in STEM fields whom she admired. But it was an “aha” moment in seventh grade that solidified her path — a news story about a man receiving an artificial hand.
“I realized you could apply the fundamentals of engineering to solve the problem of a lost limb,” she says. “When I learned I could study this in college, I thought, this is the way I can help the world.”
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Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, wrote in The Conversation findings that women engineers were more likely feel that knowledge was easy to access and were more likely to ask women colleagues questions.