Nerd Girl Nation dives into climate change with Rashmi Shah, a NASA scientist who monitors sea levels, and Clara Nevins, a high-school activist determined to spread change. As these two demonstrate, accurate data will be key to slowing climate change. #S1E11ClimateChange

For the first time in the history of the university, the majority of engineering department heads at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are women. The university recently reported that, of the eight department head positions within MIT's School of Engineering, five are now occupied by female faculty members. Those faculty members include Asu Ozdalgar, head of MITEECS, or Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Paula Hammond, head of MITChemE, or Chemical Eng

An internship appearing on a recent engineering graduate’s resume can mean the difference between landing a job in a candidate’s field of specialty and finding employment elsewhere. This is due to the majority of engineering firms seeking out candidates with real-life, practical work experience. After all, problem solving, which is predominantly what engineers do no matter their area of expertise, is learned in the field and not necessarily in the classroom. Students with str

When Rashmi Shah was young, she spent time helping her parents, both scientists, process and catalog samples of plant matter that they had collected. This wasn't a one-time occurrence. Growing up in Nepal in a math-and-science household, science and research were a natural part of Shah's daily life, with her parents constantly encouraging her and her brother to explore the world. "Those early experiences helped instill a thirst for knowledge and discovery that has stuck with

In the Hollywood edition of Nerd Girl Nation, Carmen Cabana and Kathryne Jansen take us behind the camera to provide insight into the analysis, technology, and engineering that goes into video production and cinematography. #S1E10Hollywood

Kathryne Jansen's parents encouraged her to pursue a traditional career path. Like many parents, they wanted her to go to college, get a degree, and go off to work in a field with job security, good pay, and solid benefits. She tried this, applying to Berry, a private university in north Georgia, and earning a scholarship for early childhood development and education. But she never went. Jansen woke up one morning toward the end of her senior year in high school and just had

Carmen Cabana wouldn't say that she comes from a particularly artistic family, but the inspiration for her cinematography career did begin when she was a child in Colombia. Born with a leg issues, she had to wear a cast on both legs for a number of years, so she grew up enjoying television, paintings, books, films, and video games. Entertaining herself was mostly based on watching things because she couldn't move. She was an observer. This article first appeared in IEEE Women