Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

WICSE is an organization for all women graduate students in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of California in Berkeley. We meet every Friday at noon for lunch, organize social and academic events, and maintain several ongoing projects, such as running a Big Sister mentoring program for new women grad students. [The four women who worked on the first computer. L to R: Patsy Simmers, holding ENIAC board; Mrs. Gail Taylor, holding EDVAC board; Mrs. Milly Beck, holding ORDVAC board; Mrs. Norma Stec, holding BRLESC-I board. From the archive of Historic Computer Images.]

Recent and Upcoming...

• Schedule for WICSE Friday luncheons
  For a list of food places that deliver, see this page.
  • October 27: Mentoring Lunch for WOMEN in EE and CS this Friday at Wozniak Lounge
    REPORT by HOPPER CONFERENCE STUDENTS plus delicious lunch brought by Sheila!!
  • December 1: Mentoring Lunch for WOMEN in EE and CS this Friday at Wozniak Lounge
    
• Upcoming Activities
  Sep 7: Wine and Cheese Tasting by Graduate Woman's Project
  Sep 16: Acting Class by Woman's Will (an SF bay area's all-female Shakespeare Company)
  November 30: Ice Cream Social at Cold Stone Creamery (2204 Shattuk) 7pm!
  

• Conferences and Workshops
  
  • Oct 4-7: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
    We have 16 attendents this year!

• Fellowship Opportunities
  
  • L'Oreal USA Postdoctoral Fellowship / Deadline: Oct. 31.
    
  • AAUW Fellowships for Graduate Studies / Various Deadlines
    
  • Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program /Deadline: Jan 12
    
  • Google 2006 Antia Borg Scholarship / Deadline: Jan. 20
    
  Please click here for more fellowship information

• October 22-24, 2006: "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" Workshop at Rice University
  Application due Aug 15.

• July 18, 2006: Department Funding for Attending the Hopper Conference
  Funding available for attending the hopper conference.

• July 16, 2006: Feedback & Dynamics in Nature Workshop Application Deadline
  Funding available for attending FDN workshop.

• June 1, 2006: Grace Hopper Application Deadline
  Funding available for attending Grace Hopper.

• April, 2006: Mentoring Lunch
  There is a great picture of everyone there.

• MentorNet Here is a new program enabling you to get career advice *online* from an engineer or scientist! EECS and the College of Engineering have joined for Spring 2005. Please consider signing up!
      Here is an opportunity for women studying computer science, mathematics or engineering. Get "real world" information, encouragement, advice, and access to professional networks from professionals working in your field. Berkeley has joined MentorNet's One-on-One Mentoring Programs which pairs women engineering and science community college, undergraduate, and graduate students, postdocs and untenured faculty as protégés with female or male professionals from all sectors as mentors for one-on-one, email-based mentoring (e-mentoring) relationships.
  
  How can you find a mentor using MentorNet?
  1) Join the MentorNet Community. (http://www.mentornet.net/join)
  2) Sign in to the Community and follow the One-on-One Mentoring Programs

  Previous Events

About Us

• Members
• Our officers
• Current and recent Big Sister programs

Local Resources

Papers and Projects

• Survey run by some WICSE members for the panel at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2002.
  Also see the survey results and review.
• Trip Report and notes: Engineering Education Scholar's Workshop, 2002. by Megan Thomas.
• Ph.D. Student Attrition in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley by Linda Kamas, Caroline Paxon, Amy Wang and Ricki Blau (ps.gz | pdf | Appendix - ps.gz | Appendix - pdf)
• A Six-Year Picture of Women Graduate Students in EECS by Janice Hudgings and Sheila Humphreys
• Improving the Graduate School Environment for Women in Computer Science by Soheila Bana and Soha Hassoun
• How the UCB CS Parents Room and the UCB Parents e-mailing list came to be by Ginger Ogle
• Women in Computer Science - Why So Few? Who Makes It Through? by Huma Dar

Links: Women in Computing

• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2000 and 2004
• WITI - Women in Technology International, contains various resources to help women in technology in career and family, also have good links to other web sites involving women
• Mentorships for students interested in careers in industry
• Yale's TAP: The Ada Project, a large database of and about women in CS
• List of Fellowships for women & minorities
• Women's Wire: an interactive magazine for women
• CSPR's Gender Page (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility)
• Systers
• ACM Committee on Women in Computing
• CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
• Yahoo Index of Women's Studies
• Career Development Center - for grads, postdocs and young faculty
• Center for Women & Information Technology at University of Maryland, Baltimore Park
• Extensive list of resources related to "Women and Computing" collected by Dr. Henderson of Butler University
• Women Doctoral Graduates - EECS