Women's
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Electrical Engineering & Computer
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The WTP-EECS curriculum
introduces students to computer science, electrical engineering, and
discrete mathematics topics. The 40 WTP-EECS students
are divided into 2 groups of 20 students; everyone attends each of the
3 classes daily. Click on the Daily
EECS Class Schedule to view the tentative plans for 2008).
The classes are fast-paced, but are designed for students with no prior
engineering or computer science exposure.
For a description of the WTP Mechanical Engineering Curriculum (a separate Track from WTP-EECS) visit the WTP-ME Track.
The WTP-EECS classes are taught by female MS/PhD graduate students from the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. These Instructors are assisted by female MIT undergraduate students who also live in the dorm as Residential Tutors. WTP is not a certified academic program and you do not receive college credit.
Computer Science
Students learn to think like computer scientists. Topics include
basic syntax, procedures, recursion, data structures and algorithms,
and object oriented programming.
Students write programs (using
the JAVA language) and create team projects that apply their newly learned
programming, problem solving and degugging skills.
Electrical Engineering
Students learn college level material covering both digital and
analog electronics through hands-on labs. Some topics include combinational
and sequential logic, transistors, semiconductors, filtering, operational
amplifiers and amplitude modulation.
In addition to the conceptual work
and labs, there is an extremely demanding project schedule including
a final project of the student's own choosing.
Discrete
Mathematics
The discrete mathematics curriculum covers a range of subjects
that directly apply to EE and CS. Topics include: probability, combinatorics,
algorithms, recursion, linear algebra, and graph theory.
Guest Speakers and Tours
MIT faculty and engineers from industry present information
about their research and career paths at lunch time sessions several
days each week. Tours of MIT labs or off campus facilities are also included
to highlight how and where engineers work.
Special Projects
Students select and complete final team projects for their EE, CS,and Math classes. In past years a 3-day stand-alone motor building project has also allowed students to design and construct a DC motor. Specific special projects may change from year to year.
We are looking for students who are not yet certain about their future college majors, who love and excel at math and science, and who would like to explore engineering and computer science in an academically challenging environment with other talented young women to determine whether these fields might be of interest.
Applicants should have high grades in all their high school classes, and be taking the most advanced classes in science and math (appropriate for their grade level) offered at their schools. Students admitted to WTP typically have little or no prior experience with engineering or computer science; however, they must be able to handle fast-paced college-level work. For more information about who should apply to WTP and admissions criteria, visit our Application page.