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PLATTEVILLE- Female students from area high schools will participate in the UW-Platteville 2003 Women in Engineering Summer Institute. The Women in Engineering Institute is a one-week interactive summer residence program designed to introduce students to the different fields of engineering.

"We want to make sure they get exposed to all the disciplines," said Tammy Salmon-Stephens, director of UWP Women in Engineering. "The purpose of the institute is to expose them to different types of engineering and meet girls who are interested in the same type of activities."

Proposed sessions for the summer institute include the following:

• How does and engine work?
• The basics of how engines work.
• Computer programming and electric circuits.
• How to create a computer program and create an electric circuit?
• Environmental concepts.
• Water pollution and how to clean up the environment.
• Mechanical dissection.
• Students will take apart a common water pump, put it back together and then test it.
• Leadership development for young women.
• How women are perceived in the workplace?
• What is inside a computer?
• How to disassemble and reassemble the inside of a working computer?

The students will be visiting John Deere in Dubuque, Iowa, and will visit other companies in Milwaukee. The group will also visit Governor Dodge State Park to take water samples and enjoy the beach.

For more information on the summer institute visit www.uwplat.edu/wep. Registration, which includes tuition, a t-shirt, room, board and project expenses is included in the registration fee of $100. Registration for the event is still available by contacting Tammy Salmon-Stephens at (608) 342-1563 or at salmont@uwplatt.edu.