Mechanical engineering Archives - George M. Pullman Educational Foundation

Pullman Foundation Women in Engineering

Posted on March 20, 2017 (September 23, 2024) by doug

Pullman Scholar Alumna Valarie King-Bailey, University of Wisconsin – Madison, ’82, summed up the importance of engineers perfectly, “look around you, everything around you is courtesy of an engineer.” The air we breathe, the roads we travel on, the water we drink; an engineer has done something with it. With that in mind, the Foundation […]

DARE TO TAKE RISKS – Switching from the E in STEM to the T

Posted on March 14, 2017 (September 23, 2024) by doug

“You better do something that will get you a good job,” Jeanne Hultquist’s parents told her. She narrowed her career options to being a doctor or an engineer and ultimately decided to go the engineering route. In the fall of 1978, with the help of the Pullman Foundation Scholarship, she pursued her mechanical engineering degree […]