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Graduate Student Steering Committee at the University of DelawareAbstractThe University of Delaware (UD) has had an active Women in Engineering (WIE) program sincethe early 2000s. The goal of WIE is to foster a warm climate in which all members of theCollege of Engineering feel welcomed and can be productive. WIE activities have evolved overthe years, but in the last decade most of the programming has been planned and executed by theWIE Graduate Student Steering Committee. Sponsored by the dean of engineering and overseenby an associate dean and faculty advisor, the committee is made up of two women graduate-student representatives from each of the seven engineering departments. The committee planssocial, networking, and