July 9, 2004

Battling the Image of 'a Nerd's Profession'

By KELLY FIELD

Universities devise programs to lure more students to engineering

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Linda P.B. Katehi, Purdue University's dean of engineering, had seen the statistics. Applications were down at engineering schools.