July 9, 2004
Battling the Image of 'a Nerd's Profession'
Universities devise programs to lure more students to engineeringRelated article: Is there a science crisis? Maybe not
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Linda P.B. Katehi, Purdue University's dean of engineering, had seen the statistics. Applications were down at engineering schools.
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