Smith College's Picker Engineering Program is the first and only engineering program at a U.S. women's college. At graduation ceremonies on May 16, Smith made history when it awarded the first engineering bachelor's degrees ever offered at any of the nation's women's colleges.

The 20 graduating seniors, who come from 13 states and two foreign countries, have spent their four years at Smith immersed in a program that is noted for its quantitative rigor and distinguished by the importance placed on the study of the humanities and social sciences.

To date, the graduating students have been accepted into engineering graduate programs at Harvard, MIT, Michigan, Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton, Berkeley and Notre Dame. Two have received highly competitive National Science Foundation fellowships for post-graduate study in engineering at any U.S. university. Several have positions waiting for them at national firms in fields ranging from information systems to finance to construction management.

In a significant endorsement of the academic rigor of the program, five leading engineering programs have entered into direct enrollment agreements with Smith, enabling any Smith engineering student with a grade point average of 3.5 or above to automatically gain admission to selected engineering graduate programs at Dartmouth College, the University of Michigan, Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins or Tufts universities.

To meet the demands of the growing program, Smith is raising funds to build a $65-million engineering and molecular science building to serve as the Picker Program's new home.

	Meet the graduates
	Photo Galleries: Reception Candids : Gallery I, Gallery II
	Visit the Picker Engineering site

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