Women in Engineering at Western University is a student group working to provide social and academic support for future and current females students. WiE was created in 1989 to increase the female representation in Western’s engineering program. Since then, female enrollment in Engineering at Western has increased from 9% to 18%. WIE has initiated activities and events to encourage female engineering students to get to know each other, to help orient new female students to university life, to encourage female high school students to enter engineering, and to provide a support network for career development.