The Northwest Engineering Talent Expansion Partnership (NW-ETEP) is a state-wide effort to diversify and strengthen the engineering community.

We envision a statewide system in which all our undergraduate engineering programs are thriving and are at capacity to educate students. Where every student who is interested and prepared for engineering has an opportunity in the state to complete his or her engineering degree. Where students, particularly underrepresented minorities, women, and persons with disabilities, regardless of whether they begin at a community college or a four-year institution have a nurturing and supportive environment to achieve their educational goals in engineering.

To learn more about about the NW-ETEP program, please follow this link to see posters from the National Science Foundation STEP Grantees Meeting.

Goals of the NW-ETEP Program: increase by 100% the number of underrepresented minorities earning undergraduate engineering degrees increase by 20% the number of women earning undergraduate engineering degrees develop and implement a statewide strategy to fully utilize the capacity of all the state's engineering programs (and ultimately all STEM programs).