A model career preparation program for first-year engineering women at Purdue University is described. Key elements of this project, which is funded through the Women's Educational Equity Act, are: a course designed to provide engineering and career information and practical experience; a means of evaluating the methods and results; wide dissemination of all useful information generated by the experimental course; and the collection of information relevant to programs for women in engineering. The program includes lecture-discussions of contemporary problems in the field by role-model lecturers; career-planning and counseling session; and "hands-on" laboratory experiences broadly related to the field of engineering. The first experimental course was evaluated by pre-testing and post-testing with standardized tests and specially-constructed surveys relating to educational goals and self-concepts of students. The pilot course was revised and offered again as a set of three modules to provide more flexibility to meet student needs. Test results for both years (1977 and 1978) are included. Information dissemination about the program has included a slide-tape set about the model program and experimental course; conference papers; professional journal articles; an Associated Press news story; and public service television spots. A brief annotated bibliography focusing on pre-college backgrounds and college and post-college development of women in engineering is presented, and comments from two students are included. (SW)