Presents interviews with four minority women who were close to or had recently completed degrees in civil or mechanical engineering. Interviews reveal issues of class, race, and gender that affect school success in general and science success in particular. Makes recommendations for K-12 educators. Contains 36 references. (Author/WRM)

Despite receiving over 50% of associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees in the United States in 1990, women earned only 15% of engineering bachelor's degrees. Polynesian and Filipino women compose an almost vanishing percentage of these engineering graduates. To make visible the social obstacles minority women engineers experience, this paper…