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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6
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- 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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- Shawna Vican, University of Delaware; Robin Andreasen, University of Delaware; Heather Doty, University of Delaware; L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware
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- Women in Engineering
policies (e.g. tenure clock extensions) and developingresources for faculty and evaluators (e.g. guidance on writing COVID impact statements). Wenext discuss emergent challenges as well as implementation strategies, including working withcampus stakeholders, promoting awareness of policies, and adapting existing programmingtargeting recruiting, retaining, and promoting faculty from underrepresented groups. Weconclude by offering guidance for how institutions can remain attentive to COVID-19 impactson faculty careers in the coming years, with a focus on ongoing evaluation of new policies andprogramming, and institutional research to monitor equity
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 9
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- Susan J. Ely, University of Southern Indiana
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retainingwomen engineering students? Do the virtual measures foster the same levels of self-efficacy inwomen engineering students as the previously offered face-to-face interactions? Do womenengineering students feel additional isolation from their peer group and perhaps question theircareer path when faced with an increased amount of online presence and the removal of criticalprograms aimed at increasing retention?While it is impossible to know the long-term impact on women engineering students due to thepandemic, it is possible to measure the immediate change in self-efficacy, sense of belonging andconfidence in program of study. This study measured changes in self-efficacy, belonging andconfidence of undergraduate women engineering students at a
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7
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- Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College
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and the Commonwealth supports key initiatives in diversity, equity, and inclusion atall levels. [12]In contrast, there is low participation of women and low representation of URM in STEM and ahigh number of women in poverty in the region. Common STEM barriers include a lack ofmentors and role models; lack of awareness and understanding of STEM opportunities; and lackof academic preparation for STEM degree programs. Societal and cultural biases favor somecareers (nursing and teaching, for example) over others (e.g., engineering and science) forwomen, meaning fewer women pursue certain STEM fields. Those who do sometimes lackfamily and peer support.OriginsPVWIS was founded on the idea of access. The range of access for women in STEM isdependent
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- Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality
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- Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Angela Harris, North Carolina State University; Christina Martin-Ebosele, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University
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- Diversity
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- Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering
intentions and destinations vary by students’ gender andrace/ethnicity? We examine students’ career pathways in other majors to contextualize patterns.Data come from the longitudinal, NSF-funded Engineering Majors Survey (EMS). The firstwave of EMS (EMS 1.0) was administered at a nationally representative sample of 27 U.S.engineering schools in 2015. A second wave was administered to 1.0 respondents in 2016, and athird wave, in 2017. Our baseline sample is maximally composed of 87 1.0 respondents whomarked that they were environmental engineering majors, 695 respondents marking civilengineering majors (our “peer” major), and 6,408 respondents majoring in other engineeringfields. Our longitudinal sample is smaller, requiring more of a detailed
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6
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- Kathleen Buse, Advancing Women in the Workforce; Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, NASA Glenn Research Center; L. Nicole Smith, NASA Glenn Research Center; Brian P. Kirkmeyer, Miami University
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“Gender, Work andLeadership”, which was focused on best practices to engage and retain women and minoritizedindividuals in STEM. The committee created and leveraged personal relationships via grassrootscampaigns to recruit, matriculate, retain, and support women students in the CEC. For example,committee members began a letter writing campaign, writing to high school senior girls who hadbeen accepted to the engineering program encouraging them to enroll. The committee membersbegan conducting outreach at their respective local high schools, and represented the Universityat the TechOlympics, one of the largest annual gatherings of STEM-interested high schoolstudents in the metropolitan area and state. The committee met with University staff
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7
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- Victoria Beth Sellers, University of Florida; Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida
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items from the survey. Due to page limitsin this work-in-progress study, we opted to include strategies used by women by engineering role(faculty, student, employer, etc.) in future work. Thus, we only present strategies womenengineers communicated in their writing when they were asked to expand upon a situational HCthey had to overcome in engineering.Demographics Out of the participants who shared a strategy (n = 154), the majority were 18-29-years-old (n = 121, 79%) (Table 1: Demographic characteristics of participants). Because weintentionally oversampled at some institutions, minoritized groups (n = 69, 45%) were morerepresented in this sample than is typical in engineering. Most of the participants did not considerthemselves to be
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5
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- Erica Haugtvedt, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology; Duane Lewis Abata, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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workingprogram for use as an assignment for students in beginning computer classes.Ada Lovelace: A Short BiographyAda Lovelace was the only legitimate daughter of George Gordon Lord Byron, the famous poet,peer, and politician [4]. Lord Byron achieved an immense reputation for his poetry and playboyantics in his own lifetime and is still regarded as one of the most important British Romanticpoets. Shortly after Ada’s birth, Lord Byron separated from his wife [4]. He died tragically ofdisease while fighting in the Greek War of Independence in 1824, when Ada was eight years old[4]. In 1833, the novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton wrote of Byron’s death: “When Byron passedaway, we turned to the actual and practical career of life: we awoke from the morbid
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- Women in Engineering Division: Panel on Advocacy and Allyship by Men for Women
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- Brian Kirkmeyer, Miami University; Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University; Lisa Abrams, The Ohio State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, NASA Glenn Research Center; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Washington Bothell; Philip Ritchey, Texas A&M University
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education, listening,not self-aggrandizing male efforts, and practicing what you preach. Ng, et al. [2] also providesguidance for allies; they note that allies should show empathy, understand their own identity andprivilege, and also highlight listening. It is also important for allies to recognize intersectionality[5]. Anicha, et al. [10] also discuss the importance of acknowledging privilege and power. Theseacknowledgements are especially important for male faculty allies who are more senior or whohave more secure employment positions (e.g., tenured faculty).Success in the academic environment requires balancing multiple demands (teaching, research,and service) and is dependent on peer review. Allies can help ensure that members of an out-group
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 10
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- Nacarid Delgado, Universidad Andres Bello, Concepcion, Chile; Karen Judith Correa, Universidad Andres Bello, Concepcion, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
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. Disseminating: The historic contribution of women in general and to the STEM disciplines, particularly, which they deemed exciting and motivating. The idea was to spread the importance of women participating in STEM to the community. 4. Sharing: With their peers organizing the event as workshop collaborators. Also, sharing knowledge and experience acquired in each of their training areas to a younger community.Concerning the above, Danny, a university collaborating student, commented, "Thanks to theposter session of the meeting, I learned about a paleontology pioneer, Mary Anning, which mademe connect and extrapolate the biological sciences with the study of creatures that have been onearth for millions of
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8
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- Shelly Gulati, University of the Pacific
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was doing a lot of the things I shouldn’t be doing and how I can change them. • Having the opportunity to discuss what I read and think more about how they play into my life was benefitial [sic]. • All the book chapters had great ideas on how to reframe thinking or be nicer to yourself (?) in order to achieve goals. I would like to grow into someone who is able to do that. • Ways to let it be easy – I constantly think that I have to do stuff myself and it makes it hard to [sic] me to really think long term about anything else. I also like the writing activities during meets [sic] to get my thinking cap on. • It was awesome to connect to a professor and my peer on topics relevant to all of us, and
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1
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- Marcela Alejandra Silva, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
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dropout rates can be achieved and thus achieve good academic behavior. However, thecommitment of the Faculty of Engineering at the university, through its mission, is to incorporatethose who aspire to progress [3].ReflectionConsidering students' interests, the Construction Engineering program is developing an electivecourse based on talks by successful women engineers in working life. The program is interestedin coordinating gender and self-esteem workshops focused on career women to learn to faceconflicts in predominantly male workspaces. The program supports students to form a newstudent center, providing facilities to encourage their peers to participate in the elections. It isessential to have a student center so that the students of the
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8
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- Gretchen A. Dietz, University of Florida; Kayla Julianna Kummerlen, The University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida
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it became evident that she felt encouraged, a sense ofbelonging, and supported. Stemming from this, Kayla and Gretchen had a collaborativeconversation that was recorded over Zoom at the end of Kayla’s internship in order to understandhow her experiences were influenced by gender and how they impacted her engineering identity.The conversation also brought up memories as well as other journal entries. The frameworks ofin/authenticity and engineering identity were chosen for this paper because of their relatedness tothe research in the form of assets. When writing her narrative, we aimed to use it as a means of“gaining cultural understanding” [5, p. 125]. This helped to ensure that Kayla was not merelydescribing her life and experiences but
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- Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality
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- Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder
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- Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering
right to live in a healthy environment… the issues addressed center onequity, fairness, and the struggle for social justice by black communities.” [11] Justice drawsattention to “equity, recognition, and participation” [8]. Participation and interactions that valuedifferent perspectives and avoid a deficit model are key conditions for social justice [13].The term ‘environmental justice’ appeared in 80 conference papers associated with the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education (ASEE), based on a search in the ASEE PEER system [14].The majority of the EJ conference papers were associated with the Liberal Education /Engineering and Society (LEES) division (11), Engineering Ethics division (11), andEnvironmental Engineering division (7
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6
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- Kairys Grasty, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Shivani Sakri, Arizona State University; Amanda C. Arnold, Idaho State University; Jennifer M Bekki, Arizona State University; Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Madison Natarajan, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University; Ashley K. Randall, Counseling and Counseling Psychology, Arizona State University
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.” Kelsey further noted that her decision to utilize counselingservices was bolstered by her fear that discussing these feelings with her administrators, boss,or peers would cause her to appear incompetent. For April (CTD), she recalled that thethought of seeking counseling services initially caused her to feel hesitant and “ashamed.”Yet, when her experiences in her doctoral program “got bad enough,” she felt that counselingwas the only option that would grant her emotional resolve. She reported, It was that whole imposter syndrome situation where I was just like I slipped through the cracks. I don't really belong here, or I look good on paper, but that doesn't mean anything now that I'm being put to the test. Initially, no, it