Conference Session

International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

retaining student inengineering, particularly women and minorities. Results show a seventh-semester retention rateof 63% for students who enrolled in the projects course during their first year, compared to acollege-wide rate of 58%. In addition, 67% of women who took the projects course in their firstyear were retained into their seventh semester, versus less than 58% for females that did not takethe projects course8. The specific benefits of the Appropriate Technology sections relative to theother course topics have not yet been evaluated, and is a topic for future study.Senior Design Course with EDC ProjectsIn the three-credit Environmental Engineering senior capstone design course, teams of studentswork on projects for a single client or