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Climate Issues for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach; Lisa Davids, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach; Darris White, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

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workforce.To promote more female participation in the engineering curriculum, the Embry RiddleMechanical Engineering program has created a student project where undergraduatewomen design and build an off-road race vehicle for the SAE Mini-Baja competition2.The project is integrated into the Mechanical Engineering curriculum and is funded by agenerous grant from The Boeing Company. The project has increased womenparticipation in the project by 10 times compared to last year.This project has three goals. The first goal is to increase retention of women in thecurriculum. Potential women students turn away from engineering for a variety ofreasons, which are typically related to their perception of the engineering field3. Manyfemale students view

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International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

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undergraduate levels. Page 11.261.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Attracting Women to Engineering that Serves Developing CommunitiesAbstractThe University of Colorado at Boulder has created a program in Engineering for DevelopingCommunities (EDC). It is currently formalized as a graduate program within the Environmentalsub-discipline of Civil Engineering. Longer term plans are to create a certificate option forundergraduate students in the College of Engineering. In the meantime, a variety of courseshave included EDC-related content and projects. Service-learning and active

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Preventing Marginalization of Underrepresented Students on Teams

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paige Smith, University of Maryland-College Park; Linda Schmidt, University of Maryland-College Park; Patricia F. Mead; Stephanie Adams

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2006-2451: HOW TO PREVENT MARGINALIZATION OFUNDERREPRESENTED STUDENT POPULATION MEMBERS ONENGINEERING STUDENT TEAMSPaige Smith, University of Maryland-College Park PAIGE E. SMITH, Ph.D., Director of the Women in Engineering Program, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland. Dr. Smith has received several grants in the area of team behavior and improving team environments for members of underrepresented student populations in engineering. She provides leadership in recruiting and retaining female engineering students for the college. Her current research focuses on engineering design teams and project management.Linda Schmidt, University of Maryland-College ParkPatricia

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K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emma Seiler, Mississippi State University

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aprogram targeting past participants of Women in Action to continue their interest in science andengineering during high school. In 2001, the WISE Women program was introduced. It wasmodeled after the UFPME program, but shortened to one-week instead of two. Participants areintroduced to the ten engineering disciplines offered at Mississippi State University. They alsoparticipate in hands-on activities, with two major project competitions that are completedthroughout the week. Six to eight SWE student members act as counselors throughout the weekand faculty conduct and assist with activities and tours.Post-camp follow-up has shown that of the girls who are eligible to attend college, almost halfare currently in college. Of those, most are in an

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K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen White, Purdue University; Mara Wasburn, Purdue University

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programs include a substantial website component. TheBEST initiative15 argues that while websites may have some beneficial effects, they wouldbenefit more from increased curricular integration of science, technology, and math. To beeffective, web-based materials must direct the target audience to the resources, or alternatively,exhibit a strong interest in the subject in order to seek them out.16The Gender & Science Digital Library (GSDL) project has addressed the needs of teachersseeking to provide an “interactive collection of high-quality, gender-equitable science,technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) resources for K-12, higher education(community college and university), women's studies, teacher preparation programs, andinformal

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K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Firouzeh Keshmiri, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Ann Bloor, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Mary Jo Wellenstein, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Education, 2006 Wisconsin and Hawaii WIT Partnership to Encourage Women and Girls in Rural Areas to Pursue STEM FieldsAbstractXXX in Milwaukee, Wis., is spearheading a new partnership with Hawaii’s XXXX toencourage women and girls living in rural areas to enter into science, technology, engineeringand math (STEM) fields. The partnership’s mission is to: • Ensure that women and girls, especially in rural areas, have more opportunities to be engaged in STEM careers. • Develop program models that can be adopted in the future by local organizations and institutionsThe Wisconsin and Hawaii Women in Technology projects are funded in part by the CooperativeState Research, Education, and Extension Service of the

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K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Mary Graham, Clarkson University

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2006-1471: PARTNERS IN ENGINEERING: OUTREACH EFFORTS PROVIDEHOLISTIC ENGINEERING EDUCATION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLSJan DeWaters, Clarkson University Jan DeWaters, PE is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Environmental Science and Engineering at Clarkson University, with a focus on energy and environmental education. She has several years of experience as the curriculum coordinator for Clarkson's Project-Based Learning Partnership Program and is director of the Partners in Engineering Program that provides mentoring and engineering activities for eighth grade girls.Susan Powers, Clarkson University Susan E. Powers, PhD, PE is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Dean in

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1st Year Retention Programs for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Amanda Martin, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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creating a supportive and cohesiveenvironment for the Hypatia women. The women are block scheduled for their first semester atVirginia Tech, meaning that they will be among at least ten other Hypatia students in all of theirengineering, science and math related classes (chemistry and chemistry laboratory, calculus,engineering education, and linear algebra). Placing the students in classes together, creates amore comfortable environment by reducing the sense of isolation for the women and naturallyfacilitates the formation of study groups and collaboration on group projects and reports.Another feature of the program that helps to create a supportive environment along withproviding personal and professional development for the students is team

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K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Leandra Aburusa-Lete, Boise State University; Christa Budinoff, Visioneering LLC; Janet Callahan; Michael Luque, Boise School District; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Michelle Taylor, Micron Technology, Inc.

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2006-1145: WHERE THE GIRLS ARE: APPLYING AN INTEGRATEDMARKETING APPROACH TO ATTRACT GIRLS INTO ENGINEERINGPROGRAMSPat Pyke, Boise State University Patricia Pyke is the Director of Special Programs for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She oversees projects in freshman experience, retention, math support, mentoring, and women’s programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and a Master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.Leandra Aburusa-Lete, Boise State University Leandra Aburusa-Lete is the Student Support Coordinator for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She earned a B.S. degree in

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1st Year Retention Programs for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Donohue, University of Virginia; Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia

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features. The initiative, a project involving students, faculty, and administration of theUniversity of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), will be directed bythe Center for Diversity in Engineering (CDE). It is scheduled for launch in AY 2006-7.Keywords: Recruitment, retention, support, female engineering studentsIntroductionThe percentage of undergraduate female engineering students enrolled at the University ofVirginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) has remained static at or around25% since 1994, regardless of strong recruitment and retention efforts primarily led by theCenter for Diversity in Engineering (CDE), formerly known as the Office of Minority Programs.SEAS also has the lowest

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Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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De'Jeune Antoine, Xavier University of Louisiana; Mica Hutchison, Purdue University; Deborah Follman, Purdue University

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40.0% 0 0.0% African-American 2 5.0% 5 12.5% Hispanic 1 2.5% 2 5.0% International 1 2.5% 0 0.0% Asian/Pacific 7 17.5% 3 7.5% Islander Other (Hindu) 1 2.5% 0 0.0% The summer research program was structured such that students were required to meetseveral criteria. The students were to work at least 40 hours per week with a professor and/orgraduate student on a project of choice that corresponded to his/her interests

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Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Hailey, Utah State University

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women’s roles are alsoaddressed in the course through selection of speakers with a variety of personal/professional lifesolutions as well as supporting materials from the USU ADVANCE Institutional TransformationAward. To overcome the small number of freshmen women interested in engineering, data fromthe Women’s Experiences in College Engineering project is shared to help the studentsunderstand their feelings are typically aligned with a larger body of female students across thecountry. Student reflections acquired through required essay questions and examinations arepresented to help understand whether their career choices are influenced by conservativeattitudes toward family and women’s roles. Preliminary retention data is

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Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harriet Hartman, Rowan University; Moshe Hartman, Retired

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involvesinterdisciplinary cooperation around a series of projects often with real-world outcomes.Teambuilding skills are taught and evaluated as part of the curriculum. The research reported inthis paper studied the students’ affective responses to the teamwork, their preference for groupover individual learning, the effect of gender composition of their clinic teams on women’sattitudes to group work, and the relationship between their attitudes toward group work and theirevaluation of other aspects of the engineering program and their intentions to persist inengineering in the future. Data were collected as part of an ongoing survey initiated as a NationalScience Foundation funded project and continued under the sponsorship of the College ofEngineering and the

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International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nina Dahlmann, Technische Universitat Berlin, Inst. f. Mathematik; Sabina Jeschke, Technische Universitat Berlin, Inst. f. Mathematik; Christian Thomsen, Technische Universitat Berlin; Marc Wilke, Technische Universitat Berlin

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: prejudice and the perceivedtechnocratic image are so deeply rooted that modifications and modernizations are often barelynoticed. Modernization of these studies should therefore be accompanied by the development ofcompletely new models for technology-oriented studies explicitly addressing the interests ofwomen, in particular concerning inter- and multidisciplinary aspects.The project GENESIS, located at Technische Universität Berlin, funded by the European SocialFund, is developing several models of co-educative, gender-sensitive model-courses within thethree major areas of natural sciences, computer sciences and engineering. These courses andtheir underlying concepts will be presented in this talk.1. Introduction: The Image of Technological

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Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Anaïs Miodek, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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are underrepresented, inthe exploding new nanotechnology field under the direction of faculty at UVa who bringexpertise from a wide variety of scientific and technological disciplines. This paper reviews themotivations behind the program’s development, discusses the objectives and structure of theprogram, and finally analyzes the program’s impact on the participants’ future aspirations.Background on Engineering Study in the U.S.:According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the top four projected fastest growingprofessional occupations in the U.S. through 2008 require training in engineering and science. Ofthe remaining top ten, only two do not require technological training.1 However, the overallpercentage of science and engineering

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Climate Issues for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Sheila Edwards Lange, University of Washington

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undergraduate and graduate students. The researchpresented here uses an observation about the context of education to frame the research project;and locates the project within the realm of previous research on educational climate. This projecttests the null hypothesis that the context of education does not matter for women’s experience ofclimate. Figure 1 indicates the conceptual framework utilized by this research. The mainvariables of interest are in a bold font.Figure 1. Conceptual Framework of Research Classroom Experiences Laboratory Experiences Relationship with Faculty Climate Retention Professional Development Work/Family BalanceThe contexts in which students are educated are different at the undergraduate and

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International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mike Murphy; Cecilia Chan, Dublin Institute of Technology

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project proposals have been submitted by the Dublin Institute ofTechnology, one through Science Foundation Ireland and the other at European level,through the Sixth European Framework, this was submitted in conjunction with otherEuropean Partners.In this paper, we will discuss a number of primary obstacles that our research has foundmost of our female encountered in our survey and interviews – how to balance the choiceyou choose. Some initiatives on the proposal based on the statistics survey to supportwomen in engineering will also present and share among the academic community; it ishoped that the measures proposed will be of practical use for other academiccommunities who are affected by the under-representation of women. The overarchingaim is

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Climate Issues for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech; Soyoung Lee, Virginia Tech; Peggy Meszaros

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2006-611: FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH WOMEN'S INTEREST INCOMPUTING FIELDSElizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech Elizabeth Creamer is an associate professor of educational research in the Department of Educational Research and Policy Studies at Viginia Tech. She is the co-PI of the Women and Information Technology project funded by NSF, PI of a grant to assess the climate of engineering departments, and Director of Research and Assessment for the Virginia Tech Advance Project. Creamer's disciplinary background is in the field of higher education and her research insterests involve gender equity and faculty careers and work-family issues.Soyoung Lee, Virginia Tech Soyoung Lee is a graduate

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Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jana Renner Martinez, University of Texas-El Paso; Evelyn Posey, University of Texas-El Paso

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2006-939: FOCUSING THE LENS ON WOMEN FACULTY ISSUES: THREEYEARS OF ADVANCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASOEvelyn Posey, University of Texas-El Paso Evelyn Posey is the Dorrance D. Roderick Endowed Professor and Chair of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Department of English and PI on the NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation for Faculty Diversity initiative. A specialist in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, she has served as Director of English Education; Director of the West Texas Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project; Associate Dean of Liberal Arts; and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs.Jana Renner Martinez, University of Texas-El Paso Jana

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Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Aultman-Hall, University of Connecticut; Britt Holmen, University of Connecticut

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levels of engineering. Projections on workforce needs in the next decade suggest a need to tap all available resources and the most obvious untapped resource for U.S. engineering is the underrepresented groups – including women and minorities. Women and minorities do not see engineering as an opportunity for themselves because the “face” of engineering does not look like them and, furthermore, they have little first-hand knowledge of what the engineering profession is all about. Because leaders are often the most visible role models to the world for the university or company, diverse leaders are needed as role models to attract girls, young women and underrepresented men to engineering. (4) Coordinated team efforts and

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1st Year Retention Programs for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Urban, Arizona State University; Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Faye Navabi, Arizona State University; Debra Banks, Consultant

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DEBRA L. BANKS, COOL Evaluator and former Director of Evaluation and Assessment for CRESMET (ASU), is now the Director of Outreach and Operations for Innovative Tailor Made Training and Technology (ITTT) in Berkeley, CA. She has been evaluating major school reform and technical programs for 14 years. She has served as a co-PI for several grants including COOL and the METS Project. Page 11.603.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 EVALUATING SELF-ASSESSMENT AND A PLACEMENT EXAMINATION FOR A FIRST COURSE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: HOW DO WOMEN AND

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K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann Beheler, Collin County Community College

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counselors according to the guidelines identified byBlum & Frieze2 and by Boudria3. Further, capitalizing on the success of mentoring younger girlsby older girls shown in the BUGS project by Harrell et al.7, the event uses young women in twoIT careers in the convergence technology area to conduct the workshops; the workshop also usesthe adult teachers in the convergence technology program as lab assistants to assist the parents,teachers, and counselors in the event. Following the best practices for providing enjoyabletechnical experiences detailed by Nicoletti8 and Denner5, the event includes hands-on, funactivities. Throughout the half-day event, the young women leaders of the event highlight howthey have prepared for their jobs and how their

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Women & New Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eve Riskin, University of Washington; Kate Quinn, University of Washington; Joyce Yen, University of Washington

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-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 2. Washington, D.C.10. Sorcinelli, M.D. and J.P. Near, Relations between Work and Life Away from Work among University Page 11.394.7 Faculty. The Journal of Higher Education, 1989. 60(1): p. 59-81.11. Bailyn, L., Breaking the Mold: women, men, and time in the new corporate world. 1993, New York: Macmillan, the Free Press.12. Drago, R., et al., Final Report of the Faculty and Families Project. 2001, The Pennsylvania State University. [online] http://lsir.la.psu.edu/workfam/facultyfamilies.htm: University Park, PA.13. Gappa, J. and S.M. MacDermid, Work, Family, and the

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Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan; Amy Moll, Boise State University

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, Technology, Engineering and MathematicsEducation: No Longer an Overlooked Application of the Law.” Journal of College and University Law. Vol. 31, No.2, pp. 291-350.[6] Hollenshead, Carol S., Stacy A. Wenzel, Barbara B. Lazarus, and Indira Nair. (1996) “The Graduate Experiencesin the Sciences and Engineering: Rethinking a Gendered Institution.” In The Equity Equation; Fostering theAdvancement of Women in the Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. pp.122-162.[7] Valian, Virginia and Vita Rabinowitz. (2004) Benchmarks. How? Which? Who? Why? A presentation of theGender Equity Project. May 10, 2004. Hunter College of the City University of New York. Downloaded July 20,2005 from http://www.advance.gatech.edu

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Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dawn Farver, University of Arkansas; Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas

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://www.asee.org/about/publications/profiles/upload/2004ProfileIntro2.pdf) Accessed 03/08/2006. 2. National Science Foundation. 2004. National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics, Science and Engineering Degrees: 1966-2001, NSF 04-311, Project Officers, Susan T. Hill and Jean M. Johnson, Arlington, VA. 3. Wadsworth, E.M. 2002. Giving Much/Gaining More: Mentoring for Success. Purdue Press, West Lafayette, Indiana. 4. Steele, J., J.B. James and R.C. Barnett. 2002. Learning in a man’s world: Examining the perceptions of undergraduate women in male-dominated academic areas. Psychology of Women Quarterly 26: 46-50. 5. Campbell, A. and G. Skoog. 2004. Preparing undergrad women for science

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Climate Issues for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Cristina Camacho, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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of U.S. citizens who are training tobecome scientists and engineers, whereas the number of jobs requiring science and engineering(S&E) training continues to grow” (p.1). “If trends continue the United States will lose its abilityto fill the growing demand for science and engineering jobs, yielding [its] global standing tonations such as China and India who are training thousands more engineers and scientists than isthe U.S.” (O’Brien50, 2004, p. 1).The U.S. Department of Commerce62 (1999) projects that by 2010, 50 percent of all U.S. Page 11.1454.2workers will be women. This projection, plus the growth in the science and engineering

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Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barb Silver, University of Rhode Island; G. Boudreaux-Bartels, University of Rhode Island; Helen Mederer, University of Rhode Island; Lynn Pasquerella, University of Rhode Island; Joan Peckham, University of Rhode Island; Mercedes River-Hudec, University of Rhode Island; Karen Wishner, University of Rhode Island

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committees, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation team, membership on Day Kimball Hospital’s Ethics and Institutional Review Board, membership on the advisory board for the Women’s Adult Correctional Facility in Rhode Island, and service on the national Committee on Qualifications for Phi Beta Kappa, as well as service as the past President of the Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa of Rhode Island. She has received funding at the national level through the Department of Energy to work on ethical issues related to the Human Genome Project, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the American Bar

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Women & New Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Jessop, University of Iowa

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formulating a “Plan B” if feasible. For example, bedrestcould be a real possibility, given that an estimated 20% of women are prescribed bedrest at somepoint in their pregnancy.14 When one of my female colleagues was put on bedrest, it was nearthe end of the semester. Fortunately, she was teaching a graduate-level class and had justassigned their final project so that she was not lecturing anymore. She conducted researchmeetings and office hours and continued to work on her laptop in a supine position for over amonth. Due dates can be another tricky matter. One of my male colleagues generously offeredto drive me to the hospital if my water broke at work since his parking spot is right next to ourbuilding (mine is a half mile away). Another male

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Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

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2006-979: REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE LIMITEDPOWER OF TITLE IX TO TRANSFORM STEM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMSCatherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame Catherine Pieronek, J.D., is Assistant Director of Academic Programs and Director of the Women’s Engineering Program at the University of Notre Dame College of Engineering. She has worked as a senior systems engineer on NASA spacecraft projects at TRW Space & Defense Sector, and as Director of External Relations for the Notre Dame Law School. She serves as a faculty advisor and editorial referee for the Journal of College of University Law, a student-edited legal journal published by the Notre Dame Law School and the National