Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Rinehart, Rice University; Sherry Woods, University of Texas at Austin; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Presentation materials can be found at: structure workshop sessions, http://cnx.org/content/col10442/latest/ candidates were asked to anonymously submit their biggestconcern regarding their job search (Table 2) and various panels of faculty members wereorganized to discuss and respond with potential solutions. These concerns are consistent withother research findings for female candidates; for example, graduate students in the life sciencescited concerns related to finding a job, balancing personal and professional responsibilities and

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Sarah Root, University of Arkansas; Emine Cagin, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Engineering GSIs (Fall 2007) (a) EGSM respondents (graduate students only) (b)Figure 2. Comparison of Career Choices considered by (a) Fall 2007 CoE GSIs and (b) Fall 2007 graduatestudents who have participated in the EGSM program5.3.2 Responses of Former Mentors in AcademiaLecturers or tenured/tenure-track faculty respondents also indicated that the EGSM programinfluenced their teaching practices. One faculty member said, “My time as [an EGSM] was theonly time as a graduate student when I could discuss teaching

Conference Session

Issues of Diversity in Graduate Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Sherra Kerns, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Paige Smith, University of Maryland; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

faculty members' understanding ofissues of diversity. Other programs deal with diversity during a sequence of courses onimproving teaching skills and succeeding in an academic career60. Many of these professionaldevelopment programs have been established as part of a national "Preparing Future Faculty"initiative61 to provide graduate students with multiple mentors in addition to the research advisorand to improve their preparation for all aspects of an academic career, not just research. Moreand more programs to improve faculty understanding of issues in engineering education,including diversity, are also being established. For example, Scales et al.62 describe an initiativeto set up study groups of engineering faculty at Virginia Tech to explore