Paper ID #41619Exploring Career-path Streaming through an Intersectional Lens: Race, Gender,and Engineering in the Canadian ContextDr. Andrea Chan, University of Toronto Andrea Chan is a Senior Research Associate at Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (Troost ILead), Institute for Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP), University of TorontoDr. Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto Cindy Rottmann is the Associate Director of Research at the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering and an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education (ISTEP) at the University of
Paper ID #41995Are Hardhats Required for Engineering Identity Construction? Genderedand Racialized Patterns in Canadian Engineering Graduates’ ProfessionalIdentitiesMs. Emily Macdonald-Roach, University of Toronto Emily Macdonald-Roach is an MASc student in Engineering Education at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include engineering identity formation, engineering culture, and equity, diversity, and inclusion in engineering career paths.Dr. Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto Cindy Rottmann is the Associate Director of Research at the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University
a responsive approachinvolves the implementation of inclusive practices and fostering a space that values diversityand actively challenges and dismantles stereotypes and biases within the field [1].Moreover,“innovations that respond to both global and local community needs are enhanced by diverseand well-prepared academic learners [2].” Such programs acknowledge the importance of skillenhancement, mentorship, and networking to promote women's career advancement indisciplines such as engineering [3].Specifically, leadership within academia entails navigating gender biases and structuralinequalities extending beyond managerial abilities [4].Research shows that leadership programsthat tap into high-impact practices that garnish specific sets
underrepresented students of all ages, STEM mentors, and their motivations and/or persistence. The first part of her career was spent designing residential split system HVAC equipment and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) unitsfor Trane in Tyler, TX. Kristin has taught about design, engineering, and manufacturing to students of all ages in various places including to preschoolers via Schaefer Engineering’s STEM outreach, to senior mechanical engineering undergraduates at TAMU, to eighth graders in KatyISD at Beckendorff Junior High, and to freshmen mixed major undergraduates at UH and at TAMU. Kristin is also the mom of one smart teenage boy whose journey through learning differences and Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) has enabled her to connect
3 Introduction & Background Parenting styles play a significant role in shaping children's development, including theircareer choices. When examining factors that influence student career choices, i.e. peer groupinfluence, role model influence, family influence, parental influence is the most common factorin determining a students’ career choice (Kumar, 2016). This helps emphasize the importance ofparenting styles' influence on their children’s choice of a career path. Baumrind (1996) definesand categorizes four parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved.Among these four parenting styles, the authoritative parenting style which is characteristic ofhigh expectations
community culture [27].Erikson’s identity theories ignited the investigation of different forms of identity and submitted tothe complication of this process. Particularly, in STEM—research on identity suggest individualsbegin to form their identities, additionally, establish thoughts concerning career aspirations earlyas elementary [28-34].Role Identity/STEM identityDeveloping and establishing a STEM identity has influential significance in educational and careeraspirations for an individual [35-37]. Conversely, history demonstrates STEM identitydevelopment for marginalized students has been laden by a representation deficit in STEM—academia and the workplace. Positions in these areas are predominantly comprised of Caucasianmales [1, 38]. Research
of women atvarious stages of their STEM careers. Employing a mixed methods approach, this study seeksto evaluate the individual impact of participation in a women's network committed tofostering a culture of gender equality and celebrating the accomplishments of recent years.Some initiatives organized by the Matilda Chair include books featuring the inspiringjourneys of women, expert panels, conferences, webinars, mentorship programs, social mediacampaigns, and research publications. This joint effort hopes to serve as an inspiration and toencourage other institutions to embark on similar journeys, advocating for equal rights andopportunities for women in both academic and professional areas. Together, we strive tocreate an equity
countries anddisciplines, the institutional climate and culture significantly attract, retain, and promote womenand girls in STEM. This situation affects how women feel in male-dominated careers due to alow sense of identity within the community and challenges in establishing interpersonalrelationships with their peers [2], [3], [4].Furthermore, feeling a sense of belonging within the institution is essential to understanding andaddressing the socio-cognitive needs of students in STEM-related fields. It promotes success andretention [2], [5].The underrepresentation of women in STEM careers can also increase their vulnerability. Thissituation can be due to gender stereotypes, negative experiences with teachers or other students,or the hostility
allscience and engineering doctorates and face many barriers that significantly impact theirrepresentation in STEM faculty positions – such statistics highlight the fact that women have yetto achieve gender equality across STEM disciplines [11], [12].To bridge this gap, professional STEM societies have increasingly recognized the importance ofsupporting women in pursuing STEM education, often through scholarships [3]. Recognizing theneed to recruit, retain, and advance a diverse workforce, professional organizations valuewomen’s contributions to STEM fields [3]. Further, researchers note that scholarships are“transformational for female students of color pursuing careers in computer science” and a“crucial financial support encourage and assist women
landscape of science and technology continually reshapes the job market, creating anincreasing need for individuals skilled in these technical fields [1]. This escalating demand hasresulted in a notable increase in the number of STEM professionals [2]. In 2021, 34.9 millionindividuals (about twice the population of New York) engaged in STEM occupations, comprising24% of the U.S. workforce, up from 29.0 million in 2011. Notably, within the STEM workforce,approximately two-thirds (65% or 22.6 million) were men, while about one-third (35% or 12.3)were women in 2021 [3]. Several research studies have investigated major barriers that preventfemale success in STEM fields [4],[5]. Male domination of STEM careers, lack of awareness ofeducational and career
to students'performance in campus environment [7]. Essentially, how students perceive the culture withinSTEM and their belonging within that culture is not contingent but does correlate with facultysupport through interactions during their academic careers [8]. As a result of this correlation,students describe feelings such as hostility and lack of caring when characterizing the instructor-student relationship [9]. Report from previous studies shows that there is still negative form ofinteraction between faculty and students like discrimination from instructors [10]. This reckoninghas allowed scholars to conclude that there is a beneficial connection between facultyrelationships and student’s self-efficacy and their persistence in STEM
, andprogram attrition further exacerbate the challenges faced by graduate students, impacting theirwell-being [18]. Having a supportive supervisor along with departmental or faculty support canmitigate emotional exhaustion [18]. In Canada, it has been reported recently that graduatestudents are facing serious financial challenges, largely due to limited funding available fromboth institutions and funding agencies [18]. This further adds to the stress and anxiety that manyearly-career academics face and highlights the reality of the many challenges faced by graduatestudents on a daily basis, not including the added element of experiencing grief.Despite the substantial impact of grief and traumatic events on academic performance, researchon grief and
the CHHS, the White and/or Asian group expressed thismajority-favoring bias at nearly half the rate of Black/African American and/or Hispanic group. Figure 3. Student perceptions of gender suitability for engineering related (LCOE) and health and human services related careers (CHHS).Overall, 12.9% of women in LCOE perceived women to be less suited for their field of study,and 10.6% of men in LCOE perceived men to be more suited for their field of study. Similarly,in CHHS, 16.1% of men perceived men to be less suited for their field of students and 13.1% ofwomen perceived women to be more suited for their study. Thus, in both colleges, the minoritygender expressed a slightly higher perception towards favoring the majority
, if women do notparticipate in engineering across various fields, their perspectives on design solutions are absent[3]. This is significant, considering that a diverse team can better understand and represent end-users' needs in problem-solving [1].Differences in gender socialization, linked to environmental factors such as family values, socialexpectations, and representation in traditional and digital media, among others, are identified asone of the reasons for gender biases among individuals. Therefore, family and education arecrucial in career choice [2]. Efforts from academia and industry are essential to promote a changein the volume of female participation in these fields [1]. This challenge should be viewed as asocietal one involving
that meet Quality Matters (QM) standards. She was the faculty advisor to student research teams, where two teams made the final round of the AACC Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) in 2016 and 2017. Dr. Delahanty has developed and conducted STEM focused outreach initiatives to community groups and in K-12 schools with a higher percentage of underrepresented and underserved students. Prior to her teaching career, Dr. Delahanty was an electrical engineer at General Electric Company in both military and commercial satellite communications. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Gender-Based Comparison of Creative Self-Efficacy, Mindset, and Perceptions of
engineering degreepathway. The program's overarching goal is to engage students in teamwork, research, andprofessional development early in their undergraduate career and provide opportunities toexercise these skills in a variety of contexts. Originally designed to support new female students,RAMP has been expanded to all students, including high-school juniors and seniors. The missionis to provide students who are underrepresented in engineering the knowledge and resources tobe successful in engineering education and careers, while acquiring leadership skills thatcontribute to broadening the participation of women, ethnic, and racial minorities in engineering.RAMP takes place over six weeks in the summer before the Fall semester when students
-means-life-or-death/[5] K. Falkner, C. Szabo, D. Michell, A. Szorenyi, and S. Thyer, “Gender Gap in Academia: Perceptions of Female Computer Science Academics,” in Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, in ITiCSE ’15. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Jun. 2015, pp. 111–116. doi: 10.1145/2729094.2742595.[6] J. C. Lapan and K. N. Smith, “‘No Girls on the Software Team’: Internship Experiences of Women in Computer Science,” Journal of Career Development, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 119–134, 2023.[7] S. Cheryan, V. C. Plaut, C. Handron, and L. Hudson, “The Stereotypical Computer Scientist: Gendered Media Representations as a Barrier to Inclusion
past few years as they have navigatedtheir promotion and/or tenure processes while carrying the primary responsibilities for the careand education of children who have been diagnosed with a specific learning disability (SLD).The accounts presented below is represented in the form of collaborative autoethnographyhighlighting the balancing act of working in their engineering departments and the inequitiesthese women faculty of color have faced in still meeting the demands of their careers whilejuggling motherhood. Since the authors are already underrepresented in engineering, they optedto remove their names and identifying information from the quotes used in the manuscript tominimize any work-related retaliation. The readers are cautioned
integrated, and both provide opportunities for individual skill development byconducting Professional Development sessions across a variety of professional and technicaltopics. This study employs both a quantitative analysis of the utilization of professionaldevelopment and a thematic analysis of student focus groups to investigate differences acrossgenders. This study has implications for a wide range of engineering programs looking to createequitable opportunities for students.IntroductionEPICS and VIP Program HistoryThe EPICS program was founded in 1995 at Purdue University in response to a need forengineering students to gain more practical, hands-on design experience before transitioning intotheir professional careers [1]. EPICS connects teams
Teaching Excellence, 2012. Prior to joining FSC, Dr. Villani had a 15 year computer consulting career in the Risk Management and Insurance Industry.Dr. Ilknur Aydin, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York Ilknur Aydin is an Associate Professor of Computer Systems at Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York. Dr. Aydin’s research is in the general area of wireless and mobile networks with a focus on transport layer issues including multihoming, SCTP, congestion control, and network coding. Dr. Aydin has mentored undergraduate and high school students on research projects that involve the use of Arduino boxes and Raspberry Pi’s in the context of Internet of Things, and the use of public testbeds such as CloudLab and
, and to take students to women in computing events. Dr. Villani has been active publishing and presenting these experiences in an effort to share within the research community and to ultimately broaden participation. Dr. Villani is the co-advisor of the Supporting Women in Computing Club where she has mentored many women students in the program. Dr. Villani is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2012. Prior to joining FSC, Dr. Villani had a 15 year computer consulting career in the Risk Management and Insurance Industry.Dr. Lisa Cullington, Sacred Heart University Lisa Cullington, Ph.D. is an educational researcher with expertise in academic program development, learning outcomes and
interest,engagement, and encouragement in highly technical and male-dominated disciplines [5], [13].WomenIn 2019-2020, women received 34% of all postsecondary STEM degrees, making womenunderrepresented in the field [12]. What does studying in a male-dominated space mean forwomen? There are different expectations that women must meet in engineering spaces. Oneaspect is to behave in certain ways to be accepted and valued. Such behaviors involve showing alack of self-assurance, ambition, and initiative, which avoids confrontations with their male peersbut also limits women’s career opportunities [4]. Women more than men often take fulladvantage of formal and informal mentoring opportunities in college and outside college,increasing their
engineer. This portion of the event is often the most surprising because there tends to be a lot ofengagement between the guest speaker and the attendees. Attendees may have a lot of questionsabout the rigor of the degree and the career culture afterwards. These questions are often trickyin this environment, but the best answer is the honest answer. Students may ask questions aboutfailing course work or about experiencing discrimination. These kinds of questions and storiescan be so impactful to all students that question whether they belong in the engineeringdiscipline when they experience failure in their degree [40]. While it might be tempting to paint the experience of women or any URM as free fromdiscrimination, this can function
need a way toarticulate both tacit and explicit knowledge. This paper presents a thought model about how thework of the Director of a successful program is organized.Composing a model of how diversity programs at colleges and universities should and/or dowork, as viewed from outside is likely to result in lists of events, which are clearly a part ofexplicit knowledge. A program has mentoring. It has bridge programs. It may include a varietyof career programs or speaker programs. What is typically invisible from outside is that theseevents and programs are outward manifestations of planning and practices that come from bothresearch and experience and a combination of tacit and explicit knowledge.What may not be evident from the external view is
[8]Most extant research has sought to explain these persistent patterns by focusing on howindividual-level factors shape degree patterns [9], [10], [11], [12]. Yet, theoretical andempirical research on organizations also tells us that institutional dynamics matter:Institutional parameters limit access to specific STEM majors, as only a subset of institutionsoffers CS&E degrees [13], [14]. Moreover, institutions generally reify and reproduce group-level gender and racial inequalities in educational and career trajectories [8], [15], [16], [17],[18], [19]. Indeed, racialized and gendered dynamics shape the types of postsecondaryinstitutions students attend: Women are concentrated in smaller, less selective 4-year and 2-year institutions
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