Conference Session

Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University; Dina Banerjee, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

like that, but if you want to maintain your career, you’ve got to at least be coasting a little bit. So yeah. There are things that come up and you have to respond to emails about or communicate with your lab about the research that’s going on and things like that.In contrast, case A7 (the same male engineering faculty member who we discussed earlier)arranged an ―informal leave‖ rather than making use of the official parental leave benefit. Heexplained that he is ―very committed to teaching‖ and that one of the reasons he did not enact theleave was his concern of finding a suitable person to take his teaching load: A7 / Engineering / Assistant Professor / Male / Eligible Participant: I was concerned about finding people to fill in. I

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peggy Layne, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

faculty members, the pipelineextends through graduate school, an academic appointment, and promotion through the ranks ofassistant, associate, and “full” professor. Interviews of women engineering deans illustrate thelimitations of the pipeline metaphor for describing the careers of female engineering academics.BackgroundThe pipeline metaphor reinforces the myth of linearity in education and career progression. Flowthrough the pipeline is linear, with no provision for changes of direction or speed, and no reentryonce one exits, or “leaks” out of the pipe. While not overtly gendered, the unidirectional,constant flow image of fluid in a pipe is similar to that of the (male) ideal worker who gives fullattention to his job, without distraction or

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine R. Millam, University of Saint Thomas; Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of this approach in releasing the leader withinis becoming much more clear and compelling. Alumni of this program are now convinced thatthis course has had a profound effect on the way they view the world as an interconnectedsystem, on their role to lead and make a difference, and as a result has changed the way theythink and act. The implications of this research for retaining women in engineering careers aresignificant. Page 22.460.11Since 2003 through fall 2010, 160 students have completed the Leveraging Leadership for aLifetime series of three courses and have graduated. A remaining 170 students are in process

Conference Session

Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jacqueline R. Mozrall, Rochester Institute of Technology; Gina M. Williams, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Steven LaLonde, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

civil- ian faculty member in her department. Margaret maintains a research program in the area of advanced thermodynamic analyses and health monitoring of energy intensive systems.Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of TechnologyElizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) ELIZABETH A. DeBARTOLO is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She earned her BSE at Duke University in 1994 and her MSME and Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1996 and 2000, respectively. She works with students on assistive device design and determining mechanical properties of biological materials. Dr. DeBartolo serves on

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Lisa R. Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Katie L. Piacentini, University of Missouri - Columbia; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

develop mentoring relationships. Summerbridge programs can provide an effective method to reduce college readiness gap betweenincoming students9, while another study10 reports that institutions that were high producers offemale and underrepresented degree recipients also offered summer bridge programs. Since the dimension of organizational context can be integral to the learning, recruitment,and retention of female and underrepresented students and to the recruitment and retention offemale and underrepresented faculty members in engineering, it is the main focus of this researchpaper. The guiding questions for this inquiry are: Page 22.1185.4

Conference Session

Engaging Students in Engineering (ENGAGE)

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Staffin Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sheryl A. Sorby, Michigan Technological University; Tricia S. Berry, University of Texas, Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Ana Maria Dison, University of Texas, Austin; Yosef S. Allam, The Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University; Wally Peters, University of South Carolina, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Erica Pfister-Altschul, University of South Carolina; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina; Guangming Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Mechanical Engineering; James A. Leach, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

in 1992 and a master’s degree in College Student Services Administration from Oregon State University in 1994. After working for two years at the University of Maryland, Ana returned to the university in 1996 and was Assistant Director in the Division of Recreational Sports. She joined the Cockrell School in 2000.Yosef S. Allam, The Ohio State University Yosef S. Allam is an Auxiliary Faculty member in the First-Year Engineering Program within the En- gineering Education Innovation Center at The Ohio State University. Some of his research interests in Page 22.819.1 c American

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew J Miller, University of Maryland; Robert Lent, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech; Gregory M. Wilkins, Morgan State University; Matthew M. Jezzi, University of Maryland; Kayi Hui, University of Maryland, College Park; Robert H Lim, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole A Bryan, University of Maryland, College Park; Helena Mimi Martin, University of Maryland, College Park

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Women in Engineering

questions one through four or five through seven. Theresponses were reviewed and coded by a team of doctoral students (n = 5) and faculty (n = 2) incounseling psychology. We used common content-analysis methods7 to code participants’ responses. We alsoincorporated aspects of the consensual qualitative research paradigm8; specifically, we used aconsensus-driven process to arrive at final coding decisions. First, for each question, participantresponses were unitized such that each individual thought unit within an individual response wasidentified; thus it was possible for one response to include multiple thought units. Second, eachresearch member individually reviewed all participant responses and then developed a tentative

Conference Session

Panel on Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Minority Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

practicing engineer in industry,government, or non-profit organization. We also explored if being active in engineering clubs orprograms for women and/or minority students played a role in their career planning. Whenwomen and underrepresented minority students actively participated in these types ofengineering clubs or programs, they were, indeed, more likely to plan to work in engineering, butthey were also more likely to expect to focus on management or sales rather than on becomingpracticing engineers. After two engineering faculty members prominent in promoting a more diverse studentbody commented on these findings, the floor was opened for a discussion of the findings andtheir implications for engineering and engineering education

Conference Session

WIED Olio

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen G. Villa, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City; Elsa Gonzalez, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

direct the questioning. In addition, and referring to Lincoln andGuba14, persistent observation adds salience to a study; it helps the researcher to identifyrelevancies and atypical cases. Students were observed in their institutional settings and in twoengineering classes. Lastly, documents were reviewed at each institution that helped theresearchers understand the experiences of the female students.In addition, peer debriefing was used to provide an external check of the inquiry process, todiscover our own biases, clarify interpretations, and discuss possible future directions. Finally,the respondents had the opportunity to review their transcripts and provide or refine theinformation. This member checking technique is described by Lincoln and

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine; Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Rubineau, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

in sociology at UC San Diego. Her research examines individual-level, cultural mechanisms that reproduce inequality, especially those pertaining to sex segregation in science and engineering fields. Her dissertation investigates the self-expressive edge of inequality, analyzing how gender schemas and self-conceptions influence career decisions of college students over time. She also studies the role of professional culture in wage inequality, cross-national beliefs about work time for mothers (with Maria Charles), and, in a Social Problems article, perceptions of inequality among high-level professional women (with Mary Blair-Loy). She earned Electrical Engineering and Sociology degrees from Montana State

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

in engineering educationresearch on underrepresentation. We find it important to remind the engineering educationresearch community of the theoretical and methodological limitations of homogenous reliance onone metaphor to guide research studies. This paper critically explores the discourse of “pipeline”as an aim to (re)introduce to engineering education researchers both the method of discourseanalysis as well as alternative metaphorical frameworks. We use empirical data collected forADVANCE Purdue’s Academic Career Pathways study using oral history and participatoryresearch methods to explore the consequences of pipeline metaphor’s predominance. These dataare the academic stories of STEM faculty and help us explore: 1) what theoretical