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Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela S. Frinzi, Southern Polytechnic State University; Rebecca Hudson Rutherfoord, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Women in Engineering

AC 2012-5496: WOMEN’S CAMPUS LEADERSHIP SEMINAR PROGRAMProf. Pamela S. Frinzi, Southern Polytechnic State UniversityDr. Rebecca Hudson Rutherfoord, Southern Polytechnic State University Rebecca Rutherfoord is the Associate VP for Institutional Effectiveness, SACS, Accreditation Liaison, and professor of information technology. She has been at Southern Polytechnic for more than 28 years and has held several administrative positions. Page 25.1485.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Women’s Leadership Initiative Page 25.1485.2AbstractSouthern

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Attaining Academic Leadership Positions

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Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Chris S. Anderson, Michigan Technological University; Dianne Dorland, Rowan University; Sarah A. Rajala, Mississippi State University; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

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Women in Engineering

AC 2012-4641: PANEL DISCUSSION: ATTAINING ACADEMIC LEAD-ERSHIP POSITIONSDr. Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University Beena Sukumaran, professor and Chair of civil and environmental engineering at Rowan University is Director of Large for the Women in Engineering Division since 2009. She has been actively involved in developing Rowan’s unique engineering curriculum, especially engineering clinics. She has worked extensively to encourage the participation of underrepresented groups in engineering by participating in programs such as the Attracting Women into Engineering (AWE) workshop for middle school girls, NAACP’s ACT-SO program, and the CHAMPS program.Ms. Chris S. Anderson, Michigan Technological University Chris

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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol E. Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Alison Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Mason, Rochester Institute of TechnologyProf. Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology Maureen Valentine, P.E., has been a faculty member at RIT for more than 19 years and held the position of Department Chair for the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management, and Safety from 2000 to 2008. She is currently the Associate Dean of the College of Applied Science and Technology. Her scholarly activities recently have focused on women in technology programs and the female faculty who teach them. Page 25.1032.1 c American Society for Engineering

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Undergraduate Recruitment

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Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University; Rona Tamiko Halualani, San Jose State University

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% chance they would change their majors.The survey respondents were very active in student organizations at San José State University(see Table 5). More than 50% of the women survey respondents were active in disciplinarystudent organizations while 21 out of 60 students were involved in the Society of WomenEngineers (SWE). Fewer female students took advantage of San José State University ’s studentsupport activities such as the Learning Assistance Resource Center (20%) and the XXX WritingCenter (13.3%). Table 5. Student participation in academic activities. Answer Options Response Count Response Percent An engineering society (such as American Society of Mechanical Engineers) 34

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Retention of Women Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann M. Blasick, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

graduation rate, assuming continuous enrollment).Ohland et. al. [4] present an extensive analysis of retention measures and studenteducational experiences at the undergraduate level. This paper uses the large, multi-institution dataset MIDFIELD (Multiple-Institution Database for InvestigatingEngineering Longitudinal Development) which contains records of over 75,000 studentsin engineering during the years of 1988 through 1998. Ohland and his colleagues [4, 7]determined that eight-semester persistence is highly predictive of six-year graduationrates. But, using eight-semester persistence can underreport the persistence of women tograduation. In general, it is shown that paths of persistence are nonlinear, gendered andracialized, so that it‟s

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Retention of Women Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California, Berkeley; Ryan Shelby, University of California, Berkeley; Farzana Ansari, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa A. Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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Women in Engineering

Page 25.878.4exhibits.The lecture sections of the leadership module provided the framework for development of thecore competencies28. A central focus of the leadership module was the three “C”s of leadership:competence, compassion, and chronos (time management). The module offered methods fordeveloping personal and team leadership styles; addressed differences in learning and personalitystyles; presented pathways for implementing mission statements and plans of action; offeredopportunities for strategic thinking, problem solving and brainstorming; utilized teamwork indiverse settings; and implemented K-12 service learning through outreach teaching activities.Table 1 provides a summary of the lecture topics provided within the leadership

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Undergraduate Recruitment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Shapcott, Arizona State University; Katherine G. Nelson, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

engineering programs areuniquely positioned to incorporate these recommendations. This material is based upon work primarily supported by the Engineering ResearchCenter Program of the National Science Foundation and the Office of Energy Efficiency andRenewable Energy of the Department of Energy under NSF Cooperative Agreement No.EEC‐1041895. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National ScienceFoundation or Department of Energy. Page 25.303.2 Changing the Face of Engineering: How Photovoltaic

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Potpouri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut

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Women in Engineering

Women Engineers in the Middle East from Enrollment to Career: A Case StudyAbstractThis study investigates the status of women engineers in Lebanon as a case study in theMiddle East region. Through this study, the author investigated the following questions:What are the motives behind female‟s decisions to choose engineering major? What arethe difficulties that female engineers have encountered in their transition from universityto workplace? And what are the perceptions of female regarding the essential skills for asuccessful engineering career? An online survey with Likert-scaled items was completedby 327 female engineers graduated from different universities in Lebanon and working indifferent locations around the world

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Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Miraglia, Syracuse University ; Sharon W. Alestalo, Syracuse University; Shobha K. Bhatia, Syracuse University

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lives and aspirations of STEM woman graduatestudents. The political debates shaping women in science continue to impact the personal lives ofindividual women. WiSE-FPP operates at this individual level to support women’s persistenceand success in STEM. By offering programs and events that provide skills and strategies fornegotiating gender-based inequalities in academia and industry, WiSE-FPP seeks to underminethese systems of inequality one STEM graduate at a time.Gender MattersIn the 1970’s, the women’s rights movement coined the phrase, “the personal is political.” Thestatement reflects the belief that women’s personal struggles reach beyond their individual livesto inequalities embedded in institutional contexts. In regards to women in STEM

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shweta Chopra, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Chad M. Laux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

will be designed based upon socialconstructionist theories using communicative prospective 11, which will reveal how femalestudents create, negotiate and shift their identities while selecting, studying and practicing inSTEM field. Research questions include: a) what do they think about graduate education; b)what does pursuing career in STEM field mean to female?; c) what messages are enunciate aboutSTEM discipline, and how does these messages differ at different points in a female’s life?; d)what were the initial factor(s) compelling females to choose STEM as field of study?; e) whatfeatures of STEM discipline seems enticing or dispiriting to females from pursuing educationand practice in these area?; f) what kind of guidance, mentoring, and

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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University; Sue Guenter-Schlesinger, Western Washington University

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Women in Engineering

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Retention of Women Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University; Theodore J. Heindel, Iowa State University; Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Iowa State University; Shankar Subramaniam, Iowa State University

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Engineer of 2020: Visions of engineering in the new century.Washington, DC: National Academies Press.[2] National Science Foundation. 2008. Science and engineering indicators 2008.http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08/c0/c0i.htm (last accessed, August 2008).[3] Nicholls, G., H. Wolfe, M. Besterfied-Sacre, L. Shuman, and S. Larpkiattaworn. 2007. A method for identifyingvariables for predicting STEM enrollment. Journal of Engineering Education 96 (1): 33–45.[4] Women’s Experiences in College Engineering (WECE). 2002. Cambridge, MA: Goodman Research Group, Inc.[5] Frehill, L. M., DiFabio, N. M., Hill, S. T., Traeger, K., & Buono, J. 2008. Review of the 2007 literature womenin engineering. SWE Magazine of the

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Retention of Women Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi M. Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Women in Engineering

professional engineering, (c) applying skillsand knowledge gained in the classroom to a real-world problem, (d) learning to work with teamsin a professional atmosphere, (e) gaining hands-on experience in a real-world situation, (f)learning to develop and compare multiple approaches to solving complex open-ended problems,and (g) increasing their opportunity to be hired post-graduation. The success that the CollegiateDesign Series has sustained since its establishment in the 1970’s indicates that participationyields high-performing and exceptional students. Page 25.1311.2Many universities tout co-operative education opportunities to help bridge the

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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Chang Yan, College of New Jersey; Lisa Grega, College of New Jersey; Suriza VanderSandt, College of New Jersey; Diane C. Bates, College of New Jersey; Elizabeth Borland, College of New Jersey; Karen Elizabeth Clark, College of New Jersey; Amanda Norvell, College of New Jersey

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Women in Engineering

combines both equityassessment and faculty development initiatives to understand and facilitate career developmentwithin TCNJ s primarily undergraduate environment.The Equity Assessment Initiative represents the foundation of TAP. A comprehensive facultydatabase will provide an accurate picture of differences in advancement betweenmale and female faculty and will enable faculty progression through the ranks to be tracked forlong term assessment. Climate surveys and interviews of current associate and fullprofessors will identify barriers faced by female faculty.The Faculty Development Initiatives consist of programs and policies which provideopportunities for career development. A multi-faceted approach was taken, the correspondingprogram

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Retention of Women Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Kaitlyn J. Bunker; Nilufer Onder, Michigan Technological University; Raven Rachaun Rebb; Laura E. Brown, Michigan Technological University; Leonard J. Bohmann, Michigan Technological University

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Women in Engineering

-persisters. The gender-based analysis showed that non-persisting femalestudents have higher mathematics scores compared to persisters. Moreover, female leavers didnot have the same low grades as male leavers. These results suggest that female students havethe academic ability to complete an engineering degree, but not the interest7.Mendez et al.'s research showed that gender is not an important factor in persistence. Theiranalysis showed that rates of persistence are similar within subgroups of the data defined bycumulative GPA and number of STEM courses taken. In other words, once women decide tomajor in a STEM field, they persist at the same rate as men14.II.b. Internalization and Perceptions of Major and CareerStudents are affected in varying

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Retention of Women Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane Yu Gu, University of California, Los Angeles

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Women in Engineering

; Stein, E. L. (2001). Socialization of graduate and professional students in higher education: A perilous passage? New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons; Austin, A. E. (1990). Faculty Cultures, Faculty Values. New Directions for Institutional Research. 17 (o.), 61-74.)9. Harding, S. G. (2004). The feminist standpoint theory reader: Intellectual and political controversies. New York: Routledge.10. Bogdan, R. C., Biklen, S. K. (1998). Qualitative Research in Education. An Introduction to Theory and Methods. Needham Heights: Allyn & Bacon.11. Maxwell, J. A. (1996) Qualitative Research Design: An interactive approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.12. Nettles, M. T., & Millett, C. M

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Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

Students’ Financial Support Patterns Affect Their Times toDegree and Completion Probabilities? Journal of Human Resources. 30: 581-610.9 Lovitts, B. 2001. Leaving the Ivory Tower The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study.Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. p.131.10 Nettles, M. & C. Millett. 2006. Three Magic Letters Getting to Ph.D. Baltimore, MD: The Johns HopkinsUniversity Press.11 Ehrenberg, R, Zuckerman, H., Groen, J. and S. Brucker. 2010. Educating Scholars Doctoral Education in theHumanities. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.12 Bandura, A. 1986. Fearful expectations and avoidant actions as coeffects of perceived self-inefficacy. AmericanPsychologist 1389-1391.13 Gibson, D.E. 2004. Role models

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Potpouri

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Nehal I. Abu-lail, Washington State University; Fatin Aliah Phang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Ashley Ater Kranov, ABET; Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Robert G. Olsen, Washington State University; Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET; Azizan Zainal Abidin, Universiti Teknologi Petronas

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has contributed publications on women in engineering in collaboration with the College of Engineering at Pukyong National University. She is a postgraduate student at Universiti Sains Malaysia where she is pursuing her doctorate. Page 25.1036.7The Case in the USIn the 1950’s women represented less than 5% of the graduating classes in schools of law,medicine and engineering in the US. 8 During the intervening years, despite overt and covertdiscrimination, US women fought in both the courts and public opinion forums to be admittedinto schools of law and medicine (human and veterinary) without funding by the federalgovernment or professional

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Retention of Women Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Catherine F. Pieronek, University of Notre Dame; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

25.556.16References: 1. M. Ohland, S. Sheppard, G. Lichtenstein, O. Eris, D. Chachra, and R. A. Layton, Persistence, engagement, and migration in engineering programs, Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 2008. 2. K. Smith, S. Sheppard, D. Johnson, and R. Johnson. Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices. Journal of Engineering Education. January 2005, pg. 1-15. 3. R. Felder and R. Brent. Understanding Student

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Undergraduate Recruitment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

. FultonSchools of Engineering is located on ASU’s Tempe Campus, the largest single US campus with59,794 students. There are over 4,400 undergraduates and 2,100 graduate students inengineering and computer science. In this paper, “engineering” includes computer science, butnot construction.In Fall 2010, ASU had three NSF grants which supported transfer upper division and graduatestudents. The primary scholarship funding for transfer students was an NSF S-STEM grant(#0728695) called CIRC/METS (Collaborative Interdisciplinary ResearchCommunity/Motivated Engineering Transfer Students) for 2008-2012. If transfer students in thisCIRC/METS Program graduated and continued on to graduate school full-time right aftergraduating, they could receive a scholarship

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Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University; Lori L. Bakken, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Women in Engineering

Knowledge Center(http://www.wepanknowledgecenter.org) is another excellent source of material, researchreports, initiatives and organizations pertinent to women in STEM. The National Academy ofEngineering’s Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CASEE), in conjunctionwith the Society of Women Engineers (SWE)’s Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE) Page 25.932.10Project, is producing its Advancing Research into Practice (ARP) series, which translatesresearch findings on many these issues into practical recommendations for use in the classroom(http://www.engr.psu.edu/awe/ARPResources.aspx). Lastly, all of the professional

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Panel Discussion: Off the Record

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl B. Schrader, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Janelle Brown; Lynn Lubamersky, Boise State University; Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Heidi Reeder, Boise State University

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: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1984.tb23490.x12. Giroux, R. P. “Relevance of Roebling,” Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 23 no. 2 (2009): 2-4.13. Portrait of Emily Warren Roebling, Brooklyn Museum.14. Eagleton, Mary. “When Old is New: Diana Athill and Literary Value. Contemporary Women's Writing,” 5 no. 3 (2011): 172-187. doi: 10.1093/cww/vpr00115. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Selected Letters. Isobel Grundy, ed. London, England: Penguin Classics, 1997.16. Bear, Risa S., transcriber. Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. accessed January 9, 2012, http://ebooks.gutenberg.us/Renascence_Editions/montagu.html17. Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

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Potpouri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen B. Coletti, Northeastern University; Melinda Covert, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Lauren Gianino, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University

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., Hu, L. and Garcia, B. F. (2001). “Academic Self-Efficacy and First-Year College Student Performance and Adjustment.” Journal of Educational Psychology, 93, 1, 55-64.[10] Friedlander, L. J., Reid, G. J., Shupak, N., and Cribbie, R. (2007). “Social Support, Self-Esteem, and Stress as Predictors of Adjustment to University among First-Year Undergraduates,” Journal of College Student Development, 48, 3, 259-274.[11] Meyers, K. L., Silliman, S. E., Gedde, N. L., and Ohland, M. W. (2010). “A Comparison of Engineering Students’ Reflections on their First-Year Experiences.” Journal of Engineering Education, 99, 2, 169-178.[12] Hackett, G., and Betz, N (1981). “A Self-Efficacy Approach to the Career Development of Women

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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University

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Women in Engineering

. Barbercheck, D. Giesman, H. Orun Ozturk, and M. Wayne. New York: Routledge. Pp. 84-100.11. Madsen, S. (2008) On Becoming a Woman Leader. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp 203-207.12. Brent, R. 2012. Process evaluation: The vital (and usually) missing piece in educational research. Under review. Page 25.428.10

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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

take that intermittent time could have some discretion by the department and some ability to work it out so that it meets everybody’s needs. So there is a role for the supervisor or [department chair] or whatever, in combination with the business office when it comes down to that. [A8/ Policy Administrator 1]Options like intermittent time, as well as taking advantage of the policy in general are automaticonce a person fills out the proper forms. However, how the policy and its options are actuallyput into place in a given case requires coordination with the chair of a department as well as thebusiness office. For instance, such as in A3's case where she took sick leave, the business officesin departments keep track of