Conference Session

Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Penny M. Knoll, Montana State University; Ann Saterbak, Rice University

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Women in Engineering

Excellence in Laboratory Instruction. She has also implemented new pedagogical methods and teaching standards to broaden students’ problem solving skills, scientific and technological literacy through real-world prob- lems, problem- and project-based learning, and hands-on experiences. She also teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (ENGI 120) for the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership. In 2011, she won the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the university’s highest teaching award. Page 25.307.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012

Conference Session

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

of male professors… I couldn’t really integrate myself into that group! I couldn’t just walk [up] to them and say, “Hey guys! What’s up?” I can definitely feel the intimidation as a young female professor getting into that circle or even as a social group… to meet and network with this large group of old male professors. Interview participants also pointed out that male students usually had “the privilege” tosocialize with their professors outside of the laboratory setting, while their female counterpartswere omitted from many non-academic related social events, such as sporting events, conferencesocials, and barbecues. Such experiences seemed to cause doubt and concern among womendoctoral students about their

Conference Session

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

laboratories. The primarylearning objectives of the course are based on criteria for graduating competent engineers asrecommended by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)39 and ABET28. Four weeks of thesemester comprise general lectures that provide an overview of the engineering profession andinclude the topics of failure analysis, design methodology and human-centered design, societalcontext of engineering, as well as leadership and ethical considerations in engineering as adiscipline. Following the general lectures are two sets of five-week modules.For the semester in which this study took place, a five-week module on leadership was offered inaddition to two other modules focused on more traditional engineering topics, bioengineeringand

Conference Session

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

similar levels of student experience variables such as confidence and studentinteraction, individuals with lower GPA are more likely to be in the “committed” group. Theseresults confirm that GPA is not an indicator of persistence when used in isolation12. Page 25.1401.3Hartman and Hartman performed a longitudinal study at Rowan University's engineeringprogram7. They found that non-persisters are less satisfied than persisters with the opportunitiesthe program offers and the choices within the program. However, levels of satisfaction withcourse workload, laboratory work, and faculty-student relationships were similar betweenpersisters and non

Conference Session

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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Women in Engineering

, Iowa State University Shankar Subramaniam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his B.Tech. in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Tech- nology, Bombay (Mumbai) in 1988 and is a recipient of the President’s Silver Medal. He earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University, subsequent to an M.S. in aerospace engineering at the University of Notre Dame, USA. After his Ph.D., he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Theoretical Division’s Fluid Dynamics Group. Prior to joining the ISU faculty in 2002, Subramaniam was an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. He is a recipient of the U.S

Conference Session

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

universities, especially in STEM disciplines where laboratory facilities areheavily scheduled, are often inflexible and frequently require daily commitments, perhapsmaking it more difficult to balance work-life issues, schedule research activities or participate infaculty development opportunities7-16.The survey we designed was intended to probe the concept that one’s professional successdepends upon the presence of a supportive department climate and that department environmentgreatly affects retention22-32. We speculated in our proposal that productivity in comprehensivesmay be more heavily influenced by department climate than at research-intensive institutions,resulting from qualities unique to comprehensives as noted above. For the project as

Conference Session

Potpouri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Women in Engineering

Compatibility and Radio Science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Dr. Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET Rochelle Williams recently joined the ABET headquarters staff as Educational Research and Assessment Manager in the Professional Services Department. In this role, Williams manages ABET’s educational of- ferings on a global scale and leads technical education research projects. Prior to joining ABET, Williams held two positions at Baton Rouge Community College: Science Laboratory Manager and Adjunct Fac- ulty in the Mathematics Department. In addition, Williams has worked closely with the National Sci- ence Foundation’s Next Generation Composites Crest Center at Southern University