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Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elsa Camargo, Virginia Tech; Ashley Wood, Virginia Tech; Margaret E. Layne, Virginia Tech

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Female MaleMethodologyThis paper reports on part of a larger study conducted through the institution’s provost office toassess the impact that work-life policies have on faculty careers. An assistant provost served asprincipal investigator with graduate students as co-investigators. The principal investigator hadaccess to university records that identified faculty members who had used the tenure clockextension and modified duties policies between 2006 and 2013. The study was designed as amixed methods study, drawing from survey data and faculty interviews. However, the surveydata presented limited results so this paper focuses on analysis of the qualitative data.SurveyA total of 168 faculty members who had been identified through

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Two Body Solutions: Strategies for the Dual-Career Job Search

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Christopher M Weyant, Drexel University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Kristina M. Wagstrom, University of Connecticut; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

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to be, his passion has always been more on the teachingside. One of Jon’s job prospects that was very interesting to him was in Philadelphia. Thoughthis job was not directly related to his field of study, it was an opportunity to use his skill set in adifferent area. When he contacted a graduate student colleague of both Jon and Chris about lifein Philadelphia, that connection proved to be invaluable. He noted his department had a jobposting for a teaching faculty member. This was Chris’s dream job. In the end, Chris left histenure track position for a non-tenure track teaching faculty position and Jon left his researchcareer for a career in software, which has been an underlying passion of his. Patience andflexibility ultimately led to

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Women in Engineering Division: Faculty and Gender Issues

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ari Turrentine, VentureWell

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pertaining to impediments to academiccommercialization and career advancement for women faculty in engineering and science. Thepurpose is to not only raise awareness of the likely origins of these issues, but to recommendways that staff, faculty, departments, and universities can create a more equitable careertrajectory for women faculty in engineering and science. Immediate and long term shifts inindividual and institutional bias, policy, leadership, and training have the potential to make asignificant difference in engineering innovation for social and environmental change.Introduction“Innovation is not gender-blind, but rather inherently gender-biased, because of an implicit,socially constructed assumption that women are less innovative than men

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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Rojewski, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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as a frameworkfor promoting professional development and community building for graduate students.Building on the themes of the book, this program sought to promote reflection amongparticipants about the choices and actions that women can take to position themselves forsuccess—and encouraged exploration of students’ personal vision of success. Results of pre-and post-tests, along with observational data gathered by the facilitators, indicated that studentswere concerned largely by two topics: concerns about how to balance their career ambition andtheir goals for a fulfilling personal life (whatever that may be), and how to have positive andbeneficial relationship with mentors or advisors. Students also shared their challenges andfrustration

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Women in Engineering Division: Faculty and Gender Issues

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kacey D. Beddoes, Oregon State University; Corey T. Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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. Page 26.812.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Gender and Department Heads: An Empirically-Inspired Literature ReviewAbstract: Inspired by storytelling circles with female academics, this article examines therole of department heads vis-à-vis gendered career experiences and women’s persistentunderrepresentation among science and engineering faculty members. It focuses on the levelof power heads are afforded, presents new and understudied perspectives on the departmenthead literature, and suggests research horizons and policy recommendations. Five gendereddimensions of department head literature are identified and discussed. Given that departmentheads

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Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Quincy Brown, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Michelle Beadle Holder, University of Maryland, College Park; Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Scientists, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and the Alliance/Merck Ciencia Hispanic Scholars Program. She has presented workshops on graduate school admissions, ”The Success Equation,” STEM initiatives, and PhD Completion in Panama, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and schools across the United States. Tull is on the board of advisors for the PNW-COSMOS Alliance to increase the number of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students who complete STEM graduate programs, and is a speaker on ”GRADLab” tour with the National GEM Consortium, giving talks across the US each Saturday morning during the Fall. Tull researched speech technology as former member of the faculty at the University of

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Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Carol Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COS); Maureen S. Valentine P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Andrea Gebhart Rommel, Independent Scientific Consultant; Laurie A. Clayton, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #12323AdvanceRIT Connect Grants: Driving Momentum for Disruptive Change forWomen STEM FacultyProf. Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Sharon Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Tech- nology at RIT where she has served on the faculty since 1997. Sharon has been involved in computing security education at RIT since its inception. She is a PI of for the Department of Defense (DoD) In- formation Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) awards to RIT. These scholarships enable students to study and do research in graduate programs in security

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Women in Engineering Division: Faculty and Gender Issues

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; Stacy Doore, University of Maine; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Karen J. Horton P.E., University of Maine; Kristen L. Jellison, Lehigh University; Sharon Melissa Latimer, West Virginia University; Marci J. Levine, Lehigh University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University

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Wyoming in 1992, 1994, and 1998, respectively. During his Ph.D. studies, he also obtained a graduate minor in statistics. He is currently an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator with the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at North Dakota State University, where he teaches courses and conducts research in signal processing. Since its inception in 2008, Dr. Green has been an active member of the NDSU Advance FORWARD Advocates, a group of male faculty dedicated to effecting departmental and institutional change in support of gender equality. As part of this group, he regularly trains men, at NDSU and other institutions, to better serve as gender equity allies. Dr. Green is the author of a

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Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University

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STEM majors and careers. Some of the factors they found to influence theundergraduate experiences of women of color in STEM persistence were: STEM enrichmentprograms, interactions with peers and faculty, academic sense of self, and personal agency anddrive7. Edzie developed a 15-question survey instrument based on the Motivated StudentLearning Questionnaire8, 9, and additional qualitative research findings. This instrument was usedto gather undergraduate student data regarding student self-efficacy as compared to pre-collegiate factors potentially contributing to STEM persistence. Although Edzie’s work wasconducted at a Midwestern university, amongst a population of predominately white students, thesurvey includes probing questions relevant

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Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Whitney Winders; Cariana Cornel; Caralea Cornel, Brigham Young University; Allie Larson; Sarah A. Cunha; Samuel Moses, Brigham Young University; Dale C. Rowe, Brigham Young University; Laura Wilkinson, Brigham Young University

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and Information Technology, mentoring is “a relationshipwhere one person invests time and effort in enhancing another person’s growth, knowledge, andskills” so that they may reach “greater productivity or achievement in the future” 12. Mentorshipis an exceptionally effective method that is important for both the mentor and the mentee aslearning usually occurs on both ends. The CSRL implements mentorship by consistently providing equal opportunities forinvolvement regardless of the amount of experience an individual may have, or which genderthey might be. New students meet regularly with a faculty mentor, but are also encouraged toseek peer mentors. Almost immediately, mentees are given opportunities to work with theirmentors in helping

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Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elaine Zundl, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Laura Stiltz, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Helen M. Buettner, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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-learning project that would keep students engaged. TheEngineering Leadership Program objectives were to: • Provide monthly exposure to successful women in engineering, including practicing engineers, engineering alumni, and engineering faculty members whose presentations featured their latest research, experiences, and personal journeys with students • Utilize an individual and group-mentoring model designed to match sophomore- engineering majors with junior and senior engineering majors to specifically target feelings of isolation in engineering. This adapted a mentoring program for all STEM students at Douglass that was already being planned for the 2013-2014 year to target engineering students

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Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer I. Clark, Montana State University ; Sarah L. Codd, Montana State University; Angela Colman Des Jardins, Montana State University; Christine M. Foreman, Montana State University; Brett W. Gunnink, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Katherine Ruth Stocker

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women felt theyhad benefitted from the program and all the students wanted it to be offered to them during theirsophomore year. Fall semester, 2014, the COE and MSGC implemented an expanded programjointly funded by the college and the consortium. The program was designed and managed by afemale faculty member in Mechanical Engineering, the Associate Dean for Student Success inthe college, and an academic adviser from the Department of Education. All eligible freshmenand sophomore females were included in the program and in all information and invitations sentout by the program, but their responses and participation were voluntary. In parallel withestablishing a peer mentoring program, data has been collected to track if the program canimprove

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Women in Engineering Division: Pre-college Student Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynsey Mitchell Kissane, Ryerson University; Liping Fang, Ryerson University ; Ruth Jean Silver, Groundswell Projects

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enormous amount of content thatrevealed the political, economic, cultural, and social nature of engineers' personal andprofessional lives.Surveys and Interviews YTT members completed 360 surveys that helped the project team understand how to communicate with them, what their unique perspectives on being a student, the future, making decisions, careers, university, STEM. They interviewed 100 female engineers, 26 engineering students, 7 engineering romantic Page 26.772.12 couples, and over 700 peers, parents and teachers to develop insights about perceptions of engineering, communicating with teens and gender issues and

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Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

shaping and supportingstudents’ group-learning experiences.6 While faculty practices are important in all group-learningapproaches, they can be particularly important for supporting under-represented students, whooften experience marginalization in such settings. Both faculty and peers can marginalizeindividual students in a variety of ways, including through assignment of work tasks, validationof work tasks, validation of ideas or perspectives, and the nature of the group task itself.First, at the onset of an activity, task assignment biases can often result from unconsciousexpectations about who may be more (or less) suited to certain tasks.7, 8 While each team isdifferent, with a different set of identities and personalities, there is also

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Brewer, University of Georgia; Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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, function to privilege and perpetuate certainunderstandings of the field. Autoethnographic techniques are used to construct three accounts ofthe student’s encounters with an upper level administrator, various members of faculty, and anacademic advisor. Critical analysis of these experiences using a prior evidence-based model ofstories ‘told’ about engineering in the public discourse reveals tensions between the freshmanstudent’s values and career interests and the emergent, dominant discourse he observed in hisundergraduate program. These tensions are described in terms of: i) The prioritization of nationaleconomic recovery and growth over the life and career goals of individuals; ii) A predominantfocus on the quantitative and technical aspects of

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Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amanda S. Parker, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder

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slate of programs to address diversifying goals on multiple frontsgreatly vary. Decisions about which K-12 activities to offer range from whether to host small tolarge size events, the design of an activity with respect to the appeal for younger, high school,minority and/or women students and whether to host it on campus or at a local school. Creatingand executing retention initiatives to support students once on campus may involve determiningthe amount of scholarship support necessary, teaching strategies to help students build anacademic community and maintaining pathways to involve more diverse students in research.An institution’s diversity slate may include individual projects resulting from faculty grants thatcreate a one-time outreach or

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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prashant Rajan, Iowa State University; Charles T. Armstrong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Elizabeth J. O'Connor , Ketchum Change; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rebecca L. Dohrman, Maryville University; Colleen Arendt, Fairfield University ; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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? RQ1b: What are the professional and educational contexts in which participants experience mentorship?MethodParticipantsA total of 25 male undergraduate and graduate engineering students from a large, midwesternuniversity participated in the study. From an initial pool of personal contacts, researchers utilizedsnowball-sampling methods to create “chains of referral”.25 We attempted to diversify ourinterview pool to reflect the various disciplines of engineering by utilizing additional recruitmentmethods because sampling through “chains of referral” can lead to a bias toward selectinginterviewees who share homogenous attributes such as backgrounds or preferences,25 Thesemethods included posting recruitment flyers in campus buildings (See

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Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Carol Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COS); Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine PE, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

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education, deaf education, and online learning. She is a co-PI on RIT’s NSF ADVANCE IT project, Connect@RIT, and leads grant activities in the Human Resources strategic approach area.Prof. Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Sharon Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Tech- nology at RIT where she has served on the faculty since 1997. Sharon has been involved in computing security education at RIT since its inception. She is the PI of for the Department of Defense (DoD) In- formation Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) awards to RIT. These scholarships enable students to study and do research in graduate programs in security, forensics and information

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Women in Engineering Division: Curricular Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brianna Blaser, University of Washington; Katherine M. Steele, University of Washington; Sheryl Elaine Burgstahler, University of Washigton

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project designed toincrease the participation of people with disabilities in education and careers in engineering andimprove engineering fields with their perspectives and expertise. We are working withengineering faculty nationwide to (1) better serve a diverse student body that includes studentswith disabilities in engineering courses and programs, and (2) integrate relevant disability-relatedand universal design content into engineering courses.Starting in 2015, we will host a workshop each year with engineering faculty from across thecountry to discuss their approaches to achieving these goals. We will be drafting resources basedon these conversations and disseminating them widely through our networks of engineeringfaculty members, the

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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Brandt, Seton Hall University

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that male students are more likely to openly express their bias. A sizable group of 36% of respondents indicated that they have personally experienced some formof bias, whether from other students or faculty (although less than 6% indicated stronglyagree).As shown in Table 13, a high level of confidence of succeeding in a STEM career wasalready found by the second year. However, senior year students in the sample populationdemonstrated a strong shift (60%) to the strongly agree confidence level.Table 13Self-reports of respondents in their confidence to succeed in STEM Sophomores (n=43) Juniors (n=58) Seniors (n=50) % % %Agree

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Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Evelyn R. Sowells, North Carolina A&T State University; Nina Exner, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University; Sherry F. Abernathy, North Carolina A&T State University; Rajeev K. Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University ; Brenda S. Faison Ph.D., North Carolina A&T State University

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is evident by exit surveys and freshman orientation interview answers where students informed us that this event had an impact on their decision to pursue technology degrees and/or apply to our technology degree program. This kind of high-visibility industry engagement has been a critical component of success in the RSC program. Others attempting to implement full pipelines are highly encouraged to find or create a similar experience for students throughout the technology and engineering career cycle to engage with and understand the needs and vision of industry leaders and professionals.D. Women in Technology Panel Another recruitment tool has been the annual Women in Technology Discussion Panel and