Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzam S. Maleki P.E., Massachusetts Maritime Academy; Gail M Stephens P.E., Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

interest. Women are no longer limited by outside factors and do not foresee anyimpediments to their future careers as a result of their gender. In the general response option ofthe survey, one student, in talking about an internship with a shipping company, stated, “as awoman, I expected a lot of negativity but all of the engineers and mates were happy to see me. Itwas an amazing experience. I wish we had more of them.”[7] With this in mind, one approach toincreasing the number of female cadets and promoting the accomplishments of female graduateswould be to invite MMA alumna as guest speakers at campus open houses.On the average, women engineers are at least as prepared as their male counterparts upon arrivalat MMA, thereby increasing the