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Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Agnes G d'Entremont, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Hannah Gustafson, University of British Columbia

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instructor,whether the students believed she was female or male), no difference in the student ratings of theinstructors was found. However, when SET results were grouped by perceived instructor gender(i.e. both the female and male instructors, when the students believed each was female), studentsrated the perceived male instructor as significantly better than the perceived female instructor.These findings support the idea that there is a real bias that exists among students in evaluatinginstructors, not simply a difference in the teaching styles or teaching effectiveness betweenfemale and male instructors.Another study performed a laboratory experiment where students were shown an identicallecture delivered by a stick figure with a gender-neutral

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark M. Budnik, Valparaiso University

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better). These simpledefinitions for creativity and innovation are easy for students to grasp from the first day of classand are readily applicable as students are challenged to define and explore creative andinnovative steps in the engineering design process.ECE490 is a one-credit class that is offered each fall semester. (An abbreviated coursescheduled is shown in Figure 2). Prerequisites for the class are sophomore standing (or higher)and instructor approval, but it is primarily taken by junior and senior students (see Table 2). It isconducted as a laboratory class and meets for three hours once per week. The class is open to allengineering majors (bioengineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, electricalengineering, and mechanical

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lesley Cremeans, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse P.E., Texas Tech University

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considerincorporating entrepreneurship education for students (Duval-Couetil et al., 2012; Duval-Couetilet al., 2016). According to Duval et al. (2012), most engineering students recognized theimportance of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship as a “worthwhile career option”(p. 429). Students with entrepreneurial experiences chose “satisfying a need in a market” as atop reason for entering an entrepreneurship career (Duval-Couetil et al., 2012). Students withentrepreneurship experiences ranked higher in self-efficacy and confidence per the student’sperspective of entrepreneurial ability.Further, the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program “preparesscientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory” (NSF, I

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Listening and Negotiation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kevin D. Hall, University of Arkansas; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Amy J Moll, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

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students for several years while the faculty securesexternal funding. It might contain details surrounding reimbursements associated with movingcosts. It might describe a certain square-footage laboratory. Such start-ups can run to hundreds ofthousands of dollars of support at research-intensive institutions, and future faculty membersshould be careful to understand what the “going rate” for a start-up might be at the institutionsthey are interviewing with. (Tactic #1: Do your homework – ground your request in facts.)1BackgroundAs described in “Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In,”2 which uses“Harvard Principled Negotiation,”2,3 any method of negotiation may be evaluated based on threecriteria: first, it should produce a “wise

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelsey Morgan Irvin, University of Missouri, Columbia; Elizabeth Hiteshue, Bain & Company; Samantha Laurel Swanson; Caroline Missouri Wochnick, Augsburg College; Hannah Bech, AmeriCorps VISTA; Amanda Marie Kapetanakis, Augsburg College; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Derrick Langley, Space and Missile Center, Enterprise Ground Services Office (SMC/ADZS); Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center at Stevens Institute of Technology; MaryAnn C. Hellrigel, IEEE, IEEE History Center; Gregory Alan Good, American Institute of Physics

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Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate, fordiscussions. The authors also thank Mr. Brad Paul, Chief of Integrated Circuits andMicrosystems, Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, for discussions. The authorsthank the National Science Foundation NSF ADVANCE under Award #0810989, Air ForceResearch Laboratory Sensors Directorate, IEEE Foundation, and American Institute of Physicsfor research support. This work was partly supported by a grant-in-aid from the Friends of theCenter for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics. Any opinions, findings,conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sreerenjini C. Nair, University of the Incarnate Word; Michael Frye, University of the Incarnate Word

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that mitigates the effects of uncertainty in complex nonlinear dynamics; such as seen in autonomous vehicle systems. Dr. Frye is the PI and Laboratory Director for the Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 miniGEMS 2016 –STEM Summer Camp for Middle School Girls This paper reviews a free five-day middle school girls’ summer STEM camp, calledminiGEMS. The camp was hosted by the Autonomous Vehicle Systems (AVS) Laboratory at theUniversity of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas during the week of June 20 to 24, 2016.This is the second time the AVS Lab has hosted the miniGEMS camp for middle

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juebei Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Tianyi Zheng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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to improve female engineering students’learning outcomes. For example, Du and Kolmos (2007) emphasized the importance ofa friendly learning environment in collaborative learning for female engineeringstudents [23]; Stein (2014) and Goldschmidt (2016) brought up measures like contextuallearning, laboratory projects and teachers’ intervention to improve female students’self-confidence, persistence, and learning outcomes [24][25].In this study, we focus on improving female students’ learning experience by exploringtheir functional roles and how these roles were formed in a group project setting in aleading Chinese university. Similar to findings in a western context, female engineeringstudents were reported to have lower college entrance

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Bazylak, University of Toronto; Ruth Childs, University of Toronto; Aimy Bazylak, University of Toronto

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Environmental Fellowship for leadership in the environmental field. She was awarded the I.W. Smith Award for Outstanding achievement in creative mechanical engineering within 10 years of gradu- ation (2011) and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award (2012). She is the Director of the Thermofluids for Energy and Advanced Materials (TEAM) Laboratory working in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and subsurface geology. In 2014 she became a Fellow of the Canadian Soci- ety for Mechanical Engineering and in 2015 was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Female vs Male Secondary

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Vicki Stieha, Boise State University; Ann E. Delaney, Boise State University

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Materials Science & Engineering from Boise State in 2014. In the Spring of 2016, Ann was recognized as part of the first cohort of University Innovation Fellows at Boise State, and has worked as a Fellow to collect and incorporate student feedback into future plans for makerspaces on the Boise State campus. As an undergraduate and graduate student, she has been involved with the Society of Women Engineers, and also taught a materials science laboratory course as a graduate teaching assis- tant. She has volunteered at numerous STEM outreach activities on and off of the Boise State campus throughout her time as a student and is passionate about increasing diversity in STEM and helping girls and women to

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaitlin I Tyler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yanfen Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nicole D. Jackson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wan-Ting Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Chaoyang Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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vibrational spectroscopy. Rohit has been at Illinois since as Assistant Professor (2005-2011), Associate Professor (2011-2012) and Professor (2012-). He was the first assistant professor hired into the new Bio- engineering department and played a key role in the development of its curriculum and activities. He later founded and serves as the coordinator of the Cancer Community@Illinois, which is to become a unique technology-focused cancer center. Research in the Bhargava laboratories focuses on fundamental c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Paper ID #19986theory and simulation for vibrational

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emma Kaeli, Northeastern University; Tyler Byrne Cole, Northeastern University; Bradley Joseph Priem, Northeastern University; Rachel Lauren Shapiro, Northeastern University; Paul DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University

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laboratory on campus.Miss Rachel Lauren Shapiro, Northeastern University Rachel Shapiro is a fifth year undergraduate student studying chemical engineering at Northeastern Uni- versity. She has been involved in the Connections Chemistry Review program for the past 3 years. Rachel works in a chemical engineering lab on campus, has held a co-op position at Davol, Inc., a co-op position at Entrega Biosciences, and ia currently completing her third co-op with McKinsey & Company.Dr. Paul DiMilla, Northeastern University Paul A. DiMilla is an Associate Teaching Professor in Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Chemical En- gineering at Northeastern University. During his academic career at Carnegie Mellon University, Boston

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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rolemodels (Hughes, 2015; Bieri Buschor et al., 2014; Demetry & Sontgerath, 2013; Fadigan &Hammerich, 2004).Middle School Outreach as a Recruitment Strategy: Implications for Program EvaluationUniversities are in a good position to offer high quality outreach programming because of theirability to connect girls with a wide range of positive role models in STEM disciplines and tooffer hands-on experiences in science and engineering laboratories. Our examination of datacollected by the Engineering Education Service Center (EESC) suggests that 147 universitiesacross the United States are offering more than double the number of STEM enrichmentprograms at the high school level than at the middle school level (EESC, 2017). Deliveringbudget-neutral

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University; Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University; Lynn A. Albers, Campbell University; Michele Miller, Campbell University

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Women in Engineering

national data. Enrollment at the end of the first semesterwas encouraging, with little attrition and actually a net gain of 3 female students.Initial data on recruitment of our second cohort suggests a class similar to (althoughperhaps larger) than the initial cohort in terms of gender and breakdown byconcentration. We will continue to track retention of students and diversity throughgraduation. Student feedback, additional data analysis and additional recruitingefforts will continue to help us shape and improve the diversity of our student body.Future work could include an examination of curricular design, particularly studentexposure to hands-on activities in the makerspace and fabrication laboratory in thefirst year, and its impact on

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaitlin I. Tyler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Johnson-Glauch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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campers were able to make connections between each moduleand the materials science tetrahedron. Over 98% of responses were either a 4 or a 5. Enjoymentand general opinion of the camp were also high (>90%). Creativity was lower, most likely due tothe intro lecture and other laboratory activities that did not allow for much choice from thecamper due to the nature of the experiment. Overall, these results show that the comprehensionof materials science, over all activities, was achieved via our transfer of learning methods.Looking at the individual module responses gives a more detailed look into how well the girlscomprehended each module, as well as how much they enjoyed it.Figure 8 shows the Likert responses for the Design project module. Based

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer S Gurski, Drexel University; Penny Louise Hammrich, Drexel Univeristy

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Associate Dean of Research at Temple University and a K-12 school-teacher. In the past 20 years she has been the Principal Investigator on over 35 research grants totaling over 30 million dollars. Dr. Hammrich has published more than 150 articles, 5 science laboratory manuals for college level biology courses, 26 science curriculum manuals, 6 chapters in books, edited 14 articles, written 75 government and technical reports, cited in the media over 100 times, and made over 500 national and international presentations. Dr. Hammrich’s research has been nationally recognized over the years by such organizations as the American Association of University Women, Association of Science Teacher Education, National Science