Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Western Michigan University; Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University ; Daniel Collier, Western Michigan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

. The French et al. studyworks on the odds ratio. None of the four studies has showed statistically significant differencein men’s retention, though. Three studies indicate higher retention for women19,18,46. Cohen’sstudy has showed statistically higher retention for women students. The studies that are in favorof men retention have considered the MIDFIELD database and NC university database; whilethe ones that are in favor of women retention have considered a national database (Engineeringworkforce commission- EWC) of 1999-2001 graduating students and a mid-Atlantic collegedatabase. Three of the four studies that indicate higher retention for men compute 4-yearretention, while the NC study35, which indicates poor retention of women, computes