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Understanding the Experience of Women in Undergraduate Engineering Programs at Public Universities

Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
technical knowledge and merit based scholarship sets the ground work for a disengagementof students and pushes out those with a wider world view. The study that Cech [17] conductedshowed that students in universities actually decrease in their feelings of social engagement andresponsibilities as they progress through their education. While the changes are small, they aresignificant and point to a larger problem with undergraduate education and the socialization ofengineers.Engineering IdentityThe development of an identity as an engineer has begun to be considered a factor in theformation of a professional engineer. Capobianco, French and Diefes-Dux [18] looked at theconnection of a student’s ability to identity as an engineer and their persistence
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Illuminating the Computing Pathway for Women in Mississippi

Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Vemitra M White, Mississippi State University; Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University; Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State University; Jessica Ivy, Mississippi State Universitt; C. Danielle Grimes, Mississippi State University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
Dec. 9, 2017].[11] J. A. Fredricks and S. D. Simpkins, “Promoting positive youth development through organized after-school activities: Taking a closer look at participation of ethnic minority youth,” Child Development Perspectives, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 280–287, Sep. 2012.[12] B. A. Danielak, A. Gupta, and A. Elby, “The marginalized identities of sense-makers: reframing engineering student retention,” in 2010 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010, pp. S1H–1–S1H–6.[13] R.M. Marra, K.A. Rodgers, D. Shen, and B. Bogue, “Women engineering students and self-efficacy: A multi-year, multi-institution study of women engineering student self- efficacy,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 98, no
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