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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Laine Schrewe, Tolles Career and Technical Center

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Paper ID #21071STEM: Customized for ThemMrs. Laine Schrewe, Tolles Career and Technical Center Laine Schrewe has been an engineering instructor for Tolles Career and Technical Center with a satellite classroom in Jonathan Alder High School (Plain City, Ohio) for three years. Before becoming a teacher, Laine was an engine design engineer for Honda R&D of America for nine years and has a Bachelor’s (from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; New York, New York) and Master’s degree (from the University of Wisconsin - Madison) in Mechanical Engineering. She is currently obtaining a Master of Arts

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Sarah Morton; Nehal I. Abu-lail, Washington State University; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Julie A. Kmec, Washington State University; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Paper ID #22417Women’s Motivation to Pursue Engineering Education and Careers: a CaseStudy of MalaysiaMs. S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Zahra Atiq is a PhD candidate at the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is interested in learning about the non-cognitive/affective and individual/demographic factors that impacts students in STEM courses. Specifically, she is interested in understanding the emotions students’ expe- rience while learning computer programming. She is interested to understand women’s participation in computer science and engineering.Sarah

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Women in Engineering Technical Session

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Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University

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girls’ STEM interests andidentities in an effort to increase female representation in STEM careers. Incorporating ARTsinto STEM, the STEAM ACTIVATED! program was implemented to increase the ‘SustainableConstruction Engineering’ knowledge, interests, and self-efficacy of 31 middle-school girls.Self-efficacy is having a ‘can-do’ attitude that increases coping behavior, identity formation, andpersistence. Following the Bandura model for improving self-efficacy, the 5-day programengaged girls in: (1) Mastery experiences through hands-on ‘Construction Engineering’ projects,dance, and field trip; (2) Vicarious experiences through teamwork, peer mentoring, competitions,and oral presentations; (3) Verbal persuasion through coaching, instruction, story

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Madison E. Andrews, University of Texas, Austin

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indicates that 20.1% ofbachelor’s degrees in engineering are earned by women, who go on to hold only 14.5% ofindustry engineering positions (National Science Board, 2018). This increase in the alreadydisproportionate representation throughout engineering pathways offers a strong motivation tostudy women’s experiences and factors that influence their career decisions. Several studieshave examined the reasons that students leave engineering and have identified a strong sense ofself-efficacy as a key indicator of both retention and persistence. While self-efficacy can bedeveloped in variety of ways, research has shown that mastery experiences can be veryinfluential developers of self-efficacy in both men and women (Mamaril & Royal, 2008

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Women in Engineering Technical Session

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Jodi F. Prosise, St. Ambrose University; R R Romatoski, Saint Ambrose University; Susa H Stonedahl, St. Ambrose University; Yunye Shi Shi, St. Ambrose University

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remains low (only up 5%since 1993). In engineering specifically, women only make up 13% of the workforce (up from9% in 1990). Gender stereotypes persist today, even after decades of campaigns to change that.It is critical that girls are shown at an early age that women can be engineers and scientists. Thiswill help them combat false stereotypes and remove obstacles between them and a career in thesefields. To this end, we have developed a highly successful outreach program that focuses onshowing elementary and middle school-aged girls how fun and exciting a career in STEM canbe. Hands-on activities emphasize creativity and allow girls to explore STEM without beingjudged, worrying about what grade they might receive, or dealing with the

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Women in Engineering Technical Session

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Michele Miller, Campbell University; Saeedeh Ziaeefard, Michigan Technological University; Brian R Page, Michigan Technological University; Lauren Nicole Knop, Michigan Technological University ; Guilherme Aramizo Ribeiro, Michigan Technological University; Mo Rastgaar; Nina Mahmoudian, Michigan Technological University

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NSF CAREER Award.Dr. Nina Mahmoudian, Michigan Technological University Dr. Nina Mahmoudian is Lou and Herbert Wacker Associate Professor in Autonomous Mobile Systems in the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Department at Michigan Technological University. She is the founding director of the Nonlinear and Autonomous Systems Laboratory (NASLab). Her research interests include robotics, energy autonomy, system design, dynamics and controls. She is a recipient of 2015 National Science Foundation CAREER award and 2015 Office of Naval Research YIP award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Monitoring Motivation Factors for Middle School Students

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Women in Engineering Technical Session

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Samuel Alberto Acuna, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Joseph E Michaelis, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Joshua Daniel Roth, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Joseph Towles, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Wisconsin–Madison in 2015.Mr. Joseph E Michaelis, University of Wisconsin - Madison Joseph E Michaelis is a Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology in the Learning Sciences area at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research involves studying interest in STEM education, focusing on the impact of learning environments, feedback, and influence of social constructs and identities. This research includes developing inclusive learning environments that promote interest in pursuing STEM fields as a career to a broad range of students.Dr. Joshua Daniel Roth, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDr. Joseph Towles, University of Wisconsin, Madison Joseph Towles is a lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University; Doreen Aveni, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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fall, students take anintroductory freshman seminar geared specifically for WISE Honors students to get acclimatedto the rigors of college academic work. In spring of the first year, students take a seminar course,Opportunities in STEM and Beyond, which includes guest lecturers to introduce students to thebreadth of STEM research and discovery. Learning objectives include understanding thecollaborative, interdisciplinary nature of STEM and its worldwide relevance.Second year. The sophomore year expands on career and research and also emphasizesacademics. Society and Gender in STEM explores how gender impacts STEM and uncoversstereotypes and sources of underrepresentation in in the field. Research and Discovery in STEMfosters student capacity

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Kristin E. Sherwood, Stony Brook University; Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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are the threebasic tenets of career development. Self-efficacy is seen as an ever-changing set of self-beliefsregarding specific performance capabilities that results from the complex interplay of personalbehaviors, interactions with other people, and environmental factors. Although the authorsagreed with Bandura [10] that performance accomplishments, vicarious learning, socialpersuasion, and psychological state influence and alter self-efficacy beliefs, they believed thatpersonal performance accomplishments are the greatest contributors to self-efficacy [12]. Peña-Calvo, Inda-Caro, Rodríguez-Menéndez, and Fernández-García [13] utilized Lent’s work [12] toexamine the perceptions of barriers and supports in a study of 811 sophomore university

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History of the Women in Engineering Division: Reflections from Past Chairs of the Division

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Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Beth M. Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Noel N. Schulz, Washington State University; Sarah A. Rajala, Iowa State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University

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in teaching, research and service. She enjoys teaching electrical engineering and power engineering topics to students. In research and graduate studies, she has been very active having graduated 40 MS and 13 PhD students; published 160 papers and 2 book chapters; and brought in over $40 M in external research through individual and collaborative projects including an U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award. She is an ASEE and an IEEE Fellow. She has been active in the IEEE Power & Energy Society serving on the PES Governing Board for 12 years and President for 2012-2013. Dr. Schulz is a member of Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering c American Society for Engineering Education

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny, King Saud University; Hamed Dhafi Alsharari, Saudi Elecrtonic University

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), its first mixed-gender university [1]; its firstpublic women-only and the world's largest university for women, Princess Nora bintAbdulrahman University (PNU) [2]; and its first private women-only university, EffatUniversity [3]. In view of these initiatives, this paper serves as an extension of a previous study thathighlights the need in the kingdom for the participation of females in engineering highereducation [4]. The authors here present and justify engineering specializations where females areexpected to be most successful from both academic and career perspectives. First, an overview ispresented regarding the involvement of women in engineering higher education and the jobmarket in select countries. This is subsequently followed

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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

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that the issue for engineering education is more ofrecruitment than retention. Further, Godwin et al.32 advised that efforts to recruit women shouldnot solely focus on building physics, math, or engineering identities but should also emphasizetheir empowerment in changing their world through engineering.Insight 2: Women students rely on their family members for choosing their careers Many authors have highlighted the influence of high school teachers on students’ careerchoices and preparation for the choices29,30,26,33, it appears that women students also rely on theirparents and other family members for making the choices34.Insight 3: The K12 system must help women students to develop social capital and navigationalcapital The K

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Jennifer A Gatz, Stony Brook University ; Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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engineering.IntroductionDespite gender similarities in mathematics and science achievement, women continue to beunderrepresented in STEM education and careers [1]-[3]. Of the 108,969 bachelor’s degrees inengineering awarded in 2013-2014, 20,031 (18.4%) were awarded to women [4]. Between 2000and 2013, the proportion of science and engineering bachelor’s degrees in all fields awarded towomen remained mostly flat with declines in computer science (10%), mathematics and statistics(5%), physics (3%), and engineering (1%) [5]. Some researchers reported retention rates inscience and engineering in the U.S. have been disproportionately high for women [1], [6], whileothers have pointed out the attrition rates for women were consistent with those in other majors[7]. Research has

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Coleen Carrigan, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Saejin Kwak Tanguay, University of Washington; Joyce Yen, University of Washington; Julie Simmons Ivy, North Carolina State University; Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University; M. Claire Horner-Devine, University of Washington and Counterspace Consulting

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) Institute”. A certified coach, Grant consults and empowers STEM individuals at all levels in the academy towards excellence in career and professional development. Her workshops on mentoring and academic career development for NSF ADVANCE programs at Purdue, Cornell, Texas A&M, University of Toledo, UVA, Prairie View A&M, and the ADVANCE Annual PI meetings pro- mote STEM faculty development while providing diverse role models for students. She has mentored and empowered hundreds of faculty, students and postdocs.Dr. M. Claire Horner-Devine, University of Washington and Counterspace Consulting Dr. Claire Horner-Devine is the co-founder and co-director of three, federally funded, national programs (BRAINS, WEBS

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Women in Engineering Technical Session

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Hadil Mustafa, California State University, Chico; Shelby Ann Freese

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the Section President of Chico State, and the Region A Collegiate Senator. She has been involved with Society of Women Engineers for almost 4 years, accounting for her entire Undergraduate Collegiate Career. Some of Shelby’s passions include host- ing Outreach Events, such as Imagineer Day, giving back to her community through various volunteering activities, and teaching middle school girls in her A Local Outreach Program alongside Hadil Mustafa. She has won various awards, including the Region A Future Collegiate Leader Award (2017), Region A Outstanding Collegiate Leader Award (2018), and the Chico State Mac Martin Excellence in Leadership Award (2018). She has career aspirations to be in the Automotive/Racing

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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higher than males on a four point scaleand earn an average of 0.5 more credits in math and science [9, p. 5]. The new SAT re-alignmentseems to have widened the overall gap in performance for males and females; however, womenwho consider Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) careers outperform males[10]. While these facts should give women a competitive advantage and encourage enrollment incollege engineering programs, the rate of freshmen enrollment is only 18% [10, p. 7]. In otherwords, 82% of engineering undergraduate degrees are earned by male students.When the rate of completion is examined by university type, the results show a different picture.Of the universities that granted the most degrees to women, by percentage, only three

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Stephany Coffman-Wolph, University of Texas, Austin; Kimberlyn Gray, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.

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Grades Influencing Decision to 68% Yes, 32% No 81% Yes, 19% No Stay at WVU Tech People Discouraging Staying in 24% Yes, 76% No 20% Yes, 80% No College Top Three Campus Services Advising, TRIO, Tutoring Advising and TRIO (tied), Used TutoringTable 5: Summary of Themes for Female Students Encouragement to Pursue College Family (with a few citing faculty, career plans, and outside sources) Encouragement to Pursue Major Family, Faculty, Mentors, and Self People Discouraging

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Henriette D. Burns, Washington State University, Vancouver; Sean Palmer Marquardt Rice, Washington State University, Vancouver

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in STEM careers is because the culture ofSTEM, especially engineering and analytical areas, is a limiting culture devoid of what femalesseems to prefer, empathy and social caring [8]-[10].However, measuring constructs such as interest is complex because of the interactive anddynamic nature of constructs with one another, that the constructs are usually self-reported, andthat few standardized measurement terms exist [11]. STEM can be considered as one contentarea or four content areas. We often ask our students to describe STEM. They usually answer bystating the letters S, T, E, and M stand for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, butdo not state any concept of what “STEM” means. The term STEM is thought to originate withthe

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Malle R Schilling, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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college-enrolled men [4]. In 2017, 28% of Miami University’s incoming class of engineering studentswas female while 20 % of the University of Cincinnati’s class was female [5]. A similar gendergap is seen in the employment of women in engineering fields; for example, women onlyrepresented 15.4% of employees in architecture and engineering occupations as of 2014 [6]. Thispersistent gender disparity begs the following question: why do women not choose to pursueengineering?There are several factors that are important to consider when trying to understand why femalesdo not choose to pursue engineering. First, career choice is not an objective measure of ability,nor are gender differences in course choices and career aspirations in science, technology

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Laura K Alford, University of Michigan; Valeria Bertacco, University of Michigan

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Computer Aided Design. She is the author of three books on correctness in computer design. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998 and 2003; and a Computer Engineering degree (”Dottore in Ingegneria”) summa cum laude from the University of Padova, Italy in 1995. Valeria is the recipient of the IEEE CEDA Early Career Award, NSF CAREER award, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s Young Investigator award and the IBM Faculty Award. From the University of Michigan she received the Vulcans Education Excellence Award, the Herbert Kopf Service Excellence Award, the Sarah Goddard Power Award for contribution to the betterment of women and the Rackham Faculty

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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-relatedactivities. The ultimate objective of these activities is to encourage more students to choose aneducation in the STEM fields and pursue a STEM-related career in the future [2].Getting more students involved in the STEM education is already a challenge. Attracting morefemale students into the STEM fields can be even harder. Statistics data show that there is a biggender gap in the STEM fields in workplaces. It has been found that women make up 46% of theworkforce but hold only 24% of jobs in STEM fields [3]. Many institutions and organizationshave realized this challenge and provided various activities to promote female students into theSTEM fields [2]. In addition, different strategies were developed to recruit and retain students inthe STEM

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Mayari I. Serrano, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Rachel Ann Baker

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courses. For the past decade, Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer’s research has focused on broadening participation of women and underrepresented group in STEM fields. Recently, she has been investigating the intersec- tion of education and career path with cultural identity and is developing strategies to inform programming and policies that facilitate recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations in academia. In 2012 Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer was presented with an Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Earth, At- mospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University. She also serves on their Alumni Advisory Board. Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer earned her B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. and Ph.D

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Allison Webster-Giddings, Vanderbilt University; Nancy Dickson, Vanderbilt; Melissa S Martiros, Anna Maria College; Sarah Mullen, Vanderbilt University

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to develop career aspirations (Blackhurst et al., 2009). Sax & Harper(2007) suggest that “the source of gender differences extends back into the pre-college years,when women and men develop different values, confidences, aspirations, and patterns ofbehavior” (Sax & Harper, 2007, 690). In order to understand the gender gap in STEM fields, it isimportant to understand the factors contributing to college major selection that begin to developwell before college enrollment. A large body of research has focused on the pre-college factorsand experiences that influence this gender gap in STEM. The majority of these influences fallwithin three main categories: academic and nonacademic experiences (Goldin et al, 2006; Grantet al, 2000; Whitt

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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Pamela L Dickrell, University of Florida

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the build group to me was that it provided me with hands-on,technical experience that I had never been exposed to before. Getting that experience as afreshman in college was very helpful, as I am going into a career in engineering, and the skills inthis build group are crucial to that career. It was also impactful because it fostered personalgrowth and confidence-building. Getting to know and use some powerful tools, surrounded bywomen in engineering who are doing the same, was very empowering.”Co-Ed Group ResponsesWhat aspect of the building group had the most impact on you, and why?“Access to tools, I've never had access to before. I was raised by a single parent and whatevershe had and could use was what I was taught to use, but not much

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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she played 2 years of women’s basketball at Bevill State Community College in Fayette AL and her last 2 years at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton GA. She was a 4 year Academic All American.Dr. Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University Sarah Lee joined the faculty at Mississippi State University (MSU) after a 19 year information technology career at FedEx Corporation. As an assistant clinical professor and Assistant Department Head in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, she is co-founder and co-director of the Bulldog Bytes program at MSU that engages K-12 students with computing and provides professional development to K-12 teachers in computer science and cybersecurity. She is the PI for the

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Vicki V. May, Dartmouth College; Joseph J. Helble, Dartmouth College

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from: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_326.10.asp.[4] American Society for Engineering Education. (2016). 2015 ASEE Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Technology Colleges. Washington, DC: Brian L. Yoder. Available online at: https://www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/publications/college-profiles.[5] Martin, D.C., Arendale, D.A., & Associates. (1992). Supplemental Instruction: Improving first-year student success in high-risk courses. Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience, University of South Carolina.[6] Mau, Wei-Cheng, (2003). Factors That Influence Persistence in Science and Engineering Career Aspirations. The Career Development Quarterly, 51: 234–243.[7

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Chloe Wiggins, Designing Education Lab; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, SKG Analysis; Benedikt von Unold, Stanford University; Tua A. Björklund, Aalto University Design Factory; Michael Arruza Cruz

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critical decisions.3.3 Case 3: Assessing interview data with automated ranking In the final case, the Data Ranking Algorithm was applied to interview transcripts in anexploration of the use of algorithm-generated association strengths and concepts in comparisonto interviewee self-assessment and traditional qualitative thematic coding. At its best, automatedranking could potentially enrich qualitative coding through suggesting subtle underlyingconnections to concepts, as well as enable combing through larger amounts of data. In this case, the assessed data consisted of 35 interview transcripts (totalling in 367pages) of early career engineers describing their experiences at their workplace. (These had beenproduced for a qualitative

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Tyler Byrne Cole, Northeastern University; Emma Kaeli, Northeastern University; Bradley Joseph Priem, Northeastern University; Caroline Ghio, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University

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academic career at Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity, Boston University, Olin College, and Northeastern University he has been the recipient of the first Whitaker Young Investigator Award from the BMES, a Searle Scholar Award, and an Early Career Development Award from the NSF as well as a three-time recipient of the Omega Chi Epsilon Outstand- ing Faculty Award from the Northeastern Student Affiliate of AIChE. He also has led industrial R&D teams at Organogenesis Inc. and Polymerix Corporation developing tissue-engineered medical products and drug- generating biodegradable polymers, respectively, and has co-founded Automated Cell, Inc. In addition to being an inventor on 11 issued US patents, he has published the

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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James A. Coller, University of Michigan; Magel P. Su, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan

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section. Many students had very low levels of disagreement. It is possiblethat differences by gender or by medium are not appropriately detected using this statisticalmethod.Finally, the context of data collection limits the generalizability of the results. The data wascollected from first year engineering students at one particular institution. As student progressthrough their educational careers, the effect of gender and gender isolation may change asstudents begin to feel more comfortable working in diverse teams. Additionally, while womenwere well represented in the data set for the institutional and national averages in engineering, theoverall engineering field is still male dominated, and women in more male-dominated individualcourses may