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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ona Egbue, University of South Carolina Upstate; Arshia Khan, University of Minnesota Duluth; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she con- tinuously seeks new technologies to involve students in their learning process. She is actively involved in the Ideas Clinic, a major experiential learning initiative at the University of Waterloo. She is also re- sponsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the department to target areas for improvement in the curriculum. This resulted in several publications in this educational research areas. Dr. Al-Hammoud won the ”Ameet and Meena Chakma award for exceptional teaching by a student

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Jennifer J. VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Joanna Wright, University of Washington; Lauren Summers, University of Washington

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Statistics predicts growth of 13.4% from2014 to 2024 in jobs for STEM-related post-secondary teachers [1]. Women are a growingpercentage of PhDs in STEM but are not proportionately represented among assistant professors[2]; to support this employment growth it will likely be necessary to attract more women to thefaculty. Of even more significance is that STEM faculty play a critical double role in the healthand gender make-up of the future STEM workforce. Research shows that role models have animportant impact on career pathway decisions made by women engineering students [3]. Mostengineers are first exposed to the profession through their STEM faculty, so if this group is notdiverse, or if diverse workers (such as women) are perceived to be

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Buckley, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Lena B. Gumaelius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Tomás Hyland, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, Athlone Institute of Technology; Arnold Neville Pears, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

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of education is likely tolead to a career in an engineering related field, there is a clear need to understand the factorswhich influence female students’ decisions to enroll in higher education engineering courses.There are many influences on students’ choices to pursue specific career paths. For example,how students conceive a particular discipline or career will influence this decision, as what theybelieve it to involve will likely affect their interest in engaging with it. In engineering, studentsoften have misconceptions regarding what it means to be an engineer and the Draw-an-EngineerTest (DAET) has frequently been used to investigate these misconceptions.Studies using DAET have found that young students typically conceive engineers

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jing Wang, University of South Florida; Dmitry Goldgof, University of South Florida; Ken Christensen P.E., University of South Florida

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how a women’s support group in a computer science and engineeringdepartment can provide support for women in personal growth, social encouragement, andacademic exposure.Studies found that the top four influencing factors for whether or not young women decide topursue a Computer Science degree are: social encouragement, self-perception, academicexposure, and career perception [1]. Social encouragement can come from parents, friends,faculty/staff, or peer. It is a major factor in girls’ decision to explore and pursue career in STEMand computing. A support group provides an excellent vehicle for these factors by offeringworkshops, social events, outreach activities, and mentoring.In 2013, we started a support group WiCSE (Women in Computer

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Courtney S. Green P.E., University of North Carolina in Charlotte; Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; April C Smith, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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don’t know exactly whatthe process is.- Latina, Senior (P1)One woman’s mother and aunt did not necessarily support her decision to pursue engineering.The student stated that her mother thought that she would be working outside doing manuallabor. She expressed a desire for the COE to host a social event where faculty members couldexplain to students’ families what engineering is and the demands of being an engineeringstudent. The student reported that she was concerned that her mother’s lack of understandingcould impact her younger sibling and steer her away from pursuing engineering.I’m trying to encourage my sister because she’s 13, and she’s like she wants to do mechanicalengineering, so I’m trying to just tell her from experience, because if

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jia G. Liang, Kansas State University; Rick Evans, Cornell University; Stacey E. Kulesza, Kansas State University

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the point of doing it?”Bhee is in her junior year and is an international student from India. Becoming an astronaut hasalways been what she has wanted since a very young age. “That is always my thing. Anyonewho know me, … who is even 20% close to being my friend knows,” Bhee shared. Having afather who is an electrical engineer, according to Bhee, has played an undeniable role in her pathto engineering. He is the person who first introduced her to the idea of space exploration; he is“very into photography” and so is she; he is the only person who supported her idea of coming tothe United States for higher education in engineering, despite financial concerns; and he is theone in the family who provided enough freedom for her to try different

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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H. Paige Brown, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Allison Godwin, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand

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PANEL: After #MeToo: What’s next for Women in the Engineering Workplace?

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer J VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Sandra D. Eksioglu, Clemson University; Joanna Wright, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

engineers as peers and see that their own interestsand personality are consistent with their idea of an engineer [61], [73]–[75]. Both concepts havebeen determined to be important for persistence among engineering student populations. Ahandful of qualitative studies have indicated that both engineering self-efficacy and identity areassociated with greater engineering workforce persistence [61], [64].Interest in engineering is a personal factor that can be more complicated than it might seem. Itseems quite expected that some people’s interests change over time and this might lead, quiterightly, to a career change, whether early or later in the career pathway. Some women neverwork in engineering after earning their degree; in one study 30% of these

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Behzad Beigpourian, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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]investigated that how much gender affected the satisfaction about studying engineering andhow much this satisfaction influenced students’ choice for working as an engineer in thefuture. Ohland et al. [4] compared two success measurements (eight-semester persistent andsix-year graduation rate) of engineering students in different institutions based on differentrace and gender. Pawley, Schimpf, and Nelson [5] analyzed the content of papers thatpublished in the journal of engineering education from 1998 to 2012 to understand how muchthese papers connected gender theories to engineering education. Even without consideringthe results from these studies, we can see authors exploring various issues related to race andgender in the undergraduate years.However

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Elizabeth Long Lingo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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very clear in its messaging about balancinginstitutional strengths in teaching, research, and engaged scholarship, but how this translated intoactual policies, systems, and decisions regarding promotion was strategically left ambiguous toallow for flexibility in interpretation over time. Strategic ambiguity had enabled MU to maintaingrowth without doing the difficult work of exploring whether the existing promotion system wasworking to support and recognize faculty members’ diverse strengths in teaching, research, andcommunity-engaged work. The COACHE survey data, however, pointed to weaknesses in thisapproach and ushered in an intense period of negotiation.In this section, we will show how the process of negotiation involved three