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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Mayari I. Serrano, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Paper ID #30292Gender Stereotypes: Historical comparison of female students’ beliefs oncareer, marriage, and children (1935 versus 2019 populations)Dr. Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer is Associate Director of the Women in Engineering Program and Associate Professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue Uni- versity. Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer conducts research and leads retention activities including administration of the undergraduate and graduate mentoring programs and the teaching of the Women

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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Amrita Dhakal Ghimire, Mississippi State University; Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State University; Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University

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of more complextechnical topics to freshmen level students. The increase in less positive perceptions of confidencein programming ability among female learners warrants further study and is particularly interestingsince the instructors for the classes surveyed were both female.AcknowledgementWork described in this paper supports the goals of NSF INCLUDES 1649312.References[1] G. W. Skelton., Q. Pang, W. Zheng, and H. Shih. “Using robotics for teaching critical thinking, problems solving and self-regulated learning for freshmen engineering students,” In proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2011.[2] Support K-12 Computer Science Education in Mississippi, 2019. Accessed on: Jan 20, 2020. [Online]. Available

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder

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]. Available: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/ showAward?AWD_ID=0123574. [Accessed 5 November 2019].[15] National Science Foundation, "NSF Award Search: Award#0123697 - ADVANCE Leadership Award," n.d. [Online]. Available: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/ showAward?AWD_ID=0123697. [Accessed 5 November 2019].[16] B. Silver, G. Boudreaux-Bartels, H. Mederer, L. Pasquerella, J. Peckham, M. Rivero- Hudec and K. Wishner, "A warmer climate for women in engineering," in 2006 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, 2006.[17] C. Ashcraft, "Avoiding Gender Bias in Recruitment/Selection Processes (Case Study 2)," National Center for Women & Information Technology, n.d. [Online]. Available: https://www.ncwit.org/resources

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University; Victor Ofori-Boadu, Penuel Consult Inc.; Jacob Randall Vanderpool, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Dongyang Deng, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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, “ProfessionalIdentity Formation and Development in HBCU Construction,” Proceedings of the 2019American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference, Tampa, Florida, USA, June 16– 19, 2019, 2019, pp. 1-16.A. N. Ofori-Boadu, D. Deng, C. Stevens, K. Gore, and I. Borders-Taylor, “Learning Experiencesand Self-efficacy of Minority Middle-School Girls during a ‘Bio-char Modified Cement Paste’Research Program at an HBCU,” Proceedings of the 2019 American Society for EngineeringEducation (ASEE) conference, Tampa, Florida, USA, June 16 – 19, 2019, 2019, pp. 1-16.A. N. Ofori-Boadu, R. B. Pyle, I. Borders-Taylor, C. Bock-Hyeng, and T. Graham, “AdvancingHBCU Students’ Interests in Residential Construction Careers through an NAHB program: AnIndustry-University

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State University; Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University

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solving skills. Many researchersand practitioners propose moving from using the acronym STEM to science, technology,engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM). The difference in STEM and STEAM is theinclusion of arts of any kind, aligning artistic creativity with STEM learning. Zimmerman andSprung concluded that motivation and self-confidence in computing for females is increasedwhen they can learn CS in the context of a content area, they are already comfortable with [1].Recognizing this cross-disciplinary connection approach, Mississippi State Universityresearchers in 2014 integrated a physical art component module that enabled girls to designrobots using crafting material, with positive results. In 2019, the team piloted a 4-day camp

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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Beverly Louie, University of Colorado Boulder, College of Engineering & Applied Science; JoAnn Silverstein, University of Colorado, Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado Boulder

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Ambiguity and Gender Equity” in Proceedings of 2019 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida, https://peer.asee.org/33460, June 2019.[25] S. Brown, “Colleges Face a Barrage of Questions About How Much They Pay DiversityOfficers,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 11, 2019.[26] “What Does a Genuine Commitment to Diversity Look Like?” in The Chronicle of HigherEducation Forum, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15, 2016.

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 10

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Katherine L Walters, University of Georgia ; John M Mativo, University of Georgia; Uduak Zenas George, San Diego State University

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the United States of America,vol. 112, no. 40, 2015.[46] H.E. Jun, et al., “Team Cognition: Development and Evolution in Software Project Teams.”Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 24, no. 2, Fall 2007.[47] J. Mativo, U.Z. George, “Influences of Female/Women Engineering Professionals at theWorkplace, Home, and Community”. Presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Tampa, Florida.

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver; Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Karinna M Vernaza, Gannon University; Alexa N. Rihana Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy; Christina Remucal, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Stephanie G Wettstein, Montana State University; MEERC

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communicate areas where they feel they can benefitstudents.References[1] Evans, M.D., Evans, D.M., and Sherman, L.D., “Seven Keys to a Successful ASCE Student Chapter or Club: Guide for Student Leaders and Faculty Advisors”, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Vol. 127, Issue 2, pp. 65-74, April 2001.[2] Abdallah, A. R., Peters, D. L., Ma, G. G., Wettstein, S. G., Darbeheshti, M., Vernaza, K. M., and Remucal, C K., “How Faculty Advisors and Counselors View Their Role in the SWE Organization”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, 2019.[3] Society of Women Engineers. Individual Awards. [online] Available at https://swe.org/awards/individual-awards/ [Accessed 2/1/2020].[4] SAE International. Faculty

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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Jocelyn LaChelle Jackson, University of Michigan; Jeremi S London, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Joi-lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan; Stephanie G. Adams, University of Texas at Dallas

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to theAmerican Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2019 Annual Conference in Tampa. The full-dayworkshop was designed to provide a safe space for African American women engineering faculty to cometogether to discuss challenges and opportunities for supporting their professional development. Morespecifically, the workshop goals were as follows: 1. Discuss the salient challenges African American women engineering faculty face and brainstorm solutions to resolve these problems; 2. Develop an agenda for addressing the issues they face; 3. Offer support and encouragement for their advancement in the academy and national leadership roles; and 4. Launch a national mentoring network among them to foster ongoing

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Anu Osta, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Baldwin Wallace University; Alissa Papernik; Amanda Ferreira Dias-Liebold, Rowan University

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active member of ASEE since 1998. She joined as a graduate student, after working on an engineering education project and presenting that work and student chapter activities at annual conference. As a faculty member, she regularly publishes and presents at the ASEE Annual Conference. Her interests are in design education and assessment in mechanical and biomedical engineering. She previously served ASEE in leadership roles in the ERM and Mechanics Divisions and as PIC-III Chair.Miss Alissa Papernik Undergraduate Student at Rowan University’s College of EngineeringAmanda Ferreira Dias-Liebold, Rowan University Undergraduate Student at Rowan University College of Engineering American

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Mary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific; Eileen Kogl Camfield, University of California at Merced

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, 2011.[19] C. R. Haller, V. J. Gallagher, T. L. Weldon, and R. M. Felder, "Dynamics of peer educationin cooperative learning workshops," Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 285-293, 2000.[20] J. C. Mallette and H. Ackler, "Valuing women’s contributions: Team projects andcollaborative writing," presented at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt LakeCity, Utah, 2018.[21] V. Pieterse and L. Thompson, "Academic alignment to reduce the presence of ‘socialloafers’ and ‘diligent Isolates’ in student teams," Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 15, pp. 355-367, 2010.[22] CNVC. (2019, June 14, 2019). The Center for Non-Violent Communication. Available:https://www.cnvc.org/[23] K. A. Rockquemore. (2010, March 8, 2010) Time for a 360

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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Denise Wilson, University of Washington

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1504618). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The author would also like to thank thestatistical consulting resources provided by the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences,University of Washington.References[1] U.S. Census Bureau, “QuickFacts: United States,” 2019. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/LFE046218 (accessed Jan. 28, 2020).[2] National Science Foundation, “Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities Report,” 2019. https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=297944 (accessed Jan. 28, 2020).[3] National Science Foundation, “Women, Minorities, and

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Busting a Career Move? When and Why or Why Not?

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Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University; Cindy Waters, Naval Surface Warfare Center; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University

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Paper ID #31478Panel: Busting a Career Move? When and Why or Why Not?Dr. Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne Minerick is Dean of the College of Computing at Michigan Tech. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and B.S. from Michigan Tech. Adrienne is a fellow of ASEE, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), former President of the AES Electrophoresis Society, and a Michigan Professor of the Year Nominee, which illustrate her dual passion for research and education’s impact on individuals and societal advances. Adrienne’s research

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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Jennifer Serne, Central Washington University; David Wesley Martin, Central Washington University

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when they entered the CM program during their junior year at CWUand then compared their respective conflict management styles across gender. The researchersused this analysis to detect differences in the male and female conflict management styles whileenrolled in CWU’s four-year, campus based, American Council for Construction Education(ACCE) accredited CM program. The results of the TKI were evaluated through a series ofstatistical analyses. TKI paper-based questionnaires were distributed to 50 junior-level males and21 junior-level females over a five-year period from the winter of 2014 to the spring of 2019.The TKI scores were tallied and documented in order to determine each student’s conflictmanagement style during their junior year and to

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Agnes Germaine d'Entremont P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Kerry Greer, University of British Columbia; Katherine A. Lyon, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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” may be a more effective strategy forultimately attaining a distribution of gender within engineering that reflects the largercommunity.References1. Roy J, ASEE. Engineering by the Numbers [Internet]. 2018. Available from: https://ira.asee.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2018-Engineering-by-Numbers- Engineering-Statistics-UPDATED-15-July-2019.pdf2. Bystydzienski JM, Brown A. “I Just Want to Help People”: Young Women’s Gendered Engagement with Engineering. Fem Form. 2012;24(3):1–21.3. Diekman AB, Clark EK, Johnston AM, Brown ER, Steinberg M. Malleability in communal goals and beliefs influences attraction to stem careers: evidence for a goal congruity perspective. J Pers Soc Psychol. United States; 2011;101(5

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University

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Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for mate- rials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback and internet tool use affect conceptual change and impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and persistence. The other is on a large-scale NSF faculty develop- ment program and its effect on change in faculty teaching beliefs, engagement strategies, and classroom practice. Recent honors include coauthoring the ASEE Best Paper Award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013 and the ASEE Mike Ashby Outstanding Materials Educator Award in 2018.Prof. Keith D

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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Kimberly Ren, University of Toronto; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto

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discrimination experienced by women in engineering during their universityeducation. Discrimination at an earlier stage of professional development may have lastingimpacts on their career decisions. Therefore, the study of discrimination at the university levelshould be elaborated on. We hypothesize in 4a and 4b that discrimination experienced by womenin university is a significant negative predictor of Intentional Persistence. Women in academia are under-represented at all levels, but increasingly so in more seniorpositions [40]. In the 2018-2019 academic year, the University of Toronto Faculty of AppliedScience and Engineering reported that women made up 39.8% of the first-year students, 27.1%of the graduate students and only 15% of professors [41

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Yang Yang, Kansas State University; Bette Grauer PE, Kansas State University; Jennifer Renee Thornburg, Kansas State University; Amy Rachel Betz, Kansas State University

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survey regarding SAS tutors.The participants consisted of 86 students who attended SAS tutoring sessions and completed thesurvey regarding SAS tutors during Spring 2019 semester. To ensure honest feedback, none ofparticipant demographic information was solicited. The survey answers cannot be traced back toany individuals.MeasuresThe effectiveness of the tutors was measured by an 11-item questionnaire. The selection ofquestions for the survey was informed by previous years’ surveys of students, tutors, and facultyto establish common themes about tutoring techniques and content considered effective.Questions were developed based on the common themes and a new survey was created. The newsurvey questions were examined for face value by faculty and

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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Eleanor Leung, York College of Pennsylvania; Inci Ruzybayev, York College of Pennsylvania; Brandy Maki, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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”, Cambridge University Press, 2018.[2] L. Hellsten, S. Martin, L. McIntyre and A. Kinzel, ”Women on the Academic Tenure Track: An Autoethnographic Inquiry”, International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education, vol. 2, no. 1, 2011.[3] National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, ”Survey of Doctorate Recipients”, National Science Foundation, 2015.[4] J. Roy, ”Engineering by the numbers”, American Society for Engineering Education, 2019.[5] Y. Yang and D. Carroll, ”Understanding Female STEM Faculty Experiences of Subtle Gender Bias from Microaggressions Perspective”, in Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and Expo, 2016.[6] A. G d’Entremont and H. Gustafson, ”PANEL: Gender bias in student evaluations of

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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Cynthia Lester, Georgia State University; Sahithya Reddivari, Georgia State University; Forough Ansari, Georgia State University

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Fellow and has been a White House invitee discussing STEM Inclusion. Dr. Lester holds professional memberships in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).Dr. Sahithya Reddivari, Georgia State University Sahithya Reddivari is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Georgia State University. She teaches freshman and sophomore engineering courses including, Introduction to Engineering, Engineering De- sign and Graphics (2D and 3D modeling) and Statics. She has developed experiential learning projects for first-year engineering students through the Instructional enhancement grant awarded by the Center for

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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Shaundra Bryant Daily, Duke University; Jessica Sperling, Duke University; Megan Gray, Duke University; Medha Gupta, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology; Amy Arnold, Duke University; Kelly Perri, Duke University

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through a focus on women in their undergraduate years who havedeclared computer science and/or electrical and computer engineering majors. The programprioritizes peer-to-peer relationships, career mentorship, strategic coaching, and hands-onexperience to recruit and retain such individuals in technology fields. In this paper, we furtherdiscuss the particulars of the program, distinguish it from other programs discussed in theliterature, as well as present evaluation processes and findings from a mixed-methods studyfocused on activities from the 2018-2019 cohort. Our evaluation includes program administrativedata, baseline and post-program survey data from three program sites and focus group data. Weconcentrate on the effect of program activities

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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Astrid K Northrup P.E., Northwest College, Powell WY; Andrea Carneal Burrows Borowczak, University of Wyoming

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Profession (2016), UW CoEd Honored Fall Convocation Faculty (2017), and UW CoEd Faculty Award for Outstanding Research and Scholarship (2019).Since beginning at UW, Bur- rows has written, implemented, or evaluated over 50 unique grants. She has been the Program Director for GenCyber as well as PI of NSF grants for STEM and CS work. The core of her research agenda is to deepen science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM) partnership involvement and un- derstanding through STEM interdisciplinary integration with in-service teacher professional development (PD) and pre-service teacher coursework. Her research agenda is composed of a unified STEM education partnership structure and connects educational research to

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Managing Dual Careers

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Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jena Shafai Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University; Shannon Bartelt-Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Janet Callahan, Michigan Technological University

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://profiles.asee.org/ • Campbell University is not in ASEE. Their engineering population is found on: https://engineering.campbell.edu/our-purpose/accreditation/ Each of the panel organizers crafted several questions. Then, they deliberated carefully and jointly to modify, tweak, combine, delete, and re-write those questions. This process produced afinal set of 5 questions which are shown in Exhibit 3. This list was shared with the Panel early inDecember 2019, with instructions to respond by December 20, 2019. An extension was grantedto one individual and all responses were collected by the first week in January 2020.This paper summarizes responses from the Panelists, and interjects information and insight froma few relevant articles on the subject

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 10

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M. Teresa Cardador, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Kelly J Cross, University of Nevada, Reno; Grisel Lopez-Alvarez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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a more technical or managerial role. Finally, at theconclusion of the interview, participants were offered the opportunity to share any additionalinformation or thoughts that had not been covered in the interview.Data CollectionData were collected in the fall 2019 semester under approval of the institution IRB. Participantswere recruited by email from advisors of the Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, andComputer Science majors. Participants were eligible if they identified as female, were in theirsecond year of undergraduate education, and were currently enrolled in one of the three focalmajors. Participants were informed in the recruitment email that they would receive $20 for theirparticipation. All interviews were held face-to-face

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Saylisse Davila, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Olga Beatriz Rivera, Amgen Manufacturing Limited; Nolgie Oquendo-Colon, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Maria Angelica Velazquez, Montana State University

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Engineering Education from the perspective of outreach to mi- norities with focus on women recruitment, retention and progression. Other research activities include: systems and product design, decision analysis, manufacturing, process automation and real-time process control. Dr. Medina is currently appointed as President (2019-2021) of the Manufacturing and Design Division for the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). Dr. Medina has received multiple recognitions for her work that include the IISE M&D Outstanding Service Award (2016), UPRM Recog- nition on the 4th Research Academy for Faculty & Postdoctoral Fellowships Symposium (2015-2016), CIAPR Emergent Leader (2015) and UPRM Industrial