Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Courtney Green P.E.

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

engineeringprofessionals, women will need to engage and persist in engineering educational pathways. Thepurpose of this pilot qualitative case study was to examine the educational pathways andexperiences of three undergraduate women who are on track to graduate during the 2019-2020academic year a large, public university located in the southeast region of the United States. Byusing social cognitive career theory, the pilot study examined how and why three womenauthored their engineering identities through their secondary and post-secondary educationalexperiences to gain insight on their pursuit and attainment of an engineering degree and toinform a larger case study. Three themes, congruent with social cognitive career theory emergedfrom the data: eagerness to

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

engineering settings.MethodsThis study analyzes student survey data using statistical methods in a quantitative researchdesign. Students in seven, large undergraduate engineering courses representing four differentengineering majors self-reported demographic information and emotional engagement as part ofa larger study that explored different factors which may inform student engagement inengineering classrooms.ParticipantsThe sample population in this study consisted of 781 undergraduate engineering studentsrecruited in the last two weeks of the term. Self-reported ethnicity included Asian (47%), Black(3.5%), Hispanic (3.5%), White (41%), Pacific-Islander (less than 1%), Native American (lessthan 1%), and Other (3%). 24% of the sample were female, 75