Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Bhuvana Ramachandran, University of West Florida; Chathapuram Ramanathan, University of West Florida,; Mohamed Khabou, University of West Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

. Female students link engineering to problem solving,analytical thinking, innovative, creative thinking, decision making, and teamwork. Notsurprisingly, the top reason listed (75% of respondents) for their friends not choosing engineeringas their field of study was their lack of confidence in their abilities, especially in courses requiringadvanced knowledge of mathematics. Past research shows that for female students, the key driversof subject choice are how good they are at the subject (94%), the subject syllabus (92%) andwhether the subject teacher is knowledgeable (91%) while 87% believe whether the subject teacheris fun is also important. Some respondents mentioned that the female students were intimidated by the sheernumber of men