Conference Session

Undergraduate College Industry Partnerships

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig M. Spears, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

interpersonally, was a significant barrier to their careerretention [20]. Similarly, women in managerial roles, despite their initial success in thesepositions, faced barriers such as gender stereotyping and work-life balance tensions that led toincreased attrition risk [17], [27]. Women engineers often felt the pressure to conform to societalexpectations of leadership or to forgo technical roles in favor of managerial paths, which in turndecreased their sense of professional identity and commitment to engineering careers.Additionally, a lack of professional role models, particularly female engineers in technical roles,was identified as a critical barrier for new engineers. When engineers, particularly women, wereunable to see themselves in the roles