authorityfigure, who traditionally was male. Authority has been studied related to other issues likeclassroom and laboratory work, but reading/following directions is not central to these studies[42]. A third possible explanation is that female students who self-select into engineering arebetter students on average than male students, which would involve a subset from other studiesof first-year college students [43]. This third hypothesis could be examined using standardizedtest scores or high school grades or rank. Since most students in the MEB course are in theirsecond semester of their engineering education, only one semester of grade data is available fromtheir university transcripts.When focusing on higher education, few examples of
postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before starting her academic career at Oklahoma State University (OSU), where she was an assistant professor 2014-2020 and then a tenured associate professor until January 2021 before moving to UB. Dr. Ford Versypt leads the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics Laboratory. She was the 2020-2021 Chair for the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division (CHED). Dr. Ford Versypt has been recognized with the NSF CAREER Award, ASEE CHED Ray W. Fahien Award and Joseph J. Martin Award, and AIChE CAST Division David Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education. She is an Academic Trustee of Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Corporation