Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COS); DeLois Kijana Crawford, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wendy A. Dannels, Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID)

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering

) have been identified as the target audience forworkshop offerings due to the high prevalence of STEM disciplines within the university.Program assessment and evaluation results are presented. In addition, a sustainability plan isoutlined for continuation of these targeted workshops beyond the five-year grant funding period.IntroductionThe number of women earning doctoral degrees has increased over the past several decades;however, the same trend has not translated into additional representation in the faculty ranks. 1Challenges associated with academic life for women faculty include implicit and explicit bias,work-life balance, and stereotype threat2-5. Mirroring national trends, the number of womenfaculty in STEM areas at RIT declined

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theresa M. Vitolo, Gannon University; Karinna M Vernaza, Gannon University; Lori D. Lindley, Gannon University; Elisa M. Konieczko, Gannon University; Weslene Tallmadge, Gannon University

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering

University. Usingboth internal experts and external consultants, workshops were planned for delivery in half-daysegments throughout each academic year, culminating in a regional one-day-long seminar at theend of the academic year. Additionally, leadership development for department chairs andprograms directors was planned to occur once each semester. Reactions to the workshops weregenerally positive, attendance has increased over the past four years, and sustained support ofthe workshops has been allocated by the administration through a collaboration betweenAcademic Affairs and Human Resources.Each strategy had its own challenges and successes, providing unique insight into the feasibilityof converting a successful technique from a research

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea E. Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Andrea Lyn Liebl, University of South Dakota; Alyssa M. Kiesow, Northern State University; Mary Emery; Pam F. Rowland; Cynthia Anderson

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Diversity

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Engineering and Public Policy

NSF Advance-PLAN projectdesigned to address gender equity through policy change on a statewide level. The project isbased on the model of change that identifies effective change as a top-down policy drivenapproach through a central authority, in this case, a statewide board of regents that oversees allpublic universities. The model for top-down change is particularly suited to a small, rural statewhere a) n-values for gender related statistics at any institution may not be statisticallysignificant b) institutional relations allow for cross-state cooperation and c) size of theinstitutions allows for timely implementation and assessment of policies. In addition,intercollegiate cooperation allows for provosts of all six institutions to serve as

Conference Session

Peace, Conflict, and Sustainability: Addressing Global and Ethical Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J Muscat, Global Peace Services USA; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Engineering and Public Policy

the settlement plan for land that would be newly openedby the project. Retaining the original designs of this major project might have helped avert thesubsequent political deterioration that spiraled into warfare.A rural development project in Rwanda that started in 1974 is another example of a missedopportunity that turned out instead to exacerbate tensions. In this case, the benefits (includingstructures, roads, and land access) were largely captured by local Hutus, excluding Tutsis. Thefinal result was judged by one Africa scholar to be “a great increase in inequality betweenregions, social classes, groups and individuals.”In two examples from Thailand, irrigation projects were constructed (in the 1950s-1970s) to winpopulation loyalty in a

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie J Newman, Louisiana Tech University; Mary E Caldorera-Moore, Louisiana Tech University

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering

approached the organizers to get involved in creating a broader series that addressed the interdisciplinary nature of biomedical research. With the growth of the series, the number of people involved and impacted grew too. One of the unique features of this series is that it involves four of the five colleges at Louisiana Tech with at least 10 individual programs participating, creating a truly interdisciplinary seminar series. Over the last three years, faculty and students from biomedical engineering, biology, kinesiology, and chemistry have been polled for seminar speaker recommendations. In turn, those faculty members have been involved in the planning and hosting of their recommended

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Daniela Faas, Harvard University; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Rebecca M. Reck, Kettering University; Mary C. Verstraete, The University of Akron; Deborah J. O'Bannon P.E., University of Missouri, Kansas City

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering

and academic members. TheWIA committee consists of approximately 20 members who are active in planning and carryingout activities relevant to the larger academic community within SWE. To strengthen theadvocacy efforts of SWE, the committee developed an advocacy statement of what the WIACommittee supports. This statement was subsequently adopted by the SWE Board of Directors.The full advocacy statement is in Appendix A. The key points, which are important to thisdiscussion of what SWE and WIA offer its membership, include the following: ● tools and resources to support the interests of these members, ● advocating with the institutions and universities where these members work and volunteer, ● educating others about this unique career

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering and Public Policy

) meeting global needs and challenges through the UnitedNations and similar organizations [6].In the opinion of the author, science diplomacy is less a well-defined subject and more aloosely-recognized concept (i.e., science diplomacy is best defined by “you know it whenyou see it”). Widely recognized examples of multi-lateral science diplomacy – such as,the 1954 founding of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known asCERN), the 1959 signing of the Antarctic Treaty System, and the 1998 launch of theInternational Space Station – provide an insight into the three pillars of sciencediplomacy, namely: 1) scientists serving as diplomats (i.e., the Iran nuclear deal, formerlyknown as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action adopted in October