Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Development Opportunities for Diverse Engineering Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allie Copeland, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam is an Associate professor with Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. She teaches classes on strategic relationships for industrial distribution, distribu- tion information systems and new directions in Industrial Distribution. She is also the founding faculty and advisor for the Society of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID). She works on many service learning projects with her students where they work with many local community agencies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Women in Industrial Distribution: emerging opportunities and challenges for female college

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abbie B Liel P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Eva Leong

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

persistence of various groups ofstudents in civil engineering education and careers, this paper describes findings from a surveytaken by 223 undergraduate (165) and graduate students (58) in civil engineering. The surveyaims to address the following questions:•   What are the factors that affect why women and minorities choose to pursue education in civil engineering?•   What aspects of the civil engineering curriculum and course work do students find particularly motivating and interesting? Do students feel that they have a mentor? What kind of work experience and internships have students had? Are they members of student/professional engineering organizations? Do the answers to this question depend on the gender or ethnic/racial

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer L. Groh, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

with engineering colleagues and students”. 10Most recently, a similar approach in the form of career management courses, is recommended forall engineering students, and not just women.3 A course was introduced at the Women inEngineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) 2015 Change Leader Forum entitled “Empower andIgnite Future Women Leaders”.11 Another group of researchers created an extracurricularoffering, entitled “Gender and Engineering” for interested students and faculty. One goal of thisoffering is to provide female students “with a framework to understand their experience has thecapacity to transform their individually internalized messages of personal inadequacy or notbelonging into a larger contextualized experience that they can name

Conference Session

Building and Engaging Communities for Scholarship, Advocacy, and Action for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International, Minorities in Engineering

et al., [5] performed an exploratory on a non-traditional first year college student’sexperiences with messaging about engineering by an administrator, engineering faculty, and anacademic advisor. Their ethnographic research revealed tensions between the career goals of thestudent and the prioritization of national economic strength, an emphasis on quantitative andtechnical aspects of engineering practice over social or qualitative aspects, and a focus on theimportance of producing a large number of engineers to bolster the workforce over theeducational goals of the students. The messaging is created and reinforced by individuals atdifferent levels of the university system. This work underscores the need for criticalintrospection by