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Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Development Opportunities for Diverse Engineering Students
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joanna Wolfe, Carnegie Mellon University; Elizabeth A. Powell, Tennessee Technological University; Seth Schlisserman; Alexandra Kirshon
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering
friends, so we mostly had task division. What he did—he wasn’t calling me or they were just doing it and when I was asking he said, “Okay, don’t worry. We just done it. We went to the lab and we just finished it.” I got so mad and I went to the professor and said, “He doesn’t—just share those projects, because I have to get a grade, too.” He said, “You chose him as a leader, so you have to go take care of it.” I sent him a few e-mails and asked him, “Okay, you should just give me more tasks, you have to just make—” I don’t know; he just never did. For the second semester of capstone I got B, because our professor said, “I didn’t see you doing those electrical engineering things,” and I said
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
aseither an undergraduate or graduate student, and asked respondents to rate their experiences on ascale of 1 to 4, where 1 indicates a “poor experience, decreased my overall confidence ofsucceeding in structural engineering” and 4 indicates a “great experience, increased my overallconfidence of succeeding in engineering”. The most popular courses (as reported in Table 8)among the survey respondents were structural analysis and earthquake engineering. Senior(capstone/integrated) design, finite element analysis and foundation engineering were given thelowest ratings. The finding that capstone design was unpopular was somewhat surprising, but thesurvey questions did not allow us to uncover reasons behind these responses.Table 8. Respondents’ ratings