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Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering

learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Prof. JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder JoAnn Silverstein is a Professor in Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has a BA in Psychology (Stanford University), BS, MS, and PhD in Civil Engineering (University of California, Davis) and is a registered Professional Engineer (Colorado). Her research interests are Water and wastewater treatment process analysis

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Curricular Programs

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Ethics, Controls, and Engi- neering Design. Dr. McCullough has over 30 years’ experience in engineering practice and education, including industrial experience at the Tennessee Valley Authority and the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command. Her research interests include Image and Data Fusion, Automatic Target Recogni- tion, and Bioinformatics. She is a member of the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission, and is on the board of the Women in Engineering Division of ASEE. Page 26.1255.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Problem Based Learning as a

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Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Anaïs Miodek, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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Women in Engineering

regular meetings to discuss the progress in theirexperiments, being included in the day-to-day workings of the laboratory and are notencountering personal conflicts. These meetings are scheduled by the CDE on an individual andgroup basis.Four-Part StructureThe program was restructured to include an ethics course in 2001 when NSF fundingsupplemented the contributions from industry. The four main components of the REU are allcritical to providing participants with a balanced experience. The four components are:independent laboratory research; an ethics course; a Weekly Meeting Series; and a WeekendExcursion Series. The benefits of each activity be discussed separately as well as the synergisticeffects of these components working together. Figure 1

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Retention of Women Students II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California, Berkeley; Ryan Shelby, University of California, Berkeley; Farzana Ansari, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa A. Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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Women in Engineering

professional andleadership skills are usually learned the hard way – through experience in the workplace as aprofessional engineer3. The importance of these attributes is also underlined by its closealignment with the skills delineated by ABET28. The skills outlined by ABET are (a) an abilityto apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; (b) an ability to design andconduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; (c) an ability to design a system,component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic,environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability;(d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams; (e) an ability to identify, formulate

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Pinelli, NASA Langley Research Center; Cathy W. Hall, East Carolina University; Kimberly Marie Brush, NASA Langley Research Center; Jeannine B. Perry, Continental Research Associates, Inc.

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Women in Engineering

professionals.23,24,25 Some of the areas included are: oral communication, writtencommunication, science, mathematics, ethics/social responsibility, teamwork/collaboration,creativity/innovation, information technology application, professionalism/work ethic, self-direction, analytical thinking, reading comprehension, and critical thinking/problem solving.These go beyond basic knowledge in one’s area of expertise and reflect important skillsnecessary in today’s workforce as well as the workforce of tomorrow.23,25,26 These also representareas of weaknesses frequently cited by human resource personnel and senior executives withrespect to new college hires.24 There is definitely a need to provide opportunities for students todevelop these skills and to

Conference Session

From Industry to the Academy - Female Faculty Boundary Spanners Offering and Gaining Perspective

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Diana Bairaktarova, The University of Oklahoma; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

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Women in Engineering

University, Atlanta, Georgia, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Diana Bairaktarova, The University of Oklahoma Diana Bairaktarova is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Practice in the College of Engineering, School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at University of Oklahoma. Diana has over a decade of experience working as a Design Engineer. Her research is focused on human learning and engineering, i.e. understanding how individual differences and aptitudes affect interaction with mechanical objects, and how engineering students’ personality traits influence ethical decision-making process in engineering design.Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Leanne Kallemeyn, Loyola University Chicago; Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago; Francisca Fils-Aime, Loyola University Chicago; Jana Grabarek; Pete Livas Jr, Loyola University Chicago

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

University Chicago American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 1 Engineering Curriculum Rooted in Active Learning: Does It Promote Engagement and Persistence for Women? Leanne M. Kallemeyn, Gail Baura, Francisca Fils-Aime, Jana Grabarek, and Pete Livas Loyola University ChicagoStructured AbstractBackground - Active, problem-based learning is increasingly being used in engineeringeducation. Group projects to design and build devices and ethical case studies sensitize studentsto real world experiences. They also

Conference Session

Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barb Silver, University of Rhode Island; G. Boudreaux-Bartels, University of Rhode Island; Helen Mederer, University of Rhode Island; Lynn Pasquerella, University of Rhode Island; Joan Peckham, University of Rhode Island; Mercedes River-Hudec, University of Rhode Island; Karen Wishner, University of Rhode Island

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Women in Engineering

of the ADVANCE Leadership Team, the URI President's Commission on the Status of Women, and coordinates the Work/Life Committee at URI.Lynn Pasquerella, University of Rhode Island Page 11.143.1 Lynn Pasquerella is the Interim Vice Provost for Gradaute Studies, Research and Outreach, Professor of Philosophy, and recent Chair of the Institutional Review Board at the University of Rhode Island. In addition, she is a Fellow in the John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service and was a professor of medical ethics for two years, from 1993–95, in the Brown© American Society for Engineering

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ellen K. Foster, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) ; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

. Although they are mostly working outside of theinstitutional setting, especially as they work to establish alternative space and practices outside ofthe dominant discourse, the work and motivations of both feminist hacker collectives and opensource science hardware communities have implications for thinking through how to organizeand enact real-world change in terms of pedagogy, design, and more deeply weaving ethics andexplicit value-systems into engineering education and practice.In a previous paper, we sought lessons for change in engineering education from movements notonly within science and technology cultures, but also within higher education institutionalsettings. Prior higher education change movements we examined include the efforts to

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto; Annie Elisabeth Simpson, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #11906Gendering Engineering Leadership: Aspirations vs. Shoulder TappingDr. Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto, ILead Cindy Rottmann is a Research Associate at the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include engineering leadership, engineering ethics education, critical theory, teacher leadership and social justice teacher unionism.Dr. Robin Sacks, University of Toronto Dr. Sacks is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto teaching leadership and positive psychology at both the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Strategies Beyond the Classroom to Tackle Gender Issues

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eddie L Jacobs, University of Memphis; Amy L de Jongh Curry, University of Memphis; Russell J. Deaton, University of Memphis; Carmen Astorne-Figari, University of Memphis; Douglas Clark Strohmer, University of Memphis

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

differentiatestraditional engineering majors (mechanical for this study) from interdisciplinary majors such asBioengineering or Biomedical engineering. A key finding was that “Students who score highly onknowing an engineer as a reason for selecting a major, wanting a good potential salary, designingand building things, and their perceptions of the present were likely to be traditional engineers.Students who want to prove themselves in the hardest possible major and benefit society are likelyto be in interdisciplinary majors.” In addition, “BIOE (bioengineering) females feel they have agreater understanding and ethical responsibility, and confidence in their choice of majorcompared to top enrollment (traditional engineering and other majors) females.” Rasoal, et

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Angela Harris, North Carolina State University; Christina Martin-Ebosele, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering

perceived as “real engineering”, which highlights an historically strong set of beliefs aboutpolitically or socially agnostic technical work coming into conflict with a systems approach [5](see also [11]).Riley et al. [12] point to limitations of service learning education in engineering generally, i.e.,limited student engagement with questions about the social, economic, and political interests metby the service learning framework. Relatedly, while Bielefeldt et al. [13] find that environmentalengineering faculty bring more topics about ethics and societal issues into their courseworkrelative to their peers in such fields as mechanical and civil engineering, they also find thatenvironmental engineering faculty perceive ethics and “broad impacts

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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Women in Engineering

science; historical, philosophical, cultural, sociological, political and ethical. The STSEeducational approach typically includes the following features: • An understanding of the environmental threats, including those of a global nature, to our quality of life • The economic and industrial aspects of technology • An understanding of the fallible nature of science • Discussion of personal opinion and values, as well as democratic action • The multi-cultural dimension of scienceThis paper, through an extensive literature review and qualitative data from interviews withseveral female engineering students and recent graduates, demonstrates why female studentsrespond well to this form of education, drawing from theories on

Conference Session

Panel: Forming an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Mills, University of South Australia; Judith Gill, University of South Australia; Suzanne Franzway, University of South Australia; Rhonda Sharp, University of South Australia

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Women in Engineering

approaches and the collaborative relationships that underpin it. TheBritish educational sociologist Reay [18, p.20] concludes that the forces of mutualinstrumentalism on one hand, and individual competitive self interest in academia on the otherhand, ‘lacks any intrinsic ethic of care’. While, in the main, we were confronted with materialconditions that did not support our collaboration, as feminist researchers we sought to payattention to an ethic of care which was essential to building the trust necessary to engage acrossparadigms and disciplines.The difficult material conditions were also exacerbated by our location in four differentdepartments and on several campuses, even though they were all in the same city. The lack ofpriority given by the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Women in Engineering

research related to learning through service (LTS), social responsibility, sustainability, ethics, and globalization. Page 24.442.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Does Engineering Attract or Repel Female Students Who Passionately Want to Help People?AbstractEngineering promotes itself with messages that engineers help people, which may help attractfemale students. But will the curriculum that the students find in college reinforce this desire tohelp people through engineering… or will they decide that they are better able to pursue this

Conference Session

International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Women in Engineering

Borders (EWB-CU). EWB is an organization dedicated to partnering with disadvantaged communities toimprove their quality of life. In essays on this experience, 16% of the men and 27% of thewomen stated interest in joining a professional organization due to a desire to contribute tosociety. One female student stated: “I want to join a group to help me get involved in communityservice.” Another woman noted: “[The EWB group] really excites me with all the opportunitiesthat engineers have to change and help different parts of the world.” One part of the courseincludes a project on the technical, social, and environmental aspects of the Three Gorges Damin China. In the ethics module, students can read about moral exemplars, including a civilengineer

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Webster-Giddings, Vanderbilt University; Nancy Dickson, Vanderbilt; Melissa S Martiros, Anna Maria College; Sarah Mullen, Vanderbilt University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

faculty of the United States Naval Academy, Weapons and Systems Engineering Department in 2001. There, she has taught and developed engineering, design and leadership courses. She has received the Admiral Jay L. Johnson Professorship of Leadership and Ethics in 2015, and has served as Associate Chair, Weapons and Systems Engineering, and Director of Faculty and Staff Programs in the Stockade Center for Ethical Leadership.Ms. Nancy Dickson, Vanderbilt Nancy Dickson is currently the Program Director for the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, a Fulbright exchange program for educational leaders from developing countries. Additionally, she trains and endorses high school teachers throughout the state in the area of

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

over the years as a natural evolution...Diversity 1.0 was about compliance and abiding by government regulations. Diverity 2.0 revolved around ethics, morality and social responsibility. Today, Diversity 3.0 is about business integration and globalization...and, ultimately, producing increased employee productivity and new revenue streams. 27Whether competitive anxiety is the basis of diversity reform efforts, or invoked by diversityadvocates because they believe it to be so for corporate leaders and economic policy makers, it isnonetheless a priority which subordinates inclusion to performance and productivity. Sufficientindustrial productivity, or profits, are of course culturally determined and have not

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

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

topics and do long problems on the board and no one ever stopped to ask questions because he would make no effort to help us understand the topics.”These comments demonstrate the crucial role of professors as ambassadors of the profession instudents’ early careers. Engagement with the professors/T.A.s Lectures and activities in class Doing homework & assignments Helpful textbook, handouts, and other resources Collaboration with fellow classmates; study groups Internship experiences My own technical skills and work ethic 0

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prashant Rajan, Iowa State University; Charles T. Armstrong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Elizabeth J. O'Connor , Ketchum Change; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rebecca L. Dohrman, Maryville University; Colleen Arendt, Fairfield University ; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through NSF funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu]Dr. Rebecca L Dohrman, Maryville University Rebecca Dohrman (Ph.D. Organizational Communication, Purdue University) is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Maryville University - St. Louis.Dr. William ”Bill” C. Oakes, Purdue University, West

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robyn Paul, University of Calgary; Laleh Behjat P.Eng., University of Calgary; Bob Brennan P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

importance of society inengineering design. A few of the papers defined the steps of the design process and includedsocial elements such as “identify a design need” and “research a design need” (A3, p.74). Thesewould need to be further defined in order to ensure students were properly considering the needsof their users and the impact on society. For example, one paper further defined the outcome tobe “Appreciate and consider the non-technical constraints (ethical, political, aesthetic,environmental, economic, cultural, etc.) in their work” (A5, p.2).Many of the findings which came out of the research also reflected on the importance offurthering this connection to society. For example, one of the authors recommended to “engagedesign coaches to help

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific; Eileen Kogl Camfield, University of California at Merced

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

function in the course and the function of their teams. There were in-class writing exerciseson independent learning and ethics, and these exercises provided further opportunities forreflection and self-awareness. In the independent learning module, students wrote narrativesabout their career and personal plans, their experiences in the class, and independent learningthat they needed to do to meet their long-term goals. In the ethics module they were asked toreflect on ethical and professional behavior and how that behavior influenced their capstoneexperience.Similar to the “assess and adjust” exercise, as mentioned previously, the first author conductedmid-term evaluations where she asked students about problems in their teams and in the course

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego

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Women in Engineering

and individually and in small groups. I try to mix that up …if it’s a new problem we’ll do it in the large group first, and then they might [work] alone or together in pairs, or in small groups. I do discussion in my classes frequently, which is probably unusual for engineering classes, but discussion can come up in a variety of ways sometimes that relate to ethics because I incorporate ethics in all of my classes.Whereas some professors believe discussion is not suitable to engineering courses, such as onemale professor who suggests that in engineering there is a “black and white, so-called truth…”and, to paraphrase, “a bridge that failed is always going to fail regardless of student voice”, other

Conference Session

Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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Women in Engineering

communication to address multiple learning styles. ≠ identify levels of Bloom’s taxonomy in HW and test questions and in project deliverables. Page 15.933.4Putting engineering biomaterials in larger context ≠ evaluate biomechanical designs within realistic constraints, such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, and manufacturability. ≠ recognize contemporary and historic bioengineering issues and technological advances, and their impact in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.The course enrollment is typically about 50 students with a relatively even split amongst

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University; Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

reference in the body of thepaper. However, two articles in IJEE were Foucauldian-inspired discourse analyses33, 65. Twoconference papers from Donna Riley also dealt with Foucault in more depth. One reviewed herclass on thermodynamics that uses Foucauldian notions of power and knowledge66, and anotherdiscussed Foucauldian notions of identity creation through power and knowledge as it related tothe ethical views of engineering students67. Riley’s work differs from ours as her work hasfocused on bringing Foucauldian notions into the classroom, whereas we are interested in usinghis concepts to understand ongoing issues of underrepresentation with STEM faculty. Werecognize that these searches are limited in that they can only tell us who is explicitly

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shawna Vican, University of Delaware; Robin Andreasen, University of Delaware; Heather Doty, University of Delaware; L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

. 9[18] C. Flaherty, “Early journal submission data suggest COVID-19 is tanking women’s research productivity,” Inside Higher Education, 21 2020.[19] M. M. King and M. Frederickson, “The Pandemic Penalty: The gendered effects of COVID-19 on scientific productivity,” SocArXiv, preprint, Sep. 2020. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/8hp7m.[20] E. Redden, “Scholars confront coronavirus-related racism in the classroom, in research and in community outreach,” Inside Higher Education, 02 2020.[21] R. J. Kreitzer and J. Sweet-Cushman, “Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching: a Review of Measurement and Equity Bias in SETs and Recommendations for Ethical Reform,” J. Acad. Ethics, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1007/s10805-021-09400-w.[22] E. B. King

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Robert J Culbertson, Department of Physics, Arizona State University; James A Middleton, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

. Be the faculty sponsor for the student chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). [Teaching/Advising Role] 4. Work with professors from the Materials Science Dept. on an NSF research project focusing on materials processing and manufacturing research (a topic of interest to all 5 of these faculty members). [Research Role] 5. Work with 2 other faculty members to develop a new Intro to Engineering freshmen course. Course to focus on interdisciplinary nature of engineering and emphasize ethics & societal values. [Teaching/Advising Role]Respondents were also provided brief biographical information about five faculty members whohave varying years of experience. All five of the bios indicate strengths

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M. Mativo, University of Georgia; Uduak Z. George, San Diego State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

U.S.filled in 47% of all jobs but only 24% of the STEM jobs [6]. In other words, 76% of the STEMjobs are held by men. In community services, women had a volunteer rate of 27.8% in 2015compared to men 21.8%. Women volunteered at a higher rate than men and this was true acrossall age groups, educational levels, and major demographics characteristics (such as race andemployment status) [7].Influence is closely associated with leadership. A capable leader provides guidance at theworkplace, home, and/or community [8]. It follows that, those influencing are consideredefficient leaders that motivate their colleagues, family or community [9, 10]. Transformativeleadership idealizes influence which reflect standards of moral and ethical conduct; it

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Coleen Carrigan, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Saejin Kwak Tanguay, University of Washington; Joyce Yen, University of Washington; Julie Simmons Ivy, North Carolina State University; Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University; M. Claire Horner-Devine, University of Washington and Counterspace Consulting

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Methods Ethnography, a primary tool of anthropologists, is a common method used to understand culture from the perspective of insiders of that culture. Ethnographic methods include participant observation, field memos, autoethnography, interviews, and focus groups interviews.35, 36 The methodology of this paper is rooted in critical ethnography, which “begins with an ethical responsibility to address processes of unfairness or injustice within a particular lived domain”.21 Decolonizing Anthropology: For the scholar-activist doing qualitative work with the aim of ameliorating oppressive conditions, identity can act as a point of departure for theorizing. People with social identities that are underrepresented in institutions of power experience

Conference Session

Research on Diversification & Inclusion

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Brewer, University of Georgia; Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

quantitative thinking [22; 23; 24]. In light of the persistence of this issue, we argue that the engineering education community is 2 uncertain “about what matters”, both in the sense of why this problem matters (e.g. is diversity a question of equity and ethics? Or putting together a more diverse and thus competitive American workforce?) and how to address the problem (see discussion of polarization below).Polarization “[that which