AC 2008-642: ANALYSIS OF APPLICANT DATA TO IMPROVE RECRUITMENTOF FEMALE AND UNDERREPRESENTED ENGINEERING STUDENTSDouglas Cleary, Rowan University Douglas Cleary is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rowan University. His research interests are in structural engineering and education. He is a member of ACI Committees 408 and E802. In addition, his is the Affiliate Director for Project Lead the Way in New Jersey.William Riddell, Rowan University William Riddell is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rowan University. His research and teaching interests include design, structural mechanics
accomplished in the past year and what I wanted to accomplish in thenext three years. Only occasionally did I meet with my department chairs over the years todiscuss my career, however. I also started my faculty career before the implementation of aformal faculty mentoring system, and did not have the friendly advice of a trusted colleague toguide me, nor did I actively seek out such advice.I was in a quandary: according to the plan—never articulated in the academy, but generallyunderstood by all—everything was fine. Like Balboa upon finding the Pacific Ocean, rather thanjoy, I was professionally void. While large-scale research was fun and rewarding, I found that itlacked a certain satisfaction. Perhaps it was that as projects get bigger, one moves
levels of engineering. Projections on workforce needs in the next decade suggest a need to tap all available resources and the most obvious untapped resource for U.S. engineering is the underrepresented groups – including women and minorities. Women and minorities do not see engineering as an opportunity for themselves because the “face” of engineering does not look like them and, furthermore, they have little first-hand knowledge of what the engineering profession is all about. Because leaders are often the most visible role models to the world for the university or company, diverse leaders are needed as role models to attract girls, young women and underrepresented men to engineering. (4) Coordinated team efforts and
DEBRA L. BANKS, COOL Evaluator and former Director of Evaluation and Assessment for CRESMET (ASU), is now the Director of Outreach and Operations for Innovative Tailor Made Training and Technology (ITTT) in Berkeley, CA. She has been evaluating major school reform and technical programs for 14 years. She has served as a co-PI for several grants including COOL and the METS Project. Page 11.603.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 EVALUATING SELF-ASSESSMENT AND A PLACEMENT EXAMINATION FOR A FIRST COURSE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: HOW DO WOMEN AND
AC 2007-124: SELF EFFICACY OF WOMEN ENGINEERING STUDENTS ?THREE YEARS OF DATA AT U.S. INSTITUTIONSRose Marra, University of Missouri ROSE M. MARRA is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. She is PI of the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) and Assessing Women In Student Environments (AWISE) projects. Her research interests include gender equity issues, the epistemological development of college students, and promoting meaningful learning in web-based environments.Barbara Bogue, Pennsylvania State University BARBARA BOGUE is Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Women in
methods that can promote female engineering education, via various media andother conventional methods, mainly targeted towards disproving such unsuitability and“adapting” females to engineering norms that don’t contradict such cultural and religious values. The increasing potential and involvement of Gulf-area females in engineering isadditionally demonstrated at the graduation level via the participation of females from the sixGCC (Arab-Gulf Cooperation Council) countries (including Saudi Arabia) in the first threeannual Engineering Students Design Competition8. 116 senior design projects pertaining todifferent engineering disciplines (Civil, Chemical, Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical, andPetroleum Engineering) yielded female winners
Page 22.860.5 Career designing project for female students Facility improvement Renovation of cafeteria / dormitory / toilet Building girls’ dormitory Girls’ parlor/lounge Others Hiring of female faculty ( e.g. “At-least-one-female-faculty per department”) Most institutions in our survey have started to implement some strategies to increasefemale students in the last few years, but there were no answers indicating how much of aincrease. One of the universities has been implementing multiple strategies since 5 years ago:leaflets with female engineer role models, delivery of lectures at high schools, explanatorymeetings about the university, and so on, and the increase of females is said to be up 0.6% in3 years
awards, such as the NSF CAREER. Dr. Kimball has a BBA and MBA from Texas A&I University and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in Educational Administration (Dissertation: A Study of Engineering Student Attributes and Time to Completion of First Year Required Course at Texas A&M University). She was with the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, A Hispanic Serving Institution, for eight years before her employment with TEES. There she was a Principal Investigator and held a number of leadership positions on projects related to engineering education, such as the $30 million NSF Foundation Coalition for Engineering Education. She also has extensive experience with undergraduate and
whole class that they didn’t have to have this o that knowledge, so they could stay. I remember that one of the students complained that her team was excluding her in the development of the class projects because she was studying industrial engineering… they set a meeting time and suddenly it was changed without notice, etc.” Page 22.1572.5Three of the ten teachers interviewed perceived that most teachers, who teach theory classes,underestimate the laboratory area, considering that what is taught in the laboratory is lessimportant than the theoretical base. Eight out of ten teachers feel that some of their new studentsare often
. in engineering in Aug. 2010 from the Katholieke Univer- siteit, Leuven. She is a member of LESEC (Leuven Engineering and Science Education Centre), where she coordinates one of the four sectors, namely project-based learning.Dr. Ing. Kathleen Geraedts, Katholieke University, Leuven Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium Page 25.1278.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The background and motivation of first year engineering students in relation to gender C. Heylen, K. Geraedts, I. Van Hemelrijck, M. Smet, J. Vander Sloten
o Associate Professor – 93.1% of men‟s salary o Assistant Professor – 92.7% of men‟s salary o Instructor – 96.0% of men‟s salary o Lecturer – 90% of men‟s salary o All women combined – 80.7% of men‟s salary Women continue to earn the majority of bachelor‟s degrees, and are projected to earn the majority of master‟s degrees – for the class of 2018-2019, women are projected to earn 62.0% of master‟s degrees, and 54.9% of doctorate degrees6.Looking at these statistics it is clear that women are still far behind men in achieving highereducation leadership positions.Women in STEM Fields at the Academy
. Currently, Dr. Vila-Parrish is teaching and coordinating the senior design project course as well as advising the ISE undergraduates. Related to her teaching and advising she is interested in research focused on engineering education topics including project-based learning in engineering design and global preparedness. Dr. Vila-Parrish continues research in inventory and production strategies for perishable products and those with short product lifecycles. Page 24.1019.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Promoting Alternative Teaching-Professor Hires: A New PATH for
Projects in Community Service (EPICS) at Drexel, among others. In collaboration with other College of Engineering faculty and staff she co-teaches a sequence of classes for the Paul Peck Scholars Program. Alistar received her B.A. from Drew University and Master’s from Duke University.Dr. Alisa Morss Clyne, Drexel University (Eng.) Alisa Morss Clyne is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, with a courtesy ap- pointment in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems, at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Clyne is director of the Vascular Kinetics Laboratory, which investigates integrated mechanical and biochemical interactions among cells and proteins of the cardiovascular
American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engaging Women Engineering Undergraduates as Peer Facilitators in Participatory Action Research Focus GroupsABSTRACTThis study is part of a longitudinal research project examining the design of summer bridge andsubsequent undergraduate engineering programs at a public university in New England, with thelong-term view of how these programs can create more supportive, inclusive environments forwomen to become engaged as leaders in their educational pathways and future careers. Asummer bridge program prepares first-year women engineering students for the academic andcultural opportunities and challenges they may face. Through an immersion in focus
graduated 600,000 and India350,000 (U.S. Department of Education, 2006).The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2005) projects that by 2010, 50 percent of all U.S. workerswill be women. This projection, plus the growth in the science and engineering labor force, andthe shortage of technically skilled workers show the importance and need of having womentraining to become scientists and engineers. Unfortunately, women have been and continue to bea minority in engineering related fields. In 1971, only 0.8% of the bachelor’s degrees earned inengineering were obtained by female students. In 2006, the number went up to 19% (U.S.Census Bureau, 2005-2006). Despite the increase in the number of women obtaining degrees inengineering, women are still
engineers. Peers slept in the residence halls,ate, and participated in activities with the girls in four teams of about ten each. In all, generallyabout 25 staff and volunteers (75% of them women) have helped in some way, each year. Acrosseleven years, the total volunteer base has grown to more than 200 individuals who havesupported the program in some way, including students, community members, and members ofthe regional workforce. The camp is offered over a two-day period, with an overnightexperience. Activities span a spectrum of topics, designed to engage participants in projects thatrequire them to “think like an engineer” such as: • The Prosthetic Hand problem – using only given materials, design a 3-finger prosthetic hand that can
Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program and the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s AD- VANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Femi- nist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the website http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking
, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Alice L. Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose projects are described at the group’s website, http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new
majority of undergraduate degrees in certain STEM-related disciplines.4However, there is evidence that what are known as leaky pipeline and glass-ceiling effectsremain especially strong in STEM fields.5 Psychologists and educational policy researchers areurged to turn attention to the later stages of career development where women’s careeraspirations often plummet and where women get stuck or drop out of STEM all together.6 Thispaper presents the preliminary results of a qualitative research project, with an analysis thatfocused particularly on isolating aspects that these female STEM doctoral students experiencedduring one academic year.The graduate school period along the academic science and engineering career pathway hasreceived little
AC 2010-441: "IT KIND OF CHOSE ME": AGENCY AND INFLUENCE INWOMEN'S DECISION TO MAJOR IN ENGINEERINGEleanor M. Jaffee, Smith College Eleanor M. Jaffee is a Research Associate with the Liberative Pedagogies Project at Smith College, and a doctoral candidate in Social Welfare at the University at Albany.Donna Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Associate Professor of Engineering at Smith College. Page 15.2.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 “It kind of chose me”: Agency and Influence in Women’s Decisions to Major in EngineeringIntroductionMuch of the research regarding
Paper ID #9215How Students’ Informal Experiences Shape their Views of Engineering andAffect their Plans for Professional PersistenceDr. Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University Dr. Kerry Meyers is in her second year as the Director of the STEM College’s First-Year Engineering Program at Youngstown State University. Her career is focused on the development of common, project based First-Year Engineering experiences, beginning at the University of Notre Dame where she was also the Director of the First-Year Engineering Program from 2005-2012. Further, her research interests relate to Engineering Educational issues in the
Paper ID #33876Reversing Gender Stereotypes in STEM Education in a Gender-SegregatedRegionSafia Malallah, Kansas State University Safia Malallah is a web developer, artist, and Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University. She obtained her master’s degree in computer science from Montana State University in 2017. Her research is centered around metamorphic testing in scientific software. Safia’s research interests expanded to include com- puter science education after observing the influence computer science has on her children. Her current research project is examining methods of teaching young children computational
industry holding technical and operations-based roles and has experience with outreach projects focused on STEM education and mentoring.Ronald Quintero, Florida International UniversityJade R. Moten, Florida International University Jade R. Moten is a graduate student at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Her research interests include expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in engineering education, policy development, TRIO programs, and quality tool implementation.Miss Brittany Nicole Boyd, Morgan State University Brittany N. Boyd is currently a doctoral student at Morgan State University. Her research interests include scale development to examine post-secondary experiences and program
population [22]. In 2008 and 2012, the COE completed the PACE(Project to Assess the Climate in Engineering) project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundationto identify issues that affect persistence among engineering undergraduates at 22 schools, whilepaying specific attention to the intersection of race, gender, and academic experience [23]. Whenasked to share their personal experiences within the COE, many students indicated that theclimate for women and URMs was not positive and could potentially be detrimental to theireducational experience. For example, some of the comments included the following:“I’m a female, and I've had both professors and students make derogatory comments in jestabout women in engineering.”“Never have I been singled out by
gender in engineering, I was very familiarwith this question and presumed my research participants would be as well. It was supposed tobe an easy question, a way for me to get participants talking about something familiar, and tobuild rapport between us. I realize now this question was also an implicit invitation to tell astory, to give me a sense of who they are, and to provide me a roadmap of what kind of questionsmight be useful to ask later in the interview.For most participants, it accomplished all of these goals. I was surprised by how naturally thesenarratives rolled off their tongues, how rehearsed women’s stories were about how they came tobe involved in engineering. As my research project went on, this became a narrative that I
scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship be- tween educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co-developer of the Re- formed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1500 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Prof. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen
departmental BPC plan focusing on increasing women and underrepresentedminority’s participation in our programs. The committee will also work with faculty to supportBPC component in research proposals and projects. The committee co-chair is also the facultyadvisor for WiCSE, was given course releases in fall 2017 for organizing trips to Grace HopperCelebration and in spring 2019 for BPC efforts by the department. The department also providesadministrative support for coordinating industry mentoring luncheons and trips to diversityfocused conferences.The CSE department started the Computing Partners Program (CPP) in 2018 to enable industriesto develop close working relationships with students and faculty. The industry partners joiningthe program get
education. These systems operate within the more distalmacro-system of societal cultural beliefs and practices; in this case, cultural beliefs about femalesin science, beliefs about minorities in science, and beliefs about achievement, success, andeconomic mobility.Research questions and hypotheses This paper presents initial findings from an ongoing longitudinal project taking place infive high schools within a large urban school district in the Northeast. A total of 1093 boys andgirls participated in the first year of data collection; for this investigation we limit our analyticsample to the survey data collected from female participants (n = 549), in order to examinecorrelates of girls’ interest in pursuing college coursework in
“forging stronger ties between communitycolleges and four-year institutions.”7However, the existence of articulation agreements is not enough. Most literature also includesdescriptions of the challenges encountered when institutions such as these work together.Funded projects to increase the number of underserved individuals completing a degree to enterengineering must also seek to remove barriers and integrate program curricula as a bridge withthe Community College.8 The Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and theMilwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) jointly addressed the enrollment difficulties ofWTCS students to MSOE through the development and implementation of statewide transferagreements in Electrical Engineering Technology (EET).9
opportunities relevant tounderstanding the social, cultural, economic, legal, policy, and political contexts ofenvironmental engineering challenges” (p. 80). That said, interdisciplinary work is notnecessarily straightforward in the academy as historically designed. As colleagues andepistemologies from different disciplines come together in a variety of ways, the interface can beboth productive and complex [2], [9].Researchers also point to community partnerships and service learning experiences inundergraduate civil and environmental engineering curricula that reflect both systems andinterdisciplinary problem-based frameworks. They describe positive outcomes and challenges ofsuch community-engaged project work, such as students’ expanded opportunity