learn science and engineering theory, self-confidence in ability, andsignificance of teacher interactions. Within each theme there was evidence that the participants’secondary educational experiences both aided and created obstacles in their pursuits. Thefinding from this study speak to the dynamic nature of how educational and environmentalexperiences can strengthen or weaken a woman’s resolve to continue in the field of engineering.Implications for future research, practice, and policy are discussed.Keywords: engineering, women, STEM education, social cognitive career theoryIntroduction The Bureau of Labor predicts that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) related employment is projected to have a growth of more than
. Page 12.707.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Expanding Girls’ Horizons in Math and Science: A Longitudinal Evaluation of EYH Conference OutcomesAbstractLittle longitudinal data is available on the effectiveness of Expanding Your Horizonsconferences on impacting girls’ future decisions regarding math and science. The purpose of theconferences is to encourage girls to take more math and science in high school by exposing themto hands-on activities and role models in the areas of science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM). This paper is based on interview data from 22 high school girls whobetween 2005 and 2006 participated in one-to-one interviews and small group discussions.These 22
student in the Science and Technology Studies Program. Prior to coming to Virginia Tech, she spent two years as a fellow at the National Academy of Engineering, where she directed the program on diversity in the engineering workforce. Ms. Layne also spent a year as an AAAS Congressional Fellow in the office of Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), where she was responsible for water, wastewater, and solid and hazardous waste policy issues. She has 17 years of environmental engineering experience, and was formerly a principal at Harding Lawson Associates in Tallahassee, FL, where she managed the office and directed hazardous waste site investigation and cleanup projects. Ms. Layne has degrees in environmental
;instead, engineering technology programs are common.Another difference is employment status. As of 2003, two-thirds, or 240,000 community collegefaculty, were part-time employees, while one-third, or 121,000, were employed full time,compared with part-time employment of 28% at public four-year institutions and 42% at privatefour-year institutions4.The primary source of data for this research is the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty5.The NSOPF was a survey conducted four times from 1987 to 2004, by the Department ofEducation and is a comprehensive collection of data on both faculty and institutions. In eachsurvey a set of questions were asked of a sample of faculty. This data is publically availablethrough the National Center for Educational
AC 2011-1840: ADVANCE-PURDUE: RETENTION, SUCCESS AND LEAD-ERSHIP FOR SENIOR FEMALE STEM FACULTYSuzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West LafayetteSusan Ruth Geier, Purdue UniversityProf. Chris Sahley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Page 22.145.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 ADVANCE-Purdue: Retention, Success and Leadership for senior female STEM facultyAbstractADVANCE-Purdue is an NSF-funded institutional transformation project designed to increasethe presence, retention and success of STEM female faculty. The Purdue Center for FacultySuccess (PCFS), the core of
. Page 15.1151.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Survival Tips from the Trenches Susan A. Lantz, Ph.D.; Trine University; Adrienne R. Minerick, Ph.D., Michigan Technological University; Donna S. Reese, Ph.D., Mississippi State University; Beena Sukumaran, Ph.D., Rowan University Abstract: Panel Discussion: Four women in academia---one with 5-10 years of experience, two with 10-20 years of experience, and one with 20-plus years experience---will offer advice, suggestions, and discuss tips and techniques that worked (or did not work) for them. The panelists include a woman who left academia
Paper ID #5941Student Perceptions and Interest in Engineering: Effects of Gender, Race/Ethnicity,and Grade LevelDr. Susannah Sandrin, Arizona State University Dr. Susannah Sandrin is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Arizona State University. Her research interests are in the areas of STEM education, specifically looking at the influences of social and economic factors on pre-college student engagement with STEM fields. She has directed numerous research, outreach and dissemination grant projects examining gender and student participation in STEM programs (including NASA and National Science Foundation, among others
Paper ID #34188Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering Mentoring Program toEnhance Gender Diversity Demonstrates Success During the COVID Pan-demicLauren Drankoff, University of DaytonDr. Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton Dr. Sandy Furterer is an Associate Professor and Department Chair at the University of Dayton, in the Department of Engineering Management, Systems and Technology. She has applied Lean Six Sigma, Systems Engineering, and Engineering Management tools in healthcare, banking, retail, higher education and other service industries, and achieved the level of Vice President in several banking
of Colorado, 2012.[11] C. M. Guarino and V. M. H. Borden, “Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?,” Res. High. Educ., vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 672–694, Sep. 2017, doi: 10.1007/s11162-017-9454-2.[12] J. Misra, J. H. Lundquist, E. Holmes, and S. Agiomavritis, “The Ivory Ceiling of Service Work,” Academe, vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 22–26, 2011.[13] K. Weisshaar, “Publish and Perish? An Assessment of Gender Gaps in Promotion to Tenure in Academia,” Soc. Forces, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 529–560, Dec. 2017, doi: 10.1093/sf/sox052.[14] R. A. Krukowski, R. Jagsi, and M. I. Cardel, “Academic Productivity Differences by Gender and Child Age in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine
University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and a BS in Chemical Engineering/Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Her industry experience includes Kodak, Lubrizol, Avery Dennison, and Sherwin-Williams. She is an active volunteer, currently serving as a board member at Magnificat High School where she chairs the Education Committee. She is past board member of the Center for Arts Inspired Learning and past chair of the United Way of Lake County. Kathleen is a founding member of the Women’s Leadership Council now known as Women United. She is a chair of the education committee. She and her husband have three children and live in Lake County, Ohio.Dr. Lyndsey
Structures and Algorithm Analysis, as well as introductory courses in Computer Science. Her research areas include Numerical Analysis, Computer Science Education, and Women in Computer Science. Page 12.778.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Gender Gap in Computer Science: Studying Its Absence in One Former Soviet RepublicIntroductionIt is no secret that women in the United States avoid Computer Science (CS) as a career choice.This is a big problem not only in the USA, but in numerous other countries around the world.However, there are countries – such as some of the
Paper ID #18637New Faculty Learning Community as Retention Tool for UnderrepresentedMinoritiesDr. Anne-Marie A Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Anne-Marie Lerner is an associate professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville. Her professional interests include inclusive in-class and out-of-class supports, investigat- ing effective teaching pedagogy for remote delivery as well as to nontraditional students, and education assessment. She received her PhD in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008.Dr. Christopher Frayer, University of Wisconsin
“engineering” were examined. The five most frequently reported conceptsfor innovation within the transcripts were “innovative”, “technology”, “industry”, “initiative”and “future", and the most frequently reported highest related concepts for engineering were“engineer”, “technical”, “designing”, “mechanical”, “knowledge” and “project”. The top five related concepts were compared to the strength of the ranked association toinnovation and engineering, with no pattern detected. However, comparing most related conceptsbetween self-described innovative and non-innovative positions demonstrated more connectionto qualitative assessment: While both groups shared “technology”, “development”, “industry”and “focus” as four out of the five most closely
well as psychology in engineering education. She plans to enter the workforce following graduation to pursue engineering planning.Dr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University Olga Pierrakos is a Founding Faculty and Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. She is currently a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Divi- sion of Undergraduate Education. Her expertise and interests focus on diversity and inclusion, engineer identity, PBL, innovative learning-centered pedagogies, assessment of student learning, engineering de- sign, capstone design, etc. She also conducts research in cardiovascular fluid mechanics and sustainable energy technologies. She holds
Paper ID #21907Understanding the Experience of Women in Undergraduate Engineering Pro-grams at Public UniversitiesDr. Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Jessica Ohanian Perez is an assistant professor in Electromechanical Engineering Technology at Califor- nia State Polytechnic University, Pomona with a focus on STEM pedagogy. Jessica earned her doctorate in education, teaching, learning and culture from Claremont Graduate University. Her research focuses on broadening participation of marginalized group in engineering and investigating alternate paths to the field
AC 2012-5370: DEVELOPING DIVERSE DEPARTMENTS (D3) AT NORTHCAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYDr. Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University Marcia Gumpertz is Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and professor of statistics at North Car- olina State University. She serves as PI of N.C. state’s ADVANCE PAID project Developing Diverse Departments. Page 25.428.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Developing Diverse Departments (D3) at North Carolina State UniversityIntroductionThe Developing Diverse Departments Project (D3
. Corbett, and A. Rose, 'Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics', in Gender in Science and Engineering Division (Washington, D. C.: American Association of University Women, 2010), pp. 1-134.8 C. Hoff, and G. Davis, 'Using the Sae Collegiate Design Series to Provide Hands-on Team Project Experience for Undergraduates', in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition (Chicago, IL, 2006).9 M Jersualem, and R. Schwarzer, Self-Efficacy as a Resource Factor in Stress Appriasal Process. ed. by R. Schwarzer, Self-Efficacy: Thought Control of Action (Washington D.C.: Hemisphere, 1992).10 V. Koebnick, 'Women Working in the Field of Engineering', The
AC 2011-912: A TRIAD FACULTY MENTORING PROGRAMJan Rinehart, Rice University Jan Rinehart is Executive Director of the National Science Foundation funded ADVANCE Program at Rice University. The goals of the ADVANCE program are to increase the number of women faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics at all levels of leadership, and change the institutional climate. She has over twenty years in higher education with most of her work focused on diversity in STEM fields. Prior to assuming the ADVANCE position, she served as the Deputy Director of the Space Engineering Institute for two years and the Director of Engineering Student Programs at Texas A&M University. She initiated the Women in Engineering
can address to increase women‟s retention and success in engineering education.IntroductionThis paper analyzes the experiences of undergraduate women in engineering and appliedscience majors at a public, Rocky Mountain region university with about 30,000 undergraduatestudents. The survey and research were initiated to address two disturbing trends seen in Page 15.1145.2undergraduate education in the United States. While women have historically beenunderrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields, thenumber of women in the biological and life sciences has grown to nearly one half, and nearlyone third of chemists are
qualitative methods to examine the culture for women and underrepresented minorities in 22 engineering colleges nationwide. She also directs the external eval- uation for the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). In addition to her lead- ership in the office, Dr. Litzler is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and a Board Member of Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Her research interests include the educational climate for students in science and engineering and gender and race stratification in education and the workforce.Ms. Julie Ann Lorah, University of Washington Julie Lorah is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington in the measurement
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higher degree ofbelongingness in their classrooms due to the majority population being Hispanic. One student,Paulina, said that she felt tokenized for being a Hispanic woman when she attended conferencesor other engineering-related events outside of the university. This example could indicate that aHispanic woman may eventually end up encountering these social pains due to her race later inher career without first experiencing them at an HSI B. HISPANIC CULTURE COULD EMPHASIZE A STUDENT'S NEED FOR PERSISTENCE AND SUCCESS IN COLLEGE:In a study conducted at the Massachusetts's Institute of Technology, researcher Susan S. Silbey[19] states that "Women make up 20% of engineering graduates, but it's been estimated thatnearly 40% of women who
‐year, multi‐institution study of women engineering student self‐ efficacy," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 98, no. 1, pp. 27-38, 2009.[9] Q. A. Blanco, M. Carlota, A. Nasibog, B. Rodriguez, X. V. E. Salana and F. Gagani, "Probing on the Relationship between Students' Self-Confidence and Self-Efficacy while engaging in Online Learning amidst COVID-19," Journal La Edusci, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 16- 25, 2020.[10] J. Heo and S. Han, "Effects of motivation, academic stress and age in predicting self- directed learning readiness (SDLR): Focuses on online college students," Education and Information Technologies, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 61-71, 2018.[11] N. Ramo, E. Hald and A. Huang-Saad, "Synchronous vs. asynchronous vs
physics and other disciplines : A cause for alarm ?,” no. January, 2020.[11] M. C. Cadaret, P. J. Hartung, L. M. Subich, and K. Ingrid, “Stereotype threat as a barrier to women entering engineering careers,” J. Vocat. Behav., 2016.[12] P. D. Medina, L., Ph.D., Dávila, S.Ph.D., Rivera, B., Oquendo Colón, N., Velázquez, M., “Developing a Meta-Model of Critical Factors for Females in STEM with Application to a Minority-serving Institution,” in American Society for Engineering Education Virtual Conference, 2020, pp. 1–23.[13] E. D. Hill Catherine, Ph.D., Corbett, Christianne, St. Rose, Andresse, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Washington, DC: AAUW, 2010.[14] C. O. Reilly
(alone and together with a network) can do to promote, encourage, and improve the education of our future engineers. Her vision of the future is a community of humans, living well, not only on Earth but on other spherical lands inside and outside of our solar system. The future is bright and filled not only with humans living in harmony with nature but also utilizing technology in such a way as to promote a strong future, growing intelligence and curiosity, strengthening the health and happiness of humanity as well as the Earth. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Gender Bias Dynamic Between Students and Female Faculty in the
level on issues related to the success of women in engineering and innovative STEM curricula.Dr. Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University Lee Rynearson an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Campbell University. He received a B.S. and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2008 and earned his PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University in 2016. He also has previous experience as an instructor of engineering at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, in Kanazawa, Japan. His current research interests focus on instruction for metacognition and problem solving.Dr. Lynn A. Albers, Campbell University Dr. Lynn Albers is a proponent of Hands-On Activities in the classroom and
engineering, relations between universi- ties, industry and government. Page 26.1738.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Why girls with an interest in IT in high-school do not choose an IT career – an extended study Page 26.1738.2AbstractThe study attempts to investigate the reason of why girls with an interest in IT in high-school do not choose career in IT. Here we present qualitative results from the focusgroup interview. The focus group consisted of eight young women, who were activelyinvolved in
madesubstantial changes to the state’s curriculum and high school graduation requirements since itwas passed by the state legislature in 2013. HB5 came into effect in Fall 2016 and has threemajor components: 1) A core set of courses each student must complete for a total of 22 credits; 2) The requirement that each graduating eighth grader select one of five Endorsements (listed below), which are broad categories of career related courses; and 3) A Distinguished Level of Achievement for outstanding performance within the chosen endorsement. The five endorsements are: 1) STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Paper ID #21312The Influence of Preconceptions, Experience, and Gender on Use of Supple-mental Instruction and Academic Success in a Freshman Chemistry Coursefor EngineersMr. Tyler Byrne Cole, Northeastern University Tyler Cole is a fifth year undergraduate student completing a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.S. in Engineering Management at Northeastern University. He has been involved in the Connections Chemistry Review program and first year engineering tutoring for four years. Tyler has held a co-op position at Genzyme, Amgen, and McKinsey and Company.Ms. Emma Kaeli, Northeastern University Emma Kaeli is a fifth
cross-disciplinary network in which these criticalSTEM faculty can thrive. This paper describes the cohort mentoring initiatives that WISE@OUhas undertaken, as well as results of subsequent satisfaction surveys administered to the facultyinvolved. Efforts to make the program sustainable after the NSF funding expires will also bediscussed.Introduction:The issue of the underrepresentation of women faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering andMath (STEM) fields has been documented in numerous reports and studies1-7. Several reasonshave been given for this underrepresentation, including a pipeline issue that limits the number offemale candidates available for tenure track positions. Despite the fact that women now make upa majority of college