Conference Session

Engaging Students in Engineering (ENGAGE)

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Staffin Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sheryl A. Sorby, Michigan Technological University; Tricia S. Berry, University of Texas, Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Ana Maria Dison, University of Texas, Austin; Yosef S. Allam, The Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University; Wally Peters, University of South Carolina, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Erica Pfister-Altschul, University of South Carolina; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina; Guangming Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Mechanical Engineering; James A. Leach, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

encouraged by awarding two $125scholarships at the end of the semester, chosen randomly from the students who attended eachseminar and completed pre- and post-seminar administrations of the PSVT:R.Course StructureThe spatial visualization workshop consisted of a series of five interactive seminars, deliveredas a subset of the parent WEP FIG courses. All students in the WEP FIGs met weekly, insections of 20 to 25 students, for one hour seminars on topics such as study habits andengineering careers. The subset of FIG students who enrolled in the spatial visualizationworkshop replaced five of their weekly seminars with spatial visualization topics, for whichthey met as a separate group in a dedicated classroom. The spatial visualization workshop

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ann Marie Blasick, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

for Analysts of Undergraduate Careers, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Washington, D.C.; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.8. Seymour, E., and Hewitt, N.M., Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1997.9. Espinosa, L. L., “Pipelines and Pathways: Women of Color in Undergraduate STEM Majors and the College Experiences that Contribute to Persistence,” Harvard Educational Review