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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Yates, National Society of Black Engineers; Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

of all employed college graduates, but they represent only 12% of those withcollege degrees working in engineering occupations. Minority women make up less than twopercent of engineering professionals[20].The study explores the external support systems that assist these women through the beginningstage of their careers; of particular interest is support provided by professional associations andwhether or not that support is adequate.Data is collected through one-on-one interviews of underrepresented minority femaleengineers who graduated from an ABET-accredited university with a bachelor's degree between2011 and 2015. The data collected is analyzed to identify patterns and themes aroundthe challenges that underrepresented minority female

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Courtney Green P.E.

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

decided that engineering was not for me and changedmy major to mathematics. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Followinggraduation, I successfully completed a Master of Science in Engineering and worked as aforensic engineer for seven years before deciding to make a career change to teach in highereducation. I am currently a part-time PhD student in an Educational Research, Measurement, andEvaluation program and a full-time lecturer in the engineering college. My research interestsinclude increasing the participation and retention of underrepresented students in undergraduateengineering programs.Methodology A descriptive qualitative case study was selected for the purpose of this research study.This paper serves

Conference Session

Women & New Faculty Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eve Riskin, University of Washington; Kate Quinn, University of Washington; Joyce Yen, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

Foundation Young Investigator Award and a Sloan Research Fellowship.Joyce Yen, University of Washington Joyce W. Yen received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests include decision-making and resource allocation under uncertainty (stochastic programming), faculty and graduate student professional development, and women in science and engineering issues. She was awarded the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s 2004 Outstanding Young Alumni Award. Dr. Yen was previously an assistant professor in Industrial Engineering at the University

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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

their students’ professional arcs and curricular supports for those arcs? With a smalldataset, we aim to start to delve into these questions.2.0 Background of the StudyTo situate our work, we begin with an overview of environmental engineering degree attainmentin the United States by gender, race, and ethnicity, and consider broadly relevant dimensions ofstudents’ environmental engineering educational experience. We then explore the cultural andinstitutional spaces that environmental engineering graduates move into as they enter theworkforce. Specifically, we consider the gendered and racialized social context within whichenvironmental engineering majors make decisions about their careers—how gender and racefactor into the impact of

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Development Opportunities for Diverse Engineering Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allie Copeland, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam is an Associate professor with Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. She teaches classes on strategic relationships for industrial distribution, distribu- tion information systems and new directions in Industrial Distribution. She is also the founding faculty and advisor for the Society of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID). She works on many service learning projects with her students where they work with many local community agencies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Women in Industrial Distribution: emerging opportunities and challenges for female college

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ona Egbue, University of South Carolina Upstate; Arshia Khan, University of Minnesota Duluth; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she con- tinuously seeks new technologies to involve students in their learning process. She is actively involved in the Ideas Clinic, a major experiential learning initiative at the University of Waterloo. She is also re- sponsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the department to target areas for improvement in the curriculum. This resulted in several publications in this educational research areas. Dr. Al-Hammoud won the ”Ameet and Meena Chakma award for exceptional teaching by a student

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Catherine F. Pieronek, University of Notre Dame; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

AC 2012-3203: ENGINEERING STUDENT INVOLVEMENTDr. Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame Kerry L. Meyers is a professional faculty member in the College of Engineering at Notre Dame and an instructor and coordinator in the First-year Engineering program, and she is also involved with students at a variety of levels, including a graduate student teaching apprentice program, an undergraduate peer men- toring program, and STEM outreach (Expanding Your Horizon’s program). She has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, M.S. in mechanical engineering from Oakland University, and com- pleted her Ph.D. in engineering education at Purdue University. Meyers has several years of industrial experience in

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne-Marie A Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Christopher Frayer, University of Wisconsin - Platteville

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

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

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Faculty and Gender Issues

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

. Page 26.812.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Gender and Department Heads: An Empirically-Inspired Literature ReviewAbstract: Inspired by storytelling circles with female academics, this article examines therole of department heads vis-à-vis gendered career experiences and women’s persistentunderrepresentation among science and engineering faculty members. It focuses on the levelof power heads are afforded, presents new and understudied perspectives on the departmenthead literature, and suggests research horizons and policy recommendations. Five gendereddimensions of department head literature are identified and discussed. Given that departmentheads

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Taylor Maida, University of Notre Dame; Simran Moolchandaney, University of Notre Dame; Gabrielle Tanjuatco, University of Notre Dame; Caroline Lubbe, University of Notre Dame

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

University of Notre Dame.Simran Moolchandaney, University of Notre Dame Simran Moolchandaney is a class of 2023 undergraduate student at the University of Notre Dame major- ing in Computer Science and minoring in Bioengineering. Outside the classroom, Simran is an NCAA Division 1 Fencer, and an active SWE member who zealously engages in community service work.Gabrielle Tanjuatco, University of Notre Dame Gabrielle Tanjuatco is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame in Mechanical Engineering in the Class of 2021.Caroline Lubbe, University of Notre Dame Caroline Lubbe is a Chemical Engineering student in the University of Notre Dame Class of 2023. American c

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WIED: Pre-College Student Experiences

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda S. Parker, University of Colorado Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado Boulder

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Women in Engineering

influential” in their decisions to attend the CEAS (Table 2).As the number of women who attended Girls Explore Engineering Day increased in 2013, so didthe program’s effectiveness. Of the women who attended in 2013, 93% found it to be somewhator very influential in their decisions to attend the CEAS, while in 2012, only 40% of attendeesreported this degree of influence, as shown in Figure 2. Why the improvements? The 2013program provided tours of labs in disciplines that women are typically more interested in, andmore staff and student volunteers were made available for one-on-one chats with both studentsand parents. And, with the addition of the parent track, this event became more personal andsocially engaging. Many staff members commented that

Conference Session

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

. Eric plans to retire in 5 years.For each of the individuals above, indicate below ONE responsibility you recommend for them. Each person mustbe recommended to only one of the following responsibilities. Place the person’s first initial (A-E) next to yourrecommendations. ____ Advise incoming graduate students to help them find an advisor in their research area. ____ Act as Department Co-Chair for the upcoming academic year with a full professor. The Department Chair will be on sabbatical. ____ Be the faculty sponsor for the student chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). ____ Work with professors from the Materials Science Department on an NSF research project focusing on materials processing and

Conference Session

The Academic Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Young, Syracuse University; John Tillotson, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

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Women in Engineering

doctoral/thesis advisorEncouragement from doctoral or thesis advisors was cited by a majority of faculty members asbeing a significant factor in their decision to pursue a doctoral degree. Male faculty memberstended to attribute this to the fact that, by default, an advisor becomes a mentor due to the natureof the relationship, though the depth of this relationship is often dependent on the personality ofthe advisor. Female faculty members were more likely to point out the need for extraencouragement from advisors to consider and actually pursue faculty positions in engineering.One female faculty member recalled: I thought I was just going to get a masters degree, get a job, and be done with my graduate education…he [advisor] is the

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine R. Millam, University of Saint Thomas; Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas

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Women in Engineering

of this approach in releasing the leader withinis becoming much more clear and compelling. Alumni of this program are now convinced thatthis course has had a profound effect on the way they view the world as an interconnectedsystem, on their role to lead and make a difference, and as a result has changed the way theythink and act. The implications of this research for retaining women in engineering careers aresignificant. Page 22.460.11Since 2003 through fall 2010, 160 students have completed the Leveraging Leadership for aLifetime series of three courses and have graduated. A remaining 170 students are in process

Conference Session

ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Grant, North Carolina State University; Jessica Decuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University; Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University

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Women in Engineering

) had so few opportunities in their professional careers totalk and network with other minority women scientists and engineers” (Nelson & Rogers, 2005).Cross boundary mentoring. Anecdotal information suggests that most underrepresented minoritywomen in this group were not mentored by a person that “looks like” them (i.e., of the samegender and race). An article by Stanley and Lincoln (2005) found that junior and senior facultyand administrators alike were often not sure how to foster effective mentoring relationships. Theauthors stated that this was particularly true when faculty of color were recruited topredominantly white colleges and universities (Stanley and Lincoln, 2005). These same peoplewere perplexed as to how to proceed due to

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Kaitlyn J. Bunker; Nilufer Onder, Michigan Technological University; Raven Rachaun Rebb; Laura E. Brown, Michigan Technological University; Leonard J. Bohmann, Michigan Technological University

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Women in Engineering

career, the opportunities and advancementsprovided by the field to the society, and the society’s perception of the field. Climate andexperiential effects involve personal experiences such as stereotypes and the universityenvironment. In the following sections, we briefly review samples of research in each of thethree groups.II.a. Academic ResourcesUniversities strive to provide an excellent education by providing a wide variety of academicresources that are accessible to all of their students. A prior study showed that students whopersist in engineering have more awareness of support services such as academic advisors,engineering student organizations, faculty, and tutors than those who switch majors. Studentswho persist are also more likely to

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University; Theodore J. Heindel, Iowa State University; Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Iowa State University; Shankar Subramaniam, Iowa State University

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Women in Engineering

significantly less thancorresponding numbers in mathematics, statistics and various science degrees.2 Consequently,studies focusing on identifying the factors contributing to the lack of women at the degreeprogram level1,4 and in the engineering workforce5, 20 have been invaluable in suggesting bestpractices6-8 to address this critical issue. For example, peer-peer interactions and faculty-studentinteractions that promote respect and encouragement9 as well as learner-centered approaches topedagogy10-13 have been shown to have a positive impact on the college experience of womenstudents as well as on their decision to pursue an engineering career. These studies and otherssuggest that creating environments that emphasize care and respect for students as

Conference Session

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

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quincy Brown, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Michelle Beadle Holder, University of Maryland, College Park; Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Scientists, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and the Alliance/Merck Ciencia Hispanic Scholars Program. She has presented workshops on graduate school admissions, ”The Success Equation,” STEM initiatives, and PhD Completion in Panama, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and schools across the United States. Tull is on the board of advisors for the PNW-COSMOS Alliance to increase the number of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students who complete STEM graduate programs, and is a speaker on ”GRADLab” tour with the National GEM Consortium, giving talks across the US each Saturday morning during the Fall. Tull researched speech technology as former member of the faculty at the University of

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Ilana Karpman, University of California San Diego

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Women in Engineering

career progressed, and frequently stated that thistrait is necessary for a successful career in engineering, but is not always an attribute that womendisplay. The sections that follow outline the findings of the study, including both the key factorsof support that helped women to be successful in academic engineering programs (ResearchQuestion 1) and the challenges that women frequently faced and overcame in their career(Research Question 2).  The Challenge of Balancing Work and Family Demands: Making Tradeoffs Women at all three campuses described balancing work and family as one of the mostchallenging aspects of their careers in engineering. Female faculty members explained that theyhad to make significant tradeoffs to have children

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Jennifer J. VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Joanna Wright, University of Washington; Lauren Summers, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

Statistics predicts growth of 13.4% from2014 to 2024 in jobs for STEM-related post-secondary teachers [1]. Women are a growingpercentage of PhDs in STEM but are not proportionately represented among assistant professors[2]; to support this employment growth it will likely be necessary to attract more women to thefaculty. Of even more significance is that STEM faculty play a critical double role in the healthand gender make-up of the future STEM workforce. Research shows that role models have animportant impact on career pathway decisions made by women engineering students [3]. Mostengineers are first exposed to the profession through their STEM faculty, so if this group is notdiverse, or if diverse workers (such as women) are perceived to be

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shawn Fagan, Temple University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

engineering helped guide their engineering interests anddecision to pursue engineering as a major. The triangulation of the faculty participants’ datasupported these findings as all five faculty participants reported strong self-efficacy beliefs inmathematics and science prior to college.Choice Theme III: Engineering ExpectationsThe eleven student participants reflected on similar beliefs regarding their outcome expectationsrelated to obtaining an engineering degree. The common thread among their beliefs was how anengineering degree could provide them with career opportunities that would allow them toachieve their personal, social, and career goals. This illustrated the central role outcomeexpectations play in regulating and influencing an

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rohini N. Abhyankar, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

workplace adjustment for engineers and the corresponding influence on job satisfaction and intentions to persist. Rohini’s other interests include faculty development and engineering pathways of graduating engineers.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Samantha Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering Poly- technic School. Dr. Brunhaver recently joined Arizona State after completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Dr. Brunhaver’s research examines the career decision-making and professional identity formation of engineering

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Fu, MIT; Tahira N Reid, Purdue University; Janis P. Terpenny, Iowa State University; Deborah L. Thurston, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Judy M. Vance, Iowa State University; Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon University; Gloria J. Wiens, University of Florida; Kazem Kazerounian, University of Connecticut; Janet Katherine Allen, University of Oklahoma; Kathy Jacobson

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Women in Engineering

teams; impacts of project choice and context; and the retention and success of under- represented students). She has 9 years of industry work experience with the General Electric Company (GE), including the completion of a 2-year corporate management program. Throughout her career, she has managed over $8 million of sponsored research and is the author of 150 peer-reviewed publications. She is a member and Fellow of IIE, a member and Fellow of ASME, and a member of ASEE, INFORMS, Alpha Pi Mu, and Tau Beta Pi. She serves as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and for the Engineering Economist. She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, in research, and for service.Dr

Conference Session

Institutional Transformations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University

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Women in Engineering

more service (which is less valued).7 In anotherrecent study, Holleran and colleagues explored female and male STEM faculty members’ talkabout research and other topics.8 Among other findings, they found that when women and mentalked with one another about research, female STEM faculty were not regarded as being ascompetent as their male counterparts. To address the final finding of the Beyond Bias and Barriers report – the need to act – thecommittee recommended actions to be taken by universities, professional societies andorganizations, funders, federal agencies, and Congress. The first agent and stakeholder in thislist, the university (and within it, colleges and departments), is the context of focus for thepresent paper. The

Conference Session

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

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Carol Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COS); Maureen S. Valentine P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Andrea Gebhart Rommel, Independent Scientific Consultant; Laurie A. Clayton, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #12323AdvanceRIT Connect Grants: Driving Momentum for Disruptive Change forWomen STEM FacultyProf. Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Sharon Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Tech- nology at RIT where she has served on the faculty since 1997. Sharon has been involved in computing security education at RIT since its inception. She is a PI of for the Department of Defense (DoD) In- formation Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) awards to RIT. These scholarships enable students to study and do research in graduate programs in security

Conference Session

Issues of Diversity

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fonda Swimmer, Northern Arizona University; Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College

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Women in Engineering

support; the STEP UP camp was a success. The majority of youngwomen in attendance were Native American, which presented an opportunity to positivelyinfluence their pre-college decisions and provide an access point to considering career pathstoward science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. Assessment, evaluation andtracking are a part of this initiative.This paper will discuss the successful dynamics used and pedagogical approach toward nurturingthe female participants’ interests in engineering and science through hands-on activities, personaland team dynamics, faculty and current engineering/science student instruction and industryparticipation; the creation of personal connection to the Multicultural Engineering Program andthe

Conference Session

Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

. For example, an educationalinstitution may routinely recruit junior engineering faculty from a core group of researchuniversities that produce good numbers of qualified graduates whose research interests align wellwith the research programs of the hiring university. But if the research universities in that coregroup have a poor record of graduating female Ph.D.s in engineering, then the hiring institutionshould either broaden its recruiting activities to encompass more female-friendly graduateprograms or risk a Title IX violation. As with students, an educational institution may not useemployment tests or other criteria that have a disproportionately adverse effect on members ofone gender, unless such tests or other criteria validly predict

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Farmer Cox, Ohio State University; Jung Sook Kim, Ohio State University; Matilde Luz Sanchez-Pena, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Ebony Omotola McGee, Vanderbilt University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Ebony O. McGee is an Assistant Professor of Diversity and Urban Schooling at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College and a member of Scientific Careers Research and Development Group at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago; and she was a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. As a former electrical engineer, she is concerned with sci- ence, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning and participation among historically marginalized students of color. Her research focuses on the role of racialized experiences and biases in STEM educational and

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Keathly, University of North Texas; Robert Akl, University of North Texas; Ryan Garlick, University of North Texas

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Women in Engineering

– www.parallax.com ). The curriculumconsisted of open-ended projects that produce observable behaviors and allow students toexplore beyond the limits of defined exercises. Such activities included creatively programmingthe robots to draw different shapes and imagery – an unexpected activity initiated by a group ofstudents during an open exploration period. The design of the project activities encouraged teamexploration as well as independent operations. Working in a team environment encouraged thecamp attendees to make individual contributions to the overall success of their efforts, regardlessof whether their individual strengths lie in problem analysis, system design, construction orprogramming.The camps’ enrollment was limited to women in the ninth

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

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Women in Engineering

. ‚ To know what it means to be a member of a metropolitan university community.The MUSE seminars were not intended to replace introductory courses in several majorson campus such as Science 2, Engineering 10 or Business 10. Instead, the MUSEseminars “are intended to help a new student’s transition to becoming a college levelstudent/scholar. MUSE seminars emphasize how to view topics and issues from differentperspectives, how to gain an understanding of a subject matter, improvement of criticalthinking skills and information competencies, critical writing and reading skills,interaction among students, and strategies to help students assess their own learning andlearning styles.”4There are many steps in the process of creating a course for the