AC 2012-3790: IMPACT OF SELF-EFFICACY ON INTEREST AND CHOICEIN ENGINEERING STUDY AND CAREERS FOR UNDERGRADUATE WOMENENGINEERING STUDENTSDr. Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University Patricia Backer has been a faculty member at SJSU since 1990 and now serves as Director of General Engineering. In her current role, Backer is involved in developing and assessing outreach programs to increase the number of women and underrepresented students in engineering.Dr. Rona Tamiko Halualani, San Jose State University Rona T. Halualani is a Full Professor of diversity and intercultural communication in the Department of Communication Studies as San Jose State University
AC 2010-1300: DEVELOPMENT OF A WOMEN IN ENGINEERING PROGRAM:FROM RESEARCH TO IMPLEMENTATIONJudith Cordes, Michigan State University Judy Cordes has been working with women in engineering for over twenty years. Currently she is the Coordinator of the Women in Engineering Program at Michigan State University. She oversees recruitment and retention efforts for women engineering students and serves as the advisor for The Collegiate Section of the Society of Women Engineers. Judy also serves as an academic advisor for freshman engineering students.Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University Dr. Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University
AC 2010-109: COMPARING THE RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF INDIVIDUALAND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS TO THE INTENT TO REMAIN IN ANENGINEERING MAJOR, BY GENDERElizabeth Creamer, Virginia TechPeggy Meszaros, Virginia TechCatherine Amelink, Virginia Tech Page 15.297.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Comparing the Relative Contribution of Individual and Environmental Factors to the Intent to Remain in an Engineering Major, by Gender1 ABSTRACTA series of hierarchical linear regressions were run to determine the differences bygender among undergraduates (N=1629) in the relative contribution of individual andenvironmental factors to
AC 2012-3045: CHOOSING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: TEN YEARSLATERDr. Lisa G. Bullard P.E., North Carolina State University Lisa G. Bullard is a teaching professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Chem- ical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from NC State and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. She served in engineering and management positions within Eastman Chemical Co. from 1991-2000. A fac- ulty member at NCSU since 2000, Bullard has won numerous awards for both teaching and advising, including being named as an NCSU Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor, the ASEE Raymond W
AC 2012-3319: THE IMPACT OF CONTEXTUALIZED, HANDS-ON, COL-LABORATIVE LEARNING ON WOMEN’S PERSISTENCE IN PROFES-SIONAL ENGINEERING: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM A MIXEDMETHODS STUDYDr. Heidi M. Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach Heidi M. Steinhauer is an Associate Professor of engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Steinhauer holds a Ph.D. in engineering education from Virginia Tech. She has taught Engineering Graph- ics, Introduction to Engineering Design, Automation and Rapid Prototyping, and has developed several advanced applications of 3D modeling courses. She is the Co-advisor of the only all-women’s Baja SAE Team in the world. Her current research interests center around the
AC 2010-723: EXTENDING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE: RESULTS FROM THEPROJECT TO ASSESS CLIMATE IN ENGINEERING (PACE)Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology Susan Staffin Metz is Senior Advisor for the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at Stevens. As a founder and president (1997 – 2002) of WEPAN, Women in Engineering Proactive Network, Susan has worked with over 200 colleges and universities to increase access and engagement of women in engineering and science through research, policy and program development. She is currently the principal investigator for ENGAGE, Engaging Students in Engineering, (www.EngageEngineering.org) a five year project funded by the National
AC 2010-2235: CAREERWISE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIENCE FORGRADUATE STUDENTSErika Murguia, Arizona State University Erika Murguia Blumenkranz is a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial Engineering, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. She earned her Master’s degree in Quality and Productivity Systems and her BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. Her personal research interests are focused on the dynamics of workforce protocols in manufacturing environments and supply chain management. Erika has worked as a research assistant on the CareerWISE project since October 2008 and her role has been recruiting
analysisapproach also aids in project administration and evaluation.However, no plan is ever perfect. Even a change process needs to change to be effective. Thispaper presents the transformational strategy and organizational framework which were proposedand undertaken at the start of the grant, and subsequently refined by project evaluation to aid inthe project’s execution. Table 1 outlines the distribution of LPU STEM and SBS (Social andBehavioral Sciences) female faculty in 2010 and 2013. The representation of women facultyremained relatively unchanged over this three-year period. The overall representation of 26% in2013 of T/TT female faculty in STEM and SBS is significantly below the 34% average ofdoctoral scientists and engineers employed at Master’s
AC 2011-1956: INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY AS A METHOD TOUNDERSTAND THE CAREER AND PARENTAL LEAVE EXPERIENCESOF STEM FACULTY MEMBERSMarisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University Marisol Mercado Santiago is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue Univer- sity, and a research assistant in the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group. She has a M. E. in Computer Engineering and a B. S. in Computer Science (with honors). Among her research interests are (1) culturally responsive education, (2) engineering studies, and (3) art and engineering education. Address: School of Engineering Education, Armstrong Hall, 701 W. Stadium Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907. mercado@purdue.edu.Alice L. Pawley
; differential retention issues for women across engineering disciplines; and engineering admissions practices. Page 24.794.1 She is currently the Program Chair of the Women in Engineering Division for ASEE. She served on the ASEE Diversity Committee from 2010 – 2012. Holloway was also president of WEPAN (Women in Engineering ProActive Network, www.wepan.org) in 2006-07, served on WEPAN’s Board of Directors from 2005 – 2008, and was the co-chair of the 2003 WEPAN National Conference. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014
AC 2012-5501: WOMEN IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: A DEPART-MENTAL EFFORT TO IMPROVE RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, ANDENGAGEMENT OF WOMEN STUDENTSProf. Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University Sriram Sundararajan is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University. He is currently the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs, and he oversees curricular and program mat- ters, including assessment and continuous improvement efforts. His research areas encompass scanning probe microscopy, multiscale tribology (friction, lubrication and wear), and surface engineering. More recently, he has focused on atom scale mapping of thin film material systems using 3D-atom probe mi- croscopy. He has authored
AC 2010-782: GENDER AND RACE/ETHNICITY IN ENGINEERING:PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM THE PROJECT TO ASSESS CLIMATE INENGINEERINGElizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler is the Director for Research at the University of Washington (UW) Center for Workforce Development (CWD). Her research interests include the educational climate for undergraduate and graduate students, gender stratification in education and the workforce, and gender and families. She is skilled in both qualitative and quantitative research. Liz is the research manager for the Sloan-funded Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE), the lead of the external evaluation for the National Center for Women and
AC 2012-3770: INTEGRATING SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION INTOFRESHMAN CHEMISTRY PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT WOMEN IN EN-GINEERINGKristen B. Coletti, Northeastern University Kristen Coletti is a third-year undergraduate student at Northeastern University, majoring in chemical engineering and pursuing a minor in mathematics. Coletti is not only a chemistry tutor but has also worked at the MathWorks, Inc. In addition, she has held co-op positions at both the Shaw Group and the EMD Serono Research Institute.Melinda Covert, Northeastern University Melinda Covert is a third-year undergraduate student at Northeastern University, studying chemical engi- neering and pursuing a minor in business administration. In addition to being a
AC 2011-2916: GENDER SCHEMAS, PRIVILEGE, MICRO-MESSAGING,AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION: PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM THE-ORYYevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Yevgeniya V. Zastavker is an Associate Professor of Physics at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Her research interests lie at the intersection of project-based learning and gender studies with specific emphasis on the curricula and pedagogies implemented in the first-year engineering programs.Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Debbie Chachra is an Associate Professor of Materials Science at Olin College, where she has been in- volved in the development and evolution of the engineering curriculum since she joined the
AC 2010-1946: SUCCESSFUL WOMEN ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A SURVEYASSESSMENT TO GUIDE OUR EFFORTS TO BOOST WOMEN’S RETENTIONDaniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder DANIEL W. KNIGHT is the engineering assessment specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program in CU’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from the Louisiana State University, and an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in counseling psychology, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention, program evaluation and teamwork practices in engineering education. His current duties include
AC 2011-145: DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP ATTITUDES AND SKILLSIN WORKING ADULT WOMEN TECHNICAL GRADUATE STUDENTS:RESEARCH INTERVIEW RESULTS WITH ALUMNIElaine R. Millam, University of St. Thomas Dr. Elaine Millam is a senior consultant, executive coach and educator with over 35 years of leadership experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors,developing the leadership capacity to create high performing organizations and facilitating leadership teams to do likewise. She has earned a reputation for her leadership with female leaders, coaching them to live into their greatest potential. She uses an integrated model that balances the inside-out and outside-in approach to developing leaders. She has earned graduate
AC 2009-1679: RECHARGE YOUR PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONALACTIVITIES THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL SABBATICALNoel Schulz, Mississippi State University Noel N. Schulz received her B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1988 and 1990, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in EE from the University of Minnesota in 1995. From July 2001 through August 2009 she was on the faculty of the ECE department at Mississippi State University and her last position was the TVA Professor of Power Systems Engineering. Starting in August, 2009 she will be the Paslay Professor in the ECE Department at Kansas State University. Noel serves on the ASEE Board of Directors as
AC 2009-1197: PRACTICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSES: A BAROMETERFOR THE FUTURE SUCCESS OF FEMALE EMIRATI ENGINEERINGUNDEGRADUATES?David Moore, Petroleum Institutelana El Chaar, Petroleum InstituteLisa Lamont, Petroleum Institute Page 14.963.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009Practical Engineering Design Projects: A Barometer for Future Success of EmiratiFemale Engineering Undergraduates?The Petroleum Institute is a fledgling engineering university located in Abu Dhabi in theUnited Arab Emirates. Set up in 2001by ADNOC (one of the richest oil companies in theworld), and managed by Colorado School of Mines (one of the most celebratedengineering colleges in
AC 2011-220: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM-MATE PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS BY STUDENTS ON ENGINEER-ING DESIGN TEAMSNatalie CT Van Tyne, Colorado School of Mines Natalie Van Tyne is the director of the Design Engineering Introductory Course Sequence (Design EPICS) Program at Colorado School of Mines, in which she has taught since 2002. The program provides required first- and second-year students with a foundation in the fundamental skills of engineering design: problem solving in teams, decision analysis, graphical representation, oral and written communications, and nu- merical analysis. Ms. Van Tyne holds bachelors degrees in chemical engineering and Russian language, masters degrees in chemical
AC 2012-5496: WOMEN’S CAMPUS LEADERSHIP SEMINAR PROGRAMProf. Pamela S. Frinzi, Southern Polytechnic State UniversityDr. Rebecca Hudson Rutherfoord, Southern Polytechnic State University Rebecca Rutherfoord is the Associate VP for Institutional Effectiveness, SACS, Accreditation Liaison, and professor of information technology. She has been at Southern Polytechnic for more than 28 years and has held several administrative positions. Page 25.1485.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Women’s Leadership Initiative Page 25.1485.2AbstractSouthern
AC 2011-1680: EFFECT OF THE GROUP CULTURE ON THE LEADER-SHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR FEMALE ENGINEERING STUDENTS INKOREA.Myongsook S. Oh, Professor, Hongik University B. S. in Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley Sc. D. in Chemical Engineering, MIT Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Texaco, Inc Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Hongik University in KoreaYookyung Bae, Institute for Gender Research in Seoul National University B.A. in Socioloy at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea M.A. in Socioloy at Ewha Womans Uni- versity in Seoul, Korea M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin Ph.D Candidate in Gender Studies at Seoul National University, Korea
AC 2012-4892: CHANGING THE FACE OF ENGINEERING: CAN PHO-TOVOLTAIC ENGINEERING LEAD THE CHARGE?Ms. Susan Shapcott, Arizona State University Susan Shapcott holds a master’s of arts degree in educational psychology from Arizona State University, and is pursuing her doctorate. One of her research interests is the motivation and performance of adults in underrepresented environments.Mrs. Katherine G. Nelson, Arizona State University Katherine Nelson is in her fourth year of graduate studies at Arizona State University (ASU), working towards her Ph.D. in engineering education. She is currently a Research Assistant at the NSF and DOE co- sponsored Engineering Research Center on Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar
Journal cover (2008). She is an ac- tive mentor of undergraduate researchers and served as co-PI on an NSF REU site. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activi- ties in area schools (see www.mderl.org). Adrienne has been an active member of ASEE’s WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams since 2003 and during this time has contributed to numerous ASEE conference proceedings articles and educational journal publications.Babs Carryer, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Babs Carryer is director of faculty development and
AC 2010-927: ADVANCE PEER MENTORING SUMMITS FORUNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY WOMEN ENGINEERING FACULTYChristine Grant, North Carolina State University Dr. Christine Grant is a Full Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular (CBE) engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU). She obtained a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Brown University in 1984; her graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) were both obtained from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1989. She joined the NCSU faculty in 1989 after completing her doctorate and has moved through the ranks of Assistant and Associate to Full Professor – one of only 4 African-American women in the U.S. at that rank. Her
AC 2011-2543: ” I AM NOT A FEMINIST, BUT:” MAKING MEANINGSOF BEING A WOMAN IN ENGINEERINGCarroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine Carroll Seron is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Building on her earlier work in the sociology of the professions, with Susan Silbey, her current research seeks to explain the persistent under-representation of women in engineering. She has published in Law & Society Review, Work & Occupations, Criminology among other journals. She is currently the Editor of Law & Society Review.Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego Erin Cech is a doctoral candidate
AC 2007-355: WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENTS THAT HINDER AND ASSIST THECAREER PROGRESSION OF WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYRose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana ChampaignSteven Thomas, Lockheed Martin Corporation Page 12.1616.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 1 Workplace Environments that Assist and Hinder the Career Progression of Women in Information Technology AbstractThe purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the workplace environmentcharacteristics that hinder and
AC 2011-881: PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES MAKING A DIFFERENCE:A CROSS-CASE ANALYSIS IDENTIFYING PROGRAMS AND FACTORSTHAT INFLUENCE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF WOMEN EN-GINEERING STUDENTSLois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University Lois Calian Trautvetter Assistant Professor of Education and Director, Higher Education Administration and Policy Program, Northwestern University, l-trautvetter@northwestern.edu Dr. Trautvetter studies faculty development and productivity issues, including those that enhance teaching and research, motivation, and new and junior faculty development. She also studies gender issues in the STEM disciplines.Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia Rose M. Marra, Ph.D. is an Associate
AC 2010-1170: EVALUATING A UNIVERSITY/COMMUNITY COLLEGECOLLABORATION FOR ENCOURAGEMENT OF ENGINEERING ANDCOMPUTER SCIENCE TRANSFER STUDENTSMary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University MARY R.ANDERSON-ROWLAND is the PI of an NSF STEP grant to work with five non-metropolitan community colleges to produce more engineers, especially female and underrepresented minority engineers. She also directs three academic scholarship programs, including one for transfer students. An Associate Professor in Computing, Informatics, and Systems Design Engineering, she was the Associate Dean of Student affairs in the Ira a. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU from 1993-2004. She received the WEPAN Engineering Educator
AC 2010-1247: DESIGNING MODEL-BASED SOLUTIONS TO LEAKY FEMALEENGINEERING PIPELINE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF FEMALE ENGINEERNARRATIVESManjusha Saraswathiamma, North Dakota State University Manjusha T. Saraswathiamma is an ABD doctoral student in the School of Education at North Dakota State University and a Chemistry Instructor at Minnesota State Community and Technical College, Moorhead, Minnesota. She received her Master of Technology degree from Cochin University of Science and Technology, and Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees from Mahatma Gandhi University, India.Kathy Enger, North Dakota State University Kathy B. Enger is an Assistant Professor of Education at North Dakota State
AC 2012-3810: UNIVERSITY STUDIES OF STUDENT PERSISTENCE INENGINEERINGDr. Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological UniversityMrs. Kaitlyn J. BunkerDr. Nilufer Onder, Michigan Technological University Nilufer Onder is an Associate Professor of computer science at Michigan Technological University. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research areas are artificial intelligence planning systems and decision making under uncertainty. Her webpage can be found via http://www.cs.mtu.edu/.Miss Raven Rachaun RebbDr. Laura E. Brown, Michigan Technological UniversityDr. Leonard J. Bohmann, Michigan Technological University Leonard J. Bohmann received his B.S. in electrical engineering