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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prashant Rajan, Iowa State University; Charles T. Armstrong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Elizabeth J. O'Connor , Ketchum Change; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rebecca L. Dohrman, Maryville University; Colleen Arendt, Fairfield University ; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #13732Vulnerable heroes: Problematizing metaphors of male socialization in engi-neeringDr. Prashant Rajan, Iowa State UniversityCharles T Armstrong, Purdue UniversityElizabeth J. O’Connor , Ketchum ChangeProf. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. Editor of three books and author of over 150 articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, lead- ership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the

Conference Session

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

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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

PROMISE community to enhance the preparation of graduate and postdoctoral fellows in STEM. Her research interests focus on bridging the disparity of availability of information that improves programs that enforce participation in STEM careers. Page 26.756.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Factoring Family Considerations into Female Faculty Choices for International Engagement in Engineering, IT, and Computer ScienceIntroductionAdvances in cyberinfrastructure and telecommunication have enhanced the ability of faculty andstudents to engage in transnational

Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Birmingham, Grove City College

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Women in Engineering

-track faculty position at a largeresearch university would give me the necessary flexibility to balance my career with my familylife.My husband and I were the proverbial “two-body” problem when searching for academicpositions in engineering. We were fortunate to land tenure-track positions in engineering at thesame large research university. We both successfully built research labs and were awardedtenure. Fifteen years and three children later, however, we both left to teach at an ETI that doesnot award tenure, but instead awards one-year contracts to faculty. This school, however, hasexcellent students and facilities, and an administration that is genuinely interested in improvingthe academic quality of the institution. Since I was looking for

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

department. They become the role model forthe role models.”5To help department chairs gain the skills and information needed to address department culture,which would then support the effective implementation of policies such as family-friendlypolicies, the University of Washington’s National Science Foundation-funded ADVANCECenter for Institutional Change (CIC) received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation topilot an annual two-day national leadership workshop for department chairs, deans, andemerging leaders. A particular emphasis of the workshop was work-life issues for faculty. Theworkshop was designed to address the disconnect that exists in American institutions of highereducation between the adoption of flexible career options as a

Conference Session

Survival Tips from the Trenches

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Lantz, Trine University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University

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Women in Engineering

for nine years, but returned two years ago. Between them, these four women have five children, 148 referred journal publications, three book chapters, six books (novels) and two novellas, and 76 research grants and contracts, totaling $9.4 million.Susan’s Top Ten Tips for Academic Survival1. Live close to where you work. The more time you spend commuting, the less time you spend working or with your family.2. Love your work. If you aren’t passionate about either teaching or research, your work will become a job, not a career.3. Balance your personal and professional lives. This can be difficult to do, and you can’t always maintain a perfect balance, but strive to maintain the balance most weeks

Conference Session

WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis; Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Sheldon Hochheiser, IEEE History Center; Michael Geselowitz, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #8538Oral Histories of Distinguished Female Leaders: Inspiring the Next Genera-tion of Young People in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM)Ms. Kelsey Morgan Irvin Kelsey Irvin is currently an undergraduate sophomore at Washington University in St. Louis. She is ma- joring in the Cognitive Neuroscience Track of Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and hopes to pursue a career in social work or a related psychological field. She is currently working in a Cognition and Development Lab at Washington University in St. Louis studying child preferences.Ms. Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Strategies Beyond the Classroom to Tackle Gender Issues

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine G Nelson, Arizona State University; Susan Shapcott, University of Bath ; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants in both the public and private sectors, and served as an external reviewer for doctoral dissertations outside the U.S. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals and books. Dr. Husman was a founding member and first President of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education and has held both elected and appointed offices in the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Motivation Special Interest Group of the European

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cassandra Groen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Andrea E. Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Women in Engineering

Improvement and Mentoring ProgramsAbstractIn Greek Mythology, Mentor was Odysseus’s trusted counselor and served as a guardian andteacher to Telemachos. It is from this story that the term Mentoring originated. Mentoring isoften defined as a way to coach and guide individuals to a successful career path and is used as apositive organizational tool. The organizations usually implement mentoring programs topromote a healthy work life and create a better outcome for organizational goals. But whathappens when the traditional and stereotypical methods of mentoring are haphazardly applied toorganizations and academic institutions? How do these group constructs deal with regressive,rather than progressive, mentors? How does

Conference Session

Issues of Persistence in Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech; Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

Assessment for VTAdvance, another project funded by the National Science Foundation. Creamer’s disciplinary background is in the field of higher education. Her research interests involve issues related to faculty careers, work, and lives, including gender differences in the factors associated with faculty publishing productivity. Creamer teaches courses in qualitative research including Qualitative Methods in Educational Research I and II and EDRE 6794: Mixed Methods in Educational Research. Creamer is recognized in Who’s Who in Education and is a recipient of the 2005 College of Liberal Arts and Human Studies Research Grant. She is the author or co-author of three books and 45 refereed

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Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Hailey, Utah State University

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Women in Engineering

2006-1071: PILOT STUDY OF A “WOMEN IN ENGINEERING SEMINAR” THATIS RESPONSIVE TO REGIONAL ATTITUDESChristine Hailey, Utah State University Page 11.994.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Pilot Study of a “Women in Engineering Seminar” That Is Responsive to Regional AttitudesAbstractThe paper describes a pilot study of a one-hour seminar designed for incoming female freshmenstudents. The seminar includes many features of existing women in engineering seminarsincluding external guest speakers, introductions to the female faculty members, and presentationsby Career Services. Regionally conservative attitudes about family and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katherine L Walters, University of Georgia ; John M Mativo, University of Georgia; Uduak Zenas George, San Diego State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

and not engineering or computersciences? Many research studies have aimed to answer this question in various ways, includingexamining women’s math and science identities [2], confidence and self-efficacy [3, 4],perceptions and experiences [5], and larger, structural issues [6]. This study aims to identifywomen’s main motivating factor to pursue an engineering undergraduate degree. We areinterested to find out how women are influenced to choose this career path, and what influencesthem.Introduction This study took place at the University of Georgia, United States, and focused onundergraduate women enrolled in engineering majors. The college of engineering has recentlyreceived national recognition for their diversity programs [7] and as

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Brandt, Seton Hall University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #11157WHY DO UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN PERSIST AS STEM MAJORS?A STUDY AT TWO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITIESDr. Ronald Brandt, Seton Hall University Ronald Brandt teaches physical science at the high school level, emphasizing Project Based Learning and inquiry based lab activities. Brandt seeks to inspire his students, especially young women, to develop a passion for STEM studies and consider a career in science and technology. Prior to entering the education profession, Ronald Brandt was an executive in the chemical industry serving as senior vice president at two multinational firms as well as President & CEO of an

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Saylisse Davila, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Olga Beatriz Rivera, Amgen Manufacturing Limited; Nolgie Oquendo-Colon, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Maria Angelica Velazquez, Montana State University

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Women in Engineering

recruitment, retention, and progression is presentedalong with their positive or negative impact. Finally, the model was revised once more toincorporate the results of an ADVANCE program carried out at a minority-serving institution.I. IntroductionWhile females around the world continue to advance to leadership roles, they still facediscrimination and are treated unfairly in many different settings; particularly, the ones inScience, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. Females in STEM are mostlyunderrepresented and constantly face recruitment and retention issues. This phenomenon isaddressed as the “leak in the pipeline” [1] – fewer females over time advance to careers inacademia. Females in academia and many other engineering work

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maureen C Smith, San Jose State University; Jinny Rhee, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

challenges in being an engineering student shapingtheir identities. Fleming and colleagues’ results are consistent with those reported by Prybutok etal. who surveyed 563 engineering students to study the development of engineering identity asstudents progressed from lower-division to upper-division students [7]. Lower- division studentsscored higher on three aspects of engineering identity: math interest, engineering personalagency related to authority, and engineering global identity. They expressed a life-long interestin science and/or excitement in beginning their college engineering careers. Upper-divisionstudents scored higher on the physics recognition by others aspect of engineering identity incomparison to lower-division students. They felt

Conference Session

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

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis; Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Michael Geselowitz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

Paper ID #14771Oral History Project of Underrepresented Leaders in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)Ms. Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis Kelsey Irvin is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis double majoring in the Cognitive Neuro- science track of Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and Psychology and hopes to pursue a career in clinical psychology. She is currently working on her honors thesis, which involves using neural measures to research reward processing in preschoolers with depression.Miss Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania Elizabeth Hiteshue

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WIED Olio

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University; Lori L. Bakken, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Women in Engineering

Grand Challenge Scholars Program and is also active in development of integrated and innovative STEM curricula, issues related to the success of women in STEM and innovative use of technology in STEM education.Dr. D. Patrick O’Neal, Louisiana Tech UniversityLori L Bakken, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dr. Bakken is an associate professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Human Ecology and an affiliate faculty member in the School of Education. She has developed, implemented and evaluated research education programs in the medical field for the past 15 years. Her research focuses on the role of learning experiences in career development. Dr. Bakken most notable for her work in clinical

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ziyu Long, Purdue University; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robyn F Wilson, Purdue University; Jennifer C Batra, Purdue University ; Lindsey B. Anderson, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

Faculty’s Mentoring Networks Abstract Research on mentoring has expanded from examination of traditional mentor-protégédyads to developmental mentoring networks.20,37 In these network approaches, the emphasis ison a constellation of career developmental and personally supportive relationships to designcareer experiences for focal individuals and to respond to the issues that these focal individuals,or mentees, express.1,15 To study engineering women faculty’ career experiences, we examinetheir egocentric mentoring networks,29 that is, the individuals’ self-reported linkages betweenthemselves (i.e., “ego” or hub of the network) and career developmental “nodes”/mentors. Weuse a mixed methodological

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Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan; Amy Moll, Boise State University

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Women in Engineering

viewpoints inherentwith increased diversity. The development of a diverse faculty will provide mentors and rolemodels to attract and support an increasingly diverse student body that otherwise might notpursue a technical career. To create an academic culture that promotes diversity and equitywithin the faculty and administration and that provides a supportive environment and appropriatementors and role models for an increasingly diverse student body has become Boise StateUniversity’s priority. This paper includes data on our university’s representation of womenfaculty in science and engineering, including measurable progress in recent years that places usabove the national norm. Additionally, we provide focus group results on climate for

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International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Murphy; Cecilia Chan, Dublin Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

Page 11.1456.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006Women, Engineering and Research – providing choice and balance? Women researchers in engineering remain a minority in both Higher Education and dAbstract“Research cannot reach its full potential when half the population is excluded from itsactivities”1. Women researchers in engineering remain a minority in both HigherEducation and industry in Ireland. Recent statistics of women graduating in science andengineering indicated an increase (a slow increase) but the numbers moving through tocompletion of PhD and careers in academia or industry remain quite low. Statistics onwomen in professorial and senior positions within the engineering sector also remainslow.The educated workforce

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Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering.Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University Prior to joining the ASU Electrical Engineering faculty in 1990, Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has also consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has published over 200 tech- nical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings – over 60 with students. He has authored three engineering texts on classical controls, linear systems, and multivariable control. Dr. Rodriguez has given over 70

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

teacher for 2009-2010. She received the WEPAN Engineering Educator Award 2009, ASEE Minorities Award 2006, the SHPE Educator of the Year 2005, and the National En- gineering Award in 2003, the highest honor given by AAES. In 2002 she was named the Distinguished Engineering Educator by the Society of Women Engineers. Her awards are based on her mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of re- cruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering.Ms. Anita Grierson, Arizona State University Anita Grierson, AZ State University ANITA E. GRIERSON is the Director of the METS Center in

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chaoyi Wang; Michael Frye, University of the Incarnate Word

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

students in grades six through eight to measure their self-reported attitudes inmathematics, science, engineering and technology. The results showed a significant increase incampers’ self-perceived attitude in mathematics. In addition, semi-structured interviews wereconducted with 22 campers to explore how the camp experiences altered attitudes toward STEMstudy and impacted their career interest. Interview findings indicated (1) campers hadopportunities to develop STEM, robotics, and programming knowledge through various hands-on activities which made the camp fun and interesting, (2) teamwork and single-gender learningenvironment helped campers become more open to STEM subjects, and (3) coding andprogramming were two major themes in miniGEMS that

Conference Session

Potpouri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nehal I. Abu-lail, Washington State University; Fatin Aliah Phang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Ashley Ater Kranov, ABET; Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Robert G. Olsen, Washington State University; Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET; Azizan Zainal Abidin, Universiti Teknologi Petronas

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Women in Engineering

Charles and Bradley are the first to conduct a robust study of gender segregation in avariety of fields across 44 countries, using their Gender Essentialist and Self-Expressive ValueSystems Framework.1 The study’s counter intuitive findings suggested that gender segregation infields traditionally regarded as ‘masculine’, such as engineering, is much more pronounced inadvanced industrialized countries like the US. They found that cultural beliefs in fundamentaland innate gender differences express themselves in curricular and career choice moreprevalently in economically developed countries where self-expression and individualism incurricular and career choice is highly valued, in contrast to less economically developedcountries where curricular

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tracy L. Yother, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Geanie Umberger, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Mary E. Johnson PhD, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Women in Engineering

industry.Demand for Technicians. The demand for technicians and technologists in the aerospaceindustry in total is not available through the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (USBLS) website(www.bls.gov). The US demand for aircraft and avionics mechanics and technicians is expectedto grow 5%, with an increase in employment of 7,300 from 2019-2029 which does not includethe replacements due to retirement or other attrition [10]. The outlook for Aerospace Engineeringand Operations Technicians is expected to grow 7%, with an increase of 800 technicians between2019-2029 [11]. The outlook for Aerospace Engineers is listed as an increase of 1900 between2019-2029 [12]. These are only a fraction of the technically demanding careers for degreedtechnologists and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nacarid Delgado, Universidad Andres Bello, Concepcion, Chile; Karen Judith Correa, Universidad Andres Bello, Concepcion, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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Women in Engineering

motivations to pursue a career in STEMareas in the event context. It focuses specifically on the various roles, such as externalresearchers (invited speakers), academicians (workshop instructors), and collaborating students(workshop assistants) who participate in the event. It aims to understand more profoundly theorganization required to establish strategies that would allow continuity to this powerfulinitiative.Data was collected from interviews with the participants (workshop instructors, workshopassistants, and invited speakers). The results showed that all those involved valued the initiativeand would participate in it again. This type of event is necessary to empower girls andadolescents to choose STEM careers. Opinions ventured by students

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

students; twentypercent of this population is female. The majority of the students graduating from thisprogram choose Technical Sales as their career. The diverse curriculum of thisengineering major causes students to be well sought out by the industry. However, acareer in Technical Sales is not a traditional choice for women, thus leaving the femaleundergraduates apprehensive about their career goals. So, a group of students and the IDfaculty decided to found an organization that catered to the needs of the female IndustrialDistribution Engineer and resolve this concern. This new organization was namedSociety of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID).SWID was established with the intention of stimulating and catapulting female

Conference Session

Women in Engineering (WIED) Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Julia Ziyatdinova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Anastasia Sokolova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy G. Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University

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Women in Engineering

of women in the technical professions of anengineering university has a number of advantages while presenting many problems. Among themany problems are the following: (1) a lack of career advancement for women in engineeringeducation; (2) a shortage of women in administrative positions with influence in the decisionmaking process; (3) the resurgence of chauvinistic stereotypes for women; and (4) the conflictbetween family and professional life.This paper explores the impact of gender bias in the Russian academic community and assessesthe obstacles for technically trained women in the male dominated Russian university.IntroductionSince 1917 and until the end of the Soviet era, the role of women was very important in theengineering and

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Girls and Young Women

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joan Kowalski, Penn State University - New Kensington; Tracie L. Brockhoff, Penn State University - New Kensington

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Women in Engineering

AC 2008-1843: THE FIRSTE FIFTEEN YEARSJoan Kowalski, Penn State University - New Kensington Joan A. Kowalski earned both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Civil Engineering from Penn State University. In 1987, she joined the faculty at the Penn State New Kensington Campus, where she has advanced to the rank of Senior Instructor in Engineering. In 1999, she assumed the role of Program Director for the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Program. She co-founded the Females Interested in Reaching for Science, Technology and Engineering (FIRSTE) Program in 1993 and continues serving as a co-director. This program is designed to attract high school females towards nontraditional careers

Conference Session

An International Perspective

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Tatiana Ramirez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Idalis Vazques, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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in the number ofapplications and enrollments into engineering careers of female students as compared to theirmale counterparts. The latest statistics in the US talk of a 60% gap (i.e. 20% vs 80% female andmale enrollments respectively). Curiously enough, Puerto Rico is the one location in the Westernworld where a very rigorous 5-year engineering school attracts roughly the same female andmale enrollments to any engineering area, and significantly more females than males toIndustrial Engineering in particular. While attrition and retention issues continue to besimilar to those in other parts of the United States, the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüezstill graduates more females than males basically due to the initial enrollment numbers

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Anne M Lucietto, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Liza Ann Russell, Purdue University ; Meher Rusi Taleyarkhan, Purdue University; Shelly Tan

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Women in Engineering

and Personal NeedsAbstractProfessional women in various fields often express issues they encounter in being able to accessquality materials to support professional and personal needs, as well as work-life balance. Bystudying a variety of modes through which these materials are generally obtained, includingconference participation, informal communication via social media, and utilization of networkingopportunities, several gaps were identified in available support for professionals. Professionalsfrom various backgrounds were also surveyed in order to better identify their needs in terms ofcareer development. Distributed through a variety of social networks including Facebook,Twitter, and LinkedIn, as well as the Indiana Secretary for Career