Faculty Associate to the Provost for Female Faculty and serves as the co-chair on the President’s Commission on Women. She began her academic career as an Assistant Professor at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, being the first woman civilian faculty member in her department. Margaret maintains a research program in the area of advanced thermodynamic analyses and health monitoring of energy intensive systems.Carol Burger, Virginia Tech Carol Burger is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. She served as Senior Program Director, Program for Women and Girls, HRD Division at NSF in 1996. She teaches Introduction to Women’s
work and to add two additional non- metropolitancommunity colleges to the mix. This program is called METSTEP. Based on a successful thirdyear review, this grant is for five years and also supports the METS Center, as well as some $4Kscholarships for students from the five targeted schools and additional $300 scholarships fortransfer students who register, attend, and do the assignments on time for a one credit AcademicSuccess Class. Much of this work has already been documented. 3-9 . The support for engineeringtransfer students at ASU is further enhanced through an S-STEM Academic Success Program(NSF grant # 0728695).II. Community College Visits by ASUThere is nothing more effective than a meeting face to face when a university person wants
opportunities in which to remove barriers for womenwithin the engineering and computing discipline by understanding their experiences and participation in the fields.I. INTRODUCTION Recent reports from the National Science Foundation (NSF) have indicated that while the number of women in Science and Engineering (S&E) related jobs continue to grow, the group remains underrepresented in the S&E workforce relative to their overall presence in the population [1]. The lack of women in STEM transcends traditional narratives on the importance of broadening participation and increasing STEM diversity because of the nuanced issues women face in a male dominated field. Issues concerning women feeling unwelcomed in STEM begin at the academic level and
accurately predict overall graduation rates 15 .A complete major pathway was created for each participant that included up to three prospectivemajors indicated in August of their first-year, the one preferred major indicated in December oftheir first-year, their subsequent declared major(s) as they progressed through the institution, andtheir earned bachelor’s degree (Figure 1). Major pathways of participants were investigated toidentify discernible trends or patterns in the data.Figure 1: Timeline of Major Pathway data collection points. Students were able to list up to threeperspective majors in August and one preferred major in December.ResultsThere were a total of 776 participants over the five cohorts, 693 (89.3%) of whom graduated with
). Page 14.1368.31 Drs. Elizabeth G. Creamer, Peggy S. Meszaros, and Carol J. Burger, all of Virginia Tech, served asprincipal investigators on the grant.While the original sample was more balanced, loss of institutions agreeing to participate in thestudy between the time the grant proposal was written and the year of implementation of thedata collection, resulted in 5 high and 3 low enrolling institutions in the final sample.Data collection procedures occurred in two phases within a six-month window. During the firstphase, an institutional liaison identified by the dean of the college/school of engineering at eachsite worked with one of the principal investigators to negotiate human subjects clearance and toprovide contact information for all
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to write this off as an historical relic, statements such as these have gone un-critiqued in the last 20 years. It should also be noted that another kind of study exists: thosethat compare and contrast male and female department heads or examine women in academicleadership positions12,64,68-71. While presenting another important approach to studyingrelationships between gender and department heads, such studies are not central to theanalysis at hand.Fourth, a discourse of fairness permeates the literature. As the following quotationsdemonstrate, many publications emphasize that the head has an obligation to act ‘fairly’ andthat (s)he will be most successful if (s)he makes ‘fair’ decisions. Several of the numerousexamples include
information science; her industry experience includes systems analysis and cognitive science applications. She is one of the Principal Investigators on two NSF S-STEM and one NSF ADVANCE-PAID grants. With a life-long interest in technology and its potential for enhancing human capabilities, her research includes advances in analytics, motivated system energetics, and other topics relative to knowledge-intensive systems.Dr. Karinna M Vernaza, Gannon University Dr. Karinna Vernaza joined Gannon University in 2003, and she is currently a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Business. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University
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the NSF-funded S- STEM program at UCF entitled the ”Young Entrepreneur and Scholar(YES) Scholarship Program” as well as the NSF-funded STEP program entitled ”EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence.” Dr. Young’s interests are in improving STEM education.Dr. Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida Michael Georgiopoulos received the Diploma in EE from the National Technical University in Athens, his MS degree and Ph.D. degree in EE from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, in 1981, 1983 and 1986, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Department of EECS at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL. From September 2011 to June 2012 he served as the Interim
outreach providedvia financial assistance and outreach that costs parents and/or students a significant amount ofmoney.Bibliography1. Artis, S., Friedman, R., & LaRue, G. (2010). Strengthening the engineering pipeline one field and one woman at a time: The role of single-discipline, single-sex engineering camps in the U.S. Proceedings from the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Louisville, KY: ASEE.2. AWE, Assessing Women and Men in Engineering Project. (2012). Retrieved from https://www.engr.psu.edu/awe/default.aspx.3. Baxter, K. B. (2010). Women in science and engineering: Thriving or surviving? (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Southern California
response x What did you enjoy most about this trip? Categorical x Explain the aspect(s) you enjoyed most Free response x Rate experiences for (1) educational benefit and Likert x (2) team building / networking: Transportation Friday evening activities Ski lift tour Snow making tour Open ski time Saturday evening events Rate Trip overall Likert x Final Comments Free response xResults / DiscussionThe pre and post surveys reveal that the participants on the field trip gained both educational andteam
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. Students were going to 6th grade (40.2%), 7th grade (31.5%), 8th grade (28.3%) duringthe summer. Additionally, the researchers randomly selected one or two students from eachgroup/table in camp 1 to 4. A total of 22 students presented their groups/tables to conduct in-depth interviews with us on the last day of each camp. Of the 22 interviewees, six were fromcamp 1, seven were from camp 2, five were from camp 3, and four were from camp 4. Allstudents and their guardians were required to sign consent letters.Instruments The instrument used in this study was the Middle/High School Student Attitudes towardSTEM (S-STEM) survey. This instrument was a useful tool in the evaluations of the university’soutreach projects and K-12 STEM initiative [46
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The STEM Gender Gap: An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Women in Engineering Camps Author Name(s) Malle Schilling and Dr. Margaret Pinnell School of Engineering University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio 45469 Email: schillingm3@udayton.eduAbstractIn the present day, it is not uncommon for there to be a class full of engineering students withvery few women in the room. To combat this lack of gender diversity, colleges and universitieshave employed outreach programs and developed summer engagement opportunities that allowwomen to explore engineering before they graduate high school. As
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