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

of twenty-two African American women engineering faculty was held to discuss the challenges andbarriers that affect the tenure and promotion process. The discussion led to the identification ofsix significant factors affecting successful attainment of tenure for Black women faculty inparticular. The most important factor identified by the senior faculty within the group waseffective mentoring. Other factors included support of the home department, community support,and existing laboratory infrastructure. While there were no real surprises from this survey, thelack of resources to follow-up with the group to effect change caused this initiative to go intohibernation. (It should be noted that Dr. Mead was a member of the Leadership Task Force

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Skaggs, American University in Cairo

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Women in Engineering

latest technology with new knowledge and design.7 Technology is chosenand mediated by those in social power and domination, which has traditionally been anexclusively male domain.8 This domination has led to a monopoly of male engineers in controlof the technological knowledge and its power upon society. Male dominance in technology andengineering has rendered gender invisible in the science of design and technology. There is adanger in this rendering as it assumes gender as being non-relevant within the social creation oftechnology. Yet, “universities still tend to reproduce this professional engineering culture and thecorresponding social habit in favor of men” 9 resulting in research and design laboratories asprimarily male dominated spaces

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

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Portia Sabin, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

Conference Session

WIED: Medley

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; Helene Finger P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Alana Christine Snelling

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Women in Engineering