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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Quiles-Ramos, Virginia Tech; Ellen K. Foster, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Donna M Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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thefield strives, and whose concerns are addressed and presented. Grounding in feminist theory helpsto work a basis that organizations can be and are cultural - a notion many organizational scholarsnote as an integral force for understanding change (Schein, 1990). It provides the researchers andthe research itself the ability to be reflexive while paying critical attention with regard to genderand other oppressive intersections as they arise in analysis. As organizational dynamics unfoldlayers of written and unwritten regulations eroding the engineering education profession, whichscaffold gender neutral engineering practices, power is enacted and must not only beacknowledged but addressed. These power relations within organizations influence all

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Women in Engineering Division: Pre-college Student Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynsey Mitchell Kissane, Ryerson University; Liping Fang, Ryerson University ; Ruth Jean Silver, Groundswell Projects

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TrainingThirty-eight girls were initially deemed able, in terms of both capacity and interest, to participatein the project. They were offered a letter of employment stipulating 2.5 hours per week over tenweeks, for a total of $250. (While 38 girls signed a contract, two were released from the projectafter the first week for failing to submit their assignments.)The YTT members were trained in the basics of qualitative research and practical interviewskills. They were then asked to place themselves in one of four themes called Lightning, Gears,Cubes, or Droplets, respectively, according to their interests: 1. Lightning: How do girls’ feelings about femininity impact decisions they make about their future? (9 members) 2. Gears: How do girls

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); DeLois Kijana Crawford, Rochester Institute of Technology (GCCIS)

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Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology department at RIT. She serves as the Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty and is co-PI for RIT’s NSF ADVANCE project. Her research interests include: characterization of biodegradable plastics and environmental consideration in materials selection for production design, the impact of technology paired with active learning pedagogies on student learning, and effective strategies for increasing gender diversity in STEM disciplines.Prof. Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Maureen Valentine, P.E., has been a faculty member at RIT for more than 23 years. She held the position of Department Chair for the Department of Civil Engineering

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Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

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men, such as heavy equipmentthat many women couldn’t move without assistance, and made recommendations to be moreinclusive in designing research and classroom experiences. They made note of toxic personalitiesthat contributed to chilly climates within certain programs or in certain subsets of those programs.They also heard at least one serious example of gender-based discrimination toward a professorthat severely impacted the opportunities for female students in the department and, consequently,required the institution involved to investigate thoroughly and take necessary correctiveaction.17,18,19,20,21NASA grouped together its analyses of family-friendly policies, sexual harassment and safety, thusanalyzing in a broad way the ancillary, but

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teresa J. Cutright, University of Akron; Lakiesha N. Williams, Mississippi State University; Linda T Coats; Debora F Rodrigues, University of Houston (CoE); Judit Eva Puskas; Frank "Fritz" J Claydon, University of Houston (CoE)

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intellectualworks: publishing 101; Service: expectations as a junior faculty; What is promotion and tenureand how do I get there? Interactive activities, such as a small case study were included as well.        Session 3: Topic: Time ManagementOne of the biggest obstacles facing a new researcher or academic is insufficient time to geteverything done. There are multiple approaches to managing time with the best approach being Page 26.565.4different for each participant. This session provided examples and discussions as to how thesession facilitator's have made it. Topics included: How to balance graduate courses, TAassignments and thesis

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lisa R. Volpatti, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kara Rodby, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Gurleen Kaur Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bianca Kaushal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Kelley Marie Adams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Paula T. Hammond, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sarah Rankin

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in Chemical Engineering organization at MIT and is a NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Whitaker International Fellow, and an MIT Chemical Engineering Communication Lab Fellow.Kara Rodby, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kara Rodby is a third year PhD student in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kara is a member of the Brushett Lab, where she researches system-level, techno-economic analysis and design of redox flow batteries for grid applications. Kara is a co-founder of the Graduate Women in Chemical Engineering group at MIT.Gurleen Kaur Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gurleen Kaur Singh is an Education and

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An International Perspective

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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. These statistics translate in that at theUPRM only the top tier of high school graduates is granted admission in engineering every year.Regarding economic status of students, around twenty percent of the student body in the collegeof engineering reported family income in the highest bracket while no less than forty five percent(45%) could be categorized by income in the low brackets of society9, 10.II. MethodologyFocus groups have been used in the past to evaluate engineering programs and to elicit studentcharacteristics [e.g. 11,]. The design of the study was based in the seminal work of RichardKrueger’s book, Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research12. Design, execution,and analysis of the study took place over one academic (fall

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Undergraduate Recruitment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Abstract The low recruitment and high attrition rate of women in engineering is well documented.Women account for only twenty percent of the entering class cohort, and drop out at a rate tenpercent higher than their male counterparts.1 Although in the past twenty years women havemade inroads into many fields that were male-dominated, women have made little or no progressin engineering.1 This paper has three goals. First, this paper will review existing literature that identifiescurrent and alternative theories about why engineering programs do not retain female students.Second, this paper will synthesize motivational psychology research into a best-practice modelfor engineering programs. Last, we hypothesize that photovoltaic

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Women in Engineering Division: Curricular Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

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Paper ID #12714Theorizing can contribute to marginalized students’ agency in engineeringpersistence.Mr. Stephen Douglas Secules, University of Maryland, College Park Stephen is an Education PhD student at UMCP, researching engineering education. He has a prior aca- demic and professional background in engineering, having worked as an engineer and project manager in building acoustics consulting firms for 5 years prior to becoming an educational researcher. His research interests include socio-cultural dimensions of engineering classrooms.Dr. Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park Ayush Gupta is Research

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cate Samuelson, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

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different major.IntroductionThere is strong evidence of student flexibility and vacillation around career options post-graduation from college. Specifically, a single interaction or experience (such as a co-op) cansometimes mean the difference between taking a job after graduation in engineering or anotherfield.1 Further, research suggests that cooperative education and internships result in increasedsocial and cultural capital of those who participate, which can contribute to their ability to secureemployment after graduation.2 Student perceptions of the engineering field, which can be shapedby undergraduate work experiences, can also impact persistence in engineering programs.3-7While there is a growing literature examining the relationship

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Women in Engineering Division: Pre-college Student Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Gwen Blosser, Louisiana State University

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situation, coupled with the growing demand for a technically skilledlabor force, business leaders, policymakers, educational institutions, and activists haveresponded by crafting numerous outreach campaigns to appeal to women to becomeengineers. For the most part, there has been a tendency to see any effort to recruit womento engineering as positive, with little consideration given to the manner in which suchcampaigns are designed to achieve their goals. In this paper, I offer a critical examinationof three prominent outreach strategies and how they present ideas about how best toengage women in engineering. I argue that the messaging in all of these programscharacterizes women as a homogenous entity, without considering questions of

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Christine Delahanty, Bucks County Community College ; Jason Silverman, Drexel University

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better understanding of therelationship between CSE, beliefs about creativity, and the lived experiences of undergraduatewomen engineering majors will lead to strategies for educational reform that will benefit allstudents, increase pathways for female students into the engineering major, and contribute to thesuccess of women engineering. Methodology and Instrument A sequential explanatory mixed methods design was used for this study [30]. This two-phase methodology was best suited to this research because synthesis of the quantitative surveywith the themes discovered from the qualitative data analysis lead to answers to the researchquestions. In this sequential explanatory design, the quantitative survey

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Paper ID #9573Does Engineering Attract or Repel Female Students Who Passionately Wantto Help People?Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architec- tural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been on the faculty since 1996. She serves as the ABET Assessment Coordinator for the Department. Professor Bielefeldt teaches introduc- tory courses for first year engineering students, senior capstone design, and environmental engineering specialty courses. She conducts engineering education

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 9

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lisa Abrams, Ohio State University; Adithya Jayakumar, Ohio State University; Lucille Sheppard, Ohio State University; Amy Kramer P.E., Ohio State University; Toni M. Calbert, Ohio State University

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student studying Industrial and Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University. In addition to working on undergraduate research in the Department of Engineering Education she is an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for the Fundamentals of Engineering program for first-year engineering students.Amy Kramer P.E., Ohio State University Amy Kramer is a graduate student and research associate at The Ohio State University in the Engineering Education Department. She earned a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State Univer- sity in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Most recently she worked as a structural engineering consultant in Columbus, OH where she specialized in the design of reinforced concrete and steel

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The Pipeline

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tania Monterastelli, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Julia Ross, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

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AC 2008-1006: HIGH SCHOOL OUTREACH PROGRAM: ATTRACTING YOUNGLADIES WITH "ENGINEERING IN HEALTH CARE"Tania Monterastelli, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Tania Monterastelli graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2008 with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi. She has been working on the YESS program for the last two years. In July 2008 she will begin her career with Exxon-Mobile Corporation.Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Taryn Bayles is a Professor of the Practice of Chemical Engineering in the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at UMBC, where she incorporates her

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Amrita Dhakal Ghimire, Mississippi State University; Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State University; Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University

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for women than men [8].Since 2011, researchers at our institution have been studying the impact of gender-specificinterventions in computing and cybersecurity on the self-efficacy of girls and women incomputing. Mississippi State University’s (MSU) Bulldog Bytes K-12 computing andcybersecurity outreach program has engaged over 1000 informal computer science learners since2013 [4,9,10,11]. With increasing gaps between the number of computer science graduates and thenumber of unfilled jobs in computing, it is imperative that we discover opportunities for increasingentry and retention of persons traditionally underrepresented on computing pathways.For this project, the authors considered best practices from Bulldog Bytes

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith J. Bowman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Sue Rosser, California State University System, Office of the Chancellor

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a visiting professor and received Alexander von Humboldt stipends for research at the Technical Uni- versity of Darmstadt, Germany in 1996 and 2002 and he served as a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia in 2003. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and has held several division and society-wide positions. Awards at Purdue University include receiving the MSE Best Teaching Award and Purdue’s highest teaching award, the Charles Murphy Undergraduate Teaching Award. Professor Bowman’s name is also listed in the Purdue Book of Great Teachers. In 2007, he received the Purdue College of Engineering Mentoring Award and he became the first Professor of Engineering

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henriette D. Burns, Washington State University, Vancouver; Sean Palmer Marquardt Rice, Washington State University, Vancouver

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unusual in that it would logically follow that boys’ interestswould be less affected by their endorsement of girls in a particular field. In line with thisassumption, our results also suggest that boys have higher levels of interest in mathematics andtechnology, while endorsement does not play a role in this relationship. Why these relationshipsexist is conjecture. However, one of our researchers suggests boys may be playing a protectiverole over girls who like mathematics, science and STEM. The reasons for these results are worthfurther study since they may have an impact on how to create and maintain not only diversity,but inclusivity, maintaining both individuality and a socio-cultural collaborative team [53].Although most of us respond with

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maral Kargarmoakhar, Florida International University; Monique S. Ross, Florida International University

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Transformation Institute, earned a doctoral degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, eleven years of experience in industry as a software engineer. Her research focus is on broadening participation in engineering and computing through the exploration of: 1) race, gender, and identity and 2) computer science education research in order to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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graduate womenengineers. Regardless of the reason, a comprehensive study into the sociological, cultural andpsychological reasons for the lack of persistence has not been completed. The field has been leftwith an incomplete scope that has yet to provide understanding of the underlying issues or theculture of engineering programs.Once the experience of women in undergraduate engineering programs is more understood,universities and the field can make steps to alleviate the discrepancy in attainment rates betweenmen and women and broaden participation. The use of a critical lens and qualitativemethodology will allow for a basis of understanding from which leaders in the field can examinetheir own practice, and authentic, deep, meaningful discussion

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WIED: Medley

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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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, and creatively and energetically working for our dreams of what could be”to produce both more socially responsible engineering and, potentially, increase the recruitmentand retention of female students.18 Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have recently Page 24.1375.8reported the results of a study in which female engineering graduates between 1974-2011reported greater long-term impacts of project-based learning on their worldviews and personaland professional impacts than males in this cohort.19 In their discussion section, authors Vaz, etal (2013) indicate that these results “are consistent with Busch-Vishniak and Jarosz’s

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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

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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 engineers’ perceptions and experiences has yieldedvaluable data that naturally calls for analyses involving: (a) examinations of, and, (b) points ofcomparison with the dominant male experience with tertiary education and professionalization inengineering disciplines. Yet, few recent studies have examined or sought to generate data withthe objective of providing points of comparison between male and female engineers’ mentoringand career socialization discourses or focused analyses of male engineers’ discourses. We reporton results from the second leg of a two-part research study designed to address this gap incomparative gender analyses of mentoring and career socialization discourses. The presentanalysis is motivated in part by results