Conference Session

Mentoring Millennial Women in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Porush, MentorNet

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

). Page 25.930.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Mentoring Millenial Women in Engineering What research tells mentors about navigating the gender and generation gapMentorNet will present its findings on new communication styles among female collegestudents who are millenials (those born after 1980) and the implications for their career-focused relationships formed over electronic media, especially with mentors.The basis for these changes, our research suggests, stem from radical shifts in cognitiveand expressive habits powered by electronic media, including the ubiquity and power ofsmartphones, the Internet, social media, online gaming, and the number of channels andlayers

Conference Session

Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manjusha Saraswathiamma, North Dakota State University; Kathy Enger, North Dakota State University; Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Achinthya Bazebaruah, North Dakota State University; Bruce Schumacher, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

advice do these females offer to girls who want to pursue a career in engineering? 2. How adaptable are females in the engineering field? • What is the best part of being an engineer? • What challenges do females in the engineering field face? • What do the career plans and ambitions of these females indicate about their adaptability in the engineering field?Coding. Data analysis for this study followed Strauss’s and Corbin’s42 outline for groundedtheory research. The researcher analyzed data by immersing herself in the profiles of femaleengineers posted on the engineergirl.org website. Then, analysis began with open coding,continued with axial coding, and concluded with selective coding

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol E. Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Alison Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

EFFORT@RIT project identified the following major barriers to the recruitmentand advancement of women STEM faculty at RIT; career navigation, climate, andflexibility/options for managing the work/life balance. To quote from Paper I [1]: “Issues related to career navigation could be caused by women’s self-agency and negotiation skills, coupled with a lack of “sponsorship” from more seasoned faculty and/or administration, hinder the success of female faculty in obtaining more advantageous starting packages, assignments, compensation, and promotion. Climate issues are exacerbated by women’s view of the workplace in personal terms, as opposed to a more male process-oriented view, meaning that issues of

Conference Session

WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raquel Perez-Castillejos, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Priya Radhi Santhanam, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

inengineering careers in our institute.The very broad literature on the gender gap affecting women in STEM fields shows that one ofthe primary reasons for the appalling statistics1,2 is the lack of a positive support system forwomen in STEM—references 3 through 7 in this paper are excellent reviews of the currentliterature relevant to our work described here.3-7 As a result, the NJIT-SWE team rapidly agreedto develop a retention program for our institute that was based on the creation of a locally rootedpositive support system for female students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).In the definition of the optimal characteristics and format of our program, we focused on fourmajor aspects: Student-led program. Numerous support programs

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University; Dongyang Deng, North Carolina A&T State University; Cheryl Monique Stevens, North Carolina A&T State University; Kayla Gore; Iyshea Borders-Taylor, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

development in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) students. In February 2019, Andrea received the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to re- search professional identity development processes in undergraduate AEC women. She has also received grants from East Coast Construction Services, Engineering Information Foundation, and the National Association of Home Builders. Dr. Ofori-Boadu was selected to participate in the 2019 QEM-NSF INCLUDES summit. In 2018, she was selected as a 2018 National Science Foundation - NC A & T ADVANCE IT Faculty Scholar. She also received the 2018 CoST Teaching Excellence Merit Award. Dr. Ofori-Boadu received both the 2017 NC A & T - CoST Rookie

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abbie B Liel P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Eva Leong

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

retention is a challenge for all students, it isparticularly apparent for women and minority students whose representation in engineeringdecreases at every education and career milestone.1,2 As a result, women and minorities stillmake up a small fraction of those earning engineering degrees. At our institution, a publicuniversity in the state of Colorado, the undergraduate population is about 20% women and 8%underrepresented minorities (compared to 20% and 11% nationally). Moreover, only about 15%of practicing civil engineers in some subdisciplines, like structural engineering, are women.3 Incontrast, women now make up over 30% of lawyers and physicians, and over 70% ofpsychologists. Since no evidence exists that significant gender or racial

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Faculty and Gender Issues

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey D. Beddoes, Oregon State University; Corey T. Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted by email at apawley@purdue.edu

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Yonemura, University of Washington ; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

howwomen consider leaving a job and in some cases, exit engineering altogether. A 'chilly' climatehas often been implicated as a primary or contributing reason for these exit decisions and hasbeen classified in the literature under such descriptors as a hostile or macho work culture,mysterious pathways to career advancement, and extreme work pressures. This study expands onthese previous studies by (a) emphasizing the engineering workplace experiences of millennialsin order to understand whether these chilly climate conditions have evolved over time or aretending to persist into the next generation; and (b) studying men as well as women to gain deeperinsight into which negative working conditions tend to occur across gender and which may begender

Conference Session

MentorNet

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Jo Wellenstein, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Susannah Sandrin, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; Karen Showers, Wisconsin Technical College System; Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board; Jennifer Chou-Green, MentorNet; Carol Muller, MentorNet; Laurie Mayberry, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ann Bloor, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Isla Yap, Maui Economic Development Board

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

importantengagement strategy to encourage women and girls to pursue STEM education and careers, otherstates can benefit from the story of the Wisconsin and Hawaii collaboration.Hawaii’s Maui Economic Development Board and Wisconsin’s Milwaukee School ofEngineering have partnered under a Women in Technology grant from the U.S. Department ofAgriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service. This grant is toencourage women and girls in rural areas to pursue STEM education and careers.Because students at the Hawaii and Wisconsin partner campuses were enthusiastic about theirMentorNet experience, the Women in Technology grant funded a two-year contract to waivemembership fees for MentorNet for all four-year and two-year University of

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine; Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Rubineau, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

in sociology at UC San Diego. Her research examines individual-level, cultural mechanisms that reproduce inequality, especially those pertaining to sex segregation in science and engineering fields. Her dissertation investigates the self-expressive edge of inequality, analyzing how gender schemas and self-conceptions influence career decisions of college students over time. She also studies the role of professional culture in wage inequality, cross-national beliefs about work time for mothers (with Maria Charles), and, in a Social Problems article, perceptions of inequality among high-level professional women (with Mary Blair-Loy). She earned Electrical Engineering and Sociology degrees from Montana State

Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Mara Wasburn, Purdue University; Valarie young, Ohio University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

1980s, Hall and Sandler3 observed that the source of women’s relative lack ofrepresentation in high-level academic and faculty positions on college campuses, was rooted intheir higher education experience. They coined the now-famous term "chilly classroom climate"to refer to the effects that male-dominated university campuses have on undergraduate women.They argued that male professors' use of sexist humor, belittling albeit bantering commentsabout women's intellectual abilities, and their use of "he" to refer to scholars in their fields canconsiderably dampen women's career aspirations. Almost twenty years later, Martin4 assertedthat the campus climate remained chilly, resulting in “an under-representation of women in thehighest ranks of the

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University; Theodore J. Heindel, Iowa State University; Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Iowa State University; Shankar Subramaniam, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

. Department of Energy’s Early Career Principal Investigator award. His areas of expertise are in theory, modeling and simulation of multiphase flows (including sprays, particle-laden flows, colloids, and granular mixtures), turbulence, mixing, and reacting flows. His current research concerns hierarchical coarse-graining ap- proaches, mesoscale models of colloidal aggregation, and direct numerical simulation of gas-solid flows. Page 25.1483.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 WiME: a departmental effort to improve recruitment, retention and engagement of women

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan J. Ely, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Paper ID #33942Impact of COVID 19 on Self-efficacy and Retention of Women EngineeringStudentsDr. Susan J. Ely, University of Southern Indiana Dr. Ely began her academic career at the community college level, after having worked as an engineer in areas of manufacturing, distribution, logistics and supply chain. Her research interests in Supply Chain Management include optimization through resiliency, lean supply chain practices and effective instruction in supply chain for career development, professional development of educators and online practices. American c

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers; Rachel M. Korn, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Joan Chalmers Williams, University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Law. She has written extensively on gender bias and women in STEM, with work published in sociology, psychology and law journals. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Examining Gender Bias in Engineering in IndiaIntroductionMany issues are influencing women’s decisions to enter into and stay in the engineeringworkforce. While much work has been done to understand how we can encourage more girls toconsider a career in engineering, there is also a great deal of attention around the structural andcultural factors that influence women once they enter the workplace. One area of study focuseson the influence of gender bias on decisions that have a direct impact on girls’ and

Conference Session

Perceptions of Women's Success in STEM

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Brunette, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; paula rayman, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; meg bond, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Lu Yuan, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

expectations, which limit women’s scientific careers; d. Discrimination, which has compromised the opportunities and needs for scientist women due to the issues related gender, race, ethnicity, etc.; e. Work family balance, which has forced scientist women to balance between work and family; f. Practices and policies, which drive the changes for women in the STEM fields; g. Job design, detailing the job content, supervisor and co-worker support, and women’s roles, etc.; h. Organizational factors, which include different kinds of organizational issues surrounding scientist women’s development; i. Quality of working life, describing job satisfaction; j. Evaluation

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aura Tuulia Paloheimo, Aalto University, School of Science and Engineering; Kaisa Pohjonen, Aalto University; Pirjo Helena Putila

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

girls enjoy studying ICT, most of them refuse to consider ICT as a career choice9-11.Earlier research12, 13 emphasizes that family connections in the field of science, technology,engineering and math (STEM) have a positive influence on women‟s career choice. Theimportance of role models is commonly noted as another positive factor in recruiting process6.It should be noted, that the countries covered in our background comparison are limited todeveloped nations, thus leaving wider cultural considerations out of the scope of this paper.In this study, we examine the pathways on which the female students land into some of themost male-dominated programs in our university. The approach for our study was toinvestigate the statistics covering the past

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi M. Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

successful career in industry, of particularinterest is how contextualized, hands-on, collaborative learning contributes to their self-confidence and persistence in engineering. While research has indicated that active learningactivities and cooperative experiences foster deeper learning and have an impact on persistencein the engineering workforce, there is limited empirical evidence of women’s professionalpersistence and self-confidence as a result of this type of educational experience. Preliminaryfindings from a validated survey instrument, the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE), theAcademic Self-Efficacy (ASE), and the Professional Self-Efficacy (PSE) are presented. Keyfindings of what these women learned and appreciated, insight into the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dawn M. Maynen, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

for women in science expanded but gendersegregation still existed. In the nineteenth century, women participated in aspects of science butmainly engaged in data-gathering rather than idea-creation [26] and were largely invisible andconcentrated in nurturing career tracks [39]. Prior to the 20th century and beyond, womensupported science but not pioneers in the field; reflective of the patriarchal society they lived in.Commonly known as biological determinism, the physical, psychological, and intellectual natureof women prohibited them from producing great science [38]. The Nineteenth and earlyTwentieth centuries posited if women were incorporated into scientific employment, they weresegregated in it with stereotypes of appropriate sex roles

Conference Session

The Academic Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Young, Syracuse University; John Tillotson, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

AC 2008-1890: NEGOTIATING THE PATH TO THE PROFESSORIATE: A STUDYOF FACULTY PERSPECTIVES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGMonica Young, Syracuse UniversityJohn Tillotson, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Page 13.924.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Negotiating the Path to the Professoriate: A Study of Faculty Perspectives in Mechanical EngineeringAbstractThis qualitative study investigated the factors that support or impede women’s interest andpersistence in the field of mechanical engineering and how these experiences influence theirdecision to complete a doctoral program and advance on to a career in academia. This studyexamined key variables

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica J. Lofton, University of Evansville

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

BackgroundIn 1992, several faculty members from the University of Evansville (UE), a small, private,master's-granting institution in the Midwest, were discussing methods to increase enrollment.The lack of female representation in engineering and computer science programs was a primaryconcern, prompting the idea of offering a summer program targeting women in engineering. 25years later, the summer program has evolved from a single week-long residential camp for highschool girls to include a separate 3-5 day residential camp for middle school girls, and a 5-dayday camp for middle school boys.The program addresses the critical need to help young women overcome cultural stereotypes andprepare for careers in engineering and computer science. The National

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

building/development in low-income urban and first-ring suburban en- vironments, supporting low-income students in accessing quality educational opportunities and experi- ences, and providing pathways and supports for low-income students and other underrepresented groups to pursue STEM-related careers. Her dissertation study is focused on the role that a community-based organization plays in connecting recent immigrant families living in low-income environments with the schools their children attend. She has worked as a Research Assistant and an Independent Research Con- sultant on a variety of projects, including those focused on educational leadership, STEM education, and academic and social supports for disadvantaged

Conference Session

Potpourri Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Buck, Jackson State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Educational institutions are increasing their efforts to integrate females into non-traditional technical programs. Adjustments, such as curriculum and recruitment andretentions efforts, are being made to ensure that females feel welcome and a part of theprogram’s standard regimen. Industrial Technology stands at the vanguard of successfulparadigms that prepare females in such non-traditional areas as managerial and technicaldegree programs. Marshall (2000)26 contended that the common goals of IndustrialTechnology programs are to increase enrollments and to offer a curriculum designed toprepare students for management and technical careers. O’Meara & Carmichael (2004)34added that emphasis should be placed on both recruitment and retention efforts

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Technical Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Alberto Acuna, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Joseph E Michaelis, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Joshua Daniel Roth, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Joseph Towles, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Wisconsin–Madison in 2015.Mr. Joseph E Michaelis, University of Wisconsin - Madison Joseph E Michaelis is a Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology in the Learning Sciences area at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research involves studying interest in STEM education, focusing on the impact of learning environments, feedback, and influence of social constructs and identities. This research includes developing inclusive learning environments that promote interest in pursuing STEM fields as a career to a broad range of students.Dr. Joshua Daniel Roth, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDr. Joseph Towles, University of Wisconsin, Madison Joseph Towles is a lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University; Doreen Aveni, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

fall, students take anintroductory freshman seminar geared specifically for WISE Honors students to get acclimatedto the rigors of college academic work. In spring of the first year, students take a seminar course,Opportunities in STEM and Beyond, which includes guest lecturers to introduce students to thebreadth of STEM research and discovery. Learning objectives include understanding thecollaborative, interdisciplinary nature of STEM and its worldwide relevance.Second year. The sophomore year expands on career and research and also emphasizesacademics. Society and Gender in STEM explores how gender impacts STEM and uncoversstereotypes and sources of underrepresentation in in the field. Research and Discovery in STEMfosters student capacity

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Keathly, University of North Texas; Robert Akl, University of North Texas; Ryan Garlick, University of North Texas

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

reviews? • What impact did the camp activities have on the performance of the participants as they return to their secondary school, form both the student and parent perspectives? • What impact did the camp activities have on the higher education and career plans of the participants? • What were the demographic characteristics of students enrolled in each type of activity and how do they compare with demographic characteristics of students in the department as a whole?Specific Evaluation ResultsGeneral TrendsOverall these programs coincided with a rise in our new student and continuing studentpopulations as compared from Fall 2004 thru Fall 2006, as indicated in Table 1, as well as aconcurrent rise in the

Conference Session

WIED: Medley

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny, King Saud University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

-representation is analyzed by researchers11 of female education in Saudi Arabia and the SaudiMOHE12 as pertaining to the “historical socio-economic” factors11, higher education policies,stereotyping, gender-related household responsibilities, career-related conditions, politics, andthe “role of researchers in society”12 in Saudi Arabia . Such gap is also described as accountingfor the near non-availability of engineering-related careers for females, mostly due to thecommon notion that complete segregation is required between males and females in such a male-dominated workplace. Until today, such factors force many parents who are open or enthusiasticto their daughters acquiring degrees or jobs in various engineering fields to mainly having toresort to

Conference Session

From Industry to the Academy - Female Faculty Boundary Spanners Offering and Gaining Perspective

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Diana Bairaktarova, The University of Oklahoma; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, andor research-based Ph.D. In addition, FOP often come with rich personal connections andexternal contacts that would take years to develop organically from inside an academicinstitution. This panel will engage a variety of “boundary spanning” faculty from a range ofinstitutions for a lively panel discussion surrounding topics such as: common attributes andassignments associated with the FOP role; professional decisions around joining the academiccommunity; first impressions and experiences in the FOP role; opportunities and benefits to non-FOP faculty colleagues and institutions; considerations for FOP as a career pathway; and lessonslearned/advice for individuals and institutions considering FOP faculty roles, to name a few. Anopen

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gretchen A. Dietz, University of Florida; Kayla Julianna Kummerlen, The University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

to emphasize the differences between the academicand professional worlds, allowing students to be more prepared for life after graduation [21].One approach to combatting the negative impact of workplace culture is through mentorship.Professional engineer Kim Parker Brown has said that “One cannot overestimate the importanceof having someone who believes in you and is willing to act as a mentor” [9, p. 49]. Mentors canhelp a mentee transition into the professional workforce by providing guidance and alleviatingstress, especially in the beginnings of a career [10]. For women in STEM, having a mentor of thesame gender has been found to be particularly effective [8]. Hernandez [8] concluded that havinga mentor of the same gender makes it more

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University; Sue Guenter-Schlesinger, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

- portunity and Affirmative Action at Utah State University. She also held an adjunct position at USU in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology. After earning her B.A. and M.A. in English and her Ph.D. in higher education from the University of California, Los Angeles, Guenter-Schlesinger began her career with the University of Maryland’s European Division and the U.S. Army Research In- stitute. She then served as Director for the U.S. Army’s Equal Opportunity Program in the European Command, located in Heidelberg, Germany. In her current role, Guenter-Schlesinger is Chief Advisor to Western’s President and Provost on equal opportunity and employment diversity issues. Her current re- sponsibilities

Conference Session

An International Perspective

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hasmik Gharibyan, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

AC 2007-751: GENDER GAP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: STUDYING ITSABSENCE IN ONE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICHasmik Gharibyan, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Hasmik Gharibyan is a Full Professor in the Computer Science department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The first 15 years of her career (1981-1996) she held faculty positions in the Applied Mathematics and Informatics department at Yerevan State University, Republic of Armenia (USSR). Then she moved to San Luis Obispo, USA, and in 1998 joined the faculty of the Computer Science department at Cal Poly. Dr. Gharibyan teaches undergrad and grad courses, including such courses as Theory of Computing, Data