thatincorporates personal, private, public and professional identities (Cruess et al., 2015; Piaget &Inhelder, 1969; Kohlberg, 1984; & Kegan, 1982). The complex identity formed as individualsprogress from infancy into adulthood is represented by individual, relational, and collectivedomains (Vignoles, Schwartz, & Luyckx, 2011). The individual domain focuses on personalcharacteristics and beliefs, the relational refers to influence from significant individuals likefamily and friends, and the collective domain reflects on the impact of social groups to which anindividual belongs (Cruess et al., 2015).Drawing from these theoretical foundations, it can be inferred that some undergraduate AECwomen may begin their nascent AEC-PID process even before
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researchers.One area in which the REU needs improvement is in recruiting female faculty to work withstudents. There are not many women faculty currently collaborating on the UVa REU (see Table3). Progress in this area is mitigated by the lack of women faculty currently part of the UVaEngineering faculty. This is also reflective of the low proportion of women in Engineeringnationwide. However, female faculty serve as important role models for the participants and it ishelpful to the male as well as the female participants to see a gender balance among theirmentors. The most important aim regarding the faculty remains to have them serve as supportivementors for the participants, regardless of gender or ethnicity, since “faculty can discouragewomen with
an opportunity to get their food, get settled, and socialize/network with other attendees. Thelast half of the session is used to give a presentation on a professional development topic(leadership, communication, time management, lab management, worklife balance, negotiation,networking) or gender issue (stereotype threat, student-incivility, implicit bias). Presentationsinclude hands-on activities, such as surveys, and Q&A, where participants are encouraged tocontribute, share, and reflect. All presentations are posted on the program website. Additionalinformation is available from resources in the Office for Women in Engineering Library (alsocatalogued on the program website) which participants can check out for free. A
– related career Wanted to be something else when I grew up, but now I wanted to work with programming. Theme 2: student reflection The program explained to me different career choices & helped me think about which I liked. Not to be afraid about technology. Computer science was something I didn’t even consider I didn’t think I would like programming I It was an inspiring program, although I would still like to be a marine biologist(9) Just for research purpose, please tell us about yourself: Ethnicity n = 14 African American/Black 3 Asian/Pacific Islander 5
Literature: Like most initiatives to address the underrepresentation of women and minorities in STEM, the advocacy tips are drawn from a rich body of literature and evidence-‐based experiences. In a recent essay, Acker [1] reflects on 30 years of theorizing and researching gendered substructures enacted in organizations and, while recognizing that recent research provides clearer understandings of why women enter and/or remain in academia, also acknowledges that “a number of issues about how to think about gender inequalities remain unresolved” (pg. 214). Acker further notes that white men generally dominate top organizational positions and that
engineering programs areuniquely positioned to incorporate these recommendations. This material is based upon work primarily supported by the Engineering ResearchCenter Program of the National Science Foundation and the Office of Energy Efficiency andRenewable Energy of the Department of Energy under NSF Cooperative Agreement No.EEC‐1041895. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National ScienceFoundation or Department of Energy. Page 25.303.2 Changing the Face of Engineering: How Photovoltaic
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Commitment ChartEnrollment and Retention DataOne of the byproducts of a successful SWE section is the effect it can have on femalestudent enrollment and retention. Data was collected from CSM Registrar’s Officereports and the national SWE organization to see if there was any correlation betweenthese factors. Chart 1 shows how female student undergraduate and total enrollmentshave steadily increased from 1992 to 2007. Undergraduate female students increasedfrom 445 in 1992 to 719 in 2007 and total female enrollment increased from 620 to 947 Page 13.1260.8during the same time period.Female graduate student enrollment, however, does not reflect
controls).Indicators of Increased Overall Retention and Advancement of Women Faculty in Senior andLeadership Ranks: • Distribution of science and engineering faculty. • Number of men and women tenured and tenure-track faculty by department, rank and gender. • Number of non-tenured men and women faculty (e.g., Instructional, Research, Clinical, Postdoc.). • Distribution of science and engineering faculty in leadership positions in the institution. • Proportion of STEM women and underrepresented faculty of color in leadership positions.Many of these measures are institution wide and may not necessarily reflect the progress of asingle department.SummaryThe MSE department at Iowa State University is participating in
school system with much diversity, andthis diversity was reflected in the day camp program participation. The demographicbreakdown of the 24 students participating in the inaugural camp was 50% Caucasian, 42%Hispanic and 8% African American.The camp was staffed for a student-mentor ratio over 4:1, ensuring an enjoyable and safeexperience plus the ability to provide a challenging curriculum. The mentoring team consistedof two certified Project Lead the Way (PLTW) instructors, two female SHS Pre-engineeringstudents, one UA faculty member, and two female UA undergraduate engineering students. Allmentors were in the classroom every day. Women undergraduate engineering students whoparticipate in outreach activities show tremendous interest in helping
Program directors developed a mail-out questionnaire which wassent to all participants who could be conceivably deemed college graduates. There were 114from the program identified as such. Of this number, nearly 100 mailings successfully reachedtheir intended address. The response rate (a respectable one-third) reflected 31 respondents out of96 confirmed contacts.The questionnaire mailed to all of the participants is shown in Figure 1. Page 13.1229.7Figure 1-Sample of 2007 FIRSTE Program SurveyDear FIRSTE Program Participate,Some years ago, you were selected to attend the Females Interested in Reaching for Science,Technology and Engineering
Foundation Grant No. REC-0337629 (now DRL- 0729596) and EEC-0646441, funding the Multiple-Institution Database forInvestigating Engineering Longitudinal Development (MIDFIELD, a collaboration of ninepartner universities) and a collaborative NSF Gender in Science and Engineering Research Grant(0734085 & 0734062). The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not Page 14.675.8necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. 6References1 Astin, A. W., and Astin, H. S., (1992) Undergraduate science education
% of the female students in the Engineering Technology departments. It wasfound they are most interested in participating in the following types of activities: havingquarterly departmental luncheons or socials (88%), developing a Girl Scout Badge kit (72%),having a mentor in industry (69%) and touring local companies (66%). At the social where thesurvey was presented, a faculty member spoke to the students about developing a Girl Scoutbadge workshop. Because the Girl Scout program was discussed, a higher interest level in thisoutreach activity was indicated versus other outreach activities on the survey (tutoring and teamprojects with local schools). Through the survey, the students expressed the need for programsthat reflect what women want
; andmatched samples of men. 13 They found negative experiences in SME classes as a majorcontributor to discouraging the continuation in SME majors. Characteristics such as poorteaching or organization of material, hard or confusing material, loss of confidence inability to do science, cut-throat competition in assessment systems or “weed out”philosophies, dull subject matter, and grading systems that did not reflect what studentsfelt they had accomplished were reasons given by females for leaving SME majors. Thecompetitive atmosphere, the grading system, and the dullness of subject matter was muchless troubling for males in the same study. These findings illustrate discouraging factorsfor retention related to classroom climate and activities and
to faculty. For others, the policy information isseen as a recruiting tool, making the guidebook useful only during searches. A couple chairsnoted that the policy synopsis for their campus did not reflect practice, making them aware of theneed to have the policy information updated online. The guidebook is seen by a few chairs as aresource only for policy makers, and they have given it to their dean, provost, or chancellor or totheir ADVANCE department or Women’s Committee. The guidebook has been useful tocampuses interested in benchmarking themselves by what family-friendly policies their peerinstitutions offer. Similarly, for campuses in the process of modifying existing or adopting newfamily-friendly policies, the guidebook has provided
gender as a predictor of the level-1 intercepts andslopes.MeasuresStudents participated in five online surveys throughout the fall semester. The first survey usedcomplete scales for all measures. The second, third, and fourth surveys contained short versionsof each scale. The fifth survey was comprised of short scales for the mindset measures and acomplete scale for engineering identity. Only the means of the short scales were used in theseanalyses.To measure engineering identity, items from Chemers’ science identity survey were adapted toengineers (Chemers et. al., 2010; Estrada et. al., 2011). The engineering identity measurecontained items such as, “Being an engineer is an important reflection of who I am.” Responsesranged from a scale of 1
collected from the participants’ teacher for a response rate of over 50%.Upon confirmation that both the participant and the participants’ parents had signed the letter ofconsent, the letter was removed from the responses to anonymize the data.Data AnalysisDespite underrepresentation of females in the survey population, over 50% of the participantsidentified as female. This was ideal for studying gendered perceptions, but may reflect somegendered perceptions of the importance of this area of research.In this work two questions of the survey will be analysed, those where students were asked torate the skill set of a typical engineer, and then rate themselves in those same skills. The 13 skillsevaluated are found in Table 2. Of the 27 respondents two
university with a private charter located on the eastcoast. Data were collected via a faculty climate survey in spring 2014. The survey was developedusing faculty climate surveys tested and implemented at the University of Wisconsin-Madisonand at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Some questions were taken directly from Bilimoria,et al.’s survey to reproduce their work with a high degree of fidelity. Finally, questions wereadded and refined to reflect the specific climate and history at our institution.The original sample consisted of 644 full-time faculty members on and off the tenure track.Because the professional experiences of faculty off the tenure track vary considerably withcollege and workload assignment, we limited our final sample to
engineering bachelor’s degrees. However, while women receive over halfof bachelor’s degrees awarded in the biological sciences, they receive far fewer in the computersciences (17.9%) and engineering (19.3%). This trend reflects upon the workplace in these fieldswith women making up only 29% of the science and engineering workforce, with relatively lowshares in engineering, around 15%. The need for more educational opportunities for femalestudents in fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is present andthere is a need for programs to help correct this trend8.There are currently some STEM outreach programs in place within the United States. The UnitedStates Naval Academy (USNA) is the host of a STEM Summer Camp program. The
noticed a higher level of responsibility entrusted to male students thanto female students. These hostile experiences often caused female students to question if theywould ever be taken seriously in the workforce or valued as an engineer. When reflecting ontheir working experiences, these women identified moments of extreme self-doubt that stand insharp contrast to the growing confidence and career satisfaction their male peers recounted (Case& Jawitz, 2004; Seron et al., 2016).It is important to note that while some accounts of this mistreatment in the workplace occurred instudies during the early 2000s, two were published in 2016, indicating this culture is consistentthroughout time and still relevant to women in engineering today
interaction was found to be significant (p =0.001). A histogram showing the disagreement level compared to the fraction of participants foreach online and face-to-face medium is shown in Figure 2.Importantly, we do not expect that student teams assigned to meet online actually experiencedhigher levels of disagreement; instead, we believe that this difference reflects students’ ability tofeel safe expressing disagreement. The lowered social presence of the online chat allowedstudents to more readily express their possible disagreements with one another. Whiledisagreement was a small portion of the overall conversation, it can have a large impact on theoverall discussion.One student, who was in the face-to-face condition, indicated that it was
accounting for all four experience types,ResultsChi Squared Tests Our analysis found that a number of relationships were statistically significant atconventional levels, reflecting some of the findings in the existing literature, and providing newavenues for exploration that the literature has not yet addressed. First, as we explored various inquiry-based experiences for STEM majors, we found thatstudents who had an influential pre-college independent inquiry experience in STEM were morelikely to have an intended major in STEM (84%) than those who had a non-influentialindependent inquiry STEM experience (69%). These two findings suggest that simply havingpre-college independent inquiry experiences influence students’ choice of major
women’s participation.22 While chemical and materials engineering werefound to have cultures that encompass both masculine and feminine characteristics (which isreflected in comparatively higher percentage women enrollment), the electrical engineeringculture was the most masculine (again, reflected in comparatively low women enrollment).22 Is itpossible that in programs less popular with women, offering increased course choice opportunityin a given program is comparatively more correlated to the gender diversity in that program? Ifso, increasing the flexibility and/or customizability in engineering programs via free electivesand other course choice opportunities might serve as a strategy to attract and keep more womenengineering
challenge due to the unavailability of the participants and their parents. This was resolved by arranging the camp in two separate weeks to make sure that all twelve participants can take part in both weeks’ activities.(3) The length of the summer camp was an issue for some participants. Personal conversations with the participants revealed that some of them would preferred a week-long camp instead two weeks. It was also reflected in the performance of some of them as they become less attentive at the end of week two.(4) As shown in Appendix A, a session was scheduled for parents to inform them about their children’s career in engineering/technology areas. However, the session was postponed owing to less interest from them
374*Numbers in demographic table reflect surveys with complete demographic data for 752 respondents. Thereare missing demographics for 54 respondents and they were excluded from the comparison analyses.MeasuresWe included the following measures in our survey instrument:Intrinsic motivation/excitement about major/career. To measure excitement and intrinsicinterest in the subject matter and major we asked students to rate the importance of the followingfour items in their choice of a major on a 7 point Likert scale: 1) Doing something that I aminterested in; 2) It is fun being able to discuss difficult technological matters. 3) I am interestedin the methods, theories and insights of the discipline; 4) I am interested in the subject
distinct from sex. Connellnotes that gender is not a supposedly biologically-obvious division between men and women, butinstead the way human society collectively makes relevant these reproductive distinctions Page 26.1007.5between human bodies in a social context. For us, the context is engineering education. In its simplest form, gender reflects the set of characteristics, behaviors, and practices that we think ofas “feminine” or “masculine” – characteristics that any individual biological male or female mayor may not embody.Race, like gender, is not a biological category but a social one. And unlike sex, race has nobiological basis, despite a
column reflects the percentage of respondents who checked either "agree" or"strongly agree."The preceding survey results show that the majority of respondents felt that InWIC componentswere valuable or changed their lives in valuable ways. Remarkably, five of the survey itemswere given positive marks by every respondent. Only five of the line items received scores inthe seventy or eighty percent range. The remaining questions lie at the ninety percent level.Pairing the preceding positive response rates with the high survey response rate supports theclaim that the Celebration was successful and deserves emulation by additional regional areasseeking to increase the participation of women in computing
and EEC-1136916. Any opinion,finding, and conclusion or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authorsand do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Page 26.1200.6References1. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. (2001). The Carnegie Classification of Institutions ofHigher Education: 2000 edition. Retrieved March 31, 2011 fromhttp://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/resources.2. Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research.Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co.3. Hoffer, T. B., Hess, M. D., Welch, V., & Williams
students with the intention of raising awareness.Forty students (8 female) attended the departmental information session during the College OpenHouse event on November 9, 2014. Four female students signed up to participate in a focusgroup. Twenty-four students (3 female) attended the two departmental new student orientationsessions on January 21 and 23, 2015. Two female students signed up to participate in the focusgroup.4.2 Special Registration Advisement SessionsAdvisement helps students register for the proper courses by following their degreerequirements; this is both important and challenging, as the CST degree program requirementsare constantly under modification to reflect new technologies. Students entering the College atdifferent times