AC 2007-2456: OUTREACH INITIATIVE FOR RECRUITING WOMEN TOENGINEERING: DOING A GOOD DEED FOR GIRL SCOUTSDavid Cottrell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte DR. DAVID S. COTTRELL is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1978 and retired in 2000 after more than 22 years of service with the US Army Corps of Engineers. Studies at Texas A&M University resulted in an MS Degree in Civil Engineering in 1987 and a PhD in 1995. He is a registered Professional Engineer and has taught courses in statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, graphic communications, engineering
Development group. Currently, she is a research assistant on two NSF funded projects examining gender equity issues in the science and technology fields. She has co-authored several presentations and papers related to women’s career decision making and women’s under-representation in IT.Peggy S. Meszaros, Virginia Tech Peggy S. Meszaros, William E. Lavery Professor of Human Development and Director, Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth and Families, Virginia Tech, USA. She has extensive teaching, research, and administrative experience including middle school and high school teaching of science and has been a faculty member and administrator for 28 years at private
this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation. The authors also wish to thank Dr. Rebecca Bates, Dr. TamaraFloyd-Smith, Dr. Melani Plett, and Dr. Nanette Veilleux for their help in recruiting interviewparticipants for this project.References[1] S. Fayer, A. Lacey, and A. Watson, “Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations: past, present, and future : Spotlight on Statistics: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,” U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, Jan. 2017.[2] D. J. Nelson and C. J. Brammer, “A national analysis of minorities in science and engineering faculties at research universities,” Oklahoma University, Norman, Oklahoma, Jan
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Satisfaction Measures:question was missing). (m) Personal satisfaction from work (n) Satisfaction with quality of work unitSurvey respondents were asked “do you consider (o) Satisfaction with working conditionsyourself to be one or more of the following,” with (p) Employee empowermentthe following response categories offered: (q) Co-workers cooperation“Heterosexual or Straight,” “Gay, Lesbian, (r) Satisfaction with procedures (s) Overall job satisfactionBisexual, or Transgender,” or “Prefer not to say.”Respondents who answered “prefer not to say” were excluded from
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Paper ID #29505Exploring the Educational Experiences of Women Who Persisted inEngineering: A Qualitative Case StudyCourtney Green P.E., Courtney S. Green, P.E. is a lecturer and academic advisor for the Office of Student Success and Develop- ment within Williams States Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She holds a Master of Science in Engineering with a structural engineering concentration from University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2008. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Marshall University in 2004. Prior to her role at University
enhanced student retention in both groups. The enhancementwas more for the women group.Further, an important and interesting observation from this study about student attrition suggeststhat early period after admission is decisive for a significant majority of students, irrespective ofgender.Bibliography1. Cech, E., Rubineau, B., Silbey, S., & Seron, C. (2011). Professional role confidence and gendered persistence in engineering, American Sociological Review, 76(5) 641–666.2. Databytes: Female enrollment in engineering undergraduate programs still growing. Connections – newsletter of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), December 2013. (http://www.asee.org) (Last accessed, December 2013
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that the effects ofgender on other forms of SI available to students be examined. This outcome could be madepossible by expanding the scope of the research to other freshman engineering courses with moremale and female lecturers. Lastly, partnering with counterparts at other universities can provideadditional data to support and augment findings presented here.References[1] S. E. Carrell, M. E. Page and J. E. West, "Sex and Science: how professor gender perpetuates the gender gap," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 125, no. 3, pp. 1101- 1144, 2010.[2] L. MacNell, A. Driscoll and A. N. Hunt, "What's in a name: exposing gender bias in student ratings of teaching," Innovative Higher Education, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 291-303, 2015
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designed for agroup of students to study abroad while the DDEP relates more to an individual doctoral studentworking closely with a foreign investigator.The NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education program has solicited proposalsevery other year since 2005 and is a more comprehensive program that involves an integratedresearch and education plan between institution(s) within the US and foreign institution(s). Thisinvolves a five year plan that involves collaboration between faculty, researchers, graduatestudents and undergraduate students between the various institutions providing internationalperspectives in scholarship and education.For exchanges with researchers within the UK, there are also several programs to bring in non-UK
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“maybe” want to be engineers, 22% answered "No," while 29%answered "Yes” to the same question. It should be noted that 2016 was the first year an attemptwas made to collect feedback from the participating students. In the 2016’s survey, the question“do you want to be an engineer?” had only two possible answers, “yes or no." We have receivedseveral suggestions to add a third choice of "maybe/I do not know” to the answers. The attendeeswere hesitant to give an explicit answer of "Yes" or "No” to this question. Almost half of thestudents (47%) expressed interest in Engineering compared to 29% in 2017. While this resultdoes not conclude that the students’ interest declined in 2017, it certainly implies that studentspreferred to answer “No” than “Yes
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