Conference Session

Mentoring

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri Camesano, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristen Billiar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Marsha Rolle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Susan Zhou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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was their first researchexperience of any kind. We had a positive impact on influencing the career path of the REUparticipants, according to their self-reported plans. The mentoring program has been verysuccessful, as indicated by the number of return attendees and alumni of the Bio-Discoveryprogram, who recommend their younger sisters or friends to the program. According to ourassessment data, the Bio-Discovery Program has been the most rewarding part of the programfor several of the REU participants, even though it also presented a challenge, as it limits theamount of time REU students can dedicate exclusively to their research projects. With ourrecommendations for improvement, this program can be adopted by other faculty who wish

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristin E. Sherwood, Stony Brook University; Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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are the threebasic tenets of career development. Self-efficacy is seen as an ever-changing set of self-beliefsregarding specific performance capabilities that results from the complex interplay of personalbehaviors, interactions with other people, and environmental factors. Although the authorsagreed with Bandura [10] that performance accomplishments, vicarious learning, socialpersuasion, and psychological state influence and alter self-efficacy beliefs, they believed thatpersonal performance accomplishments are the greatest contributors to self-efficacy [12]. Peña-Calvo, Inda-Caro, Rodríguez-Menéndez, and Fernández-García [13] utilized Lent’s work [12] toexamine the perceptions of barriers and supports in a study of 811 sophomore university

Conference Session

Perceptions of Women's Success in STEM

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-436: IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO CHANGE THE PERCEPTION OFENGINEERINGSusan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology is Senior Advisor of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology. Throughout her career, Susan has worked to increase the participation of women in engineering and science. As the founding executive director of the Lore-El Center for Women in Engineering and Science at Stevens she developed and implemented pre-college and college level programs to increase the representation of women in STEM fields at Stevens and nationally, serving more than 15,000 women. In recognition of this contribution, the Lore-El Center

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Fu, MIT; Tahira N Reid, Purdue University; Janis P. Terpenny, Iowa State University; Deborah L. Thurston, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Judy M. Vance, Iowa State University; Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon University; Gloria J. Wiens, University of Florida; Kazem Kazerounian, University of Connecticut; Janet Katherine Allen, University of Oklahoma; Kathy Jacobson

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teams; impacts of project choice and context; and the retention and success of under- represented students). She has 9 years of industry work experience with the General Electric Company (GE), including the completion of a 2-year corporate management program. Throughout her career, she has managed over $8 million of sponsored research and is the author of 150 peer-reviewed publications. She is a member and Fellow of IIE, a member and Fellow of ASME, and a member of ASEE, INFORMS, Alpha Pi Mu, and Tau Beta Pi. She serves as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and for the Engineering Economist. She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, in research, and for service.Dr

Conference Session

Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jacqueline R. Mozrall, Rochester Institute of Technology; Gina M. Williams, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Steven LaLonde, Rochester Institute of Technology

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AC 2011-2271: ESTABLISHING THE FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE OR-GANIZATIONAL REFORM AND TRANSFORMATION AT A LARGE PRI-VATE UNIVERSITY TO EXPAND THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMENFACULTYMargaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Margaret Bailey is Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the Kate Gleason College of Engineer- ing at RIT and is the Founding Executive Director for the nationally recognized women in engineering program called WE@RIT. She recently accepted the role as Faculty Associate to the Provost for Female Faculty and serves as the co-chair on the President’s Commission on Women. She began her academic career as an Assistant Professor at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, being the first woman

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sara Amani, Texas A&M University; Ebtihal Mohamed Youssef, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Rand Yehia Alagha, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Sara Hillman, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Annie Ruimi, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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on enhancing the role of women in the workplace and working on policiestoward the empowerment of women, our exploratory research study examines how attractive theengineering profession is for women in Qatar. The current paper focuses specifically on challengesthat women face during the very first step in their careers—the recruitment and hiring process.The paper employs a multi-method approach, gathering and analyzing data obtained via a surveyand interviews with engineering program alumnae who graduated from 2009 to 2020 in Qatar.When examining the challenges female participants faced during the recruitment and hiringprocess for engineering jobs in Qatar, the findings revealed that many women did not feelparticularly welcomed while trying

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

SHPE Educator of the Year 2005, and won the National Engineering Award in 2003, the highest honor given by AAES. In 2002 she was named the Distinguished Engineering Educator by the Society of Women Engineers. Her awards are based on her mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering. Page 14.172.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 An Academic Scholarship Program for Transfer Students in

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Pre-college Student Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Gwen Blosser, Louisiana State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

a better fit.33-35 Universities now offer an array of activities, majors, andexperiences that are gender-typed, and therefore the possibility, and perhaps, now theexpectations are greater, that individuals will follow a gender normative path.34 Beliefsystems about gender combined with certain social contexts are important in shaping thepathways individuals take. Indeed, it is surprising to note, in many authoritarian and lesseconomically developed countries, women are actually more likely to enter a math andscience career than in the United States. It seems that the choices young people maketowards careers in the United States are in many ways the result of structural, cultural,and economic forces that celebrate gendered selves and allow

Conference Session

History of the Women in Engineering Division: Reflections from Past Chairs of the Division

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Beth M. Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Noel N. Schulz, Washington State University; Sarah A. Rajala, Iowa State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University

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in teaching, research and service. She enjoys teaching electrical engineering and power engineering topics to students. In research and graduate studies, she has been very active having graduated 40 MS and 13 PhD students; published 160 papers and 2 book chapters; and brought in over $40 M in external research through individual and collaborative projects including an U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award. She is an ASEE and an IEEE Fellow. She has been active in the IEEE Power & Energy Society serving on the PES Governing Board for 12 years and President for 2012-2013. Dr. Schulz is a member of Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering c American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jocelyn LaChelle Jackson, University of Michigan; Jeremi S London, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Joi-lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan; Stephanie G. Adams, University of Texas at Dallas

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Engineering from the University of Vir- ginia and she received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M University, where she concentrated on Industrial Engineering and Management. Her research interests include: Broadening Participation, Faculty and Graduate Student Development, International/Global Education, Teamwork and Team Effectiveness, and Quality Control and Manage- ment. In 2003, she received the CAREER award from the Engineering Education and Centers Division of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Adams is a leader in the advancement and inclusion of all in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. She has worked with numerous of colleges and universities

Conference Session

Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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Women in Engineering

presentationactivities, and the outreach teaching activity more highly than men when asked what activitieswere most useful for their career. Interestingly, women also self-reported higher confidence thanmen in 7 of 11 of our learning objectives at the beginning of the semester, and 8 of 11 at the endof the semester. Areas of higher confidence for women included working and communicatingeffectively on a team with various learning styles and engaging the community about science.Areas of higher confidence for men included critically evaluating written and analytical work ofthemselves and others, and recognizing issues and technological advances in bioengineering.Assessment of learning styles in this course revealed that women were slightly more verbal,sensing, and

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Advocacy Tips: an Initiative to Provide Individuals the Tools to Advocate for Women and Underrepresented Minorities

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Kristen P. Constant, Iowa State University; Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sandra D. Eksioglu, Mississippi State University; Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University

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Paper ID #9377Interactive Panel on Advocacy Tips: an Initiative to Provide Individuals theTools to Advocate for Women and Underrepresented MinoritiesDr. Adrienne Robyn Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne Minerick received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and B.S. from Michigan Technological University in 1998. Adrienne’s research interests include electrokinetics, predominantly dielectrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microde- vices. She earned a NSF CAREER award, has published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Recruitment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

on career opportunities, enhancing the transfer student experience, and diversity in engineering. Page 25.1398.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Understanding the Path of Engineering and Computer Science Upper Division Transfer Students To a Large UniversityAbstractThe community college is a critical source for growing the engineering and computer fields inthe United States. The encouragement, recruitment, transfer and acclimation process for thesestudents to a larger four-year school is very crucial in their successful

Conference Session

The Academic Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Birmingham, Grove City College; Mara Wasburn, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

the decreasing number of tenure-track positions,it become increasingly important to learn whether or not the declining number of tenure-trackpositions may hamper the ability of colleges and universities to attract and retain women facultyin these disciplines in the future. Page 13.944.2Women in STEM DisciplinesApproximately half the potential STEM talent pool at the entering undergraduate level consistsof women. Therefore, in 2000, a United States government commission, reporting to the Houseof Representatives, was charged with developing strategies to attract more women and minoritiesin STEM careers. The report indicated that significant

Conference Session

Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barb Silver, University of Rhode Island; G. Boudreaux-Bartels, University of Rhode Island; Helen Mederer, University of Rhode Island; Lynn Pasquerella, University of Rhode Island; Joan Peckham, University of Rhode Island; Mercedes River-Hudec, University of Rhode Island; Karen Wishner, University of Rhode Island

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. Boudreaux-Bartels has been very active with outreach activities that encourage young women or under represented ethnic minority students to consider careers in science, math or engineering. She has served as the faculty advisor for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) for 20 years, and as interim faculty advisor for the URI National Society of Black Engineers and the URI Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. She co-directed an annual URI summer Bridge program that introduces first year, female engineering students to careers in engineering. She participates in the annual URI SMILE (Science and Math in an Integrated Learning Environment) Engineering Design Challenge Weekend

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine R. Millam, University of Saint Thomas; Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas

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Women in Engineering

. Page 22.460.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 1 Developing Leadership Capacity in Working Adult Women Technical Graduate Students Research Interview Results with AlumniAbstract While women continue to make progress in their overall representation in the business sector, there are many challenges that keep women from making advances in their careers as science and engineering leaders. Those professions that have long been male dominated are making the slowest gains. Even though female representation in the engineering profession is

Conference Session

Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleanor M. Jaffee, Smith College; Donna Riley, Smith College

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Women in Engineering

providenew layers of nuance to our understandings of women‟s decision-making about major and career.Below we present our findings utilizing student narratives about career decision-making. Weconsider four interrelated themes that emerged from our analysis: student understandings ofgender and women in engineering; the interaction of personal interest with the encouragement ofinfluential others; sociocultural factors; and social impact. Page 15.2.6Women and Gender Obviously being a woman in the engineering field is going to be an obstacle if I choose, which I probably will, to pursue that, „cause so few women are in engineering and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lesley Cremeans, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse P.E., Texas Tech University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

identity of anindividual (i.e. professor, student, engineer). Adopting an identity as a female engineer meansthat women are challenging the social expectations for women and men.Engineering degrees tend to be awarded to more females in chemical, materials, industrial andcivil engineering (NSF, NCSES, 2015). Research shows females tend to follow engineeringpaths that incorporate interpersonal and communal goals (e.g., helping others, working withpeople) with traditional industry goals (Hazari, Sadler, & Sonnert, 2013). The perception of thealternative engineering career options does not appear to include opportunities to achieveinterpersonal or communal goals (Hazari et al., 2013). Women’s reluctance to earn degrees inother fields of

Conference Session

The Impact of Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Venetia Dover, Howard University; Dawn Williams, Howard University; Lorraine Fleming, Howard University; Viara Quinones, Howard University

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Women in Engineering

study. Her research explores psychological and sociocultural factors affecting international STEM students’ undergraduate process. Page 13.1378.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008Variances in Coping Efficacy Among Women STEM Students: Is Gender or Discipline More Influential? Page 13.1378.2 Variances in Coping Efficacy among Women STEM Students: Is Gender or Discipline More Influential?AbstractThis study uses Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) to examine the coping efficacy of highachieving

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahaa Mayeesha Ahmed, Rowan University ; Melanie Basantis, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University

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Women in Engineering

years as well as the lack of women role models present in these fields. Toencourage more girls in STEM, the Attracting Women into Engineering (AWE) Workshop wasfounded in 1998. The AWE Workshop is a summer program that strives to introduce middleschool girls to engineering careers via one-day sessions. Participants have the opportunity tointeract with women faculty members and undergraduate/graduate students during hands-onengineering experiments while also learning about various engineering disciplines. Our missionis to negate preconceived stereotypes about engineering, to cultivate girls’ interest in STEM, toexpose girls to the diverse career paths that engineers can pursue, and to foster an environment ofintellectual growth, self-esteem, and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas Eric Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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interdisciplinary design courses that range from introductory to capstone courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Girl Scouts STEM Day ProgramAbstractCareers in engineering help a person to both contribute toward solving problems in society andenvironment, and live independently with available work and sufficient salary. Nevertheless, adisproportionate number of females have not entered careers in engineering or related STEMfields. One factor for the low participation may be insufficient exposure to compellingengineering activities at an early age. As a response, many educators and activists have initiatedSTEM activities for younger women to engage in, and potentially increase

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Andreasen, University of Delaware; Heather Walling Doty, University of Delaware; L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

withsystematized and readily accessible data on UD faculty diversity and satisfaction. Productsinclude up-to-date demographic data on representation, retention, promotion, etc.; a biannualfaculty climate survey and report; faculty exit interviews; faculty satisfaction interviews; andassociated social science research products.A second type of structural change that we employ focuses on institutional policies, procedures,and practices that effect faculty satisfaction and professional success. Examples include, but arenot limited to, P&T, mentoring, and family friendly policies such as stop-the-clock, dual career,and parental leave. Practices and policies are reviewed for clarity and equity; we developresources to increase their transparency; and, we

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny, King Saud University; Hamed Dhafi Alsharari, Saudi Elecrtonic University

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Women in Engineering

), its first mixed-gender university [1]; its firstpublic women-only and the world's largest university for women, Princess Nora bintAbdulrahman University (PNU) [2]; and its first private women-only university, EffatUniversity [3]. In view of these initiatives, this paper serves as an extension of a previous study thathighlights the need in the kingdom for the participation of females in engineering highereducation [4]. The authors here present and justify engineering specializations where females areexpected to be most successful from both academic and career perspectives. First, an overview ispresented regarding the involvement of women in engineering higher education and the jobmarket in select countries. This is subsequently followed

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M. Mativo, University of Georgia; Uduak Z. George, San Diego State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

aspiring to be engineers, following the same career path astheir mothers. Could there be a subtle but real influence at home that mothers did not recognize?In a future study, authors intend to compare these results to those of other professions.3.6 System dynamics approach to studying women engineering professionalsThe Authors were intrigued by the survey findings and then proceeded to ask the question “whatcharacteristics lead a female individual to pursue a degree in STEM field or engineering inparticular?” And “why do women engineers have a high percentage of daughters aspiring to beengineers?” We explored possible answers to the question by using a system dynamics (SD)modeling approach. This modeling approach allows us to capture the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Moriarty, National Science Foundation; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Elena Rose Yasinski, Carnegie Mellon University

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Women in Engineering

College created a pilot job shadow program for women in engineering. Job shadowing is aworkplace-based learning experience that introduces students to career areas and provides theopportunity to spend a day or two observing a professional in the field. The overarching goal ofthe project was to explore the effectiveness of job shadowing by undergraduate womenengineering students as a means of improving interest and persistence in engineering. Shadowparticipants created reflective interest statements, spent a day observing engineeringprofessionals, and reported on their experiences at a panel presentation for their engineeringclassmates. A mixed methods research plan was developed and implemented in order to assessthe impact of the job shadow

Conference Session

Retaining Women Engineering Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith Cordes, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University

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Women in Engineering

. In this capacity, he is responsible for all activities related to student services (academic administration, advising, career planning, women and diversity programs, etc.) and curricular issues. He is principal investigator on several NSF grants related to retention of engineering students. As a faculty member in civil engineering, he co-teaches a large introductory course in civil engineering. His research and consulting activities have focused on the safety and reliability of hydraulic structures, and he has participated as an expert in three different capacities regarding reviews of levee performance in Hurricane Katrina. He is a three-time recipient of his college’s Withrow Award for Teaching

Conference Session

Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Rinehart, Rice University; Eden B. King, George Mason University; Mikki Hebl, Rice University

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Women in Engineering

. Page 22.117.2 1Research on the value of mentoring reports those who have mentors often have more jobsatisfaction, career satisfaction, promotion, better compensation, and are awarded more grantsthan those who are not mentored. 3,4 Mentoring can particularly buffer women from the setbacks to them personally and to their career from the negative effects of gender bias.5,6 Peoplewho have been protégés find it easier to find mentoring relationships than those people who havenever been a protégé.1 These mentored individuals recognize the value of mentoring and havethe skills to initiate and maintain mentoring relationships. They proactively look for

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Anu Osta, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Baldwin Wallace University; Alissa Papernik; Amanda Ferreira Dias-Liebold, Rowan University

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to connectfemale students with multiple mentors or role models from diverse career backgrounds to whomthey could relate to and interact personally. These group functioned as independent, close-knitenvironments that enabled students to share their thoughts and seek guidance without inhibitions.The connection between financial wellbeing and female retention was explored by Yang6, byexamining whether a financial incentive such as student loan repayment awarded upongraduation influenced undergraduate women’s retention and academic achievement inengineering. Their findings revealed that loan repayment award not only had a positive influenceon completion rates, but also influenced completion by a greater variety of students in terms ofGPAs. The

Conference Session

Issues of Persistence in Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Burger, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

abilities required to complete anundergraduate engineering degree at the institution; essential educational experiences; strengthsand weaknesses of the institution in supporting undergraduate education; and what those beinginterviewed perceived as efforts that could be made to promote the recruitment and retention ofwomen in undergraduate engineering majors and into future engineering careers. During thefocus group meetings with undergraduate women in engineering, we asked about theirperception of the university and college environment for women in class and out-of-class, factorsthat had led them to decide to major in engineering, and the careers they planned for themselves.The interviews and focus group discussions were audiotaped with the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sreerenjini C. Nair, University of the Incarnate Word; Michael Frye, University of the Incarnate Word

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Women in Engineering

madesubstantial changes to the state’s curriculum and high school graduation requirements since itwas passed by the state legislature in 2013. HB5 came into effect in Fall 2016 and has threemajor components: 1) A core set of courses each student must complete for a total of 22 credits; 2) The requirement that each graduating eighth grader select one of five Endorsements (listed below), which are broad categories of career related courses; and 3) A Distinguished Level of Achievement for outstanding performance within the chosen endorsement. The five endorsements are: 1) STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics