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Panel: Taking a Break from Academia

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania; Leigh McCue, Virginia Tech; Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University

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Women in Engineering

ofEngineering. The EPSRC Visiting Researcher program allows “support for engineers ofacknowledged standing, either from within the UK or aboard,” to visit a UK organization. Fundsfrom the grant included research funds for equipment and resources for Dr. Schulz’s project atCardiff, travel funds for visiting other UK universities and organizations and living expensesduring her stay at Cardiff University.My activities during my stay in the UK were related to three main objectives. The first objectiverelated to participation in several ongoing research projects at Cardiff. Cardiff University wasrecently awarded £3.8M from the UK EPSRC to set up the Centre for Integrated RenewableEnergy Generation and Supply (CIREGS).The second objective was to visit with

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Dante Fratta, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Elizabeth C Harris, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Wayne P. Pferdehirt, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Heidi-Lynn Ploeg, Queens University at Kingston; Barry D. Van Veen, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Women in Engineering

Wisconsin, Madison Wayne P. Pferdehirt has directed several online graduate engineering degree programs for practicing engi- neers within the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Engineering since 1998. Wayne serves as a member of the College’s Education Innovation Committee and chairs the College’s Master of Engineer- ing Oversight Committee. Wayne is a frequent speaker and author on continuing education for engineers, project management, and engineering leadership.Heidi-Lynn Ploeg, Queens University at Kingston Dr. Ploeg is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario. From July 2003 to August 2018 she was an Assistant and Associate Professor in

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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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Basantis, Rowan University Ms. Melanie Basantis (Director, Engineering Outreach Office) earned her MBA from Widener Univer- sity and dual degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business Management from The Pennsylvania State University. Ms. Basantis spent 15 years in industry at the Boeing Company working as an Engineer on projects related to defense aircraft including the V-22 Osprey and CH-46 and CH-47 tandem rotor heli- copters along with being a Composite Manger on the 757 and 767 commercial aircraft programs. Ms. Basantis has experience in the development and implementation of new and innovative technologies in the manufacturing processes associated with revolutionary, new assembly methods and concepts for air

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Technical Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Campbell University; Saeedeh Ziaeefard, Michigan Technological University; Brian R Page, Michigan Technological University; Lauren Nicole Knop, Michigan Technological University ; Guilherme Aramizo Ribeiro, Michigan Technological University; Mo Rastgaar; Nina Mahmoudian, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

a positive direction from 2016 to 2017 (with the exception of the mixed sex sessiongirls). For example, “I learned a lot,” “I am good at it,” and “I have gotten a lot better at it” aretrending upward while “I didn’t know what I was doing” and “It was frustrating” are trendingdownward. Most of this improvement is due to changes early in the week that better scaffold theprogramming activities and integrate them with small build projects. 100 Girls-single sex 2016 Boys-single sex 2016 Girls-mixed 2017 Boys-mixed 2017 Girls-single sex 2017 90 80 70% of of Times Cited 60 50

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International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Murphy; Cecilia Chan, Dublin Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

project proposals have been submitted by the Dublin Institute ofTechnology, one through Science Foundation Ireland and the other at European level,through the Sixth European Framework, this was submitted in conjunction with otherEuropean Partners.In this paper, we will discuss a number of primary obstacles that our research has foundmost of our female encountered in our survey and interviews – how to balance the choiceyou choose. Some initiatives on the proposal based on the statistics survey to supportwomen in engineering will also present and share among the academic community; it ishoped that the measures proposed will be of practical use for other academiccommunities who are affected by the under-representation of women. The overarchingaim is

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Yu Gu, University of California, Los Angeles

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Women in Engineering

students and theirinteractions with faculty in science and engineering is fairly limited. Accordingly, the objective of this project is to examine the protégé-mentor relationshipsamong women doctoral students and their faculty members in the field of engineering. Morespecifically, I examine how protégé-mentor relationships support or limit women's aspirations topursue academic careers. To pursue these issues, I conducted thirty in-depth semi-structuredinterviews with female doctoral students in the School of Engineering at Western University—apseudonym for a large research university in the western United States. This university wasselected due to its strong engineering programs with sizeable graduate enrollments.Theoretically speaking, I

Conference Session

Attaining Academic Leadership Positions

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Chris S. Anderson, Michigan Technological University; Dianne Dorland, Rowan University; Sarah A. Rajala, Mississippi State University; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

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Women in Engineering

Liaison Officer to the Middle States Commission on Higher Educa- tion, the liaison to campus facilities department on capital projects and space assignments related to the academic division, and oversight of the academic division budgets. She coordinates the interdisciplinary programs and has served as project shepherd for a new interdisciplinary science building and renovation of existing commercial structures to be used as facilities for programs in theater and in film and media studies. Roth holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering and is a Licensed Engineer. She has taught extensively and conducted research in the area of geotechnical engineering

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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

projects include the blog STEMequity.com, and a study, with sociologist Mary Ebeling, of economic equity in nanotechnology training and employment. She is also writing on distributions of blame between workers and materials for failures in contemporary building technologies, as economies of scale and automation continue their long incursion on the labor of commercial construction. Page 22.1061.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Metrics of Marginality: How Studies of Minority Self-Efficacy Hide Structural InequitiesAbstractIn ongoing

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Myongsook Susan Oh, Hongik University; Yookyung Bae, Seoul National University, Institute for Gender Research

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Women in Engineering

experience in the activities listed. Interviews with selected students were conducted regarding the selection of a leader in adesign project team. The typical answers were as follows: ‘The eldest one is selected as the leader. I am comfortable with that. The age-rankingsystem is well accepted in society, and it is natural to adopt the same rule in school” – Ajunior, male “I was the leader once in a design team. It was a team that consisted of all women of thesame age. I have never complained about the eldest being the leader. I am afraid of being aleader. It can be too much to bear.” – A senior, female “I once volunteered to be the leader to get leadership experience. The team accepted it. Iam grateful

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Marcela Alejandra Silva, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

specialization courses designed to meet students'graduation profile. Also, the curriculum includes four integrative courses, whose aim is toincorporate knowledge acquired by students from previous courses and integrate it into activitiesfor current projects and/or for use by companies out in the field. The last integrating course iscalled Degree Portfolio and culminates with the completion of the study program. This course isbased on multidisciplinary projects carried out by teachers of different specialties, finishing in anindividual examination before a commission composed of the course lecturers and externalevaluators who are invited exclusively for this process.Around 70% of college courses are specialized and are concentrated in the last 3 years of

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

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

alone.Kayla’s NarrativeOne of the reasons that I was drawn to the company was because the recruiters were explicitabout how important it was to have women working in engineering firms. A lot of companiesprobably say that, but I really felt like they genuinely meant it because they did have a lot offemale engineers working for them. My company took pride in hiring lots of female engineeringstaff. I had one supervisor, whose name is Amy and then her supervisor who I was also incontact with, Jane. They were the two primary people that I talked to.I was working on one project, primarily, and I would just do kind of the odds and ends on otherprojects. I worked on things that were not busy work, but also did not need critical engineeringskills, obviously

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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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

-Car Competition Conference and Liberal Arts International Conference (LAIC). Her current research focuses on Designing Novel Electro-catalysts To- wards Selective and Robust Saline Water Oxidation and Reduction. She aspires to work as a chemical engineer in the oil and gas industry in Qatar.Rand Yehia Alagha, Texas A&M University at Qatar Rand Alagha is a Petroleum Engineering undergraduate at Texas A&M University at Qatar. She does research in different areas related to petroleum engineering all as part of the Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP). In addition, she has done research projects that are interested in improving the students’ learning experience as part of the Transformative

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech; Soyoung Lee, Virginia Tech; Peggy Meszaros

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Women in Engineering

2006-611: FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH WOMEN'S INTEREST INCOMPUTING FIELDSElizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech Elizabeth Creamer is an associate professor of educational research in the Department of Educational Research and Policy Studies at Viginia Tech. She is the co-PI of the Women and Information Technology project funded by NSF, PI of a grant to assess the climate of engineering departments, and Director of Research and Assessment for the Virginia Tech Advance Project. Creamer's disciplinary background is in the field of higher education and her research insterests involve gender equity and faculty careers and work-family issues.Soyoung Lee, Virginia Tech Soyoung Lee is a graduate

Conference Session

Listening and Negotiation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kevin D. Hall, University of Arkansas; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Amy J Moll, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

committees, task groups, and panels through the Transportation Research Board (chairing one standing committee of TRB and one NCHRP Project Panel), and numerous committees with ASTM and industry. Hall founded the Center for Training Transportation Professionals at the University of Arkansas, which provides training and certification for QA/QC testing technicians in Arkansas. He has been recognized as the top teacher in his department one time, and the top researcher a total of five times; he also received the University of Arkansas’ highest faculty recognition – the Arkansas Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award – for teaching and research. Hall is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Arkansas.Dr

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malle R Schilling, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate materials related courses including Introduction to Ma- terials, Materials Laboratory, Engineering Innovation, Biomaterials and Engineering Design and Appro- priate Technology (ETHOS). She was director of the (Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-Learning) for approximately ten years. She has incorporated service-learning projects into her classes and laboratories since she started teaching in 2000. Her research interests include community engaged learning and pedagogy, K-12 outreach, biomaterials and materials testing and analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University; Victor Ofori-Boadu, Penuel Consult Inc.; Jacob Randall Vanderpool, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Dongyang Deng, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

2017 North Carolina A & T State University (NCAT) Rookie Research Excellence Award. Under her mentorship, Dr. Ofori-Boadu’s students have presented research posters at various NCAT Undergraduate Research Symposia resulting in her receiving a 2017 Certificate of Recognition for Undergraduate Re- search Mentoring. In 2016, her publication was recognized by the Built Environment Project and Asset Management Journal as the 2016 Highly Commended Paper. Andrea has served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and several journals and conferences. In 2015, Dr. Ofori-Boadu established her STEAM ACTIVATED! program for middle-school girls. She also serves as the

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

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Women in Engineering

enterundergraduate engineering programs graduate in engineering and enter the engineeringworkforce. Once in the profession, females find it difficult to gain and hold administrativepositions 3, 6. The resulting shortage of females in engineering has been compared to a leakypipeline3, 6.America must fix this leaky pipeline. According to engineering job projections, the countryfaces a severe shortage of engineers33. Two options exist to meet the nation’s future need forengineers. These are to increase the number of students enrolled in engineering schools and toretain current engineers. According to National Science Foundation (NSF) data from 2007, male Page

Conference Session

WIED Olio

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Hug, University of Colorado, Boulder; Susan Jurow, University of Colorado at Boulder; Wendy C. Chi, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Women in Engineering

workplacebiases the women may find in the engineering professions, as well as training regarding graduateschool application, research presentation and publication. FemProf‘s explicit focus is preparingundergraduate women for success in graduate school and for future participation in theprofessoriate. For this research project, we studied FemProf with an eye toward identitydevelopment. A grounded, thematic approach to qualitative data analysis uncovered three themesevident in the process of Fem Prof undergraduate participant learning: ―program support forprofessoriate trajectories;‖ ―participant identification with engineering pathways;‖ and a thirdtheme not anticipated: ―participants advocate for gender equity in engineering.‖ Based on ourqualitative

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

classroom and laboratory curricula including online course platforms, and integrated technologies. She has been involved in both private and government grants as author and project director, and is currently PI of an NSF ATE grant, ”Increasing the Number of Engineering Technicians in Southeastern Pennsylvania.” A major goal of this collaborative effort with Drexel University is to connect for-credit, occupational technician education to workforce development certification programs. She was the faculty advisor to two student teams that made the final round of the NSF AACC Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) in 2016 and 2017. She and her students have been involved in STEM related outreach to local community

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Yates, National Society of Black Engineers; Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

anyone. It was just hard not to be able to speak Spanish fully and comfortably and stuff.” – Latina Engineer “When I was in Baltimore, it was all white male. And that actually was something I was very uncomfortable with because I was the only female in the room and sometimes the only person of any type of minority status.” – Latina Engineer “I know I’m 1 percent of people that…look like me. I’ve known that through most of college. I’ve always counted. So sometimes when I do feel insecure, it does bring up that you’re also the only person of color or female in there.” – African American Engineer “…When I first walked into the first project meeting, I was the only female in a room

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Coleen Carrigan, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Saejin Kwak Tanguay, University of Washington; Joyce Yen, University of Washington; Julie Simmons Ivy, North Carolina State University; Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University; M. Claire Horner-Devine, University of Washington and Counterspace Consulting

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is a Senior Research Associate at the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara serves as project manager for program evaluation on several NSF- and NIH-funded projects. Her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, peer mentoring, and institutional change.Prof. Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington Eve Riskin received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and her graduate degrees in EE from Stanford. Since 1990, she has been in the EE Department at the University of Washington where she is now Associate Dean of Diversity and Access in the College of Engineering, Professor of Electrical

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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Women in Engineering

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

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s AD- VANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the web- site http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was awarded a CAREER grant in 2010 for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica J. Lofton, University of Evansville

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

programparticipants working to preserve and promote the legacy of the program. Counselors receivemany of the same benefits as camp participants, as they also attend the tours and mentor visits.Instructors for the high school offering of the summer program are primarily faculty membersfrom five disciplines: Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, ComputerEngineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Faculty prepare workshops with projects, typicallyincluding a design challenge, that introduce camp participants to each discipline. The faculty-ledworkshops generally last 3 to 8 hours, depending on the complexity of the project. Largerprojects are completed in a series of shorter sessions to maintain participant interest andengagement. As the

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

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #16882Exploring Barriers in the Engineering Workplace: Hostile, Unsupportive,and Otherwise Chilly ConditionsRachel Yonemura , University of Washington Rachel Yonemura is currently working on her B.S. in Environmental Science and Resource Management at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She has been working at the University as a Re- search Assistant under Dr. Denise Wilson on projects regarding the Engineering Workplace as well as E-waste Sustainability. Motivation for these projects stem from an interest in public discourse and the interrelationships that occur among people of different

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Sarah Morton; Nehal I. Abu-lail, Washington State University; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Julie A. Kmec, Washington State University; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

broader societal perceptions of what is “appropriate” for women, or related to otherfactors that have not yet emerged in USA-centric research.Malaysia is one of three cases in our larger project studying women’s participation in engineeringin three predominantly Muslim Countries (PMCs): Malaysia, Tunisia, and Jordan. We chose thesethree countries because they represent three cases with distinct geographical regions, cultures,economies, socio-cultural, legal, political, and education systems in the Muslim world. Moreover,these three countries boast a much higher representation of women in engineering compared toUnited States, with Malaysia having the highest representation. Within each country, we partneredwith the major flagship public university

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Courtney Green P.E.

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

of North Carolina at Charlotte, she was employed as a project engineer at SKA Consulting Engineers, Inc. in the building solutions group for 7 years. Her job responsibilities included performing forensic investigations to determine condition of building structural components; including concrete, masonry, wood and steel; preparing remedial designs; and performing construction administration. She is currently a third year PhD student in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Exploring the Educational Experiences of Women Who Persisted in Engineering: A

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Skaggs, American University in Cairo

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Women in Engineering

Page 23.1164.3femininities breaking down the “binary opposition between male and female”10 and allowing for“creative interrogation of the ways in which people ‘do’ gender”.15Engineering as MasculineAfter World War I, engineering was, according to Ruth Oldenziel, a “project inmasculinization”. 16 The word “engineer” was originally given to the military troops who created,built, and operated machinery [engines] of war.17 This link between military and engineering hasled to construction of a hegemonic masculinity that pervades the professional and educationalenvironments of engineering. The term hegemonic refers to the cultural ideal of masculinity thatis dominant and is associated with men who are in power.18Not only is this masculine image of

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kali Lynn Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adrianna Bernardo; Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

withfull PPE, except he wears glasses instead of safety goggles. In stark contrast, Dee Dee is shownwith blonde hair and wearing a short, pink, sleeveless dress, and ballet shoes; she is wearing noPPE. Dexter’s glasses and lab coat stereotypically represent intelligence. Yet, Dee Dee’s small,pink clothing is suggestive of softness, youth, and frivolity. Moreover, Dee Dee’s blonde hairconnotes the “dumb blonde” stereotype [19]. Notably, all embodied characteristics of Dee Dee’scharacter in the show. Dexter is shown much larger and in the foreground. His upright postureand hands on his hips demonstrate a character designed to project confidence. Dee Dee’s stanceand sideways look projects a flighty personality, unconcerned with serious matters

Conference Session

The Pipeline

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Plotkowski, Grand Valley State University; Mary Ann Sheline, Grand Valley State University; Margo Dill, Grand Valley State University; Jessica Noble, Grand Valley State University

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Women in Engineering

. Page 13.488.2The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted total employment is projected to increaseby 10 percent by 2016. The projected increase in total employment will add 8.1 millionjobs in professional and business services, health care, social assistance and industrysectors showing the largest employment growth. Employment increased 12 percentduring the last decade (1996-2006). 1 While global competition and demand areincreasing, the pipeline of new science and engineering talent is not growing fast enoughto keep up with the retirement of the experienced baby boomer generation. Educationand training for these job openings varies, but overall the proportion of occupationsrequiring a college degree will increase between 2006 and 2016. In