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Gender And Race/Ethnicity In Engineering: Preliminary Findings From The Project To Assess Climate In Engineering

Conference Session
Retaining Women Engineering Students
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Stephanie Jaros, University of Washington; Suzanne Brainard, University of Washington; Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
engineering community by-passing the specificneeds of under-represented women students?The findings from this study should be of interest to educational researchers, deans, practitioners,directors of women in engineering or minorities in engineering programs, and faculty who areinterested in the intersection of race, gender and academic experience. In particular, the findingspoint to recommendations for the retention of women and under-represented minorities inengineering, and to new avenues of research. They also provide evidence that a “one size fits all”approach does not work because students with multiple group identities experience things indifferent ways.Given these new findings, further study is needed to determine the programs or practices
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Extending Research Into Practice: Results From The Project To Assess Climate In Engineering (Pace)

Conference Session
Retaining Women Engineering Students
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Suzanne Brainard, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Women Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington. Suzanne’s research has focused on issues of recruitment, retention and advancement of women of all ethnicities in engineering, science and the workforce.Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler is the Director for Research at the University of Washington (UW) Center for Workforce Development (CWD) and a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the UW. Her research interests include the educational climate for undergraduate and graduate students, gender stratification in education and the workforce, and gender and families. Liz is the research
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