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Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Evelyn R. Sowells, North Carolina A&T State University; Nina Exner, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University; Sherry F. Abernathy, North Carolina A&T State University; Rajeev K. Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University ; Brenda S. Faison Ph.D., North Carolina A&T State University

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One of our largest recruitment tools is the Extreme Information Technology (IT) Day which is an annual event sponsored by the university. The Extreme IT Day event has been held since 2010. Since its inception, more than 1,400 high school students have attended Extreme IT Day. The mission of this event is to develop skills and promote career opportunities in mainframe technologies, integrated IT systems, and cloud computing technologies. The event brings together educators, industry partners, and approximately 400 highly motivated high school and college students annually from the southeastern United States for a day of fun and innovation. Industry partners help set goals and expectations for students and serve on our School of

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Celine Manoosingh, Georgia Southern University

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population of the engineering students and retaining them to the end of their educationaljourney, and toward the ultimate goal of professional licensure.Service leaning has been proven to be an invaluable tool to recruit and retain engineering students, a studyconducted by Astin et al (2000) found that in a study of 22,000 students, integrating service learning hadsignificant positive effects on 11 outcome measurements including critical thinking skills, values,leadership and self-efficacy. Eyles & Giles (1999) studied 20 universities and the effect of a service-learning based curriculum on over 1500 students. The results indicated an increased positive impact in the

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Women in Engineering Division: Curricular Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brianna Blaser, University of Washington; Katherine M. Steele, University of Washington; Sheryl Elaine Burgstahler, University of Washigton

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disability-related topics was important for preparing the nextgeneration of professionals: ● “Engineering is all about innovation and making structural change on a variety of levels, I think it is imperative students entering the field have this background.” ● “I think accessibility should be integrated into the curriculum, to build better technologies and conscientious students.” ● “Adding AT (assistive technology) to the school’s curriculum would be an excellent way of assuring future educators/students are knowledgeable and well trained in the discipline. My knowledge has come mostly from sources outside of any curriculum

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Women in Engineering Division: Curricular Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenahvive K. Morgan, Rowan University; Mario J. Leone, Rowan University

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serves as a basefor learning how to build a circuit where errors in creating the circuit can be easily corrected. Page 26.605.5 F E C B A DFigure 1: An LED Circuit with (A) LM555 Timer Integrated Circuit, (B) 1.8MΩ Resistor,(C) 270Ω Resistor, (D) 22KΩ Resistor, (E) LED, (F) 10nF capacitor, with wires connectingthe electrical components on the breadboard.The 555 IC was placed between the bottom and top half of the breadboard, and the capacitor wasplaced towards the top of

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Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Katherine C. Titus-Becker, North Carolina State University

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ofengineering both as a field of study and a field of work. North Carolina State University has had inplace a Women in Engineering Program (WIE) for 15 years and a Women in Science (WISE) Livingand Learning Community for seven years. This WISE community has played an integral role in thestrategy to increase the percentage of women in the College of Engineering through both recruitmentand retention. In addition to WISE, certain other select recruitment strategies have also been put inplace, such as a bridge program for incoming female students, a revision of recruiting materials, andothers. This paper will describe some of the assessment data collected to determine the effectivenessof these strategies with regards to both recruitment and retention of

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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Rojewski, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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with advisors and mentors, and provided brainstorming andsupport to help negotiate these relationships.Evaluation MethodologyAssessment and evaluation were an integral part of this project from its initial conception. Thebudget for this project proposed, and was funded, with an explicit eye for evaluation and anexperienced educator was hired to plan, execute, and evaluate the program. Approval for Page 26.825.5research with human subjects was obtained from the University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), and participants were provided with an informed consent form and had the option toparticipate in the discussion series with—or without

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Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elaine Zundl, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Laura Stiltz, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Helen M. Buettner, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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member.Since the inception of the Douglass Engineering Living-Learning Community in 2012, 42 first-year women have participated and completed the program. Of those women, 38 havesuccessfully stayed in an engineering curriculum (90% retention rate), and 29 have continued tolive together in another residence hall. To assess the effectiveness of this program on thepredictors of retention, all students participating were asked to complete the LongitudinalAssessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy (LAESE) developed by The Pennsylvania StateUniversity and University of Missouri. This instrument measures several outcomes related toretention and is widely used to better understand students’ feelings towards engineering. Focusgroups were also used to generate

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Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University

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Science and Management Program, and her research focus is in student engagement and retention in engineering and engineering technology education. Contact: kgt5@txstate.eduDr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education in the College of Educa- tion at Texas State University. Araceli is Director of the LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research and teaches graduate courses in Integrated STEM Curriculum and Instruction. She collaborates on various state and national STEM education programs and is PI on major grant initiates with NASA Educator Pro- fessional Development and NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education. Araceli holds

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Women in Engineering Division: Curricular Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claire Lynne McCullough P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

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to give a lot of benefits to an employee, they would most likely hire amale. I do not really believe there is any bias involved with this because the company just doesnot want to spend extra money on benefits.” The students’ comments were particularly surprisinggiven that 40% of the faculty of the Computer Science and Engineering Department is female,giving the students ample opportunity to observe successful females in computer fields.The IAT assignment’s failure to raise the awareness of students of issues related to the gendergap made a new approach necessary. As part of a learning community investigating possible usesof Problem Based Learning in the curriculum at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, theauthor began to develop a

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

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Paper ID #13395Assessing the GRIT of Incoming Engineering StudentsDr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley, ASEE Fellow, is the Director of Women in Engineering and The Engineering Place for K-20 Outreach and a Teaching Associate Professor in the Colleges of Engineering and Education at NC State University. She teaches an Introduction to Engineering class for incoming freshmen in the College and Children Design, Invent, Create, a course for elementary education students that introduces them to engineering design and technology as well as various electrical engineering classes. In 2009 Dr

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Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer I. Clark, Montana State University ; Sarah L. Codd, Montana State University; Angela Colman Des Jardins, Montana State University; Christine M. Foreman, Montana State University; Brett W. Gunnink, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Katherine Ruth Stocker

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challenges of the engineering curriculum. It was rewarding to feel like I was giving back to and supporting the community of female engineering students. • It has been an opportunity to connect with some of the younger students that I now see and talk to around campus. Also, an opportunity to give back to the program. I was in Page 26.1218.7 the same place and wasn't sure about my major at some point as well, and I was able to relate and advise these women. • Having positive role models was crucial to my experience and success at MSU. I've loved the

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Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

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students; twentypercent of this population is female. The majority of the students graduating from thisprogram choose Technical Sales as their career. The diverse curriculum of thisengineering major causes students to be well sought out by the industry. However, acareer in Technical Sales is not a traditional choice for women, thus leaving the femaleundergraduates apprehensive about their career goals. So, a group of students and the IDfaculty decided to found an organization that catered to the needs of the female IndustrialDistribution Engineer and resolve this concern. This new organization was namedSociety of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID).SWID was established with the intention of stimulating and catapulting female

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Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reneta Davina Lansiquot, New York City College of Technology; Hong Li, New York City College of Technology

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an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Computer Systems Technology Department at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics. Her focus are working with faculty constantly to keep curriculum updated to respond to the growth of computer technol- ogy; researching in project-based learning with digital generation; and promoting the retention of female students. Her research interests include artificial neural networks and applications in system identifica- tion and forecasting. She has worked on projects that have applied neural networks in highway rainfall drainage problems, the estimation of crude oil saturation and non-invasive glucose sensing problems

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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prashant Rajan, Iowa State University; Charles T. Armstrong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Elizabeth J. O'Connor , Ketchum Change; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rebecca L. Dohrman, Maryville University; Colleen Arendt, Fairfield University ; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through NSF funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu]Dr. Rebecca L Dohrman, Maryville University Rebecca Dohrman (Ph.D. Organizational Communication, Purdue University) is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Maryville University - St. Louis.Dr. William ”Bill” C. Oakes, Purdue University, West

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Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Quincy Brown, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Michelle Beadle Holder, University of Maryland, College Park; Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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orsite visits, conferences, and exchange of information and research results. Such collaborationoften facilitates student mobility and curriculum improvement. It is well documented thatinternational collaboration is important for the development of knowledge, exchange of ideas,and solution for complex problems for both, students and faculty.9 While the benefits ofinternational engagement seem evident, family considerations should be factored in the planningof these activities, otherwise, career breaks will continue.Using the experiences of female faculty in engineering and computer science, and a combinationof male and female STEM graduate students who attended an international conference, we seekto uncover answers to questions such as: How do

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Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University

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, whichemphasizes collaboration and removes many traditional systematic hurdles. Thepractical structure of the college demonstrates a more collaborative, versus competitive,work environment than most institutions. The college leadership was reasonablyfamiliar with gender issues as they relate to undergraduate education, faculty retentionand success prior to ADVANCE. The college has been successful in securing federalfunding for and implementing a number of relevant programs, employing forapproximately a dozen years an integrated model for the first two years of undergraduateengineering education3,4,5,6,7,8. This has reaped significant rewards in student success,retention, and satisfaction

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Two Body Solutions: Strategies for the Dual-Career Job Search

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Christopher M Weyant, Drexel University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Kristina M. Wagstrom, University of Connecticut; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

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technology in the classroom. She is a co-PI on two NSF grants in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of ABET and of the AIChE. Page 26.1610.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Two Body Solutions: Strategies for the Dual-Career Job Search AbstractThis paper focuses on the dual-career job search with an eye toward iteratively

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University

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Polytechnic State University (CPSU). Jointly offered by the Collegesof Liberal Arts and Engineering, LSE is understood as a fourth “computing discipline” by theDepartment of Computer Science (alongside computer engineering, computer science, andsoftware engineering). Admission to the program is by internal transfer only. Accepted studentscomplete rigorous technical education, including 44 units of support courses shared with theCollege of Engineering as well as the CPSU General Education curriculum; 34-35 units ofadditional coursework in an engineering specialization (computer graphics OR electricalengineering (power) OR industrial/manufacturing engineering (systems design) OR anindividualized course of study); 24 units of additional coursework in a

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Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Lachney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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engineering curriculum: They exist side-by-side, institutionally parallel as opposed to convergent. Therefore, an element of bait-and-switchremains, but the outlet of creative, synthetic, hands-on design in an intimate, supportive learningenvironment is both present and institutionally legitimated as part of students’ formalizededucational experience. This arrangement challenges the logic of exclusion prevalent within theengineering-only programming by overlaying a logic of engagement on top of the standardfundamentals-first engineering curriculum. Page 26.616.13Since PDI operates outside of Rensselaer’s core engineering curricula, it provides only a