Engaging Freshmen Women in Research – Feedback from Students and Best Practices for FacultyIntroductionIncreasing the participation of diverse populations in engineering and technology fields is achallenge for many universities. A significant means to address this issue is to increase theparticipation of women students. However, this can prove to be challenging. In a studyconducted by Marra and Bogue,1 it was found that although women engineering students enterthe university with high levels of self-confidence and self-esteem, those levels decline quicklyduring the first year. They also found through their research, that the initial levels were neverregained. One method to help retain diversity in engineering and technology
vary based on a respondent’s gender?Analysis of the research data generated by the survey is designed to contribute to a collectiveunderstanding of emerging themes regarding perceptions that pertain to female challenges andopportunities within the industry. Furthermore, the research is designed to identify areas ofdisparity between male and female observations and provide recommendations for areas offuture research.2. Literature ReviewDespite strides in gender equality gender division within occupational choices still stronglyexists where women are underrepresented in male-dominated fields and men underrepresented infemale-dominated fields [11]. A recent study in Japan shows that female-to-male ratios ofemployees correlate to gender
panel brings together a group of men with diverse backgrounds and experiences to discusstheir perspectives and offer practical skills for men to effectively serve as advocates for genderequity. This paper augments the panel and captures the backgrounds, experiences, perspectives,and recommendations of the panelists, thereby providing a lasting resource for those unable toattend the panel or future interested individuals. The information we present targets men andadministrators, who will better understand the barriers to advocacy, learn best-practices ofeffective advocacy, and hear first-hand experiences of successful advocacy.BackgroundMany factors – systemic and non-systemic, conscious and unconscious, policy and climate – cannegatively impact
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; specifically, the cost modeling and analysis of product development and manufacturing systems; and computer-aided design methodology.Dr. Lisa Abrams, The Ohio State University Dr. Lisa Abrams is currently the Associate Chair for the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University (OSU). She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mechanical Engineer- ing and PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Ohio State. She has seven years of industry experience in the areas of Design and Consulting. Her research focuses on the recruitment, retention, and success of undergraduate students, especially those populations who are under-represented in engineering. She has developed and taught a wide variety of
committee. The facilitator also reminded the committeemembers to be respectful of what is and was within the control of the advisory committee.The committee provided considerable input that was distilled to the following vision.Vision • Our University is the BEST place for women in engineering and computing because it leverages world class best practices to recruit, retain, and graduate women, setting alumni up for lifelong success. • On our journey to achieve equity for women, the Women’s Advisory Committee continues to be a resource to the administration, faculty, students, and graduates. • Recruitment Vision: Incoming classes in the college include women at world class levels of representation, • Retention Vision
learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Prof. JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder JoAnn Silverstein is a Professor in Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has a BA in Psychology (Stanford University), BS, MS, and PhD in Civil Engineering (University of California, Davis) and is a registered Professional Engineer (Colorado). Her research interests are Water and wastewater treatment process analysis
Paper ID #27131Increasing Graduate School Enrollment of Female Industrial Engineers throughCUREsMs. Leslie Potter, Iowa State University Leslie Potter is a Senior Lecturer in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at Iowa State University. She served as Co-Chair of the IMSE Undergraduate Research Program for six years. She currently teaches courses on information engineering, programming, and process improve- ments. Her research interests include the impact of undergraduate research, engineering and professional skill integration, and teaching effectiveness.Dr. Richard Stone, Iowa State University
universities to help freshmen and upper-classmen succeed in challenging college courses. SI can consist of peer tutoring, instructor officehours, review sessions, study groups, or any combination of these. Students who use SI havebeen shown to earn higher term and cumulative grade point averages (GPA’s) as well as moretimely graduation rates than their peers who do not utilize SI.. [3] [4] [5] It also has been shown thatthere is a statistically significant correlation between higher term GPA’s and more time spent inSI. [2] [6] “The U.S. Department of Education has designated SI as an Exemplary Educational Practice and has validated the following three research findings: Students participating in SI within the targeted
improve society, yet less than 100 people had read it. It felt like the effortwasn’t having the impact that I wanted. Further, there had been a couple of experiences atconferences in my professional field where other researchers dismissed or diminished ourgroup’s work. I was experiencing Imposter Phenomena9 episodes during conferences that hailedback to my days in graduate school. My students and I had recently received a scathing,unprofessional review for a manuscript10 and my satisfaction with the research treadmillplummeted, I came to the conclusion that I should instead focus on commercializing our workso that it didn’t remain buried in the literature and could be translated to improve society. Thesecond conclusion I came to was that if my
reform effort risks being undermined by the curricular and cultural practices thatpervasively shape student experience and outcomes and drive away too many could-be engineerswith diverse interests, aptitudes, lived experiences, and values.PDI’s response to the bait-and-switch problem employs design-oriented logics of engagement inparallel with the fundamentals-first approach, which provides a partial corrective to the logic ofexclusion. This configuration offers educators new avenues for thinking about explicit andimplicit connections between the design-centric emphasis in K-12 and the content-driven modelof fundamentals first. Moving forward, we hope to conduct empirical research using participantobservation and interviews to compare students
‘bio-char modified cement pastes’ research experience program at anHBCU. This program was part of a broader one-year science, technology, engineering, arts, andmathematics (STEAM) ACTIVATED! program funded through a 2018 Engineering InformationFoundation (EiF) grant. The four research questions for this qualitative study are: 1. To what extent did research experiences contribute to the engineering and technology knowledge of minority middle school girls? 2. What were the salient learning experiences of minority middle-school girls? 3. How did the various research and learning activities impact the self-efficacy of minority middle-school girls? 4. Beyond this program, what actions will minority middle-school girls take to
at a job site. Further, these jobs take place during thesummer, and involves full-time, paid work with a variety of companies. Internships andcooperative opportunities (although the latter are not discussed in this paper) have long beenlauded as a meaningful practice for increasing student retention in computer science andengineering [14]. In fact, some research has found that a single internship experience cansometimes mean the difference between taking a job after graduation or choosing another field[15]. Generally, these experiences are representative of what a student might be doing in thefield as they learn the various tools, practices, and workflows of industry. Beyond hands-onpractice in the field, in a 2013 study, Samuelson and
Identity Formation, Research in Science Education, vol. 43, issue 5, p.1979-2007 (October, 2013).17. Schultz, L.A., Barriers for Wilmot High School Female Students not Enrolling in the Mechanical Design Technology Program at Gateway Technical College, Thesis, University of Wisconsin, http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/lib/thesis/2011/2011schultzl.pdf (2011).18. Tully, D., Jacobs, B., Effects of Single-Gender Mathematics Classrooms on Self-Perception of Mathematical Ability and Post-Secondary Engineering Paths: An Australian Case Study, European Journal of Engineering Education, 35:4, 455-467 (2010).19. Wee, S.; Cordova-Wentling, R.M.; Korte, R.F.; Larson, S.M.; Loui, M.C., Why Many Smart Women Leave Engineering: A
women graduates of our undergraduate programs. We also createda diversity page on the department website with an inclusive statement and a series of videosfeaturing women graduates of our undergraduate programs. As an affiliate of BRAID in 2020,we are also learning best practices from peer institutions with a historical record of improvingthe representation of women within their programs.Results from Culture ChangeOur department is seeing a sustained growth from our efforts in both the number and percentageof undergraduate degrees awarded to women. The percentage of all undergraduate degreesawarded has grown from 9.8% in academic year 2012-13 to 16.1% in academic year 2019-20,increasing monotonically except for 2016 (Figure 1). This translates
150 journal papers and refereed conference articles. Bugallo is a senior member of the IEEE, serves on several of its technical committees and is the current chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Committee. She has been part of the technical committee and has organized various professional conferences and workshops. She has received several prestigious research and education awards including the award for Best Paper in the IEEE Signal Pro- cessing Magazine 2007 as coauthor of a paper entitled ”Particle Filtering,” the IEEE Outstanding Young Engineer Award (2009), for development and application of computational methods for sequential signal processing, the IEEE Athanasios Papoulis Award (2011
95.8 Others## Others includes non-white students who are not classified as underrepresented.Survey design and disseminationThe survey described in this paper was distributed to both undergraduate and graduate students.We recruited participants studying civil or architectural engineering at U.S. universities. Thesurvey targeted students with at least junior standing, to ensure that they had substantialengineering-related course experiences. At the graduate level, we targeted solely studentspursuing degrees in the area of structural engineering.The web-based survey was designed according to best practices in survey design, in terms ofvisual arrangement, types, and organization of questions and compatibility with multiple webbrowsers13
in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted by email at
Paper ID #32649”This is a Very Male Job”: Challenges Encountered by Females DuringRecruitment and Hiring for Engineering Jobs in QatarSara Amani, Texas A&M University Sara Amani is a PhD student at Texas A&M University studying Interdisciplinary Engineering with a focus on Engineering Education and is currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant with Dr. Sara Hillman at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). In addition, she also works at the Center for Teaching & Learning at TAMUQ as a Writing, Communications, and Multimedia (WCM) Consultant and regularly provides workshops to engineering
professions faculty to implement a book club discussion for incoming students,” Journal of the Medical Library Association, vol. 107, no. 3, pp 403-410, 2019.[11] H.I.R. Scott, “Toward a Greater Understanding: Utilizing Book Discussions to Effectively Engage Students in the Exploration of Women and Leadership Issues,” Journal of Leadership Education, vol. 15 no. 2, pp 31-37, 2016. doi:10.12806/V15/I2/A1[12] D. Burbank, D. Kauchak, and A.J. Bates, “Book Clubs as Professional Development Opportunities for Preservice Teacher Candidates and Practicing Teachers: An Exploratory Study,” The New Educator, vol. 6, pp 56-73, 2010.[13] K. Luchini-Colbry and J. Rojewski, ““Leaning In” by Leaving the Lab: Building Graduate Community
Paper ID #15210The Changing Role of Professional Societies for AcademicsDr. Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University Gretchen Hein is a senior lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Tech. She have been teaching ENG3200, Thermo-Fluids since 2005. She also teaches first-tear engineering classes. She has been active in incorporating innovative instructional methods into all course she teaches. Her research areas also include why students persist in STEM programs and underrepresented groups in engineering.Dr. Daniela Faas, Harvard University Dr. Faas is currently the Senior Preceptor in Design Instruction
observed, witnessed, and learned through direct contact with communitycollege students. It is also consistent with the broader context of literature and best practices forsupporting women in STEM and specifically for supporting community college women inSTEM.Effects of Community on Community College Women in STEMPVWIS events and activities instill a sense of belonging for community college women andserve as positive first encounters with a professional peer community. Such connections are rareon the community college campus, unlike at elite baccalaureate institutions or researchuniversities with strong ties to alumni/ae and industry and research agendas that cultivate strongexternal partnerships with professional communities. While community
, including high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, and practicing engineers and scientists • Regular opportunities through middle school and high school to reconnect with program peers and role models at reunions, as a staff member, or through other university programsFrom the perspectives of Camp Reach participants in one study (Demetry & Sontgerath, 2013),the program elements with the most lasting positive impact were returning to the program as astaff member, the prevalence of role models, and the teamwork infused in all activities.The selection of Camp Reach participants was designed to enable creation and tracking of aControl group. The application requires only an essay; no measures
: • Department/College-level creation, implementation, and dissemination of Best Practices and Professional Development Models Page 26.162.108 • Leadership-in-Action type grants designed to support grass-roots efforts, organizational development, website construction, research to inform change, or other self-identified areas of need • Sponsorship of keynote speakers and workshops on topics such as building transparency, negotiating dual-career hires, the changing funding environment, establishing career goals, network development, unconscious bias, best practices in recruiting, and broader impact issues5. CONNECT GRANTS
wereassistant professors on tenure track, assistant teaching professors, and assistant librarians. Thegroup now consists of tenured professors, associate professors, librarians, and two of theUniversity’s first teaching professors that have been promoted to the associate level.This paper will explore best practices for forming and maintaining similar peer mentor groups.Topics covered will include group composition, meeting structure, process for new membership,and group expectations. Themes that the group has grappled with include teaching strategies atvarious scales in STEM, mentoring graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, cultivatinghealthy relationships with colleagues and collaborators, navigating university politics as womenin STEM
, administrative, and informal systems of power and resources to support and sustain progress by shaping the political frameworks that impact representation and advancement of women. 4. Enhance the working environment and support career advancement for women faculty using symbolic measures which emphasize issues of meaning within the organization.One initiative in the AdvanceRIT project is a professional development workshop series called theConnectivity Series. The Connectivity Series integrates practices that promote and advance womenfaculty by offering professional development for faculty that relate to the themes of retention,recruitment and advancement. Workshops and panel sessions are designed to developcompetencies such as
interviews. The book, Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing (MIT Press, 2012) has been published and the transcripts are now available….3 The interviews and the book are focused on some of the same issues raised in the current project discussed in this paper, understanding the pathways and barriers for women pursuing careers in engineering, and serve as complementary material.4In our STEM Oral History Project, the IEEE Historians provide training to the students in oralhistory, a technique to record recollections of interviewees for posterity.6-9 The procedures in thisproject follow the best practices established by the Oral History Association.8 We use themethodology of oral history because oral
integrated into existingprogrammatic structures for female engineering students, including Living-LearningCommunities and mentoring programs. This preliminary analysis, to set the stage for futureresearch, details the incorporation and impact of coaching in a seminar course while also layinggroundwork for addressing multiple research gaps in these areas: gender and coaching,13application of coaching in higher education,20 development of self-confidence withinprofessional roles and how educational programs can foster this,8 and preparing femaleengineering students for the transition to the workforce/graduate school with the aim ofincreasing their retention in said professions. As a means of identifying future possibleframeworks for further study of
and with that lost opportunities for networking, gender bias from bothprofessors and male peers, less research opportunities and trainings for females, lack of supportand mentorship, particularly in terms of female role models and interaction with alumnae, andthe lack of participation and advocacy for women in the Society of Women Engineers as themain aspects affecting them within TAMUQ. These institutional challenges are compounded byindustry-wide practices in Qatar that are detrimental for women engineers. Participants, in thisrespect, indicated perceptions of companies not accepting female employees and not sponsoringfemales to study engineering, a prevalence of gender bias and disparity, and cultural expectationsaffecting women in the
, the program waslaunched with an initial class of approximately 100 first-year students in fall of2016.Building a new school of engineering affords a number of unique opportunities,including the chance to develop a program based on best practices, engineeringeducation research, and the recommendations of national reports such as"Educating the Engineer of 2020,"1 among others. It also provides the opportunityto recruit and graduate a more diverse cohort of engineers, by taking into accountresearch on attracting and retaining a broad spectrum of students. Given the dean’spersonal passion about and expertise in creating a culture of success for a broadspectrum of students, diversity was quickly added to the list of program goals.Those goals