Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Western Michigan University; Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University ; Daniel Collier, Western Michigan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

such as the lackof self-confidence and fear of not getting accepted in their departments, which do not relate totheir abilities15, and perhaps cause women students to drop out earlier in the program25. Felder etal.35 found that women were more likely to have transferred out in good standing and muchmore likely to have transferred out after failing a course Generally, lower levels of self-efficacyinfluences attrition rates15,47 and women students have poor self-efficacy than men students41. Self-efficacy may be interplaying with academic motivation in determiningpersistence20. Litzler and Young22 provide three constructs for academic motivation – ‘At-Riskof Attrition’, ‘Committed with Ambivalence’ and ‘Committed’. While they found women