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

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

% to 71% with an average of 41 % frompre-post results. The Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and NonprofitLeadership Community Research Institute (CRI) at Grand Valley State University istracking the long term educational choices of girls from the first three years using followup assessments in 10th and 12th grades, and two years after graduation. Results from thefirst year are encouraging, with 65% of the participants demonstrating an interest instudying more science, mathematics and technology, and an impressive 50% intending tomajor in a STEM related field. A limitation of our work is that these students may havepre-selected themselves which may skew our data.This paper presents preliminary findings which include the campers

Conference Session

The Academic Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Young, Syracuse University; John Tillotson, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

number of senior women faculty members hadchildren before they were awarded tenure and did not take extra time; some even went up fortenure consideration early.Climate related to collaborations within mechanical engineering departmentsCollaborations on grants and publicationsSenior female engineering faculty members recalled that prior to earning tenure, they were oftenadvised to do their research alone and only publish with their graduate students as co-authors toavoid the appearance that they may be unable to do their job independently. When I came here, one piece of advice I was given was be careful how much you collaborate, because when you go up for tenure, if you and big shot professor X have a joint proposal and joint