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WEPAN and WIED Joint Panel: Life after Tenure--Leadership Roles in Academia

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Priscilla Nelson, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Patricia Davies, Purdue University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; W. M. Kim Roddis, George Washington University

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Women in Engineering

, Engineering and Mathematics Mentoring from the White House and the 2008 IEEE Education Society Hewlett-Packard/Harriett B. Rigas Award. Dean Schrader received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University, and her M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Systems and Control, both from University of Notre Dame.Patricia Davies, Purdue University Dr. Patricia Davies. Dr. Davies currently serves as a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and director of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories. She joined the faculty at Purdue in 1987. She may be reached at daviesp@ecn.purdue.edu.W. M. Kim Roddis, George Washington University Dr. Kim Roddis. Professor

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Issues of Persistence in Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Ohland, Purdue University; Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego; Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Russell Long, Purdue University; Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Mara Wasburn, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

of pedagogy and the application of community service learning, and inequalities in education, particularly persistence of women and people of color in engineering education.Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. Layton is the Associate Director of the Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education and an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His areas of scholarship include student team management, assessment, education, and remediation, laboratory reform focused on student learning, visualization of quantitative data, and engineering system dynamics. He is a guitarist and songwriter in the alternative rock band

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Teresa Wolcott, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

Addition of a Social Support Network and Community Building ActivitiesAbstractThis paper describes a low-cost, successful program to help retain female EngineeringTechnology students with the ultimate goal of increasing the number of female graduates of ourEngineering Technology programs. This program was started in 2003. The programminginitially focused on academic support in the form of tutoring, formation of study groups andreimbursement for academic laboratory kits. This program did improve retention, but a survey ofour students found that they also desired social support and opportunities to serve thecommunity. Since the addition of programming involving social support and communitybuilding, retention of women students in

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering; Karen Peterman, Goodman Research Group, Inc.

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Women in Engineering

field. Female studentsespecially are turned away by images of engineers as males who work alone in a laboratory [3].Thus, it is important to disseminate accurate pictures of engineering to students of all ages.Programs designed to expose girls to exciting work in engineering fields have had some successin increasing their awareness and accurate mental images of engineering [4]. Ryerson Universitysaw an increase in female enrollment over the years they offered a summer camp that includedactive laboratory projects [4]. An extension of that project included short workshops during theschool year, and although boys and girls had similar knowledge about engineering prior to theworkshop, boys were far more likely than girls to indicate interest in

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Panel: What Funding Agencies Look For

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane Daniels, Henry Luce Foundation; Kathleen Christensen, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Jessie DeAro, National Science Foundation; David Ruth, Elsevier Foundation

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Women in Engineering

; relocation decision-making; anddifficulty in re-entering an interrupted career. In their submissions and reporting to theFoundation, institutions consistently refer to a common set of challenges associated withscholarship in the scientific, technical and medical fields in particular: • the intense and often protracted laboratory or experimental activity together with the need for regular communication with colleagues in the field, • the pre-tenure expectation to establish an international profile, which involves sustained productivity, success in grant funding, and evidence of research impact, and which is often coincident with a peak period of family responsibility, • the critical role that participation in conferences

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Focus on Faculty

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charlie Law, Pennsylvania State University, Schuykill; David Younger, Rice University; Ann Saterbak, Rice University

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Women in Engineering

Bioengineering Department at Rice University. She received her B.A. in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry from Rice University in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1995. In 2007, she won the ASEE Robert G. Quinn Award for Excellence in Laboratory Instruction. Page 14.819.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Investigation of the Underrepresentation of Women in the G. R. Brown Teaching Awards at Rice UniversityAbstractDuring 2000-2007, only three of the 28 unique winners (11%) of the G. R. Brown Award forTeaching

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Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

programreviewed, regardless of their sex, had equal access to facilities, laboratories, research equipment,research opportunities, and programs and benefits offered by the University. Energy’s first reportcontained a great deal of anecdotal information, and the results of conversations with individuals,but little data other than the gender composition of the cohort of graduate students and faculty.The department’s second report did contain more actual data, but still skewed toward reliance onanecdotal reporting. Thus, although Energy found the institutions in compliance with the law, thelack of data and the overall content of the reports makes it difficult to determine the bases forthese findings of compliance. It appears that Energy based its findings