Conference Session

Focus on Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Soumya Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Anurag Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University

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Women in Engineering

diagnostic applications. She recently was voted to be the Graduate Ambassador for Chemical Engineering Department at MSU and also has won an award for maximum number of publications in a year. She is associated with Medical microDevice Engineering Laboratory (M.D.-ERL) at MSU working under Dr. Adrienne Minerick. Soumya is an active member of AIChE, AES, ASEE, SWE and Sigma-Xi.Anurag Srivastava, Mississippi State University Anurag K. Srivastava received his Ph.D. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, in 2005, M. Tech. from Institute of Technology, India in 1999 and B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, India in 1997. He is working as

Conference Session

Retaining Women Engineering Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech; Peggy Meszaros, Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

individual factorsamong female students in order to improve retention should consider diversifying theirapproach so that environmental factors such as the practices and policies that applydirectly to the classroom experience are attended to as well. Laboratory and groupassignments may be a particularly critical nexus in shaping interest in engineering, bothin communicating the social and economic significance of the subject matter andacceptable ways for individuals to work together that communicate respect and care ofindividual’s commitment and ability to be successful as an engineer. These are examplesof practices raised in the context of accelerating the presence of women in engineering,but whose effects contribute positively to men’s interest in

Conference Session

Retaining Women Engineering Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Stephanie Jaros, University of Washington; Suzanne Brainard, University of Washington; Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

Robinson14 concluded that women were more successful in theclassroom than in the laboratory which coincides with findings from Brainard, Metz andGilmore15 that indicated women were less comfortable using lab equipment than were men.Based on data from 400 undergraduate engineering students at the University of California atDavis, Sax16 found both men and women believed their professors to be fair and were equallycomfortable requesting help from instructors outside of class. Thirty percent of women but only15 percent of men, however, indicated they were uncomfortable participating in class and alsoconcerned with whether or not they would complete their engineering degrees.Since the 1982 report “The Campus Climate: A Chilly One for Women?”, study after

Conference Session

How to Get Published: Tips from Journal Editors

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

Konseyi(MDK). The journal focuses exclusively on scholarly educational research in engineering Page 15.656.3education. We offer a large international readership and a highly cited archive. Its articles covera wide range of subjects including what knowledge and competencies engineers must possessand how they are learned and assessed, how educational methods, materials, infrastructure, andfaculty affect learning, and how to attract, engage, and retain diverse human talent to engineeringDr. Susan Lord directs the Optoelectronics Laboratory at USD. Her research interests are in theareas of optoelectronics and materials. She has worked as a Research

Conference Session

ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Grant, North Carolina State University; Jessica Decuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University; Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of twenty-two African American women engineering faculty was held to discuss the challenges andbarriers that affect the tenure and promotion process. The discussion led to the identification ofsix significant factors affecting successful attainment of tenure for Black women faculty inparticular. The most important factor identified by the senior faculty within the group waseffective mentoring. Other factors included support of the home department, community support,and existing laboratory infrastructure. While there were no real surprises from this survey, thelack of resources to follow-up with the group to effect change caused this initiative to go intohibernation. (It should be noted that Dr. Mead was a member of the Leadership Task Force