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Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meagan C Pollock, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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. Page 23.544.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Equipping an Army of Ambassadors: A Workshop Model for a STEM Career Speaker's BureauImmersed in a society that is dominated and driven by work, and vulnerable to social influencesof prestige and gender bias, children as young as five years of age begin to postulate what careerthey will one day have[1]. Young people tend to choose professions that are familiar[2], whethertraditions in their family, or professions that have been exposed to them through education andexperience.Most careers in STEM aren't quite as tangible and recognizable as say a teacher, fireman, orprofessional sports player[3, 4], and young women

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosalyn S. Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University; Cindy Jong, University of Kentucky; Donna Joy Dockery; Mary Hermann, Virginia Commonwealth University; Teresa Jones Carter, Virginia Commonwealth University

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American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Pilot Study: An Exploration of the Experiences that Influence Women’s Interest, Pursuit, and Continued Involvement in STEM CareersAbstractWhile longitudinal studies that examine the effects of personal and environmental factors onwomen’s career motivation have been reported in the literature [1] [2], none have provideddepth or breadth of biographical interviewing over the time span of the last two decades. Manyintersecting variables have been identified by empirical research to account for women’scontinued underrepresentation in STEM careers, yet persistence, especially in computer scienceand engineering, remains an issue. Recent studies [3] [4

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Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ziyu Long, Purdue University; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robyn F Wilson, Purdue University; Jennifer C Batra, Purdue University ; Lindsey B. Anderson, Purdue University

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Faculty’s Mentoring Networks Abstract Research on mentoring has expanded from examination of traditional mentor-protégédyads to developmental mentoring networks.20,37 In these network approaches, the emphasis ison a constellation of career developmental and personally supportive relationships to designcareer experiences for focal individuals and to respond to the issues that these focal individuals,or mentees, express.1,15 To study engineering women faculty’ career experiences, we examinetheir egocentric mentoring networks,29 that is, the individuals’ self-reported linkages betweenthemselves (i.e., “ego” or hub of the network) and career developmental “nodes”/mentors. Weuse a mixed methodological

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Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering.Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University Prior to joining the ASU Electrical Engineering faculty in 1990, Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has also consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has published over 200 tech- nical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings – over 60 with students. He has authored three engineering texts on classical controls, linear systems, and multivariable control. Dr. Rodriguez has given over 70

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Women in Engineering (WIED) Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Julia Ziyatdinova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Anastasia Sokolova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy G. Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University

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of women in the technical professions of anengineering university has a number of advantages while presenting many problems. Among themany problems are the following: (1) a lack of career advancement for women in engineeringeducation; (2) a shortage of women in administrative positions with influence in the decisionmaking process; (3) the resurgence of chauvinistic stereotypes for women; and (4) the conflictbetween family and professional life.This paper explores the impact of gender bias in the Russian academic community and assessesthe obstacles for technically trained women in the male dominated Russian university.IntroductionSince 1917 and until the end of the Soviet era, the role of women was very important in theengineering and

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Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susannah Sandrin, Arizona State University; Connie M Borror, Arizona State University West

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Women in Engineering

underrepresented racial/ethnic groups toengineering need to start early and continue throughout the K-12 years, in order to be trulyeffective. Further implications of this study, as well as in-depth analysis of the results for eachengineering sub-discipline, will also be addressed in the paper.Introduction As our nation continues to call for a larger domestic engineering workforce, an untappedresource for new workers exists in our schools in the young women and increasing population ofstudents from underrepresented races and ethnicities. Women and other underrepresentedpopulations are still not pursuing these majors and career fields in numbers representative oftheir status in colleges or in the workforce. How do students select their

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Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University; Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was awarded a CAREER grant in 2010 for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using personal narratives by underrepresented undergraduate students to promote institutional change in engineering education.” She received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012. Page 23.489.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Engaging Foucault to Better Understand Underrepresentation of Female STEM FacultyIntroductionUnderrepresentation of

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Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tamara Bush, Michigan State University; Laura J Genik, Michigan State University

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success by firstworking in such positions in professional and discipline societies as well as understanding theimpacts for early career faculty.Michigan State University was funded through the NSF ADVANCE program for an InstitutionalTransformation Grant. One of the components of this ADVANCE grant focused on women’sleadership. This leadership project had an overarching goal of understanding what factorsmotivated women faculty to become leaders. Within this overarching goal, the women’sleadership team also wanted to better understand the roles their disciplinary/professionalsocieties played in leadership development and advancement.As a beginning step to meet these goals, the women’s leadership team needed to first understandhow women participated

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Institutional Transformations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University

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Women in Engineering

environment. This situation is of particular concern asresearch shows these issues have the greatest apparent impact on women, who often under-represent or altogether deny experiences of discrimination9.  With funding from the NSF ADVANCE Program (Award #0930232), the college hasimplemented a concerted systematic approach to address the issues of climate,retention/promotion and professional development, with the overall goal of implementingprograms, such as mentoring, which will increase employee satisfaction of both sexes andenhance retention rates, with a focus on performance and sustainability.  Theoretical Framework  Social Cognitive Theory10 and the extension of this theory to career development11 and worksatisfaction12,13 provide the underlying

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cate Samuelson, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

building/development in low-income urban and first-ring suburban en- vironments, supporting low-income students in accessing quality educational opportunities and experi- ences, and providing pathways and supports for low-income students and other underrepresented groups to pursue STEM-related careers. Her dissertation study is focused on the role that a community-based organization plays in connecting recent immigrant families living in low-income environments with the schools their children attend. She has worked as a Research Assistant and an Independent Research Con- sultant on a variety of projects, including those focused on educational leadership, STEM education, and academic and social supports for disadvantaged

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Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Fu, MIT; Tahira N Reid, Purdue University; Janis P. Terpenny, Iowa State University; Deborah L. Thurston, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Judy M. Vance, Iowa State University; Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon University; Gloria J. Wiens, University of Florida; Kazem Kazerounian, University of Connecticut; Janet Katherine Allen, University of Oklahoma; Kathy Jacobson

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Women in Engineering

teams; impacts of project choice and context; and the retention and success of under- represented students). She has 9 years of industry work experience with the General Electric Company (GE), including the completion of a 2-year corporate management program. Throughout her career, she has managed over $8 million of sponsored research and is the author of 150 peer-reviewed publications. She is a member and Fellow of IIE, a member and Fellow of ASME, and a member of ASEE, INFORMS, Alpha Pi Mu, and Tau Beta Pi. She serves as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and for the Engineering Economist. She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, in research, and for service.Dr

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Moriarty, National Science Foundation; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Elena Rose Yasinski, Carnegie Mellon University

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College created a pilot job shadow program for women in engineering. Job shadowing is aworkplace-based learning experience that introduces students to career areas and provides theopportunity to spend a day or two observing a professional in the field. The overarching goal ofthe project was to explore the effectiveness of job shadowing by undergraduate womenengineering students as a means of improving interest and persistence in engineering. Shadowparticipants created reflective interest statements, spent a day observing engineeringprofessionals, and reported on their experiences at a panel presentation for their engineeringclassmates. A mixed methods research plan was developed and implemented in order to assessthe impact of the job shadow

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas E. Pinelli, NASA Langley Research Center; Cathy W. Hall, East Carolina University; Kimberly Marie Brush, NASA Langley Research Center; Jeannine B. Perry, Continental Research Associates, Inc.

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world marketplace. For women this is further complicated by the fact oncethey do enter the workforce consistent with their chosen major, they are less likely to remain inthis career field.6 Fouad and Singh6 note that after five years in an engineering career, one out offour women are likely to leave as opposed to only one out of ten men. There are not onlyconcerns in attracting and retaining women as engineering majors at the college/university level,but concerns also in retaining women in engineering career trajectories once they have receivedtheir degree. Research focusing on individual characteristics has suggested that one of the reasons forthe gender disparity in physical sciences and engineering is differences in skill sets between

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer A. Skaggs, American University in Cairo

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engineeringeducation, this study allows for increased understanding of their identity development in relationto their future career choices. For many females, their identity formation during their collegecareer, as they balance being a woman with being an engineer, is precarious resulting in anexodus of females from engineering within the first five years of graduation.This paper will first present the research surrounding evidence of women not participating inengineering, indications of engineering as a socially-constructed masculine environment, and thepurpose of higher education for professional and personal identity development. Secondly, theconceptual framework and research questions driving this study will be provided. Thirdly,Marcia Baxter Magolda’s

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Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melissa A Dagley, University of Central Florida; Nirmala Ramlakhan, Nee-Moh, Inc; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida

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Women in Engineering

iSTEM Dr. Dagley works to promote and enhance collaborative efforts on STEM education and research by bringing together colleges, centers, and institutes on campus, as well as other stakeholders with similar interest in STEM initiatives. Her research interests lie in the areas of student access to edu- cation, sense of community, retention, first-year experience, living-learning communities, and persistence to graduation for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs.Dr. Nirmala Ramlakhan, Nee-Moh, Inc Situated in the unique space straddling both academia and industry, Dr. Ramlakhan uses her 13 years of experience in education, workforce and career development to drive STEM agendas. Currently

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Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Lorelle A Meadows, University of Michigan

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Women in Engineering

of design projects in first-year engineering courses, little research to dateexamines the effect of such courses on student motivation. Broad studies of retention inengineering education show promising results for women and other under-represented studentsin project-based courses2; however, engineering educators need a richer understanding of howspecific project-oriented pedagogies affect students’, and in particular women’s, motivations forengineering and their intended career plans. This study focuses on women because of theircontinued underrepresentation in engineering3, 4 and the need to ensure effective retention effortsin the midst of a movement to enact large-scale curricular transformation in engineering.To address this need, this

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University; Catherine F Pieronek, University of Notre Dame; Leo H McWilliams, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

the research question “To what extent do students who complete undergraduateprograms in engineering intend to pursue engineering careers?”11 Their study consisted ofsurveys and interviews. They found that engineering students who completed an engineeringmajor are not necessarily committed to careers in engineering or even in STEM. They also foundthat, during their undergraduate experience, students’ career options could be disproportionatelyswayed positively or negatively by a single experience. Furthermore, institutional differencesand factors contribute to levels of commitment to engineering careers. Finally, currentengineering graduates entering the workforce do not consider a career choice as a lifetimecommitment.Building on prior

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Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia M Alhasani, The Petroelum Institute

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Women in Engineering

replaced with numerous pioneering womenmoving through the career ladder at a very rapid speed.A second important document, the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 20302, focuses on developing aknowledge-based economy. The document received advice and input from developmentconsultants from Norway, Ireland and New Zealand; specifically, studying these countries’experiences in oil production and recovery, diversified knowledge-based economy, and an exportbase industry respectively. The document states that “the expectation was the creation of a long-term roadmap for economic progress for the Emirate through the establishment of a commonframework aligning all policies and plans and fully engaging the private sector in theirimplementation.”The Abu Dhabi Economic

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Julie Ann Lorah, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

schools.BackgroundThere are various reasons why students may not be attracted to engineering. Students do notnecessarily see engineering as a field where they can work with other people, contribute tosociety, or be creative2,3. In fact, many people don’t really know what engineering is2,3 andbelieve stereotypes and misconceptions, such as thinking that engineers are nerdy and boring3,that engineering means working with machinery2, and even confusing engineers with carmechanics4. Students want to choose careers that involve more creativity and challenge and thatseem more socially relevant3,5.Currently, the economy is in need of more engineers than are available within the United Statesand Europe2 which may be exacerbated by the fact that students are likely

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Institutional Transformations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Christi McGeorge, North Dakota State University ; Cali L. Anicha, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University

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Women in Engineering

Since its inception in 2001, 50 institutions across the country have received a NationalScience Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Institutional Transformational Award. The goal of theNSF ADVANCE program is to increase participation of women in academic science andengineering careers. The ADVANCE FORWARD project, funded by NSF in 2008, seeks todevelop and implement a comprehensive research-driven strategy to increase participation ofwomen in all faculty and academic administrative positions across our institution. Thus,because NSF funding is limited to science and engineering disciplines, funds are provided byour institution to support ADVANCE FORWARD project activities for faculty who are in non-STEM disciplines. ADVANCE FORWARD’s approach to

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Courtney S Smith-Orr, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

-efficacy. In 2010, Joneset al. found mixed results in a study of first-year engineering students, with no statisticallysignificant differences associated with attainment, interest, utility, identification, or career-plans;although men did score higher with respect to self-efficacy and expectancy, the difference wassignificant only for expectancy10.In a related study, Jones et al. found few differences between men and women with respect toengineering identification, gender identification, GPA, or likelihood of changing major, andwomen reported higher perceptions of engineering ability11. The analysis also indicated noeffects for stereotype threat; notably, however, although both men and women scored relativelylow with respect to endorsing negative

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Institutional Transformations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University

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, methodology, findings, andconclusions and implications are presented.Background The relatively low number of tenured and tenure-track female faculty in STEM fieldscontinues to be a concern for universities and colleges, and for good reason. In a report by theCommittee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering,Beyond Bias and Barriers, the following summary findings were asserted: 1. Women have the ability and drive to succeed in science and engineering. 2. Women who are interested in science and engineering careers are lost at every Page 23.1088.2 educational transition. 3. The problem is not simply

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Panel: Opportunities & Methods to Encourage More Women Toward Research Commercialization

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Babs Carryer, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Abby Thompson, Mississippi State University ; Louise C. Dunlap, DunlapBrowder

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation, Women in Engineering

Paper ID #8192Panel: Opportunities & Methods to Encourage more Women Toward Re-search CommercializationDr. Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne Minerick received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and B.S. from Michigan Technological University in 1998. Adrienne’s research interests include electrokinetics, predominantly dielectrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microde- vices. She earned a 2007 NSF CAREER award, has published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2006), Lab on a Chip, and had an AIChE

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Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann Sharon Lourens, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Port Elizabeth South Africa

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addition to responding to the input of the various stakeholders.2.1 Existing WELA programmme Page 23.1180.3At the time of writing this article, WELA had been in existence for two years (2011-2012). TheWELA junior programme was offered in 2011 and the WELA senior programme was presentedfor the first time in 2012. At the end of 2012, it was decided to combine the junior and seniorprograms into one programme, namely, the WELA LDP.The existing WELA co-curricular interventions and workshops were designed in partnershipwith the Student Counseling and Career Development Centre (SCCDC). The underlying premiseof the co-curricular interventions and workshops

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Institutional Transformations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen J. Horton PE, University of Maine; Amy Fried, University of Maine ; Mary Madden, University of Maine

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Women in Engineering

careers; however,identifying and tracking these had not resulted in improved situations at most of thoseinstitutions.1 Prior to submitting the proposal similar documentation efforts had been ongoing atthe University of Maine. A 1992 internal report proposed ways to increase women faculty inscience and engineering. In 2003 the Office of Equal Opportunity concluded that for facultymembers hired in the 1980’s, men were significantly more likely to have been promoted toProfessor. One major issue identified in the literature involves the persistence of implicit biases,which are held by both women and men and which lead to individuals privileging male faculty

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Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Joshua M Frey, Elizabethtown College

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Women in Engineering

women and different ethnic engineers is not the correct solution. While there are a low percentage of women and different ethnic engineers, I believe that they made a choice to choose another profession rather than they felt pressured to not be a STEM career.” “Pertaining to diversity in the engineering field, I feel that we have little impact on that. Maybe ten to thirty years ago, there might have been some real prejudice against women or minorities in the classroom or the fact that they feel like they wouldn't be as good as men. However, in today's age, I feel like those barriers are almost down. I don't often hear things like, "He's smarter because he's white." An individual is more intelligent based on nothing more

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Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen B. Coletti, Northeastern University; Melinda Covert, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Lauren Gianino, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Emily Wisniewski, Northeastern University

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to beginning his faculty career in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he co-founded Automated Cell, Inc. He has been a Visiting Professor of Bioengineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering as well as a Visiting Scholar in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He also has led R&D teams at Organogenesis Inc. and Polymerix Corporation developing tissue-engineered medical products and drug- generating biodegradable polymers, respectively. He has been the recipient of an Early Career Develop- ment Award from the NSF, a Searle Scholar Award, and the first Whitaker Young Investigator Award and is the inventor on seven issued US patents. He currently is the

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorelle A Meadows, University of Michigan; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan

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Women in Engineering

STEM than women41, 42, and that thispersists despite lower academic gaps between men and women43. The self-efficacy gap has beenfound to be partly responsible for the lower number of women pursuing careers in the STEMfields44.It is important to note that recent qualitative investigations of the influence of first-yearengineering student experience on student beliefs in self-efficacy show that students repeatedlyevaluate their success by assessing performance comparisons with their peers45. This use ofvicarious experiences in the development of self-efficacy is particularly important for peoplewho have little or no prior personal experience upon which to draw, characteristic of first yearengineering students. In particular, many of these

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ann Marie Blasick, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

for Analysts of Undergraduate Careers, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Washington, D.C.; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.8. Seymour, E., and Hewitt, N.M., Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1997.9. Espinosa, L. L., “Pipelines and Pathways: Women of Color in Undergraduate STEM Majors and the College Experiences that Contribute to Persistence,” Harvard Educational Review