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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Daniela Faas, Harvard University; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Rebecca M. Reck, Kettering University; Mary C. Verstraete, The University of Akron; Deborah J. O'Bannon P.E., University of Missouri, Kansas City
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council
Tagged Divisions
Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering
track, ● support networking of these and other members, ● development of a STEM pipeline of female STEM academics.SWE, like other professional societies, recognizes the significance of mentoring, relationships,and retention of like-minded engineers. In the case of this discussion, it has been recognized fordecades that female STEM faculty benefit from mentoring due to their unique position inacademia.1 Not only are there issues based on gender, but female STEM faculty are often part ofa non-traditional group, which may include older, minority, and disabled women. Due to thenature of this paper, we will consider these topics as appropriate, but will focus on retention ofwomen in academia, support from other professional societies, networking
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
J. Kasi Jackson, West Virginia University ; Joel Alejandro Mejia, Angelo State University; Maja Husar Holmes, West Virginia University; Rachel R. Stoiko, West Virginia University
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
Paper ID #14811Dialogues Toward Gender Equity: Engaging Engineering Faculty to Promotean Inclusive Department ClimateJ. Kasi Jackson, West Virginia University Dr. J. Kasi Jackson is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at West Virginia University. Her research covers supporting women faculty in STEM, STEM education, gendered impacts on animal behavior research, and the representation of science in popular culture. She completed her PhD in biology, with a focus on animal behavior, and graduate certificate in women’s studies at the University of Kentucky. She is a Co-Investigator on a National Science
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; James A Middleton, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University; Robert J Culbertson, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Yong Seok Park, Arizona State University; Bethany B Smith, Arizona State University
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Engineering Deans Council
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship be- tween educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co-developer of the Re- formed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1500 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Prof. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COS); DeLois Kijana Crawford, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wendy A. Dannels, Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID)
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council
Tagged Divisions
Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering
Paper ID #15411Connectivity at RIT - Developing & Delivering an Effective Professional De-velopment Workshop Series for Women Faculty in STEMProf. Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Professor Dell is an associate professor in the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology department at RIT. She serves as the Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty and is co-PI for RIT’s NSF ADVANCE project. Her research interests include: characterization of biodegradable plastics and environmental consideration in materials selection for production design, the impact of technology paired
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rachel Yonemura, University of Washington ; Denise Wilson, University of Washington
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
Paper ID #16882Exploring Barriers in the Engineering Workplace: Hostile, Unsupportive,and Otherwise Chilly ConditionsRachel Yonemura , University of Washington Rachel Yonemura is currently working on her B.S. in Environmental Science and Resource Management at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She has been working at the University as a Re- search Assistant under Dr. Denise Wilson on projects regarding the Engineering Workplace as well as E-waste Sustainability. Motivation for these projects stem from an interest in public discourse and the interrelationships that occur among people of different
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Deborah Ilana Karpman, University of California San Diego
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
Paper ID #14763Leaning into Engineering: Tenured Women Faculty and the Policies and Pro-grams that Support ThemDr. Deborah Ilana Karpman, University of California San Diego Deborah Karpman currently works as an administrator at the University of California San Diego in the Office of Research Affairs coordinating limited submission opportunities. Prior to that, she directed the planning and coordination of efforts to increase the external recognition of faculty in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation (UCLA, 2015), ”Leaning into Engineering: Tenured Women Faculty and
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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Strategies Beyond the Classroom to Tackle Gender Issues
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Katherine G Nelson, Arizona State University; Susan Shapcott, University of Bath ; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
allowed for themes to emerge from the data in a ‘bottom-up’ inductive approach. When approaching the interviews inductively, themes were drawn fromthe data without a theoretical reference in mind, similar to grounded theory research methods.8Therefore, we sought to find descriptions related to our participants’ perceptions of women inengineering without using existing general theories for women in engineering. Thesedescriptions were then formed into general themes that captured the essence of our participants’perceptions of being a woman in engineering. Nelson interpreted the interviews with knowledgeof the engineering culture, whereas Shapcott, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in educational psychology,framed it with a gendered motivational lens
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Changing Engineering Culture
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rui (Celia) Pan, Toyota Financial Services; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E Foor, University of Oklahoma; Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
Paper ID #14975Barriers to Broadening Participation in Engineering Competition TeamsRui (Celia) Pan, Toyota Financial Services Dr. Pan is currently working as a sales, product and remarketing analyst at Toyota Financial Services. She received her Ph.D in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She hold a M.S. in Statistics and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.Dr. Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma Dr. Randa L. Shehab is a professor and the Director of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. She was recently appointed as Director of the Sooner Engineering Education
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Strategies Beyond the Classroom to Tackle Gender Issues
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jason Bazylak, University of Toronto; Ruth A Childs, University of Toronto; Aimy Bazylak, University of Toronto
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
phrases that come to mind when you hear Engineer? Be honest and don’t over think it.”In an effort to identify if differing secondary student perceptions were a factor in the largediscrepancy in female enrollment between disciplines, this question was repeated three times, butwith Chemical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, and Civil Engineer specified. For example,“What are the first three descriptive words or phrases that come to mind when you hearMechanical Engineer? Be honest and don’t over think it.” These three disciplines were selectedbecause they are three of the original, long-standing, engineering disciplines with vastly differentfemale enrollments. Chemical engineering had high female enrollment, mechanical engineeringhad low enrollment
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Strategies Beyond the Classroom to Tackle Gender Issues
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nora Madjar, University of Connecticut; Bryan Douglas Huey, University of Connecticut; Leslie M. Shor, University of Connecticut
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
home.MethodsThe goal of our research is to shed some more light on the importance of some of the factorsdiscussed above for choosing engineering as a major and to examine their differential and uniqueeffects on the choice of women and men. With this in mind, we surveyed 806 freshmen andsophomore students at a public university, enrolled in biology, engineering and business classes,and asked them a series of questions about their choice of a major. Out of the 806 students whoparticipated, 752 provided complete responses to all survey questions and their demographics arereflected in Table 2. This institution is a public state university classified as R1(Highest researchactivity) by the Carnegie classification and offers a wide range of undergraduate
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Changing Engineering Culture
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kylie Denise Stoup, James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
Paper ID #16129Engineering Students’ Self-Concept Differentiation: Investigation of Identity,Personality, and Authenticity with Implications for Program RetentionMs. Kylie Denise Stoup, James Madison University Kylie Stoup is a senior honors engineering student at James Madison University. Ms. Kylie Stoup grad- uates with a BS in Engineering in May 2016. She is in the second year of her 2-year-long engineering capstone project so far, involving the design and implementation of a greenway system in Harrisonburg. Her career interests include transportation infrastructure and city planning with a focus in social equity, as
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Changing Engineering Culture
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lisa Abrams, Ohio State University; Suzanne Grassel Shoger, The Ohio State University; Lauren Corrigan, Ohio State University; Steven Y. Nozaki, Ohio State University; Mitsu Narui, The Ohio State University Multicultural Center; Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
. Also why allies are important in diversity/inclusion efforts. Simply put, awareness of the extent, complexity, and purpose of problem. I gained insight on topic from a white man's perspective. I gained confidence in having good balanced values towards underrepresented groups. I learned a lot from this experience about the prevalence of women being disenfranchised in the engineering environment and about what it means to have privileges as a white male, and what I can do to help. Whole new insight about how women feel, what things are inappropriate. I still have a lot I need to work on. Experience has opened my mind to a lot. Gained a new perspective from hearing so many different people speak. Feel way more educated about the experiences
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Changing Engineering Culture
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
Paper ID #17160Gaining Insights into the Effects of Culturally Responsive Curriculum onHistorically Underrepresented Students’ Desire for Computer ScienceMs. Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley Omoju Miller is the lead researcher on the ”Hiphopathy” project at UC Berkeley. She has an undergrad- uate degree in Computer Science (2001) and a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2004) from the University of Memphis. She has over a decade of experience in the technology indus- try. She is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley in Computer Science Education. Omoju also served in a volunteer capacity as an advisor to
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Development Opportunities for Diverse Engineering Students
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Allie Copeland, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering
&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam is an Associate professor with Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. She teaches classes on strategic relationships for industrial distribution, distribu- tion information systems and new directions in Industrial Distribution. She is also the founding faculty and advisor for the Society of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID). She works on many service learning projects with her students where they work with many local community agencies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Women in Industrial Distribution: emerging opportunities and challenges for female college
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Pre-college Programs for Women
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University; Aimee Cloutier, Texas Tech University; Guo Zheng Yew, Texas Tech University; Maeghan Marie Brundrett, Texas Tech University; Dylan Christenson, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Pre-College Engineering Education Division, Women in Engineering
graduation. Somestudents also described their enjoyment of the camp, particularly the chance to learn from peersand make social contacts with a group of like-minded students.Concluding Remarks The design of E-GIRL curriculum successfully excited female students about engineeringcareers. The structure and activities provided participants with a unique opportunity toexperience a week as an engineering undergraduate student both academically and socially.Interactive lessons and the group project introduced students to engineering problems and currentproblems engineers (hydraulic fracturing) are working to solve. Since female students tend toprefer problem solving with real world and social connections,5 a project focused on hydraulicfracturing, a
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Pre-college Programs for Women
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Amy J Moll, Boise State University; Catherine Rose Bates, Institute for STEM & Diversity Initiatives
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Pre-College Engineering Education Division, Women in Engineering
2005, and which has been held annually since that time. The outreachevent takes place in Boise, Idaho, and at the time of its onset was the only outreach or campactivity in the state focused on girls or young women. Across ten years, 510 total girls haveparticipated, with approximately 85% of them coming from the immediate metropolitan area.The program was developed with a mind toward marketing engineering as an exciting, creativeactivity; including activities developed specifically from that perspective.1 The specific topic ofthis paper is an investigation into the motivation for volunteers and students to support thisprogram. Our hypothesis is that, in particular, the women found this an experience that helped tocreate community among like
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jennifer L. Groh, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering
Paper ID #15120Gender in the Workplace: Peer Coaching to Empower Women in the Class-room and as ProfessionalsDr. Jennifer L. Groh, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Groh joined the Purdue Women in Engineering Program (WIEP) in 2009. She received a B.S. in microbiology from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to joining WIEP, she was the Graduate Programs Coordinator in the Purdue Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. As Associate Director of WIEP, Dr. Groh administers the undergraduate Mentee & Mentor Program and the Graduate Mentoring Program, teaches two Women in
Conference Session
Listening and Negotiation
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University; Kim LaScola Needy P.E., University of Arkansas; Cheryl B. Schrader, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Continuing Professional Development, Engineering Leadership Development Division, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering
Paper ID #15160Listening and NegotiationDr. Janet Callahan, Boise State University Janet Callahan is Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University. Dr. Callahan received her Ph.D. in Materials Science, her M.S. in Metallurgy, and her B.S. in Chemical En- gineering from the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include institutional change, women in engineering, mathematics, and materials science and engineering.Dr. Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Mary Besterfield-Sacre is an Associate Professor and Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow in Industrial