Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sumaia Ali Raisa, West Virginia University; Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

inengineering education focusing on women in engineering. We considered the context ofinclusive curriculum and showed the importance of a sense of belonging in developingengineering identity. Sense of belonging is a salient factor that enhances in-group feelingsthat confirm group membership and help develop stronger identity with the group [19]. Whileplanning and designing an intervention for empowering women in engineering classrooms, itshould be kept in mind whether the intervention is able to foster a sense of belonging in away that women feel they are a part of the engineering community. Strengthening groupdynamics can help minimize climate effects. So, interventions should be designed aroundincreasing women students’ belongingness in an

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Christine Delahanty, Bucks County Community College ; Jason Silverman, Drexel University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

support from role models (extrinsic) were major factors inhelping participants break barriers to engineering. L4 described how concepts didn’t come easyto her, “I just tend to work harder, but I had to work harder because I didn't come this natural tome as it would come to them” (L4). M5 struggled greatly in her calculus course and overcamethat as a barrier, “I started working really hard… I liked putting in hard work and seeing that Ican, I can get smarter and I can learn things if I put my mind to it” (M5). Barriers included thetraditional male dominated STEM classroom. M5 went on to describe challenges in a maledominated classroom that included both high school and her college experience, “I'm kind of lefton my own. I don't really get a

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lisa Abrams, Ohio State University; Adithya Jayakumar, Ohio State University; Lucille Sheppard, Ohio State University; Amy Kramer P.E., Ohio State University; Toni M. Calbert, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Dakota StateUniversity [26] where a network of trained men faculty work with other men faculty to promotegender equity on campus.Inclusive Leadership Cohort Structure (Autumn 2019)Based on the success of the Inclusive Leadership Course, it was decided to offer the course tofirst-year engineering students within the framework of an Inclusive Leadership Cohort. The aimof developing this cohort was to make students aware of concepts such as implicit bias, privilege,positionality, and inclusive minded thinking in their first year as college students so as tomaximize the impact of the course on their experience and on the climate in the COE. The firstInclusive Leadership Cohort (Autumn 2019) consisted of 72 students taking the requiredintroductory

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Taylor Maida, University of Notre Dame; Simran Moolchandaney, University of Notre Dame; Gabrielle Tanjuatco, University of Notre Dame; Caroline Lubbe, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

field tripThe ski resort hosted two engineering behind the scenes tours: (1) snow making and (2) chair liftoperations. These activities were seen to map to chemical engineering and mechanicalengineering topics, respectively. Therefore, the field trip was specifically designed with thesetwo majors in mind. Senior women from each department were recruited to act as leaders in theplanning and student recruitment of the process along with support from two engineering facultyand an administrative assistant. Trip planning included making transportation arrangements andhotel reservations, creating team building activities, and arranging ski lessons and rentals.The planning team sought to lower the barrier for attending the field trip in several ways

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gretchen A. Dietz, University of Florida; Kayla Julianna Kummerlen, The University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

to theinternship she always saw herself as a professor. After her internship, she shifted her careeraspirations into becoming a practicing engineer. Interestingly, prior to her internship Kayla hadother career paths in mind. She thought she “wanted to work in academia” but her internshipsparked her interest within the industry route. Kayla enjoyed working in the company, which“steered [her] more into working as a regular engineer” than she had expected. Kayla was notworking in an area that she was particularly interested in, nonetheless this did not deter her fromengineering. Her personal identity as an engineer was solidified. This finding is consistent withother studies that have found that internships increase student motivation to

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Angela Harris, North Carolina State University; Christina Martin-Ebosele, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering

, and leadershipNow we turn to the larger social context in which we see environmental engineering studentsstarting to form decisions about their career and then begin their career. By social context, wemean, for this study, the gendered and racialized contexts in environmental work. In fact, wewould expect these contexts to come into play even in the selection of their major—climateeffects, public environmental discourse, and environmental policy all have gendered and racialsocial components that frame students’ matriculation into the major as much as their journeysthrough and beyond it. Keeping in mind the gender, race, and ethnic characteristics ofenvironmental engineering degree-earners in Section 2.1.1, we will return to this

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering

, fromthe fourth principle. Students picked up on specifics from Chief Albert’s presentation, includingquoting some parts of his discussion. Examples are provided below. words for engineers: “Your work is more than plans and specifications. Your work is more than creating a design for a client. Your work impacts people, communities, and the landscape. You have a responsibility to be aware of the negative impacts of the work you engage in.” A reminder to keep community in mind in every step of the process…. One element from Chief Albert’s presentation that I personally found most impactful was the list of his Tribe’s values. When I read the RAE report about sustainability, I only thought about the impact that civil engineers

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Randy Yerrick, Fresno State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

be sitting in thatclassroom. As argued by Turner [28], marginalized faculty ‘socialized for success,’ may reproducepatterns of inequity.We believe that engineers are fair minded and rational and do believe that, when researchdemonstrates a clear connection between gendered teaching practices and a consequential exodusfrom the field, engineers will take heed. We therefore call upon researchers to explore morecritically learning contexts with an eye toward exposing the implicit White, male dominant normsand their effects on the discipline. As many have shown [12], [41] engineers have been ratheruncritical of their working contexts—looking for alternate explanations and anemic solutions likerecruitment to resolve inequity. Research on the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rohini N. Abhyankar, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

which Hofstede [28] generallyrefers to as “the collective programming of the mind” (p. 1). These links between diversity, earlysocialization, and culture provide credible avenues for exploring attitudes in workplaces that maypositively or negatively efforts to increase organizational diversity.This paper, therefore, examines engineers’ acculturation attitudes about their workplace culture.We define acculturation attitudes as individuals’ preferences for what should happen whendifferent individuals or groups within a given culture interact [29]. Our research questions are:RQ1 What are the acculturation attitudes exhibited by working engineers?RQ2 How are engineers’ demographic characteristics related to these attitudes?We answered these

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Panel on Advocacy and Allyship by Men for Women

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brian Kirkmeyer, Miami University; Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University; Lisa Abrams, The Ohio State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, NASA Glenn Research Center; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Washington Bothell; Philip Ritchey, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

such a way as to mitigate or eliminate them. to me, there is nomiddle ground. I am either part of the problem or part of the solution. I can be an opponent ofwomen in engineering or I can be an ally. I choose to try to be an ally. I choose to try, inwhatever ways I can, to break down the systems of inequality that prevent all people fromattaining the fullness of their possibilities.Another moral take (it's the right thing to do, part 2): were the tables turned and engineering wasdominated by women, I would want women to be allies and advocates for me. there's plenty ofmoral philosophy that would generally agree that, if I would want women in engineering to bemy ally, then I should be an ally to women in engineering. several that come to mind

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kairys Grasty, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Shivani Sakri, Arizona State University; Amanda C. Arnold, Idaho State University; Jennifer M Bekki, Arizona State University; Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Madison Natarajan, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University; Ashley K. Randall, Counseling and Counseling Psychology, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

experiences, Kairys’ research interests lie in working to understand the systemic barriers, biases and insensitivities that underlie many racially and ethnically diverse people’s inability or general aversion to seeking mental health support.Ms. Shivani Sakri, Arizona State University Shivani Sakri (she/her/hers) is a first-year doctoral student in the Engineering Education Systems and Design Ph.D. program at Arizona State University. Prior to joining this program, Shivani pursued Me- chanical Engineering from the University of Pune in India and completed her Master’s in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Shivani’s research interests lie in engineering control systems, experiences of women in

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan J. Ely, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

and can visualize themselves as successful engineering students and professionals, thehigher the persistence and retention rates [2], [4], [8], [11], [15], [17]. In fact, one study showedthat 90% of students who graduated from an engineering program had declared engineering astheir major prior to attending the institution, regardless of gender [12]. In other words, studentsrarely transfer into an engineering program from another major. If a student does not come to theinstitution in mind, they will rarely change to an engineering program, often due to perceptionsof engineering being too hard for most students [12]. This highlights the need for creating asense of self-efficacy in young women to pursue engineering. If they have not made that

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shawna Vican, University of Delaware; Robin Andreasen, University of Delaware; Heather Doty, University of Delaware; L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

- equality. Her current research includes a qualitative study of corporate diversity management strategies and a series of mixed-methods projects on diversity in the academic workforce.Dr. Robin Andreasen, University of Delaware Robin O. Andreasen (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor of Cognitive Science. She earned her PhD in philosophy and specializes in philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and in science and policy. A race and gender scholar, Dr. Andreasen is research director and co-PI for UD’s ADVANCE-IT grant.Dr. Heather Doty, University of Delaware Heather Doty is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware (UD). Dr. Doty teaches undergraduate

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kathleen Buse, Advancing Women in the Workforce; Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, NASA Glenn Research Center; L. Nicole Smith, NASA Glenn Research Center; Brian P. Kirkmeyer, Miami University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

solving. The committee members are open-minded andenthusiastic.DreamFollowing the define and discovery phases, the next step in developing the strategic was for thecommittee to envision what might be, building on the identified strengths of the committee. Afacilitated discussion via Cisco WebEx was leveraged to compile the vision of each individual.Next these individual responses were integrated into a shared vision for the committee.For the facilitated discussion, the volunteers were asked “If anything was possible, what wouldthe university, the college of engineering and computing and the women advisory committee belike in the future?” Additionally, they were asked to consider the recently developed missionwhile leveraging the strengths of the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Megan O. Conrad, University of Detroit Mercy; Alexa Rihana Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy; Lauren Ross, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, “A review of the 2007literature women in engineering,” SWE Magazine, vol. 54, pp. 34–70, Jun. 2008.[17] N. Dasgupta and J. G. Stout, “Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics: STEMing the Tide and Broadening Participation in STEM Careers,” PolicyInsights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 21–29, Oct. 2014, doi:10.1177/2372732214549471.[18] C. Mavriplis et al., “Mind the Gap: Women in STEM Career Breaks,” Journal oftechnology management & innovation, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 140–151, Jun. 2010, doi:10.4067/S0718-27242010000100011.[19] “STEM by share of women workers 2019,” Tableau Software: U.S. Department of Labor,https://public.tableau.com/views/STEMbyshareofwomenworkers2019/STEMpercentwomen

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nolgie O. Oquendo-Colón, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Maria Angelica Velazquez, Montana State University; David Claudio, Montana State University; Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Paper ID #34905Women’s Autonomy, Relatedness and Competence: A Comparison ofEngineering Programs in Two Different Cultures ¨ CampusNolgie Oquendo-Colon, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Nolgie Oquendo is a Graduate Student (MS) in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayag¨uez. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. He is seeking to pursue a PhD in Engineering Education. Research interests include Diversity and Inclusion, Design and Evaluation, and Data Analytics.Dr. Maria Angelica

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Paper ID #32948Building a Community of Empowerment for Women in STEM with a FocusonCommunity College WomenProf. Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh is a professor at Springfield Technical Community College, where she teaches courses in physics, engineering mechanics, and structures. A graduate of the engineering transfer program at STCC, McGinnis-Cavanaugh holds a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Mas- sachusetts Amherst. She focuses on developing meaningful educational strategies to recruit and retain a diverse student body in engineering and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kaitlyn Anne Thomas, University of Nevada, Reno; Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Kelly J. Cross, University of Nevada, Reno

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, "What?" And he's like, "Yeah, the college wants me to take pictures of women and pictures of people of color." Now, the photographer was black; he was a black man. He was just doing his job of what the college told him to do. But that didn't make it better for me. I feel like, in his mind, why would he also think that doctoring photos is the way to promote diversity?”In this interaction, the photographer acknowledged Monica and included her only because of herrace and gender. This invalidated Monica’s value in engineering because her accomplishmentsin the field did not matter. As such, we coded this experience as an invalidation. Though thephotographer wanted to take her picture because of the double bind, the purpose of the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Erica Haugtvedt, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology; Duane Lewis Abata, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

University and then at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. as program manager in the Engineering Directorate. From 2003 to 2004, Dr. Abata was President of the American Society for Engineering Education. Following his appointment at NSF he served as Dean of Engineering and Engineering Technology at Northern Arizona University and Dean of Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Dr. Abata is currently a tenured full professor in mechanical engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. His research work focuses in the areas of energy storage and combustion. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kathrine Ehrlich-Scheffer, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

as it related to studyingengineering in general, and not relating to anything the women in engineering program isspecifically doing or not doing. According to Generation Z researchers Seemiller & Grace,among the top issues on the minds of Generation Z students are “education, employment, andracial equality” [6]. Not surprisingly, today’s prospective students are most likely to citepreparation for a job as the number one reason they are considering a college education[3].Coming of age during the economic recession of 2008, Generation Z is pragmatic and seeksvalue in a degree that they see as critical to landing a job down the road. A real concern for thesestudents is the ability to afford a college degree, which is not surprising given

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan Thomson Tripathy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Hsien-Yuan Hsu, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Diane Reichlen, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

what I can do. Itpushed me along the way.” With regard to what they thought they got out of facilitating in the Fall 2020 focusgroups, facilitators remarked on “the organic and honest conversations,” “learning to be moreempathetic and open-minded,” and appreciated the opportunity to connect with other studentsand get a sense of how they are dealing with the pandemic and other issues. Two facilitatorsfurther commented that the experience helped them to feel less alone or recognize that anydifficulties they may have experienced were similar to those of others: “I was able to see that myexperience in the college of engineering was not necessarily unique; others felt as though theydidn’t fit in and I wasn’t alone in that. The conversations