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

connection to oneanother, combined with their lifelong exposure to crisis after crisis has shaped them into big-picture thinkers with compassionate hearts [5]. Though it is tempting to assume this cohortwould be more involved in volunteerism and engagement on campus, the reality is they are farless likely than the Millennials before them to volunteer and engage in extra-curriculars. Theone-off events and experiences that were so popular with Millennials are often seen assuperfluous to much of Gen Z, whose members would rather use their entrepreneurial, we-centric mindsets to address root problems at their source [5]. Furthermore, one-off events do notoffer authentic relationships to be built over time, a major source of gratification to Gen