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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlin I Tyler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yanfen Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nicole D. Jackson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wan-Ting Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Chaoyang Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Women in Engineering

ideassolidified. Year 3 included seven new seminars and five new peer review sessions.The “Psychology of Research Statements” panel session was added to help participants begin tothink about the type of research they would like to conduct in the next phase of their careers.This session came about from a discussion with an Education professor on how writing aresearch statement for faculty positions is a different type of writing compared journal articlesand a dissertation that participants may be more familiar with.The “Brainstorming Research Ideas” session was added so that participants could hear fromfaculty on their process of generating new research ideas. A key question to motivate the sessionwas where does one’s creativity or inspiration for

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); DeLois Kijana Crawford, Rochester Institute of Technology (GCCIS)

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

conducted in 2016by the University of Washington (UW) Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equityfound that awardees “found the grant writing process to be beneficial in helping them refineand package their ideas, build relationships with mentors, and develop literature reviews.Some of the grantees found themselves using parts of their proposal for federal grantproposals.” The UW evaluation also identified the following career impacts from theawardees: Internal and External Collaborations Strengthened, Mentorship by Grant Mentorsand Peers Benefitted Grantees; Increased Confidence in Expertise and Dissemination ofWork; Value and Influence Manifested as Respect, Credibility, and Leadership Potential;Leadership Experience Built Tangible Skills

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juebei Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Tianyi Zheng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

findings of this study could be used to help femaleengineering students formulate appropriate learning strategies in project-based learning,and provide suggestions for them to take on suitable roles in group study. Possiblestrategies to optimize the design of future collaborative learning projects were alsoproposed.Literature reviewGender study constitutes an important part in engineering education. As found byprevious empirical studies, female engineering students had lower entrance opportunity,lower persistence rate, and lower grades than males, and their self-confidence,satisfaction level, educational engagement and academic performance were also foundto be at lower levels than their male peers [5][13].As to the possible causes, Felder’s study

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Hillman, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Ghada Salama, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Emilio Ocampo Eibenschutz, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Saly Mohamed Ali Awadh, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Lara El Said, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

(2012) writes of ‘invisiblebarriers,’ related to sociological/psychological constraints. The author argues that local publicpolicy platforms are needed so as to ensure that women engineers have a space to put theirSTEM skills into action within the workplace (Qayyum, 2012).Gulf ContextWithin the Arab Gulf region alone, women comprise 60% of engineering students in universities,double the percentage of female engineering students in the U.S. and Europe (Durrani, 2015).Unfortunately, this does not translate to the same percentages in the workforce after graduation.For example, in Qatar, women make up less than 12% of the workforce (Yahia, 2012).Participation of women in the workforce, and particularly related to STEM fields, havenevertheless been

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer S Gurski, Drexel University; Penny Louise Hammrich, Drexel Univeristy

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

newexperiences and learning opportunities; these abilities can be improved over time and areinfluenced by the connection students make with the learning experience (Kolb & Kolb, 2005).Both environmental and individual factors affect young women’s connection to learning in theclassroom, including differences in learning styles and the ability to connect relevance to thematerial being taught (Kulturel-konak et al., 2014).Several factors contribute to the problem of retention in engineering, including cognitive factorssuch as GPA and SAT math scores; non-cognitive factors like interactions with peers andprofessors; individual characteristics like family educational background, gender, and ethnicity;institutional characteristics like environment, type

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sreerenjini C. Nair, University of the Incarnate Word; Michael Frye, University of the Incarnate Word

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

12 African-American 2 9th Grade 6 Asian 2 For 2016, the ninth graders shown in Table 2 were miniGEMS Peer Mentors. All thepeer mentors participated in the 2015 miniGEMS camp and had the opportunity to share theirexperiences and, acting as group leaders, provided further assistance to the 2016 campers for theduration of the camp.miniGEMS Program Content Each day of the camp was different and fun-filled with interesting and engaging studentactivities that emphasize active learning with minimal lectures and extensive collaborativelearning. The purpose was to encourage the students to actively participate in the camp andthereby to

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Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Agnes G d'Entremont, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Hannah Gustafson, University of British Columbia

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

.Student ratings of male and female instructors are likely influenced by the genderedexpectations of the rater12. Two straightforward examples of gendered expectations are thatstudents are more likely to assume a male instructor holds a PhD as compared with a femaleinstructor13 and are more likely to refer to male instructors as “Doctor” or by their last namewhen writing evaluations of their instructors14. Each of these examples shows that the status andcredentials of female faculty are discounted. Female professors may be expected to be morecaring and nurturing than male professors, given that these traits are considered morefeminine12. Even though female instructors had more meetings with students outside of classhours, students were more likely

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne-Marie A Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Christopher Frayer, University of Wisconsin - Platteville

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

university. In total, the annual budgetis approximately $6,500, for a program that affects upward of 20 faculty and academic staff annually. 3Faculty participants see more benefits; for example, there are (independent of the NFLC) modest start-up packages that new faculty access through an internal grant process. The start-up packages are opento all new faculty, but those who attend the NFLC programming are able to share and refine their ideasin the space afforded by the community. In short, it behooves a new faculty member to attend thesemeetings so they can write a stronger proposal.Faculty are also introduced to best practices for retaining URMs and scholarship in that area throughcollaboration

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kath Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dawn Wendell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Andrea S. Walsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

mechanics researcher in Paris, France before returning to MIT as Assistant Director of Admissions. Currently Dr. Wendell works as a Senior Lecturer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering teaching design, manufacturing, and instrumentation.Dr. Andrea S. Walsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Andrea Walsh is a historical sociologist who specializes in the fields of women’s and gender studies, rhetoric and communication and visual media. She teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the programs in Women’s and Gender Studies and Writing and Comparative Media Studies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Getting to Gender Parity in a Top-Tier

Conference Session

Listening and Negotiation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kevin D. Hall, University of Arkansas; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Amy J Moll, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

explained how receiving sucha grade triggers a probationary status on the student’s record by the Graduate School. And thenshe gave the faculty member what he really needed – the knowledge of what was a “typical”grade distribution for a graduate course, in his department. That is, she gave him a copy of thegrade distributions of other faculty in the department, in writing, for him to reflect on. Theassistant professor did a really good job of listening. He did not launch into explanations of whythe students had earned a grade of C, or act defensively – he listened. (Tactic 3), and did not takethe fact that the associate dean had called a meeting as a personal affront to his judgment (Tactic7: Do not take negotiations personally – emotions do not