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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jennifer C Mallette, Boise State University; Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University
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women to engagesocially, evidence suggests that women are more likely to have negative experiences with groupwork [5]. Negative experiences in team settings may cause women to feel less valued, different,and or emphasize the fact that they don’t belong, all factors that can lead to women leavingengineering [5]. Furthermore, women often “report feeling that they must work harder than theirmale peer to get teams to acknowledge the work they’ve done” [5]. In fact, men tend tounderestimate their women peers’ competence and knowledge in the classroom [6] and are likelyto dismiss what they view as female-typical speech acts [5]. Other research suggests that incollege courses, writing specifically is undervalued or invisible when compared to
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
James A. Coller, University of Michigan; Magel P. Su, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan
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teams and improve peer interactions [3], but these interactions are impacted by the groupdynamics [4]. Social presence is one important factor in student interactions. Social presence isdefined as interpersonal salience [5]. Online computer-based environments generally have alowered social presence than face-to-face conversations, as the interlocutors’ faces, facialexpressions, and voices may be masked. Students have been shown to be willing to provide moresubstantive critiques of peer writing in an environment with low social presence compared toface-to-face settings, both in high school students and at the university level [6], [7].Much work has been done investigating gender breakdown of groups in team learning, findingthat women participate
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology
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by connecting them with peers,enabling them to participate in skills-based workshops and hands-on projects, connecting them toalumni and other industry mentors, and helping them to become immersed in campus life prior tothe start of their freshman year of college. In recently two years, more women students arerecruited to the program, a unique mini program “RAMP for High School Girls is designed. Theobjective for this program is to expose students to various STEM disciplines.The six-week mini RAMP program is organized as modules. Each week the female studentsexplore a different STEM discipline. The Mechanical and Electrical modules are presented inthis paper. An entrance survey and an exit survey were conducted to collect data right before
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Technical Session
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University
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Recognition for Undergraduate Research Mentoring. She was also selected as a 2018 National Science Foundation - NC A & T ADVANCE IT Faculty Scholar. She has received $170,000 to support her teaching, research, and outreach projects. Overall, Dr. Ofori-Boadu’s research work has resulted in 1 book publication, 12 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 5 conference proceedings, 3 manuscripts under conditional acceptance, 4 accepted abstracts, 29 presentations at na- tional conferences, and 27 poster sessions. In 2016, her paper to the Built Environment Project and Asset Management journal was recognized as the 2016 Highly Commended Paper. In 2015, Dr. Ofori-Boadu established her STEM ACTIVATED! program for middle-school
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Coleen Carrigan, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Saejin Kwak Tanguay, University of Washington; Joyce Yen, University of Washington; Julie Simmons Ivy, North Carolina State University; Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University; M. Claire Horner-Devine, University of Washington and Counterspace Consulting
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Kwak Tanguay is a Ph.D. Candidate in Multicultural Education at the University of Washington. Her research examines how educational policy & practice, curriculum, and instruction mediate cross- racial and cross-ethnic peer relations among students, and how these peer relations shape students of color’s educational experiences, trajectories, and access to opportunities.Dr. Joyce Yen, University of Washington Joyce Yen, Ph.D., is the Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change at the University of Washington where she focuses on advancing women and underrepresented minority faculty in STEM fields and leading faculty professional development programs. Her diversity and faculty work has received over
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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?Three distinct phases of a woman’s journey were examined. First, a sample of women who havealready completed an undergraduate engineering degree from a public university was studied.Secondly, women in their upper division year of their undergraduate degree program were askedto reflect on their experiences over their undergraduate career. Both of these groups of womenwere asked questions from the same interview protocol. Finally, classes were observed anddiscourse was analyzed in gatekeeper courses to understand the interaction of women and theirprofessors as well as women with their peers, both male and female. The lens of Feminist PostStructuralism and of Sense-Making allowed the critical analysis to shine a light on theunderlying cultural
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Stephany Coffman-Wolph, University of Texas, Austin; Kimberlyn Gray, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.
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math high schoolcourses taken between the male and female STEM students. Female STEM students reported avery slight higher rate of taking biology and chemistry courses. Fifty percent of the male STEMstudents took physics in high school but only thirty-two percent of the female STEM studentstook physics. (Fifty percent of the female STEM students took college writing portfolio whileonly thirty-three percent of the male STEM students took the same course). (Detailed data can beseen in Figure 1).Figure 1: Differences in Skills Perceived as “Missing” !The encouragement to pursue college and pursue their major, like the general population, wasprimarily driven by various family members and in particular, parents. The students reported awider
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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Western Michigan University; Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University ; Daniel Collier, Western Michigan University
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College of Engineering Pune (COEP) as the founder head of the innovation Center. Dr Waychal earned his Ph D in the area of developing Innovation Competencies in Information System Organizations from IIT Bombay and M Tech in Control Engineering from IIT Delhi. He has presented keynote / invited talks in many high prole international conferences and has published papers in peer- reviewed journals. He / his teams have won awards in Engineering Education, Innovation, Six Sigma, and Knowledge Management at international events. His current research interests are engineering edu- cation, software engineering, and developing innovative entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. He was chosen as one of the five outstanding
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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Vemitra M White, Mississippi State University; Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University; Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State University; Jessica Ivy, Mississippi State Universitt; C. Danielle Grimes, Mississippi State University
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emphasis on relevancy, in addition to professional development undergraduates opportunities. Provide near-peer mentoring, partnering undergraduates with K-12 students, to “motivate both to reach their personal best in computing.” Connecting unlike institutions/Creating new partnership Develop productive relationships between diverse types of models institutions. Creating national/interlocking Provide opportunities to engage students and educators at all networks levels to develop professional skills and knowledge.Activities in year one that support these collective alliance approaches are described in theActivities section
Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny, King Saud University; Hamed Dhafi Alsharari, Saudi Elecrtonic University
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is a public female university, yet it does not currently offer anyengineering degrees. However, very recently (as the authors were in the process of writing thismanuscript) a royal decree was issued (February 6, 2018) to establish a college of engineering atPNU [30]. KFUPM (King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals), one of the most reputedpublic universities in the kingdom, is currently being approached to make available a girls’section in the university, and offer degrees in petroleum and excavation engineering [31]. Indeedmany Saudi girls do aspire to become engineers in this field, and many travel to earn suchdegrees from other countries. Public responses regarding this issue is that the university currentlyoffers studies
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History of the Women in Engineering Division: Reflections from Past Chairs of the Division
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Beth M. Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Noel N. Schulz, Washington State University; Sarah A. Rajala, Iowa State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University
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Paper ID #21397Panel discussion on the History of the Women in Engineering Division: Re-flections from Past Chairs of the DivisionDr. Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University Beena Sukumaran has been on the faculty at Rowan University since 1998 and is currently Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Under her leadership, the Civil and Environmental Engi- neering Program has seen considerable growth in student and faculty numbers. Her area of expertise is in micro-geomechanics and has published over 100 peer reviewed conference and journal papers including several papers on engineering education and the