- tems engineering, industrial engineering, engineering management, engineering education, and decision making, focusing on interactive decision making, multiple-criteria decision making, and decision support systems.Ms. Ruth Jean Silver, Groundswell Projects As Principal of Groundswell, Ruth Silver’s unique experience in design, consumer insights, communica- tions and youth engagement sets the firm’s direction. The firm understands issues both from the users’ perspective and holistically to develop innovative solutions that turn insights into opportunities. Ruth holds a Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before leading Groundswell, she has worked with Annie Liebovitz, Bruce Mau Design, Urban
Paper ID #22182Valuing Women’s Contributions: Team Projects and Collaborative WritingDr. Jennifer C Mallette, Boise State University An Assistant Professor of English at Boise State University, Dr. Jenn Mallette teaches technical com- munication at the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition to working with STEM students in her undergraduate technical communication course, she collaborates with faculty in the College of Engineer- ing to focus on enhancing writing education in engineering courses. Her other research focuses on women in engineering, and she has recently published on the results of a case study exploring
AC 2007-1933: BUILDING GENDER EQUITY INTO EXISTING PROGRAMS:PERSPECTIVES FROM PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING ASSOCIATIONSAmy Bentow, American Society of Mechanical EngineersRichard Blais, Project Lead the WayLaura Bottomley, Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersCatherine Didion, National Academy of EngineeringNorman Fortenberry, National Academy of EngineeringChristina Vogt, National Academy of Engineering Page 12.332.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Building Gender Equity into Existing Programs: Perspectives from Professional Engineering AssociationsAbstractThe Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on
Engineering at Cornell UniversityDr. Stacey E. Kulesza, Kansas State University Dr. Stacey Kulesza is an assistant professor in the civil engineering department at Kansas State University. Dr. Kulesza teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in geotechnical engineering and is a licensed engineer in the state of Kansas. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 We are thriving! Undergraduate women in engineering student project teamsAbstractFor more than two decades, female participation in undergraduate engineering programs hasremained stuck at 20%. The research focus has been on women who either choose not to enrollor withdraw. We propose a change in
Engineer- ing Education) Fellow, 2014.Mr. Mario J Leone, Rowan University Mario Leone is an engineering consultant with 35+ years of technical and business experiences. He has worked for Schlumberger, Northern Telecom, Gandalf, and countless clients, and has been involved with 100+ product and research projects. He joined Rowan University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in September 2013 as a Technologist. His interests include the Internet of Things, data com- munications, alternative energy and energy reduction, embedded design, process control, and automation. He is passionate about helping others learn, and helps students bridge the gap between theory and practice
Paper ID #8553Creating a Sustainable Model for an NSF ADVANCE ProjectDr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies, Wayne and Juanita Spinks Professor, Director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University Page 24.329.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014Creating a Sustainable Model for an NSF ADVANCE ProjectFive years ago, Louisiana Tech University’s ADVANCE project began
AC 2010-2242: CALWOMENTECH PROJECT: RECRUITING AND RETAININGWOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMSDonna Milgram, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS)Daniella Severs, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) Page 15.255.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 CalWomenTech Project: Recruiting and Retaining Women in Technology ProgramsAbstractThe Institute for Women in Trades, Technology Science’s (IWITTS) CalWomenTech Project isbeing highlighted by NSF following an expert panel review at the three year mark in December2008 for demonstrating significant achievement and program
workforce.To promote more female participation in the engineering curriculum, the Embry RiddleMechanical Engineering program has created a student project where undergraduatewomen design and build an off-road race vehicle for the SAE Mini-Baja competition2.The project is integrated into the Mechanical Engineering curriculum and is funded by agenerous grant from The Boeing Company. The project has increased womenparticipation in the project by 10 times compared to last year.This project has three goals. The first goal is to increase retention of women in thecurriculum. Potential women students turn away from engineering for a variety ofreasons, which are typically related to their perception of the engineering field3. Manyfemale students view
Paper ID #14771Oral History Project of Underrepresented Leaders in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)Ms. Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis Kelsey Irvin is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis double majoring in the Cognitive Neuro- science track of Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and Psychology and hopes to pursue a career in clinical psychology. She is currently working on her honors thesis, which involves using neural measures to research reward processing in preschoolers with depression.Miss Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania Elizabeth Hiteshue
Paper ID #11274Developing and Implementing Effective Campus Worklife Policies: The Storyof one NSF ADVANCE ProjectDr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Carpenter is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Wayne and Juanita Spinks Professor of Mathematics in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. She is PI on Tech’s NSF ADVANCE grant, 2014-2015 President of WEPAN, a member of the mathematical and statistical societies Joint Committee on Women, and advises a variety of women and girl-serving STEM projects and organizations. She is a past Vice President of ASEE and current
AC 2007-428: THE INFLUENCE OF HANDS-ON FEMALE STUDENT PROJECTTEAMS ON THE CONFIDENCE OF WOMEN ENGINEERING STUDENTSLisa Davids, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-PrescottHeidi Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-PrescottDarris White, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Page 12.1437.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Influence of Hands-On Female Student Project Teams on the Confidence of Women Engineering StudentsAbstractBased on recent statistics by the US Department of Labor, only eleven percent ofAerospace Engineers and only 5.6% of Mechanical Engineers are women1. Over 85% ofthe engineering students at Embry Riddle
American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Effect of Skewed Gender Composition on Student Participation in Undergraduate Engineering Project Teams AbstractIn the United States only about one quarter of all undergraduate students in engineering arefemale. Because there are significantly fewer female than male engineering students, thecomposition of small groups of engineering students assigned to complete group projects islikely to be skewed towards male-dominant membership. The underrepresentation of womenboth in the field of engineering generally, and in engineering group project teams specifically,can leave women vulnerable to stereotype threat, experiencing concern
AC 2010-723: EXTENDING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE: RESULTS FROM THEPROJECT TO ASSESS CLIMATE IN ENGINEERING (PACE)Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology Susan Staffin Metz is Senior Advisor for the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at Stevens. As a founder and president (1997 – 2002) of WEPAN, Women in Engineering Proactive Network, Susan has worked with over 200 colleges and universities to increase access and engagement of women in engineering and science through research, policy and program development. She is currently the principal investigator for ENGAGE, Engaging Students in Engineering, (www.EngageEngineering.org) a five year project funded by the National
AC 2010-782: GENDER AND RACE/ETHNICITY IN ENGINEERING:PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM THE PROJECT TO ASSESS CLIMATE INENGINEERINGElizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler is the Director for Research at the University of Washington (UW) Center for Workforce Development (CWD). Her research interests include the educational climate for undergraduate and graduate students, gender stratification in education and the workforce, and gender and families. She is skilled in both qualitative and quantitative research. Liz is the research manager for the Sloan-funded Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE), the lead of the external evaluation for the National Center for Women and
Paper ID #17221Title IX and Project Lead the Way: Achieving Equity through All-female Co-horts in Public School SettingsMs. Shawna Fletcher, Texas A&M University SHAWNA L. FLETCHER is Director for the Women in Engineering (WE) Program at Texas A&M Uni- versity. Her primary responsibilities include outreach, recruitment and retention programs for women students and faculty in the Dwight Look College of Engineering. She has been President of the Arizona Promoters of Applied Science in Education (APASE) since 2006. She holds an M.S degree in Bioengi- neering and B.S. degrees in Physiological Psychology and Microbiology
undergraduate levels. Page 11.261.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Attracting Women to Engineering that Serves Developing CommunitiesAbstractThe University of Colorado at Boulder has created a program in Engineering for DevelopingCommunities (EDC). It is currently formalized as a graduate program within the Environmentalsub-discipline of Civil Engineering. Longer term plans are to create a certificate option forundergraduate students in the College of Engineering. In the meantime, a variety of courseshave included EDC-related content and projects. Service-learning and active
AC 2008-919: FROM 0 TO 60 IN 1 YEAREugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati Eugene is an Academic Director in the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He is the project leader of a collaboration to develop and deliver pre-eengineering to high schools. Eugene also manages the college's accelerated engineering degree programs.Michelle Shafer, Mt Notre Dame High School Michelle is a degreed Biomedical Engineer who now teaches science at Mt Notre Dame High School near Cincinnati.Brian Lien, Princeton High School Brian Lien teaches technology education classes at Princeton High School near Cincinnati.Carolyn Rost, Mother of Mercy High School Carolyn teaches science and serves
University. His primary research involves mercury cycling in the Adirondack park; however, he has remained involved in water quality projects in developing countries as an alumnus of Gonzaga University. In the summer of 2010, he traveled with Gonzaga faculty to Zambia to assess the feasibility of developing an engineering study abroad program. Page 22.482.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Development of a study abroad experience in Africa as a recruitment and retention tool for women in
joining the freshman engineering culture as a student. The researcherwas embedded in the freshman engineering classroom for one year. Class activities involved twoteam-based design projects. With the goal of investigating the context and process of learningengineering, Sherry recorded her learning progress, self-efficacy, and observations in a journaland discussed her experiences with other researchers involved in this project. Data wereexamined through the lens of Bandura’s self-efficacy model. At the beginning of the class,Sherry started with moderately high self-efficacy; however, poor team communication andfailure in her first design project significantly decreased her perceived self-efficacy. She also hadtool phobia due to unfamiliarity with
served as Principal Investigator (PI) for several National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and a National Institute of Justice grant. She is currently PI of the CalWomenTech Project, a $2 million NSF grant awarded in April 2006. Through this five-year grant, eight California community colleges have received training and technical assistance to help recruit and retain women into technology programs where they are under-represented. The Project was highlighted by NSF in 2009 for demonstrat- ing significant achievement and program effectiveness. Page 22.1555.1 c American Society for
and service-learning (S-L) in particular are more attractive to those from underrepresented groups inengineering than to their counterparts. Courses with service-learning projects have beenintegrated into existing required courses in engineering over the past six years in fivedepartments at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Entering engineering students have beensampled every fall with a “pre” survey, and then all students are surveyed “post” at the end of thespring semester. Evidence continues to mount of the significant difference in responses inattitudes toward community service and S-L in engineering with women especially and to alesser extent other minorities in engineering. Voluntary participation in S-L projects involvingwork
AC 2012-5370: DEVELOPING DIVERSE DEPARTMENTS (D3) AT NORTHCAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYDr. Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University Marcia Gumpertz is Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and professor of statistics at North Car- olina State University. She serves as PI of N.C. state’s ADVANCE PAID project Developing Diverse Departments. Page 25.428.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Developing Diverse Departments (D3) at North Carolina State UniversityIntroductionThe Developing Diverse Departments Project (D3
AC 2010-2235: CAREERWISE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIENCE FORGRADUATE STUDENTSErika Murguia, Arizona State University Erika Murguia Blumenkranz is a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial Engineering, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. She earned her Master’s degree in Quality and Productivity Systems and her BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. Her personal research interests are focused on the dynamics of workforce protocols in manufacturing environments and supply chain management. Erika has worked as a research assistant on the CareerWISE project since October 2008 and her role has been recruiting
Officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Her portfo- lio is the Diversity of the Engineering Workforce program with a charge to provide staff leadership to the NAE’s efforts to enhance the diversity of the engineering workforce at all levels including the diversity of those being prepared to enter the future workforce. She is the project director of a $2 million dol- lar National Science Foundation grant to increase the number of women receiving baccalaureate degrees in engineering. In addition to her duties at NAE, in March of 2007 Didion became the Director of the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine. This is a standing committee with a new mandate to work as a focal point on gender
over 12 years industry experience in con- struction engineering and management encompassing over $400,000,000 worth of vertical and horizontal construction. He also has over 15 years of academic experience in college level construction management education. During his time in academia, he has coached or assisted over 20 ASC student competition teams, taught 10 different courses, earned two departmental awards in teaching and scholarship. He is passionate about preparing construction management students for the industry with a particular focus on cultivating the necessary leadership skills for Integrated Project Delivery. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A Gender
- neering. During two of her undergraduate years, she worked with Dr. Lanzerotti and Kelsey Irvin on the Oral History Project. Elizabeth currently works as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.Samantha Laurel SwansonMs. Caroline Missouri Wochnick, Augsburg CollegeMs. Hannah Bech, AmeriCorps VISTA Hannah Bech graduated Summa Cum Laude from Augsburg College in 2016, studying Sociology with a minor in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. She completing a year of service with AmeriCorps VISTA as the Community Engagement Specialist at Venture Academy, a 6-9 public charter school in Minneapolis.Ms. Amanda Marie Kapetanakis, Augsburg College Amanda Kapetanakis is a junior at Augsburg College, majoring in Biology. She
Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COS) Dr. Carol Marchetti is an Associate Professor of Statistics at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she teaches introductory and advanced undergraduate statistics courses and conducts research in statistics education, deaf education, and online learning. She is a co-PI on RIT’s NSF ADVANCE IT project, Connect@RIT, and leads grant activities in the Human Resources strategic approach area.Prof. Maureen S. Valentine PE, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Maureen Valentine, P.E., has been a faculty member at RIT for more than 21 years and held the position of Department Chair for the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management, and Safety
means to interact with students and parents, opened their minds on Page 13.29.2females’ opportunities when pursuing challenging STEM fields, instilled confidence in the girlsand provided a continuing information resource to them.The problem addressed by this project is the critical need for a more diverse work force inscience and engineering fields and a declining number of students entering the technical workforce, an aim that many are striving for today.10 The UA-SHS day camp goal was to provideawareness and generate enthusiasm for technical fields in northwest Arkansas, a diverse regiongeographically close to the university. Springdale has a
Force Inaugural Environmental Civic Leaders Tour (1996); and Certificate of Commendation and Distinguished Service, Embassy of the United States of America (1989).Karen Peterman, Goodman Research Group, Inc. Karen Peterman, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Associate at Goodman Research Group, Inc. Dr. Peterman manages multiple projects, ranging from a needs assessment for an upcoming television series to summative evaluations of several national outreach initiatives. She has experience designing and carrying out evaluations for a variety of funding agencies including US Department of Education, National Cancer Institute and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Peterman is currently
including the different areas in ECE, faculty, undergraduate and graduate programs, class sizes, and salaries of graduates. Dr. Smith also answered the girls’ questions such as application requirements and curriculum design. 2 ECE-GIRLS 2014 Activity Dec. 8, 2014, Monday 4:15 pm Orientation (Long-Sleeve Shirt and Flash Driver Pick-up) 4:30 pm – 5 pm Meeting Department Chair Dr. Scott C. Smith 5 pm – 5: 40 pm Meeting Female Professors in Engineering 5:40 pm – 6:45 pm Demonstration and Discussion of Senior Design Project by Dr. Mark Schroeder