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Lorelle A. Meadows, University of Michigan; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan

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Women in Engineering

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

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Mara R. London, Gonzaga University; Jillian Rae Cadwell, Gonzaga University; Alexander Maxwell, Clarkson University

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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

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Recruitment & Retention of Women II

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Donna Milgram, National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Sciences (IWITTS)

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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

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Recruitment & Retention of Women II

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John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Manuel A Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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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

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Recruitment & Retention of Women II

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Elizabeth T. Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman L. Fortenberry, American Society for Engineering Education; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering

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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

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Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University; Lori L. Bakken, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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AC 2011-198: CREATING A CULTURE OF SUCCESS FOR WOMEN INSTEM - THE ADVANCEING FACULTY PROGRAM AT LOUISIANA TECHUNIVERSITYJenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter is Associate Dean for Administration and Strategic Initiatives, Wayne and Juanita Spinks Professor of Mathematics, and Director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. She is also PI for Louisiana Tech’s NSF ADVANCE project. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Women in Engineering ProActive Network and was co-developer of the WEPAN Knowledge Center Project. She is the Chair of the Steering Committee for the National Academy of Engineering’s

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Panel on Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Minority Students

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Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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AC 2011-670: IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME (AND STAY): RE-CRUITING AND RETAINING WOMEN AND UNDERREPRESENTED MI-NORITY STUDENTSHyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University Hyun Has been working as a graduate assistant on the Engineer of 2020 research grants that the Center for the Study of Higher Education received from the National Science Foundation at Penn State.Rose M Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia Rose M. Marra, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. She is Director of Research of the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) and Assessing Women in Student Environments (AWISE) projects, and a co

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Myths About Gender and Race

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Donna M Riley, Smith College; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose projects are described at the group’s website, http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was recently awarded a CAREER grant for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using personal narratives by underrepresented undergraduate students to promote institutional change in engineering education.” Page 22.356.1

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Recruitment & Retention of Women I

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Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Lisa R. Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Katie L. Piacentini, University of Missouri - Columbia; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Professor at the University of Missouri in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. She is Director of Research of the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) and Assessing Women in Student Environments (AWISE) projects, and a co-principal investigator for the National Girls Collaborative project. Dr. Marra teaches course on assessment, evaluation and the design and implementation of effective online learning experiences.Lisa R. Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkKatie L. Piacentini, University of Missouri - ColumbiaMr. David B Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park David Knight is a PhD candidate in the Higher Education Program at Pennsylvania State

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FPD V: Gender and Engineering Education: A Panel Discussion and Workshop

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Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs, Women in Engineering

AC 2011-2916: GENDER SCHEMAS, PRIVILEGE, MICRO-MESSAGING,AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION: PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM THE-ORYYevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Yevgeniya V. Zastavker is an Associate Professor of Physics at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Her research interests lie at the intersection of project-based learning and gender studies with specific emphasis on the curricula and pedagogies implemented in the first-year engineering programs.Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Debbie Chachra is an Associate Professor of Materials Science at Olin College, where she has been in- volved in the development and evolution of the engineering curriculum since she joined the

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Recruitment & Retention of Women I

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Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Priti N. Mody-Pan, University of Washington; Suzanne G. Brainard, University of Washington

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AC 2011-1290: INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER AND RACE IN ENGI-NEERING EDUCATIONElizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler is the Director for Research at the UW Center for Workforce Development (CWD). Her research interests include the educational climate for undergraduate and graduate students and gender stratification in education and the workforce. As the Director for Research at CWD, Liz is the Research Manager for the Sloan-funded Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE). She is external evalu- ator for NCWIT and NCWIT-Extension Services for Undergraduate Programs and the NSF ADVANCE program at UW. She is a member of the American Sociological Association, the American Society for

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Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

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Kristen P. Constant, Iowa State University

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underrepresented minorities at ISU. Not all of their currentactivities will continue after NSF funding for ISU ADVANCE has expired, but the intent is tomaintain those roles that are critical to sustaining the goals of ADVANCE. The project focusedon just three colleges (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Engineering (ENG),and Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS)), and the Deans of these colleges have approved a plan forthree additional years of continued support (from 2011-14).Recently (2010), ISU was also awarded an NSF grant in the competition for Innovation throughInstitutional Integration (I3), which is administered through the program on Research on Genderin Science & Engineering. Funding will support a new initiative at ISU

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Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

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Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jacqueline R. Mozrall, Rochester Institute of Technology; Gina M. Williams, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Steven LaLonde, Rochester Institute of Technology

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in Oracle HR process design, implementation and university reporting and metrics and affirmative action. Additional eleven years experience in Internal Audit in a University and Bank setting. Graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with BS in Business and a concentration in computer science. Currently working on providing research and analysis for the EFFORT@RIT project (a two-year study which supports institutional self-assessment activities focused on the recruitment, retention and promotion of female faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments.) Funding for the study comes from the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program.Prof. Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute

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Recruitment & Retention of Women II

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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tomake contact with a community college student. For these non- metropolitan communitycolleges, representatives from a university had not visited their campus previously. Although thetravel time to four of the five schools is over three hours each way, the PI, co-PI, and ProgramDirector on the METSTEP project feel that the time is well spent. We learned early that justhaving a meeting and expecting students or students and their parents to come, does not workwell. The most effective and efficient use of time is to talk to the captive audience in aclassroom.There are two aspects of these visits. First, administrators at the community college need to getthe permission of instructors to give up class time and to make a schedule that is efficient

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Elaine R. Millam, University of Saint Thomas; Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas

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. These characteristics benefit the wholeengineering profession.Secondly, much research has been compiled that suggests that women generally have morenatural facility with relationship building. This is often seen in the early years of young girls inhow they play with others, how they work at projects, and how they think23. This keen ability isnurtured throughout their development and is noticed in the workplace. Women often have anatural ability to build and sustain productive relationships within a group and across boundaries.This asset serves as a model for all of the engineering professionals. No real work can beachieved today without learning the skills and attitudes that require collaboration and teamwork;hence good relationships.Because of

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Engaging Students in Engineering (ENGAGE)

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Susan Staffin Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sheryl A. Sorby, Michigan Technological University; Tricia S. Berry, University of Texas, Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Ana Maria Dison, University of Texas, Austin; Yosef S. Allam, The Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University; Wally Peters, University of South Carolina, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Erica Pfister-Altschul, University of South Carolina; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina; Guangming Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Mechanical Engineering; James A. Leach, University of Louisville

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AC 2011-438: IMPLEMENTING ENGAGE STRATEGIES TO IMPROVERETENTION: FOCUS ON SPATIAL SKILLS - ENGINEERING SCHOOLSDISCUSS SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGESSusan Staffin Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology Susan Staffin Metz is Director of Special Projects in Engineering Education at Stevens Institute of Tech- nology. 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 prin- cipal investigator for ENGAGE, Engaging Students in Engineering, (www.engageengineering.org) a five year project funded by

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Anna M. Zajicek, University of Arkansas; Shauna A. Morimoto, University of Arkansas; Aparna S. Terdalkar, University of Arkansas; Valerie H. Hunt, University of Arkansas; Joseph J. Rencis, University of Arkansas; Rodica Lisnic, University of Arkansas

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AC 2011-1486: RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES FOR GENDER EQUITY:LESSONS FROM COHORT 1 AND COHORT 2 ADVANCE INSTITUTIONSAnna M. Zajicek, University of Arkansas Anna M. Zajicek is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas. Her scholarship has been devoted to the intersectional nature of social inequalities, discourse, and social change. She has been involved in interdisciplinary research projects examining successful strategies to institutionalize programs and policies aimed at the advancement of historically underrepresented groups in STEM disciplines. Her current publications focus on institutional transfomation, women in STEM disciplines, and the integration of an intersectional perspective in social science

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Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

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Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Susan Ruth Geier, Purdue University; Chris Sahley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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AC 2011-1840: ADVANCE-PURDUE: RETENTION, SUCCESS AND LEAD-ERSHIP FOR SENIOR FEMALE STEM FACULTYSuzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West LafayetteSusan Ruth Geier, Purdue UniversityProf. Chris Sahley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Page 22.145.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 ADVANCE-Purdue: Retention, Success and Leadership for senior female STEM facultyAbstractADVANCE-Purdue is an NSF-funded institutional transformation project designed to increasethe presence, retention and success of STEM female faculty. The Purdue Center for FacultySuccess (PCFS), the core of

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Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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projects include the blog STEMequity.com, and a study, with sociologist Mary Ebeling, of economic equity in nanotechnology training and employment. She is also writing on distributions of blame between workers and materials for failures in contemporary building technologies, as economies of scale and automation continue their long incursion on the labor of commercial construction. Page 22.1061.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Metrics of Marginality: How Studies of Minority Self-Efficacy Hide Structural InequitiesAbstractIn ongoing

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Myongsook Susan Oh, Hongik University; Yookyung Bae, Seoul National University, Institute for Gender Research

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experience in the activities listed. Interviews with selected students were conducted regarding the selection of a leader in adesign project team. The typical answers were as follows: ‘The eldest one is selected as the leader. I am comfortable with that. The age-rankingsystem is well accepted in society, and it is natural to adopt the same rule in school” – Ajunior, male “I was the leader once in a design team. It was a team that consisted of all women of thesame age. I have never complained about the eldest being the leader. I am afraid of being aleader. It can be too much to bear.” – A senior, female “I once volunteered to be the leader to get leadership experience. The team accepted it. Iam grateful

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WIED Olio

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Sarah Hug, University of Colorado, Boulder; Susan Jurow, University of Colorado at Boulder; Wendy C. Chi, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Women in Engineering

workplacebiases the women may find in the engineering professions, as well as training regarding graduateschool application, research presentation and publication. FemProf‘s explicit focus is preparingundergraduate women for success in graduate school and for future participation in theprofessoriate. For this research project, we studied FemProf with an eye toward identitydevelopment. A grounded, thematic approach to qualitative data analysis uncovered three themesevident in the process of Fem Prof undergraduate participant learning: ―program support forprofessoriate trajectories;‖ ―participant identification with engineering pathways;‖ and a thirdtheme not anticipated: ―participants advocate for gender equity in engineering.‖ Based on ourqualitative

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Carmen G. Villa, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City; Elsa Gonzalez, Texas A&M University

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, it is likely they will not be retained12. In recent years, engineering educators havetried to engage students through learning communities, team projects, and cooperativeeducation5,12.Although most female engineering students experience a male-oriented environment, many havesucceeded in this environment. Some studies address female engineering students‗ experiences incollege; however, little attention has been focused on determining the elements that facilitatesuccess in this environment, especially the role of the culture in their retention.Methods and ProceduresThe methodology used in this study was exploratory and descriptive with the intent to identifyand describe how cultural considerations shape the experiences of college women

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Mini-Workshop on Bias in Faculty Searches

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Coleen Carrigan, University of Washington, ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change

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70-80 participants), and included multiple case studies thatincorporate gender equity elements. Detailed information on the LEAD program, resources, andmaterials is available on the project website (http://www.engr.washington.edu/lead/index.htm).Case studies are increasingly being used to empower chairs and deans with the knowledge andskills they need to effectively meet the demands of leadership (Buller 2006; Chu 2006;Higgerson and Joyce 2007; Jones 2006). The case study method allows participants tounderstand the complex phenomena contributing to the marginalization of underrepresentedgroups in the academy and still "retain the holistic and meaningful characteristics of real-lifeevents" (Yin 2003). Case studies are designed to synthesize

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Emiko Hirose Horton, Shibaura Institute of Technology; Kumiko Miki, Nihon University

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Women in Engineering

Page 22.860.5  Career designing project for female students Facility improvement  Renovation of cafeteria / dormitory / toilet  Building girls’ dormitory  Girls’ parlor/lounge Others  Hiring of female faculty ( e.g. “At-least-one-female-faculty per department”) Most institutions in our survey have started to implement some strategies to increasefemale students in the last few years, but there were no answers indicating how much of aincrease. One of the universities has been implementing multiple strategies since 5 years ago:leaflets with female engineer role models, delivery of lectures at high schools, explanatorymeetings about the university, and so on, and the increase of females is said to be up 0.6% in3 years

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Jorja Kimball, Texas Engineering Experiment Station; Margaret Hobson, Texas A&M University

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Women in Engineering

awards, such as the NSF CAREER. Dr. Kimball has a BBA and MBA from Texas A&I University and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in Educational Administration (Dissertation: A Study of Engineering Student Attributes and Time to Completion of First Year Required Course at Texas A&M University). She was with the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, A Hispanic Serving Institution, for eight years before her employment with TEES. There she was a Principal Investigator and held a number of leadership positions on projects related to engineering education, such as the $30 million NSF Foundation Coalition for Engineering Education. She also has extensive experience with undergraduate and

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Silvia Carreno-Castillo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla

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Women in Engineering

whole class that they didn’t have to have this o that knowledge, so they could stay. I remember that one of the students complained that her team was excluding her in the development of the class projects because she was studying industrial engineering… they set a meeting time and suddenly it was changed without notice, etc.” Page 22.1572.5Three of the ten teachers interviewed perceived that most teachers, who teach theory classes,underestimate the laboratory area, considering that what is taught in the laboratory is lessimportant than the theoretical base. Eight out of ten teachers feel that some of their new studentsare often

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Reports from ADVANCE Institutions

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University; Dina Banerjee, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Alice L. Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose projects are described at the group’s website, http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new

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WIED Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natalie Fabert, Arizona State University; Marilyn Cabay, Ph.D., Argosy University, Phoenix; Melissa B Rivers, Arizona State University; Mary Lee Smith, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University

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majority of undergraduate degrees in certain STEM-related disciplines.4However, there is evidence that what are known as leaky pipeline and glass-ceiling effectsremain especially strong in STEM fields.5 Psychologists and educational policy researchers areurged to turn attention to the later stages of career development where women’s careeraspirations often plummet and where women get stuck or drop out of STEM all together.6 Thispaper presents the preliminary results of a qualitative research project, with an analysis thatfocused particularly on isolating aspects that these female STEM doctoral students experiencedduring one academic year.The graduate school period along the academic science and engineering career pathway hasreceived little

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Recruitment & Retention of Women I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Ayre, University of South Australia; Julie E. Mills, University of South Australia; Judith Gill, University of South Australia

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Women in Engineering

AC 2011-1243: NOT ALL WOMEN LEAVE! REFLECTIONS ON A CO-HORT OF ”STAYERS” IN CIVIL ENGINEERINGMary Ayre, University of South Australia Mary Ayre is currently a PhD student at the University of South Australia having recently retired from a senior lectureship at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. When teaching mathematics to engineering students 25 year ago she became interested in recruiting female students and since then has been involved in many women in engineering initiatives and research projects in the UK and Australia.Julie E. Mills, University of South Australia Julie Mills is Professor and Program Director in Civil Engineering at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia. Prior to

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Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

evolution of the engineering curriculum since she joined the faculty in 2003. Her current research interests are twofold: as well as her research in biological materials (cur- rently focused on bioderived plastics synthesized by bees), she also researches the engineering student experience, including persistence and migration, differences by gender, and the role of self-efficacy in project-based learning. In 2010, she received an NSF CAREER Award in support of her research on engineering education. Page 22.1081.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Motivation