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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University

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Women in Engineering

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

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Retention of Women Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California, Berkeley; Ryan Shelby, University of California, Berkeley; Farzana Ansari, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa A. Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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appreciationfor the experience and skills gained from the leadership module, as well as an increase inconfidence for women as engineers.IntroductionProfessional skills are often underemphasized in engineering programs. These “soft” skills –proficiencies such as leadership, teamwork, and communication – are important attributes of asuccessful engineer. Traditional engineering curricula and lecture formats need to be revised toenhance these professional skills, as “the quality of future engineers depends very much on thequality of engineering education”1. Service learning and design projects are new pedagogicalmethods found to be effective in nurturing these skills2,3. Moreover, service learning has thepotential to attract and retain women in engineering4

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shweta Chopra, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Chad M. Laux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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preparation and lack of encouragement10 in STEM subjects in graduate school alsocontributes to lack of women in STEM fields. This paper aims to study the factors mentionedabove and utilize the findings in providing support and guidance to women, at a particulargraduate school located at a large, Midwestern, Land Grant University. We hope our findingswill help guide women in graduate school to continue their education in the field of STEM andresult in the increase retention of women. Broader impact of this project is to recruit and supportmore women in STEM discipline in graduate school and increase diversity at the Universitycampus along with attracting funding from external resources for sustainability.NeedOne of the graduate school strategic plans

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Panel Discussion: Off the Record

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl B. Schrader, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Janelle Brown; Lynn Lubamersky, Boise State University; Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Heidi Reeder, Boise State University

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women scien- tists working in museums, botanical gardens, zoos, and other natural history institutions democratized the public understanding of science in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She also studies how the lay public interprets the past and constructs historical narratives about the U.S., particu- larly on the Internet. Madsen-Brooks holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of California, Davis. She teaches U.S., women’s, and public history at Boise State University, where she has served as a Mobile Learning Scholar, studying how students use technology to create digital public history projects. She has served as an informal science educator, exhibit developer, and

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Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. Prior to moving to academia in 2005, he led several industrial nanomedicine-based development projects as PI on NSF (SBIR), NIH (STTR), and NIST (ATP) grants. With a research focus in biomedical optics, he has published peer-reviewed articles in basic cancer research, biomedical electro-optic instrumentation, clinical cancer therapies, and mathemati- cal techniques for dealing with complex biological systems. Based on experiences instructing courses like Biomedical Engineering Senior Design and his previous experience in the medical device industry, he has developed a strong interest in optimizing gender interactions and productivity in engineering projects and

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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University; Sue Guenter-Schlesinger, Western Washington University

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, most importantly, find and focus on the barriers that impede theadvancement of women faculty within the College of Sciences and Technology (CST). Onecomponent of the project was the development of a climate survey, which was based uponprevious surveys at ADVANCE (research-intensive) universities, but was specifically adapted toaddress faculty issues unique to comprehensive universities. The development of our surveyinvolved our Faculty Leadership Team (FLT), our department chairs/directors, and several otherfaculty members. This paper focuses on the findings from the comprehensive institution climatesurvey that we developed, which consisted of approximately 100 questions in seven areas ofclimate indicators: employment demographics, job

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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol E. Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Alison Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Education, 2012 Perceived Levels of Faculty Value, Influence, and Satisfaction by Gender, Rank, Ethnicity, College, and Department at a Large Private UniversityAbstractThe ADVANCE IT-Catalyst project, “Establishing the Foundation for Future OrganizationalReform and Transformation at Rochester Institute of Technology” (EFFORT@RIT) was a multi-year study conducted from 2008-2010 across six colleges which include Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The overarching project mission is to increasethe representation and advancement of women STEM faculty. In order to achieve this mission,the project goal was to develop an evidence-based approach to address factors resulting in theunder

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Retention of Women Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi M. Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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compete with their built project vehicles. Examples of CDS are:Aero Design, Baja SAE, Clean Snowmobile Challenge, Formula SAE, and Super Mileage. Thesafety requirements and design standards are structured to challenge the students’ knowledge,creativity, and imagination. In addition to providing a meaningful, significant engineeringactivity, CDS creates the opportunity to begin building a sense of expectation and understandingof the professional engineering workforce – specifically fostering communication skills,promoting teamwork needed to solve complex problems, and increasing engineering self-confidence. Additional skills and benefits students gain are: (a) developing engineering self-confidence, (b) fostering a positive attitude about

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Retention of Women Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane Yu Gu, University of California, Los Angeles

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students and theirinteractions with faculty in science and engineering is fairly limited. Accordingly, the objective of this project is to examine the protégé-mentor relationshipsamong women doctoral students and their faculty members in the field of engineering. Morespecifically, I examine how protégé-mentor relationships support or limit women's aspirations topursue academic careers. To pursue these issues, I conducted thirty in-depth semi-structuredinterviews with female doctoral students in the School of Engineering at Western University—apseudonym for a large research university in the western United States. This university wasselected due to its strong engineering programs with sizeable graduate enrollments.Theoretically speaking, I

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Attaining Academic Leadership Positions

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Chris S. Anderson, Michigan Technological University; Dianne Dorland, Rowan University; Sarah A. Rajala, Mississippi State University; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

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Liaison Officer to the Middle States Commission on Higher Educa- tion, the liaison to campus facilities department on capital projects and space assignments related to the academic division, and oversight of the academic division budgets. She coordinates the interdisciplinary programs and has served as project shepherd for a new interdisciplinary science building and renovation of existing commercial structures to be used as facilities for programs in theater and in film and media studies. Roth holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering and is a Licensed Engineer. She has taught extensively and conducted research in the area of geotechnical engineering

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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University

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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 AD- VANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the web- site http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was awarded a CAREER grant in 2010 for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using

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Undergraduate Recruitment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University; Rona Tamiko Halualani, San Jose State University

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authors examined datafrom student Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy (LAESE)surveys. Despitethe shrinking number of women engineering students at San José State University , the self-efficacy levels of the women engineering students were high. The authors can surmise thatwomen who choose to study engineering at SJSU feel confident in their abilities to succeed inengineering and or project such confidence given the male-dominated terrain of Engineering.A. Theoretical basis for the researchThere is little empirical research on the specific impact of cultural attitudes about gender roles ongirls’ interest and career choice in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)fields, particularly about STEM interest and career

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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Chang Yan, College of New Jersey; Lisa Grega, College of New Jersey; Suriza VanderSandt, College of New Jersey; Diane C. Bates, College of New Jersey; Elizabeth Borland, College of New Jersey; Karen Elizabeth Clark, College of New Jersey; Amanda Norvell, College of New Jersey

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years agoand can thus make more detailed analysis of faculty accomplishments according to gender,discipline, and length of service.Qualitative Interviews Research for the Gender Equity Interview Project was carried out in Fall 2010 and ananalysis of the data was performed in Spring 2010 to identify policies and practices that produceand reproduce gender inequality. All of the female professors and a comparable number of malefull professors from NSF-supported disciplines were asked to participate in interviews abouttheir career histories, with particular attention to the process of promotion to full professor (seeTable 1 for sample information). All of the female associate professors eligible to apply forpromotion and a comparable group

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Retention of Women Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christel Heylen, Katholieke University, Leuven; Kathleen Geraedts, Katholieke University, Leuven

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. in engineering in Aug. 2010 from the Katholieke Univer- siteit, Leuven. She is a member of LESEC (Leuven Engineering and Science Education Centre), where she coordinates one of the four sectors, namely project-based learning.Dr. Ing. Kathleen Geraedts, Katholieke University, Leuven Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium Page 25.1278.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The background and motivation of first year engineering students in relation to gender C. Heylen, K. Geraedts, I. Van Hemelrijck, M. Smet, J. Vander Sloten

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Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela S. Frinzi, Southern Polytechnic State University; Rebecca Hudson Rutherfoord, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Women in Engineering

o Associate Professor – 93.1% of men‟s salary o Assistant Professor – 92.7% of men‟s salary o Instructor – 96.0% of men‟s salary o Lecturer – 90% of men‟s salary o All women combined – 80.7% of men‟s salary Women continue to earn the majority of bachelor‟s degrees, and are projected to earn the majority of master‟s degrees – for the class of 2018-2019, women are projected to earn 62.0% of master‟s degrees, and 54.9% of doctorate degrees6.Looking at these statistics it is clear that women are still far behind men in achieving highereducation leadership positions.Women in STEM Fields at the Academy

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Retention of Women Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Kaitlyn J. Bunker; Nilufer Onder, Michigan Technological University; Raven Rachaun Rebb; Laura E. Brown, Michigan Technological University; Leonard J. Bohmann, Michigan Technological University

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more sensitive than men to the classroom environment22.III.MethodologyThree studies on student persistence, climate, and engagement were compared. The small-scale, Page 25.1401.5single institution persistence survey was designed to investigate aspects of persistence and thereasons behind switching majors at Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech). Alarge-scale, multi-institute survey was the multi-site Project to Assess Climate in Engineering(PACE)1,20. This long-term study looks at climate with a focus on persistence and retentionusing both a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews and focus groups; only the surveyresults will

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Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Penny M. Knoll, Montana State University; Ann Saterbak, Rice University

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has served or is serving on several national committees, currently the Board of Governors for the American Institute of Constructors (AIC), the Associated Schools of Construction Region 6 Director from 2006 to 2009, and the Educational Chair for the State Chapter of the National Association of Home Builders from 2003 to 2006. Knoll’s collaboration with the local and state chapters of AGC and NAHB are key to her program’s success. She coordinators the career internship program for the Department of Civil Engineering each summer. Knoll’s teaching interest lie in the area of construction project management; safety and overall leadership skills required for students to be successful in their careers.Dr. Ann Saterbak, Rice

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Retention of Women Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University; Theodore J. Heindel, Iowa State University; Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Iowa State University; Shankar Subramaniam, Iowa State University

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faculty in an informal setting.This is one of the most popular events – it attracts 25-40 students, predominantly women, eachtime it is held. This event also attracts women students outside the department (typically 10students) as well as about 8-12 faculty and staff. Page 25.1483.7d) Dead week treats: This event is held the week before the final exam week in fall and spring.This   event   provides   the   women   students   with   a   small   break   from   studying,   test   taking,   and  working   on   final   projects.   Food,   refreshments   and   various   stress-­‐busting   activities

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Undergraduate Recruitment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra Woods, Colorado State University; Kathleen Baumgardner, Colorado State University; Lahoma Jayne Howard, Colorado State University

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Launched undergraduate major in biomedical engineeringFall 2010 Created first Facebook site for the Class of 2015Fall 2010 Launched a web-based recruitment tool that allows for assignments to be made based on gender, state or zip, engineering academic interest, etc. The tool also allowed us to begin to effectively communicate more “introductory” messages to high school juniors and sophomores.Fall 2011 Secured 100 current student volunteers to host prospective students and their families on our visit day, providing tours of residence halls, participating in panels, escorting families across campus, displaying student projects, etc

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Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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completion rates of doctoral students and in diversifying the composition of engineeringdoctoral students and faculty. Page 25.1378.10References1 Wendler, C., B. Bridgeman, F. Cline, C. Millett, J. Rock, N. Bell, and P. McAllister. 2010. The Path Forward TheFuture of Graduate Education in the United States. Princeton: Educational Testing Service,2 Council of Graduate Schools. 2007. Ph.D. Completion Project: Program Completion and Attrition Data.http://www.phdcompletion.org/quantitative/book2_quant.asp3 National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics. 2010. DoctorateRecipients from U.S. Universities: 2009. Special Report NSF 11

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Potpouri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nehal I. Abu-lail, Washington State University; Fatin Aliah Phang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Ashley Ater Kranov, ABET; Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Robert G. Olsen, Washington State University; Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET; Azizan Zainal Abidin, Universiti Teknologi Petronas

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Compatibility and Radio Science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Dr. Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET Rochelle Williams recently joined the ABET headquarters staff as Educational Research and Assessment Manager in the Professional Services Department. In this role, Williams manages ABET’s educational of- ferings on a global scale and leads technical education research projects. Prior to joining ABET, Williams held two positions at Baton Rouge Community College: Science Laboratory Manager and Adjunct Fac- ulty in the Mathematics Department. In addition, Williams has worked closely with the National Sci- ence Foundation’s Next Generation Composites Crest Center at Southern University

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Retention of Women Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Catherine F. Pieronek, University of Notre Dame; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

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Undergraduate Recruitment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Shapcott, Arizona State University; Katherine G. Nelson, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

the effects of recruitment and retentionshould be a long-term project for the engineering industry. It is also of a cyclical nature; the morewomen in engineering the more congruence it will have with other women. Ideally this issuewould be addressed at a young age when children are socialized into gendered career norms.However, engineering programs do still have the power to make an impact on the genderincongruence female students may experience as potential engineers. Efforts are being made tocreate outreach initiatives exposing younger girls to engineering.51 PV is certainly not the onlyexample but can do its part in limiting gender incongruence through the design andimplementation of programs both inside and outside of the classroom