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Building a More Supportive Climate for Women in STEM: Discoveries Made, Lessons Learned

Conference Session: Institutional Transformations
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenge Scholars Program National Steering Committee. She served for six years on the Board of Directors for WEPAN. She served on the National Advisory Panel for the Society for Women Engineer’s Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE) Project; as Vice President for Professional Interest Councils on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE); and is Director-at-Large for the ASEE Women in Engineering Division. She regularly reviews for the ASEE Women in Engineering Division, the Frontiers in Education Conference, National Science Foundation programs (including the Graduate Fellows Program and ADVANCE), the Journal for Women and Minorities in

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The Influence of Gender Stereotypes on Role Adoption in Student Teams

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Lorelle A Meadows, University of Michigan; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

approximately 600undergraduates involved in group oral presentations reveals that women on first-year engineeringproject teams exhibit less active participation than men, and that this happens regardless of therepresentation of women on the team. Men are disproportionately more likely to present thetechnical content in oral presentations than women, to speak longer than expected and longerthan women, and to field more audience questions than women9, 10. In addition, students’ self-reported learning from the project is positively correlated with taking on active presentation roles,roles primarily adopted by men.This paper provides a summary of the statistical findings of adding an additional 500 first yearstudent participants to the prior work, lending

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The Design of a Leadership Development Programme for Women Engineering Students at a South African University

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues II
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Ann Sharon Lourens, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Port Elizabeth South Africa
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

Paper ID #5753The Design of a Leadership Development Programme for Women Engineer-ing Students at a South African UniversityDr. Ann Sharon Lourens, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Port Elizabeth South Africa I have been involved in academia for the past 17 years after spending eight years working in various manufacturing industries. I hold qualifications in Operations Management and Business (MBA and DBA). I am currently the Head of Department of Industrial Engineering at the NMMU in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. I am also the Project Leader for wela (women in engineering leadership association) which falls

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Engaging Male Faculty in Institutional Transformation

Conference Session: Institutional Transformations
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Christi McGeorge, North Dakota State University ; Cali L. Anicha, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

Since its inception in 2001, 50 institutions across the country have received a NationalScience Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Institutional Transformational Award. The goal of theNSF ADVANCE program is to increase participation of women in academic science andengineering careers. The ADVANCE FORWARD project, funded by NSF in 2008, seeks todevelop and implement a comprehensive research-driven strategy to increase participation ofwomen in all faculty and academic administrative positions across our institution. Thus,because NSF funding is limited to science and engineering disciplines, funds are provided byour institution to support ADVANCE FORWARD project activities for faculty who are in non-STEM disciplines. ADVANCE FORWARD’s approach to

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Assessing Gender Differences in First-Year Student Motivation

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues II
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Lorelle A Meadows, University of Michigan
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

of design projects in first-year engineering courses, little research to dateexamines the effect of such courses on student motivation. Broad studies of retention inengineering education show promising results for women and other under-represented studentsin project-based courses2; however, engineering educators need a richer understanding of howspecific project-oriented pedagogies affect students’, and in particular women’s, motivations forengineering and their intended career plans. This study focuses on women because of theircontinued underrepresentation in engineering3, 4 and the need to ensure effective retention effortsin the midst of a movement to enact large-scale curricular transformation in engineering.To address this need, this

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Establishing a Women’s Mentorship Network in a STEM Learning Community

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues II
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Melissa A Dagley, University of Central Florida; Nirmala Ramlakhan, Nee-Moh, Inc; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

students who participated in the mentoring program andremained engaged in the intervention over a two-year period had significantly higher grades thanthose students who received no active intervention (non-mentored students)17.BackgroundThe National Science Foundation funded a STEP project at the University of Central Florida(UCF) titled “UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence”. The NSF STEPprogram seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents)receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The STEP project at UCF, called theEXCEL program, was a 5-year program funded in 2006 which has since been

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Gender Differences in Motivation to Perform K12 Outreach

Conference Session: Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Joshua M Frey, Elizabethtown College
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

introduced an extrinsic performance goal that enhancedthe undergraduates’ motivation, but left us able to answer our research question: what are thesimilarities and differences between women and men undergraduates in their intrinsic motivationto perform K12 outreach?MethodsOutreach Project Our study focused on an outreach activity performed in one mid-level course (Strength ofMaterials) within the ABET-accredited general engineering curriculum at a small (less than2,000) private regional liberal arts college. The course had an enrollment of 22 students spanning10 sophomores (45%), 11 juniors (50%), and 1 senior (5%), including 16 men and 6 women(27%). To expose undergraduates to outreach, all undergraduates enrolled in the Strength

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Are There Gender Differences in how Male and Female Interns and Their Mentors Rate Workforce Skills in STEM Fields?

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Thomas E. Pinelli, NASA Langley Research Center; Cathy W. Hall, East Carolina University; Kimberly Marie Brush, NASA Langley Research Center; Jeannine B. Perry, Continental Research Associates, Inc.
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

Education at the NASA Langley Research Center. She is completing her PhD in Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership with a focus on Higher Edu- cation Administration at the College of William and Mary. Her dissertation is focused on the preferences of women in an engineering internship as compared to those of men, specifically focusing on the elements and skills that support women’s persistence into an engineering field.Ms. Jeannine B. Perry, Continental Research Associates, Inc. Jeannine Perry joined Continental Research in 1984. As Sr. Project Director, she meets with each client to discuss their needs and outline the research project goals. She is then responsible for planning and monitoring all phases of the

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Job Shadowing: Improving Interest and Persistence for Women in Engineering

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Mary Moriarty, National Science Foundation; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Elena Rose Yasinski, Carnegie Mellon University
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

Paper ID #5796Job Shadowing: Improving Interest and Persistence for Women in Engineer-ingDr. Mary Moriarty, National Science Foundation Dr. Mary Moriarty is a Program Director in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is on rotation at NSF from the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College and has over 15 years of research, evaluation, and project management experience. Dr. Moriarty specializes in the evaluation of programs that serve underrepresented populations, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Her experience includes

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Negotiating Masculine Spaces: Attitudes and Strategies of First-Year Women in Engineering

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Courtney S Smith-Orr, Virginia Tech
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

way. I can never see you doing that, and I took that as an insult. Like, it hurt my feelings because … he's, like, I picture you going into fashion design or something like that. [92208_430]In other cases, biases manifest themselves in subtle ways as women find themselves workingwith men who don’t seem to quite trust them or have confidence in their abilities, but don’t makeovert comments: I just got a lot of felling a lot of times, like, I did a good bit of that project, and I feel like a lot of times the stuff I did was, like, second guessed, like a lot of them went back and checked it. There was one guy in the group particularly that never took any of my ideas…..[In another group] we had to come up with a list of solutions

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Seeing the Big Picture: The Role that Undergraduate Work Experiences Can Play in the Persistence of Female Engineering Undergraduates

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Cate Samuelson, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

Paper ID #6686Seeing the Big Picture: The Role that Undergraduate Work Experiences CanPlay in the Persistence of Female Engineering UndergraduatesMs. Cate Samuelson, University of Washington Cate Samuelson is a Doctoral Candidate in Education and Leadership Policy Studies at the University of Washington. She also works as a Research Assistant at the University of Washington (UW) Center for Workforce Development (CWD), where she conducts qualitative research and analysis on the Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE) project. Her research interests include P-20 school-community relations and community capacity

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Panel: Opportunities & Methods to Encourage more Women Toward Research Commercialization

Conference Session: Panel: Opportunities & Methods to Encourage More Women Toward Research Commercialization
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Babs Carryer, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Abby Thompson, Mississippi State University ; Louise C. Dunlap, DunlapBrowder
Tagged Divisions: Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation, Women in Engineering

training at the National Collegiate Inventors and In- novators Alliance (NCIIA). Babs is a serial entrepreneur and active in multiple entrepreneurial activities. She blogs about entrepreneurship on New Venturist. Babs taught entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for 15 years, where she maintains an adjunct position. Formerly, Babs was embedded entrepreneur for CMU’s Project Olympus and innovation advisor for CMU’s Institute for Social Innova- tion. For seven years at the University of Pittsburgh, Babs taught the Benchtop to Bedside new technology commercialization course. Babs is President of Carryer Consulting and co-founder of LaunchCyte, which has a portfolio of five companies. Babs has a Masters in

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A Natural Experiment: NAE's Changing the Conversation Report and Students' Changing Perceptions of Engineering

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Julie Ann Lorah, University of Washington
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

Paper ID #6684A Natural Experiment: NAE’s Changing the Conversation Report and Stu-dents’ Changing Perceptions of EngineeringDr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the Director for Research at the University of Washington (UW) Center for Workforce Development (CWD) and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in UW Sociology. She directs re- search projects from conceptualization, methodological design, collection of data and analysis, to dis- semination of research findings. Dr. Litzler manages the Sloan-funded Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE), which uses quantitative and

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Broadening Participation: A Report on a Series of Workshops Aimed at Building Community and Increasing the Number of Women and Minorities in Engineering Design

Conference Session: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Katherine Fu, MIT; Tahira N Reid, Purdue University; Janis P. Terpenny, Iowa State University; Deborah L. Thurston, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Judy M. Vance, Iowa State University; Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon University; Gloria J. Wiens, University of Florida; Kazem Kazerounian, University of Connecticut; Janet Katherine Allen, University of Oklahoma; Kathy Jacobson
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

teams; impacts of project choice and context; and the retention and success of under- represented students). She has 9 years of industry work experience with the General Electric Company (GE), including the completion of a 2-year corporate management program. Throughout her career, she has managed over $8 million of sponsored research and is the author of 150 peer-reviewed publications. She is a member and Fellow of IIE, a member and Fellow of ASME, and a member of ASEE, INFORMS, Alpha Pi Mu, and Tau Beta Pi. She serves as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and for the Engineering Economist. She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, in research, and for service.Dr

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Tension of Legacy: Self-Authorship of Female Engineering Students and Their Professional Choice

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jennifer A. Skaggs, American University in Cairo
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

Page 23.1164.3femininities breaking down the “binary opposition between male and female”10 and allowing for“creative interrogation of the ways in which people ‘do’ gender”.15Engineering as MasculineAfter World War I, engineering was, according to Ruth Oldenziel, a “project inmasculinization”. 16 The word “engineer” was originally given to the military troops who created,built, and operated machinery [engines] of war.17 This link between military and engineering hasled to construction of a hegemonic masculinity that pervades the professional and educationalenvironments of engineering. The term hegemonic refers to the cultural ideal of masculinity thatis dominant and is associated with men who are in power.18Not only is this masculine image of

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Promising Organizational Practices for Increasing Faculty Gender Equity: A Case Study

Conference Session: Institutional Transformations
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Karen J. Horton PE, University of Maine; Amy Fried, University of Maine ; Mary Madden, University of Maine
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

other campuses and other projects and then making it available to the University of Maine faculty and administrators would be a good place to start in terms of the dissemination of ideas for how to improve practice to influence faculty retention and career development.”As year two began, AIC meetings began to be structured to include evidence on campusconditions and broader findings about best practices.The committee began year two with two half-day strategic planning meetings, which provedpivotal. While the objectives of the grant were set, the strategies to achieve the objectives wereflexible and proved to be a key entry point for committee members. Findings from the facultysurvey conducted by the social science team prior to the

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Engaging Foucault to Better Understand Underrepresentation of Female STEM Faculty

Conference Session: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University; Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program and the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering 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 Uni- versity 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 Femi- nist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the website http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking

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Understanding the Factors Influencing Student Participation in Supplemental Instruction in Freshman Chemistry

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues II
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kristen B. Coletti, Northeastern University; Melinda Covert, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Lauren Gianino, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Emily Wisniewski, Northeastern University
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

Figure 1aProjected Use of Supplemental Instruction in College Page 23.1281.6 Figure 1bFigure 1a is a graph of student feedback from the pre-survey regarding their usage of threedifferent types of supplemental instruction in high school. These three types of supplementalinstruction are one-on-one tutoring, instructor office hours, and group tutoring. Figure 1b is agraph of student feedback also from the pre-survey on their projected usage of these same threeadditional resources in college during the Fall 2012 semester. For all three types of supplementalinstruction, a larger percentage of females used these resources in high school and planned tocontinue to use them in

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The importance of the disciplinary society in leadership skill development and advancement

Conference Session: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Tamara Bush, Michigan State University; Laura J Genik, Michigan State University
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

success by firstworking in such positions in professional and discipline societies as well as understanding theimpacts for early career faculty.Michigan State University was funded through the NSF ADVANCE program for an InstitutionalTransformation Grant. One of the components of this ADVANCE grant focused on women’sleadership. This leadership project had an overarching goal of understanding what factorsmotivated women faculty to become leaders. Within this overarching goal, the women’sleadership team also wanted to better understand the roles their disciplinary/professionalsocieties played in leadership development and advancement.As a beginning step to meet these goals, the women’s leadership team needed to first understandhow women participated

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Exploring Women Engineering Faculty’s Mentoring Networks

Conference Session: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Ziyu Long, Purdue University; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robyn F Wilson, Purdue University; Jennifer C Batra, Purdue University ; Lindsey B. Anderson, Purdue University
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

research questions: (RQ1) how do womenengineering faculty construct their mentoring networks? and (RQ2) what are engineering womenfaculty’s mentoring network configurations?Methods This paper is part of a larger project to assess the revised formal mentoring programsdesigned and offered by the College of Engineering at a large Midwestern (U.S.) university andto study the mentoring experiences of faculty members in the STEM discipline. Our paperfocuses on women faculty members’ mentoring experience from a network perspective. Seventenure-track women faculty members from the College of Engineering agreed to participate inour study (see Table 1). Participants represent five different engineering specialties in theCollege. Two of our

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Engineering Student Involvement: Comparison of Two Dissimilar Institutions

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University; Catherine F Pieronek, University of Notre Dame; Leo H McWilliams, University of Notre Dame
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

. Understanding Student Differences. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 57- 72, 2005. 4. R. Felder, G. Felder, M. Mauney, C. Hamrin, E. Dietz. A Logitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention. III. Gender Differences in Student Performance and Attitudes. Journal of Engineering Education, 84 (2), 151-163, 1995. 5. Goodman, C. Cunningham, C. Lachapelle, M. Thompson, K. Bittinger, R. Brennan, and M. Delci. FINAL REPORT OF THE WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES IN COLLEGE ENGINEERING (WECE)PROJECT. April 2002. http://www.grginc.com/WECE_FINAL_REPORT.pdf 6. G. May and D. Chubin. A Retrospective on Undergraduate Engineering Success for Underrepresented Minority Students. Journal of

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WiSE Women of the UAE

Conference Session: Undergraduate Student Issues II
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Nadia M Alhasani, The Petroelum Institute
Tagged Divisions: Women in Engineering

programs as they begin early in the curriculum their introduction to the industry byproviding examples from the industry and assigning actual projects that students can seek data oradvise from one of the sponsoring companies. Not unlike the medical field, once an internspecializes in a certain field, there develops a bond between the individual and a particular groupof similar interests. So that by the time our alumnae are ready to join the workforce, they areeager to become part of a team they are already acquainted with.The three problems discussed are at the core of the daily operations of the WiSE Program andthe focus of its mission which “seeks to promote women’s education attainment, professionalaspirations, social responsibility and