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Fostering Community at the Graduate Level: One University’s Student-led Approach

Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 7
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Haroula M. Tzamaras, Pennsylvania State University; Sierra Hicks; Gabriella M. Sallai, Pennsylvania State University; Christine Mathilda Cummings; Lauren Elizabeth Dennis; Hannah Nolte, Pennsylvania State University; Andrea Mesa Restrepo; Cynthia Howard-Reed, Pennsylvania State University
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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)
Paper ID #37179Fostering Community at the Graduate Level: One University’s Student-ledApproachHaroula M. Tzamaras, Pennsylvania State University Haroula is a 3rd year PhD candidate studying human factors at Penn State and is the current president of GradWIE.Sierra HicksGabriella M. Sallai, Pennsylvania State University Gaby Sallai is currently a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department at Penn State. She is working under Dr. Catherine Berdanier in the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL) studying the experiences of engineering graduate students. She received her Bachelor’s degree from
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Measuring the Impact of Budding Support Programs for Women Undergraduates in Computing Degrees

Conference Session
Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 8
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)
success for underrepresented students in the STEM fields[13-15]. Investigating academic self-concept can provide a conceptual tool to understandstudents’ perceptions of their academic identity, their perceptions of their capabilities within theacademic discipline and how they overcome academic challenges.Complementing undergraduate enrollment numbers, women have been shown to demonstrate ahigher academic self-concept in biology and medicine as opposed to engineering and math [14].According to the National Science Foundation, men earned approximately 75% of theengineering, mathematical and computer science bachelor’s degree in 2020 [6]. Men alsodemonstrate higher levels of academic self-concept [16]. Given the reported lower levels ofacademic self
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