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Programmatic Design and Resiliency Among Women Engineers

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Baldis, University of California, San Diego; Alex M. Phan, University of California, San Diego; Jaclyn Duerr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

(Ex. study 3.33 3.14 3.07 3.32 3.29 3.27 3.33 3.47 3.29 3.38 3.30 abroad or student organizations) Campus resource connections 3.32 3.24 3.20 3.41 3.09 3.42 3.31 3.69 3.24 3.59 3.19 Graduate school 3.27 3.13 3.27 3.43 2.85 3.34 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.24 Ethics and social responsibility 3.12 2.92 3.33 3.10 3.22 3.12 3.08 3.57 3.03 3.15 3.15 Personal wellness

Conference Session

Messaging, Motivations and Supports for Women Engineers

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abiola Olayinka Ajala, Morgan State University; Blessing Isoyiza ADEIKA, Morgan State University; Opeyemi Taiwo Adeniran, Morgan State University; Raymond Deji Olamijulo, Morgan State University; Sarah Halleluyah Adeyemi, Morgan State University; Blessing Omomola, Morgan State University; Ayobami Christianah Dunmoye, Morgan State University; Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

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tendencies and variability, offering a clearerunderstanding of the patterns influencing participants' educational and professional experiences[20].Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative DataThe findings from both qualitative and quantitative analyses were integrated during theinterpretation phase to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the research questions.The qualitative insights from the thematic analysis were used to explain patterns observed in thequantitative trends, ensuring a richer contextual understanding of the participants' experiences[24].Ethical ConsiderationsParticipant consent and anonymityBefore data collection, all participants were provided with a detailed informed consent formexplaining the study's purpose

Conference Session

Programmatic Design and Resiliency Among Women Engineers

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University; Ginger Scarbrough, WERC Environmental Design Contest, New Mexico State University

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

ABET, post-secondaryinstitutions increased their interest in including design in engineering programs focusing onenvironmental, health, safety, ethical, social, and political topics [3]. Commonly, by working ontheir capstone projects, senior engineering students apply the requirements of engineering designprojects. There are different engineering design types, approaches, and scopes. The one exploredin this study is through an engineering environmental national contest. The design contestdescribed in this study distinguishes itself by offering five new environmental design challengeseach year that require teams to build a working bench-scale demonstration. At least one task isoffered for each engineering discipline, highlighting that all

Conference Session

First-Year and Experiential Learning for Women Engineers

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorne S. Joseph, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Lydia Q Prendergast, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

• Scientific Integrity • Scientific Communication: Citations, research articles, abstracts and postersLearning OutcomesFollowing completion of the course, students are expected to: 1. Develop technical research skills and effectively communicate research goals and objectives. 2. Develop networking skills through peer and faculty mentor/mentee relationships. 3. Understand safety in the laboratory as well as proficiency in the practice of ethical research principles through certification. 4. Develop critical thinking skills to understand scientific methods used in STEM research. 5. Develop skills in public speaking through the creation and presentation of a scientific research poster.SUPER Near-peer Mentor ProgramStudents

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Persistence, Outcomes and Barriers for Women in Engineering

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lily Skau, Austin Peay State University; Emmabeth Parrish Vaughn, Austin Peay State University; Bobette Bouton; Steven Blake Warth, Austin Peay State University

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

field. The more perspectives takenwhen considering a solution broadens its validity and applicability. As engineers are called to considerparamount the safety and welfare of the public by the National Society of Professional Engineers Codeof Ethics, it is necessary to consider a range of perspectives to produce solutions representative of allindividuals [12]. Additionally, females have been found to generally display more empathy, the capacityto understand the perspectives of others, than males [5]. Thus, increasing female participation inengineering could lead to an increase in empathy demonstrated in engineering solutions. Empathyallows engineers to better understand the needs of society, so more empathy could allow engineers tobetter meet

Conference Session

Programmatic Design and Resiliency Among Women Engineers

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Renee Casner, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Nancy L Lollar, Purdue University University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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them to be successful in the end. They need to know that they can come totheir mentor with all the raw emotions of not knowing their goals or what their next move is. Itis theirs to shape into how they want to mold their futures, but they should feel assured byfaculty and staff that they will be there from point A to point B or Z if need be. REFERENCES[1] GALLUP and F. Lummina, "State of Higher Education 2024 Report," Lumina, Washington, D.C., 2024.[2] S. R. Covey, The seven habits of highly effective people: restoring the character ethic, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.[3] J. Pinchot, D. Cellante, S. Mishra and K. Paullet, "Student perceptions of challenges and the role of mentorship in

Conference Session

Programmatic Design and Resiliency Among Women Engineers

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jing Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Hou Xie; Rosie Ruoci Shen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Valeri Werpetinski, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign; Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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were very “humane”. She elaborated that they had more “commonsense” in areas such as professionalism, nondiscrimination, mutual respect regardless of gender,and maintaining a gender-neutral perspective. While acknowledging individual differences inmaturity and behavior, A003 emphasized that this group of engineers stood out for their maturityand humanity. Additionally, her fellow interns supported her by addressing a situation in which amale colleague was not contributing—they spoke to him and “forced” him to collaborate withher. A003 attributed this support to her personality rather than her gender as she consistentlydemonstrated a strong work ethic. Similarly, A016 reported that her colleagues in her coreengineering team were very supportive

Conference Session

Systemic and Policy Issues affecting Women Engineers

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juliette Sweeney, University of Toronto

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

onparticipant demographics at each school. Participants represented both research and course-baseddegrees and various levels of study. Recruitment of students was done via emails sent byadministrators within the engineering faculty and recruitment of faculty was done directlythrough departmental emails found on websites. Students were given a $30- gift card tocompensate them for their participation. Data collection activities during this study wereapproved by Ethics Review Boards (the Canadian equivalent of an IRB in the US) at theUniversity of Toronto, Donnybrook University, and Benmiller University.All interviews followed a semi-structured format, were approximately an hour long, and wereconducted in 2022 over Zoom [39]. At the beginning of data

Conference Session

Informal Education and Outreach Programs for Women Engineering Students

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wynn Tranfield, University of California, Santa Cruz; Shelby Hallman, University of California, Los Angeles; Emily Halan Dovan, University of California, Los Angeles

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

liaisons to onboard them to the project, checked in regularly, and provided opportunitiesfor survey instrument feedback. Several campuses experienced shutdowns and disturbances due to protests during thefour-week period the survey was open. During those periods of heightened institutional response,survey release dates were staggered. Each campus was offered an equal number of days tocomplete the survey.3. Participants and procedures This study followed ethical procedures approved by the Institutional Review Boards atUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, where data was collected and housed (HS-FY2024-218),and the University of California, Los Angeles (IRB#24-000478). The fully anonymous surveywas open to self-identified women graduate