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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 7

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Karen Watkins-Lewis, Morgan State University; Heather Dillon, University of Washington; Rebecca N. Sliger, Tacoma Community College; Bonnie J. Becker; Erica Cline; Cheryl Greengrove; Petronella A. James, Morgan State University; Angela Edes Kitali; Adrienne Scarcella

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supporting student engagement. Her research interests include broadening participation in STEM, equity and diversity, engineering ethics, online engineering pedagogy, program assessment so- lutions, transportation planning, transportation impact on quality of life issues, and bicycle access. She is a proud Morgan Alum (2011), having earned a Doctorate in Civil Engineering, with a focus on trans- portation. Dr. Petronella James earned her Doctor of Engineering (Transportation) and Masters of City & Regional Planning. She completed a B.S. Management Studies, at the University of the West Indies (Mona), Jamaica.Angela Edes KitaliAdrienne Scarcella ©American Society for Engineering Education

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 6

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Andrea E. Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Brooke Lamonte Long-Fox, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology; Arley Williams, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Lisa A. Kunza; Sara Elizabeth Racz

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that the most appropriate would be an ADVANCE Adaptation Grant focused onchanging the culture on campus to retain female faculty, adapting strategies that had beensuccessful at other institutions. These included the Advocates and Allies Program (A&A)developed as part of the North Dakota State University (NDSU) ADVANCE InstitutionalTransformation grant2, cross-disciplinary mentoring including Mutual Mentoring3 and facilitatedpeer mentoring circles4, and policy review. The proposal was originally planned for submissionin January 2020; a decision was made to hold off until January 2021.Shortly thereafter, COVID-19 hit.Part 2: Faculty Development (FD)Elsewhere on campus in 2018, FD was housed in the admissions office with a FD coordinatorand

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 2

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Shawna Vican, University of Delaware; Robin Andreasen, University of Delaware; Heather Doty, University of Delaware

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college/unit within UD,allowing us to bring together small groups of chairs for facilitated discussion and the sharing ofexperiences. We also address the role of deans in securing institutional commitment for theproject, as well as initial evaluation results and plans for long-term evaluation. Finally, wehighlight follow-up efforts to develop and disseminate new resources on fostering inclusivedepartment climates, including a written guide that builds off strategies that emerged duringworkshop discussion, encouraging department chairs to learn from the experiences of colleaguesacross the university.I. IntroductionIn recent years, many institutions of higher education have implemented strategies to recruit andretain faculty from underrepresented

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 7

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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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allow students to give backto the community, such as local volunteering or STEM initiatives for younger students. Stressrelief events were defined as those intending to increase the mental well-being of students, suchas yoga or painting. And finally, general information events were defined as anything outside ofthe defined categories such as financial planning or other specialty topics.We also asked open-ended questions about what students would hope to gain from participatingin a GradWIE group, what types of resources or graduate school information they wish theyknew when they started their degree, and if there was anything else they wanted to share. Thecomplete survey can be found in the Appendix.ParticipantsThis survey was sent to a pre

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 5

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Elizabeth Milonas, New York City College of Technology

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bachelordegree program within the four year timeframe and a lower likelihood of taking more than fouryears to complete the degree, female minority STEM students had the highest percentage of dropor stop attending rates. These findings offer some initial insight into the challenges faced by female minoritystudents in STEM fields in terms of degree completion and retention. This analysis marks thebeginning of a journey to understand their experiences, and plans are in progress for the nextphase of this study, which is scheduled for the fall 2023 semester. The next phase will focus onidentifying the barriers that these students face and will include activities aimed at improvingtheir confidence, preparedness and sense of belonging. Section 6.0

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 3

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Amber L Doiron, University of Vermont; Katherine O'Shea; Nicole M Miller, Vermont Afterschool, Inc.; Tracy L Truzansky

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students of Refer others to this programmultiple ages, different levels Be involved againof engagement, less rigorous Valuable experience for merequirements on attentiveness Positive impact on youththan during classroom learning, Led an equity discussionand lack of state or nationalstandards [2], [3], [7]. The plan Inclusiveness/equity/belongingis to continue to iterate surveys Guidebook valuable resourceand assess learning more Taught Engineering Mindsetthoroughly as the program Value of Engineering Designgrows. Process

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 8

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Mary V. Villani, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale; Ilknur Aydin, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale; Lisa Cullington, National University

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) Do students have a positive academic self-concept upon return?(3) Do any impacts persist one month and or eight months after conference attendance?In addition to pre- and post-conference surveys, a look at end of semester survey responses onemonth after conference attendance (end of Spring 2022 semester survey) and eight months afterconference attendance (end of Fall 2022 semester survey) are evaluated to measure longer termimpact of the conference attendance.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 includes a review of related work;section 3 includes details about the spring 2022 conference attendance logistics, decision-making, and planning process. Section 4 presents the research methodology; section 5 presentsthe pre

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 4

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Camila Zapata, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Yunia Valentina Recaman, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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- sities in matters of entrepreneurship, business plans and marketing. She currently works as a teacher and academic secretary at the Faculty of Engineering of the Andr´es Bello University. The areas of research interest are the impact, relationship and integration of the gender perspective within communications and marketing in the various areas of development, digital marketing and content marketing.Miss Yunia Valentina Recaman, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, ChileProf. Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile Mar´ıa Elena Truyol, Ph.D., is full professor and researcher of the Universidad Andr´es Bello (UNAB). She graduated as physics teacher (for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 8

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Rita Manco Powell, University of Pennsylvania; Henry Towsner, University of Pennsylvania; Brett Frankel, University of Pennsylvania

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community. Eachsemester we selected a PESP alum, who had graduated from the university, to talk to the studentsabout her job and career plans at the Reunion party. The Reunion party occasionally featuredguests from industry.In addition to the pay for the peer leaders and PhD stipends, the only other costs involved inrunning ESP were the light suppers provided to the two workshops (approximately $200 perweek) and the cost of the end of semester reunion dinner.Admissions practices at the University of PennsylvaniaAt the University of Pennsylvania, students can begin freshman year with a declared major orthey can be undecided, which is called curriculum deferred in Penn Engineering and undeclaredin the College of Arts and Sciences. The vast majority

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 6

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Sandra Furnbach Clavijo, Stevens Institute of Technology

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the traditional faculty advising role. These staffmembers provide guidance on study plans, pre-requisites, and other logistical degreerequirements to help facilitate graduation, but often do not develop deep human relationshipswith students the way a faculty-advisor relationship can develop [18]. A recent study by Gauleand Piacentini [19] found that female Ph.D. students in chemistry paired with female advisorswere both more productive and more likely to become faculty themselves. This seems to be aninteresting strategy to combat the under-representation of women in science and engineering andbreak the cycle of attrition of female students. The researcher has plans to pilot the genderpairing of advisors for the Fall 2023 cohort of

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 2

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Spencer Szczesny, Pennsylvania State University; Alyssa Salazar; Ann Cameron Casasanta

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pharmacy technician based on her looks alone. Theinteraction would have been different if the pharmacist was a different race, and even a differentgender. I would have most likely asked if they were the pharmacist and not the pharmacytechnician if the pharmacist had a different identity. After my comment, I immediatelyapologized for my assumption and explained that I didn’t know any of my coworkers yet andwasn’t sure who to talk to.”“In my engineering entrepreneurship class, we were tasked with creating a product or service andcreating a business plan that we would be pitching to actual leaders in businesses. This projectincluded financials, marketing, and prototyping. I found myself leaning towards the prototypingphase of this project as it had

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 8

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women-centric conference and events: Two field trips were planned and carried out by the authors during the spring semester to this day. Both the trips were to the same regional ACM-W Celebration conference (https://women.acm.org/category/celebrations) due to its close-proximity and affordability. Spring 2021 trip was a virtual with 8 women undergraduates attended. Spring 2022 conference and trip was in-person with participation of 34 computing students where 70% were women.Thus far, the three initiatives have been funded through a few small campus fundingopportunities such as discretionary funding from departmental budgets overseen by thedepartment chair, the school-wide budget overseen by the dean, and college

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 3

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Monica Stephens, Spelman College; Tiffany Renee Oliver, Spelman College; Pamela M Leggett-Robinson, PLR Consulting

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through management and evaluation. Dr. Leggett-Robinson has more than 15 years of higher education experience which includes STEM academic and student success/support programming, strategic plan- ning, data analytics, and program evaluation. As a PI, she has garnered funds in excess of $3 million dollars from both NIH and NSF for broadening participation in STEM Undergraduate Education and as an Evaluator has worked on large projects with NSF (Big Data, BioGraph), Google CS-ER, and DOD STEM Student Success. Her distinguished record of STEM programmatic success (at HBCUs and PWIs) is well documented in publications and presentations. Dr. Leggett-Robinson’s latest publications, ”De- mystifying Promotion & Tenure: A

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 1

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Krista Smith, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Port Hueneme ; Bridget Leana Davenport; Jason Faith Bickford; Leslie Abell; Sara Dooley

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Davenport Bridget Davenport is a SMART Scholar for Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) at the Port Huen- eme Division. She graduated from Ventura College with an Associates in Science with Engineering Honors. She transferred to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in pursuit of an Electrical/Mechanical Engineering degree. She plans to attend UCLA to earn a Master’s Degree after returning back to work at the NSWC PHD. She is interested in working with the Vertical Launching System and Canister Maintenance and ORDALTSJason Faith BickfordLeslie AbellSara Dooley ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Section Conference

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Sex, Gender, and Engineering: Responding to Harassment at Work and in School

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Tamara Floyd Smith, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Jennifer J VanAntwerp, Calvin University; Shruti Misra, University of Washington; Alicia Mullen; Eve A. Riskin P.E., University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

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ofWashington, during which time she worked as a teaching assistant for the digital circuitintroductory series and took on internships in the aerospace industry. After graduation, Aliciaworked as a Systems Engineer for Philips Oral Health Care and startup Jeeva Wireless. Shepresently has no plans to return to engineering as a career.Eve Riskin, Ph.D., is Dean of Undergraduate Education at Stevens Institute of Technology.Before this role, she was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University ofWashington Seattle, where she also served as the Faculty Director of the ADVANCE Center forInstitutional Change. Her scholarly research focuses on promoting diversity and inclusion inSTEM students and faculty. Dr. Riskin is a Fellow in IEEE

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 2

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Najme Kishani Farahani, University of Toronto, Canada; Aimy Bazylak, University of Toronto, Canada; Jason Bazylak, University of Toronto, Canada

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engineering) is the work of Guerin and hercolleagues [20]. Borrego and her team also examined motivational factors to consider master’sand Ph.D. degrees separately. For instance, they found that “for every one-unit increase instudents’ self-efficacy, they were over eight times more likely to plan to enroll in a master’sprogram and 13 times more likely to plan to enroll in a Ph.D. program relative to not attendinggraduate school” [8, p. 154].Therefore, the body of literature on women in graduate degrees in engineering remains extremelylimited, especially disaggregated on each graduate degree (MSc, MEng, or Ph.D.) or engineeringsubfields. In order to address systematic challenges that threaten EDI, specifically in engineeringgraduate programs, it is

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 6

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 4

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Johanna Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland

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, more women are absolutely needed in the fields of technology, all the relevant stakeholders because the greater the variety of people developing the technology of our heard. society, the better they will be able to take into account all the necessary aspects. (207) The [technology] sector solves complex social problems that can affect different populations in different ways. For example, better consideration of the perspective of women in the planning of community structures could contribute to social equality. (337) Common

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 6

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Syed Ali Kamal, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Matilde Luz Sanchez-Pena, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Esther Jose, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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motivational theory of role modeling: How role models influence role aspirants’ goals,” Rev. Gen. Psychol., vol. 19, no. 4, Art. no. 4, 2015.[19] J. Steinke, “Adolescent girls’ STEM identity formation and media images of STEM professionals: Considering the influence of contextual cues,” Front. Psychol., vol. 8, p. 716, 2017.[20] J. Steinke and P. M. P. Tavarez, “Cultural representations of gender and STEM: portrayals of female STEM characters in popular films 2002-2014,” Int. J. Gend. Sci. Technol., vol. 9, no. 3, Art. no. 3, 2018.[21] A. Sahin, A. Ekmekci, and H. C. Waxman, “Collective Effects of Individual, Behavioral, and Contextual Factors on High School Students’ Future STEM Career Plans,” Int. J. Sci. Math. Educ

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 7

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Macarena Becerra-Cid; Monica Quezada-Espinoza, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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institutional 30. Planning my career with the academic secretaries support 31. Receiving academic tutoring (α=0, 772) 32. Find health and wellness support services 33. Get involved in sports and complementary areas (leadership, diversity and gender, participatory meetings, etc.).The process whereby the instrument presented in table 2 was designed, built and validatedwill be reported on in separate investigation. The survey response scale is of the Likert typethat starts at 1. Strongly disagree, up to 5. Strongly agree. The statement for items 1 to 28was: From your experience this last academic year at the School of Engineering at the AndrésBello University, to what extent do

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 2

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Grace J. Liang; Rick Evans, Cornell University; Mojdeh Asadollahipajouh; Stacey E. Kulesza, P.E., Kansas State University; Anna Glushko Evans, Kansas State University

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. Sadler, P.M., et al., Stability and volatility of STEM career interest in high school: A gender study. Science education, 2012. 96(3): p. 411-427.3. Tai, R.H., et al., Planning early for careers in science. Science, 2006. 312(5777): p. 1143-1144.4. Falk, J.H., et al., Taking an ecosystem approach to STEM learning. Connected Science Learning, 2016. 1: p. 1-11.5. Falk, J.H., et al., Understanding youth STEM interest pathways within a single community: The Synergies project. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 2016. 6(4): p. 369-384.6. Clark, A. and R.L. Kajfez. Engineering Identity in Pre-College Students: A Literature Review. in 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 1

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Johanna Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Finland; Susanna Maria Bairoh, Hanken School of Economics, Finland

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% 14 %Main work assignment 0.4674 0.0066Research 43 % 58 % 46 % 62 %Teaching or education 4% 8% 12 % 4%Management and supervisory duties 11 % 6% 7% 0%Consulting or training 6% 8% 8% 8%Planning and development 33 % 13 % 22 % 15 %Other 4% 7% 6% 12 %Doctoral degree as a requirement or prerequisite 0.3595 0.0003Yes, a formal qualification requirement 24 % 47

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Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Perspectives on Advancing Women and Gender Equity in Engineering - for the Next 130 Years

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Baishakhi Bose, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Haleh Barmaki Brotherton, Clemson University; Theo Hopper, University of Michigan; Pamela Martínez Oquendo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lily M. Wang P.E., University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Margaret E.B. Webb, Virginia Tech; Hannah Wilkinson, Utah State University

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the near future to obtain a “seat at the table,” it gives me hope that thereare also several dialogues happening to ensure a right step forward in terms of gender equity. Ininstitutions and workspaces in recent times, there have been multiple dialogues and in some casesratification of contracts to ensure an expansion in the paid parental leave, and this step woulddefinitely reduce barriers for early career womxn who are planning on starting a family. Also,there are a lot of free resources available for those who want to educate themselves and practiceinclusivity in their workspace. Additionally, I think it is important to create initiatives (industrybased fellowship/internship opportunities to pursue higher studies) that encourage more womxn

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Quezada-Espinoza, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Marcela Silva, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Carolina Alvarado, California State University, Chico

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agreed to take part.Moreover, no information was collected regarding their ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, etc.,which would have broadened the study and helped to explain the sense of belonging of theparticipants in greater depth.In the future, the objective is to conduct interventions in the classroom in order to investigatehow sense of belonging changes as a result of these interventions. The planned interventionsinclude increasing student-centered activities and promoting inclusion in the classroom throughawareness-raising workshops, among other similar initiatives. In addition, it is the intention ofthe authors of this study to design a pilot mentoring program with which to empower women CEstudents.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like