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- Conference Session
- Undergraduate Track - Technical Session III
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- 2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference
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- Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park
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- Diversity, Undergraduate Education
Paper ID #216972018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Exploring the incorporation of diversity and inclusion curriculum in engi-neering living and learning community programs: A work in progressDr. Elizabeth R. Kurban, Women in Engineering, University of Maryland College Park Elizabeth Kurban serves as the Assistant Director of Retention for the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering. Elizabeth’s professional and research interests broadly surround STEM-field access and persistence for women and
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- Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7
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- 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
- Authors
- Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Western Michigan University; Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University ; Daniel Collier, Western Michigan University
- Tagged Topics
- Diversity
- Tagged Divisions
- Women in Engineering
such as the lackof self-confidence and fear of not getting accepted in their departments, which do not relate totheir abilities15, and perhaps cause women students to drop out earlier in the program25. Felder etal.35 found that women were more likely to have transferred out in good standing and muchmore likely to have transferred out after failing a course Generally, lower levels of self-efficacyinfluences attrition rates15,47 and women students have poor self-efficacy than men students41. Self-efficacy may be interplaying with academic motivation in determiningpersistence20. Litzler and Young22 provide three constructs for academic motivation – ‘At-Riskof Attrition’, ‘Committed with Ambivalence’ and ‘Committed’. While they found women