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- Conference Session
- Graduate Education Track - Technical Session V
- Collection
- 2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference
- Authors
- Heather Doty, University of Delaware; L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware
- Tagged Topics
- Diversity, Graduate Education
Graduate Student Steering Committee at the University of DelawareAbstractThe University of Delaware (UD) has had an active Women in Engineering (WIE) program sincethe early 2000s. The goal of WIE is to foster a warm climate in which all members of theCollege of Engineering feel welcomed and can be productive. WIE activities have evolved overthe years, but in the last decade most of the programming has been planned and executed by theWIE Graduate Student Steering Committee. Sponsored by the dean of engineering and overseenby an associate dean and faculty advisor, the committee is made up of two women graduate-student representatives from each of the seven engineering departments. The committee planssocial, networking, and
- Conference Session
- Graduate Education Track - Technical Session V
- Collection
- 2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference
- Authors
- Thomas M. Bluestein, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Mayra S. Artiles , Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education
- Tagged Topics
- Diversity, Graduate Education
completion of their plans of study, and act to ensure intellectual health ofthe student (Noy & Ray, 2012). Solem, Lee, and Schlemper (2013), in a study of graduatestudents in a geography program, found that students reported the need for faculty advisors to aidthem with the “publish or perish” culture and climate evident in graduate education.Additionally, Cress (2008) found that, especially for underrepresented minority graduatestudents, the faculty-student relationship plays an important role in mitigating the negativeeffects of a poor campus climate. Beyond the roles and responsibilities of a faculty advisor, the interactions andrelationship between the student and advisor impacts students’ perceptions of climate andsuccess in their