Salt Lake City, Utah
June 23, 2018
June 23, 2018
July 27, 2018
Women in Engineering
Diversity
37
10.18260/1-2--29737
https://peer.asee.org/29737
1059
Dr Pradeep Waychal is a visiting professor at the CRICPE of Western Michigan University, a founder trustee of Guruji Education Foundation that provides holistic support to the higher education of underprivileged students, and an academic adviser to many Indian educational institutes. Earlier, Dr Waychal has worked at Patni Computer Systems for 20 years in various positions including the head of innovations, NMIMS as the director Shirpur campus, and at College of Engineering Pune (COEP) as the founder head of the innovation Center.
Dr Waychal earned his Ph D in the area of developing Innovation Competencies in Information System Organizations from IIT Bombay and M Tech in Control Engineering from IIT Delhi. He has presented keynote / invited talks in many high profile international conferences and has published papers in peer-reviewed journals. He / his teams have won awards in Engineering Education, Innovation, Six Sigma, and Knowledge Management at international events. His current research interests are engineering education, software engineering, and developing innovative entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. He was chosen as one of the five outstanding engineering educators by IUCEE (Indo-universal consortium of engineering education) in 2017.
Charles Henderson is a Professor at Western Michigan University (WMU), with a joint appointment between the Physics Department and the WMU Mallinson Institute for Science Education. He is the Director of the Mallinson Institute and co-Founder and co-Director of the WMU Center for Research on Instructional Change in Postsecondary Education (CRICPE). His research program focuses on understanding and promoting instructional change in higher education, with an emphasis on improving undergraduate STEM instruction. Dr. Henderson’s work has been supported by over $9M in external grants and has resulted in many publications (see https://sites.google.com/view/chenderson). He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Henderson is the senior editor for the journal "Physical Review Physics Education Research" and has served on two National Academy of Sciences Committees: Undergraduate Physics Education Research and Implementation, and Developing Indicators for Undergraduate STEM Education.
Daniel (Dan) is an alum of Bradley University, Roosevelt University, and The University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign - and currently serves as a post-doctoral researcher for the Center for Research on Instructional Change in Postsecondary Education at Western Michigan University. Recently, Dan has been involved with the Broncos FIRST FITW project and has developed ongoing research with stakeholders from Kalamazoo Promise and the Upjohn Institute. One of Dan's most recent articles employed machine learning techniques to model sentiments surrounding the previously announced tuition-free college program Americans College Promise - the article can be found in the Journal of Further and Higher Education. Dan is adept at quantitative and qualitatively methods and is currently finishing up a data scientist certificated fixated on Big Data, Geospatial Data, and Data Visualization.
In the modern world, women students have broadly outpaced men students in earning college degrees and contributing to the new economic and social order. However, their performance in the STEM disciplines and workforce and, especially, in engineering has been unsatisfactory. For example, while the pre-2007 downward trend of graduation rate of women engineers seems to have been reversed in the 2007-2014 time-frame, the under-representation remains still significant - at below 20%. Such sustained under-representation of women will create the lack of diversity in engineering workforce, which can hamper development of innovative and customer-centric solutions. Recognizing this, many engineering education researchers have focused on examining women experience and women issues in engineering academic lives and workplaces resulting in many research papers.
Our paper carries out a systematic review of some of those papers to synthesize a comprehensive and stronger picture to improve success of women engineering students and professionals in the US. The review includes papers published in the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) over last twenty-five years, which claimed to study gender and success within engineering programs and workplaces. We chose JEE, a publication of the American Society of Engineering Education, as it appears to be the primary choice of engineering education researchers, especially in the US.
Waychal, P. K., & Henderson, C., & Collier, D. (2018, June), A Systematic Literature Review on Improving Success of Women Engineering Students in the U.S. Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--29737
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