Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

specifically in engineering, with respect to U.S. percentages of minority women.More discrepancies are found within the group of minority women as to recipients ofdegrees. The two largest groups within the set of U.S. minority women, Blacks andHispanics, are not the largest recipients of bachelor degrees, nor engineering degrees.Looking toward the future also shows a problem, minority females are not graduatingfrom high school in the same percentages as non-minority females. This, coupled with thefuture population predictions from the U.S. Census Bureau, indicates a bleak future forengineering. This paper will address all of the above items: the current U.S. populationand education figures, with emphasis on women; the trend of some minority groups

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Rakesh Sreenivasa; Kendrick Aung

Session 1333 Development of Web-based Tools for Energy Engineering Sunil Appanaboyina, Rakesh Sreenivasa, and Kyaw Aung Department of Mechanical Engineering Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas 77710Abstract With increasing popularity of World Wide Web (WWW) as a teaching medium, moreand more engineering educators have developed web-based teaching and evaluation tools tofacilitate and improve the learning process of students. In this paper, the development of twoweb-based tools for use in Energy Engineering course

Conference Session

Computers in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Mueller