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Trends in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joye Jepson, Antioch University; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Women in Engineering

AC 2008-1061: GENERAL TRENDS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION SUPPORTTHE PARTICIPATION OF WOMENJoye Jepson, Antioch University At the time this paper was written, Letha Joye Jepson was a student in Antioch University's Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change. The research reported herein contributed to one of two required Individualized Learning Area projects. Joye is a computer engineer with The Boeing Company.Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering Norman Fortenberry is the founding director of the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) at the National Academy of Engineering. CASEE is a collaborative effort dedicated to achieving excellence in

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The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-228: TECHNOLOGY AND GENDER ISSUES: DEVELOPMENT ANDASSESSMENT OF A FRESHMAN GENERAL EDUCATION COURSE IN THECOLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGPatricia Backer, San Jose State University Patricia Backer is a Professor and chair of the Department of Aviation and Technology in the College of Engineering at SJSU. She holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University, a MA and MS degree from Tennessee Temple University, and a MA and PhD from Ohio State. Her research interests are in the integration of multimedia and web-based learning into technology instruction. Page 12.1377.1© American

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WIED: Medley

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; Helene Finger P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Alana Christine Snelling

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Women in Engineering

, and as a Post-Doctoral Research Officer at the Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) at King’s College, University of London. Her graduate training is in Science & Technology Studies and Women’s Studies at Virginia Tech.Ms. Helene Finger P.E., California Polytechnic State UniversityAlana Christine Snelling Page 24.1375.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 When, Why, How, Who – Recruitment Lessons from First Year Engineering Students in the Millennial GenerationToday, an increasing number of women enter, remain, and succeed within science

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WIED: Curricular Undergraduate Student Programs

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen B. Coletti, Northeastern University; Emily Olina Wisniewski; Rachel Lauren Shapiro, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Melinda Covert, Northeastern University

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Women in Engineering

Engineering Education, 2014 Correlating Freshman Engineers’ Performance in a General Chemistry Course to Their Use of Supplemental InstructionAbstractThis study examines the correlation between first year engineering students’ use of supplementalinstruction and their performance in a required general chemistry course at NortheasternUniversity. Research has shown that supplemental instruction is positively correlated withmeasurable factors, such as higher grade point averages and timely graduation rates, as well asless-easily measured factors, such as long-term retention of course material, teamwork,communication skills, information processing skills, and motivation. Previously we examinedwhat grade level triggered students to seek

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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Rojewski, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #11658Graduate Women ”Lean In”: Building Community and Broadening Under-standingJulie RojewskiDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Potter, Iowa State University; Richard Stone, Iowa State University; Devna Fay Popejoy-Sheriff, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

learning community awards from the ISU community. Her interested are in student development, retention and success in engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Increasing Graduate School Enrollment of Female Industrial Engineers through CUREsAbstract – Work In ProgressThis is a Work in Progress paper. Decades after recognizing the need for more women engineers,increasing the number of women enrolling in engineering graduate schools still remains achallenge. From ASEE data published for 2017, record percentages of engineering degrees wereawarded to women for Bachelors, Masters, and PhDs at 21.3%, 25.7%, and 23.5% respectively.Per the US

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #9143Predicting Time to Graduation in Engineering by Student Behavior and Gen-derDr. Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of TechnologyDr. John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology Page 24.997.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Predicting Time to Graduation in Engineering by Student Behavior and GenderAbstractOur state, like many, is currently under pressure to reduce time to graduation of college studentsto satisfy various local, city and state stakeholders. As a consequence, we seek to develop

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Money and People; Resource Management for Recruitment and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

AC 2008-2649: RETENTION, GRADUATION, AND GRADUATE SCHOOL: AFIVE-YEAR PROGRAM FOCUSING ON WOMEN AND UNDERREPRESENTEDMINORITY ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTSMary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University MARY R. ANDERSON-ROWLAND, PhD, is the PI of three academic scholarship programs and a fourth program for transfer students. An Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University, she was the Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University from 1993-2004. She received the ASEE Minorities Award 2006, the SHPE Educator of the Year 2005, and won the Narional Engineering Award in 2003, the highest honor given by AAES. In

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Recruitment and Retention Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-1964: WHY PEDAGOGY MATTERS: FACULTY NARRATIVESSusan Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Associate Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, as well as feminist and liberative pedagogies. Dr. Lord served as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference. She has been awarded an NSF CAREER and ILI grants. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors

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Recruitment and Retention Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland

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Women in Engineering

engineering education has been named as a major inhibiting factor to theincreased participation of women 1,2 , with masculine values, norms and assumptionsidentified not only at the level of social interaction and discourse, but at the deeper levels ofknowledge generation and transmission 2,3,4,5.The publication of the 1996 Australian Review of Engineering Education6 entitled Changingthe Culture called for “a culture change in engineering education, ultimately to extendthroughout the profession” and explicitly noted that this transformation had the potential toattract more women to the profession. The Australian review echoed discussions occurringsimultaneously in the UK, USA and Canada. Increasingly in the last ten years the term“culture” has

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Recruitment and Retention Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Steven Thomas, Lockheed Martin Corporation

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-355: WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENTS THAT HINDER AND ASSIST THECAREER PROGRESSION OF WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYRose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana ChampaignSteven Thomas, Lockheed Martin Corporation Page 12.1616.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 1 Workplace Environments that Assist and Hinder the Career Progression of Women in Information Technology AbstractThe purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the workplace environmentcharacteristics that hinder and

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WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis; Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Sheldon Hochheiser, IEEE History Center; Michael Geselowitz, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

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Women in Engineering

Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Immediately prior to joining IEEE in 1997, Geselowitz was Group Manager at Eric Marder Associates, a New York market research firm, where he supervised Ph.D. scientists and social scientists undertaking market analyses for Fortune 500 high-tech companies. He is also a registered Patent Agent. Page 24.962.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Oral Histories of Distinguished Female Leaders: Inspiring the Next Generation

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Focus on Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keisha Walters, Mississippi State University; Soumya Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Jacqueline Hall, Mississippi State University; Kaela Leonard, Michigan Technological University; Amy Parker, Mississippi State University; Heather Thomas, Mississippi State University

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Women in Engineering

evaluation of professional documents,professional self-evaluations, and the development of a handbook and a workshop forprospective graduate students. Guest speakers from within the university were invited to the classto offer alternate perspectives and share their own career development insights. In general, most'classes' consisted of a presentation-guided discussion on a pre-determined topic, led by theinstructor, followed by discussions of related topics. The end of each class offered anopportunity for the students to ask any question and/or voice any comment or concern that wason their mind. There were no limitations placed on these 'end-of-class' discussions, and often notime limit as well. The flexible nature of the course allowed for

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Climate Issues for Women Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Sheila Edwards Lange, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

of climate, including whether gender was abarrier to a successful career in science, and whether women have to prove themselves more thanmen. Although the men and women in Ferreira’s study also had similar perceptions of the cultureof science, most of the data in general pointed to the perception of science as a masculinized andinflexible career.Department climate in terms of STEM graduate education is characterized by departmentaldifferences in the orientation and support provided to students, faculty expectations of andrelationships with graduate students, and the quality of student peer relationships2,6,16-18.Graduate education is decentralized and occurs under the auspices of academic disciplines anddepartments. Graduate students are

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Morgan Irvin, University of Missouri, Columbia; Elizabeth Hiteshue, Bain & Company; Samantha Laurel Swanson; Caroline Missouri Wochnick, Augsburg College; Hannah Bech, AmeriCorps VISTA; Amanda Marie Kapetanakis, Augsburg College; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Derrick Langley, Space and Missile Center, Enterprise Ground Services Office (SMC/ADZS); Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center at Stevens Institute of Technology; MaryAnn C. Hellrigel, IEEE, IEEE History Center; Gregory Alan Good, American Institute of Physics

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

/Education, Career, Awards/Honors, Gender-Related Questions, Reflection/Advice, andConclusion. Table I (shown on the next page) shows the structure of a typical oral historyinterview. Excluding an introduction and conclusion, the five general sections covered in theinterview are Early Life/Education, Career, Awards/Honors, Gender, and Reflection/Advice.Questions are personalized for each interviewee. Questions in the Early Life/Education sectioncover family background, early interests, early role models, and elementary through doctorateeducation. Questions in the Career section cover the general path of the interviewee’s career andthe projects and accomplishments she has at each. Questions in the Awards/Honors section focuson specific honors the

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WIED Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine R. Millam, University of Saint Thomas; Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas

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Women in Engineering

AC 2011-145: DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP ATTITUDES AND SKILLSIN WORKING ADULT WOMEN TECHNICAL GRADUATE STUDENTS:RESEARCH INTERVIEW RESULTS WITH ALUMNIElaine R. Millam, University of St. Thomas Dr. Elaine Millam is a senior consultant, executive coach and educator with over 35 years of leadership experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors,developing the leadership capacity to create high performing organizations and facilitating leadership teams to do likewise. She has earned a reputation for her leadership with female leaders, coaching them to live into their greatest potential. She uses an integrated model that balances the inside-out and outside-in approach to developing leaders. She has earned graduate

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Skaggs, American University in Cairo

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Women in Engineering

ideologies, as well as familial influences, more females, aftergraduating from university, do not continue on as professional engineers, but serve in moretraditionally gendered roles and careers. As their perspectives might generate very differentresults, it is an important step in comparative engineering education research.ConclusionEngineering as an academic discipline results in a professional degree focusing on graduatingengineers who are prepared to go into the workforce immediately after school. For women tomake a difference as professional engineers, they must finish their engineering education, butwhat about those women who graduate who do not want to be engineers? If these women areachieving self-authorship, why are they not ultimately

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Faculty Career Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

AC 2012-5574: TRENDS IN DOCTORAL EDUCATION: ENGINEERINGSTUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON FACULTY ADVISINGDr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joyce B. Main is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity. She holds a Ph.D. in learning, teaching, and social policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Page 25.1378.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Trends in Doctoral Education: Engineering

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ellen K. Foster, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) ; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

hacker and OSH development groups, where methods for addressing suchissues in technology cultures had been identified and were being tested.Many of the engineering educators interviewed cited either their own observations, or more oftentheir lived experiences as motivation for wanting to enact and advocate for change. Foundationalmoments came from undergraduate and graduate pressures, recognition that there was a dearth ofequity in engineering, as well as connections made at nascent stages during their career. Forsome, it was an interest in social justice, which they found generally lacking in engineeringpractice otherwise: I did my PHD in electrical engineering and right at the end of the PhD I was basically not terribly happy with

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nina Dahlmann, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Maria Elsner, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Sabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart; Nicole Natho, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Olivier Pfeiffer, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Christian Schroeder, Technische Universitaet Berlin

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Women in Engineering

especially supporting the visualization of complex mathematics and physics related problems.Christian Schroeder, Technische Universitaet Berlin Christian Schröder was born, grew up and lives in Berlin, Germany. After school, he studied History and Mathematics at the Technische Universität Berlin. The theme “education at the university” became one of his favorite topics. He started working within the academic structures. In January 2004 he became a member of the Commission for Teaching and Studying (LSK) of the Technische Universität Berlin (since 2007 vice chair). In January 2006 Christian Schröder was appointed as a member of the OWL-advisory council of the Technische Universität Berlin

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Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reneta Davina Lansiquot, New York City College of Technology; Hong Li, New York City College of Technology

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

University after completing her M.S. in Integrated Digital Media at Polytechnic University (now NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering). Her mixed-methodology research, focusing on interdisciplinary studies, has been presented at numerous na- tional and international conferences and published in peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in journals on topics as varied as technical writing, the future of science education, game design, virtual reality, and problem solving. Her first book is entitled Cases on Interdisciplinary Research Trends in Science, Tech- nology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Studies on Urban Classrooms (Information Science Reference, 2013).Dr. Hong Li, New York City College of Technology Hong Li is

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Courtney Green P.E.

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

something, I want to know how I can use it.” Ashley spoke about herexperience of taking construction management courses in her junior year after taking two yearsof general education courses, “I was excited to actually be in a classroom learning the stuff that Iwant to be learning. The classes are interesting. Like I'm never bored.” The women’s fascinationand interest in engineering materials has been instrumental in their persistence in their respectiveengineering programs. The second theme, self-confidence in ability, describes the women’s resolute confidencein their academic abilities both in mathematics, science, or engineering topics. This theme issupported by the experiential application of theory, focused certainty, and socializing

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K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Mary Graham, Clarkson University

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Women in Engineering

from theEngineering Information Foundation, an agency located in New York, NY that works to improveengineering education and practice and to increase women’s role in engineering; and was furtherdeveloped with additional funding from the National Science Foundation’s Program for GenderEquity, housed in NSF’s Division of Human Resources Department, Directorate for Educationand Human Resources (DUE-9979279). The full-scale program was funded by NSF from 2000through 2003, and continues to operate as part of Clarkson’s more general K-12 outreach efforts. Page 11.983.4The overall goals of the program are to increase the interest and participation of

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Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynette Osborne, The George Washington University

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Women in Engineering

systematicallyidentify important themes emerging from the data regarding the treatment of females inengineering. During the course of analysis, concrete instances in the data were linked togetherinto more general conceptual themes of categories. By utilizing this approach, evidence forthemes or correction of previously developed themes was developed. From the printedtranscripts of the interviews, I was able to highlight units of text and code them into two broad,preliminary topics: equal treatment of females, and unequal treatment of females. From thesebroad topics, transcripts were then cut and sorted by theme. Results A goal of the present study was to determine the extent to which women might

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Sarah Morton; Nehal I. Abu-lail, Washington State University; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Julie A. Kmec, Washington State University; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

of our larger study.2. Prior Literature on Choosing Engineering in the Academy vs. IndustryFor nearly 60 years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has tracked information about USAPhD recipients, their post-graduate plans, and their employment experiences well beyondgraduation. At least in the USA, most PhDs work in academia, but this number is on the decline[10]. The tracking of this information by the NSF has led some researchers to ask what makesscientists and engineers choose the kinds of jobs they do. Yet, the research on self-selection intoan academic versus industry career in engineering is limited. To begin, almost all of it isquantitative in nature, much of it focuses on STEM PhDs in general, and almost all of it isperformed on

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Issues of Diversity

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fonda Swimmer, Northern Arizona University; Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-2951: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGEDUCATION, AND RECRUITMENT OF FEMALE AND NATIVE AMERICANSTUDENTSFonda Swimmer, Northern Arizona University Fonda Swimmer received her Master of Public Administration degree from Northern Arizona University, where she is currently the Director of the Multicultural Engineering Program and is the co-advisor for several multicultural clubs. She works in the area of recruitment and retention of underrepresented students in engineering and higher education in general, and provides multiple support services to multicultural engineering and science college students. Ms. Swimmer is also involved in a variety of pre-college outreach programs in the

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Climate Issues for Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiang-Yun Du, Aalborg University; Anette Kolmos, Aalborg University

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Women in Engineering

Kolmos 1989 [15] Du 2006 [4] Gender and knowledge in engineering Bringing new values into engineering Topic education - Women's approach towards education - Gender and learning in a PBL engineering environment Time 1985-1989 2003-2006 - Reasons for mens’ and women’s choice - What are the learning experiences of of engineering students of both genders when studying Research questions - Whether women do bring in another engineering in a PBL environment

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WIED Olio

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen G. Villa, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City; Elsa Gonzalez, Texas A&M University

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Women in Engineering

graduate program, her research agenda includes higher education leadership, methodological issues in cross-language qualitative data analysis, and women in higher education Page 22.1497.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011The Right to Education for Female Engineering Students in Mexico. Cultural Considerations in their RetentionResearch paper topics: higher education, science education, cross-disciplinary areas ofeducation, student retentionKey words: Women engineering students, Mexico, college student retentionIntroduction and Statement of the ProblemIn past decades

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chloe Wiggins, Designing Education Lab; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, SKG Analysis; Benedikt von Unold, Stanford University; Tua A. Björklund, Aalto University Design Factory; Michael Arruza Cruz

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit’s ”Big Three:” Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation. At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, and recently served as Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education.Dr

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FPD V: Gender and Engineering Education: A Panel Discussion and Workshop

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs, Women in Engineering

, beliefs, etc. are normal and acceptable; one can take these things forgranted. It also means that members of a dominant group accrue invisible benefits associatedwith that membership, while those not part of the dominant group are typically aware of not Page 22.740.3quite fitting in.Born in the work of Coleman on social class group privilege (1960) and further propelled byPeggy McIntosh’s manuscript on “white privilege” (1988), the general concept of socialprivilege gave rise to a new discourse on male privilege, a topic of particular interest in adiscussion of the male-dominated engineering environment.7,22,23 Male privilege is