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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Susan Thomson Tripathy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Hsien-Yuan Hsu, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Diane Reichlen, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #34273Engaging Women Engineering Undergraduates as Peer Facilitators inParticipatory Action Research Focus GroupsDr. Susan Thomson Tripathy, University of Massachusetts Lowell Dr. Susan Thomson Tripathy received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1989. Her doctoral research was funded by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation grant, and utilized ethnographic fieldwork in rural Bihar, India, to analyze the politics and artistic development of a local dance form. From 1995-2007, Tripathy taught behavioral sciences at Middlesex Community College (MCC), where she was an active participant and

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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Brandt, Seton Hall University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #11157WHY DO UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN PERSIST AS STEM MAJORS?A STUDY AT TWO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITIESDr. Ronald Brandt, Seton Hall University Ronald Brandt teaches physical science at the high school level, emphasizing Project Based Learning and inquiry based lab activities. Brandt seeks to inspire his students, especially young women, to develop a passion for STEM studies and consider a career in science and technology. Prior to entering the education profession, Ronald Brandt was an executive in the chemical industry serving as senior vice president at two multinational firms as well as President & CEO of an

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1st Year Retention Programs for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Urban, Arizona State University; Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Faye Navabi, Arizona State University; Debra Banks, Consultant

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Women in Engineering

2006-2423: EVALUATING SELF-ASSESSMENT AND A PLACEMENTEXAMINATION FOR A FIRST COURSE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: HOW DOWOMEN AND MINORITY STUDENTS FARE?Joseph Urban, Arizona State University DR. JOSEPH E. URBAN Joseph E. Urban is a professor of computer science and serves the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering as Inclusive Learning Communities Program Director at ASU. His research areas include software engineering, computer languages, data engineering, and distributed computing.Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University MARY R. ANDERSON-ROWLAND is an Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering. She was the Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the Fulton School of Engineering at ASU from

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WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Northeastern University; Jan Rinehart, Northeastern University; Simon Pitts, Northeastern University

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Women in Engineering

external consultant has served on design teams for many leadershipdevelopment programs in industry and in academia including the ELATE (Executive Leadershipin Academic Technology and Engineering) leadership program. She is an executive coach andconsultant with an international clientele who range from multi-national corporations touniversities. This broader design team provides more experience, is more diverse, and workstogether by challenging suggestions and refining processes.The design of the second generation of ReDI responds to the evaluation of the first generation ofReDI (see Appendix II), and the specific feedback that faculty are prepared to spend time on anexperiential project that benefits the research environment. Since there was no

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Panel: Effecting Change in Higher Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priscilla Nelson, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Theresa Hunt, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Cherrice Traver, Union College; Pamela Eibeck, Texas Tech; Zulma Toro-Ramos, Wichita State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Mary Roth, Lafayette College; delcie durham, University of South Florida

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Women in Engineering

participantsIn bringing together women administrators from 17 US states and Canada (see Appendix C forParticipant List), the WEAAP workshop offered an extensively diverse perspective for its issue-driven agenda. Over 45 women in higher education administration were identified throughexhaustive networking. All were invited to participate, and 23 were able to attend. Institutionsrepresented included 18 public and 7 private institutions, ranging in enrollment from 2,300 to50,000 (Table 2) with great variation of graduate and undergraduate programs, demographics,research expenditures, and costs (Tables 3, 4 and 5). Details used to derive informationsummarized in these tables is presented in Appendix D.Workshop organizationThe workshop was organized into

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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

scientists involved in the aerospace industry, along with computer scientistsparticipated in this event, which was scheduled early in the program in an effort to energizeparticipants and open up the world of career possibilities in engineering and science and realizehow those professionals were engaged in solving important problems in the world. The feedbackreceived from this particular session, including participant comments in journals (some of whichare included below) indicated that the session was effective in meeting one of the overall goals ofSTEP UP—stimulating and nurturing interests in S & E careers.Another change in the 2006 program based on evaluation of the 2005 camp was to utilize moreand varied venues across campus. As discussed

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Strategies Beyond the Classroom to Tackle Gender Issues

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nora Madjar, University of Connecticut; Bryan Douglas Huey, University of Connecticut; Leslie M. Shor, University of Connecticut

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

in terms of gender, patterns in course-taking and offerings,and common pathways towards STEM careers such as medical and law school. The resultssuggest the structure of STEM undergraduate programs, professional training, and their links tocareers in the same field are themselves partially to blame for unequal participation by women.For example, women are more likely to take and excel in more diverse classes as students,including elective courses in non-STEM fields. They also appear to prefer departments where themajor can be selected later in the undergraduate career, and is less hierarchical than is commonwith STEM degrees. Unsurprisingly, this often translates into women pursuing traditionallyfemale-dominated majors instead of more male

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Engaging Students in Engineering (ENGAGE)

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Staffin Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sheryl A. Sorby, Michigan Technological University; Tricia S. Berry, University of Texas, Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Ana Maria Dison, University of Texas, Austin; Yosef S. Allam, The Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University; Wally Peters, University of South Carolina, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Erica Pfister-Altschul, University of South Carolina; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina; Guangming Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Mechanical Engineering; James A. Leach, University of Louisville

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Women in Engineering

visualization skills into a pre-existing Page 22.819.5freshman seminar course, Undergraduate Studies (UGS) 001, also known as a First-YearInterest Group (FIG).ApproachTo identify high-risk groups and to streamline the implementation of the spatial visualizationworkshops in the first semester, the team targeted first year women, participating in FIGsorganized by the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at UT Austin. All first year womenenrolled in FIGs were invited to take the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Visualization ofRotations (PSVT:R) prior to the start of the fall semester of 2010. Invitations were distributedin the form of email messages and

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Stanko P.E., Innopolis University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

–women.BackgroundA. Previouse findingsIn the fall of 2013 Innopolis University conducted an extensive survey5 of groups ofstakeholders on what competencies they consider important for IT specialists. More than900 respondents participated in the survey. The groups of stakeholders included high-school students with an explicit interest in IT, students of IT specialties, IT professionals,top management of IT companies, and owners of IT businesses. By “explicit interest” inIT we mean that high-school students attend extra-curricular classes in IT (often for extrafees), for example, in programming, web and virtual design, robotics, etc.It was discovered among respondents over 18 years old, which represents students of ITspecialties and IT professionals of all

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PANEL: After #MeToo: What’s next for Women in the Engineering Workplace?

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer J VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Sandra D. Eksioglu, Clemson University; Joanna Wright, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

agents, but lag in other areas of the finance sector including commodities brokeringand trading (45.4%). Similarly, most clerical positions are also dominated by women, such ascollections (69.6%) and public relations (64.3%). Education (62.6%) and other health services(79.9%) also follow this trend [23]. In engineering, women also participate in the workforce atlevels that are far below gender parity. Industrial engineering boasts the highest percentage ofwomen at 23%, followed by computer hardware (18.9%), chemical (16.3%), mechanical(10.9%), and electrical (9.4%) [24]. And, despite the fact that mechanical and electricalengineering are among the most popular fields within engineering, these fields graduate thelowest numbers of female students

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Daniela Faas, Harvard University; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Rebecca M. Reck, Kettering University; Mary C. Verstraete, The University of Akron; Deborah J. O'Bannon P.E., University of Missouri, Kansas City

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering

academia that is inclusive, collaborative, and supportive as well as connected to industry,government, and academia on multiple levels. SWE WIA addresses the identified gap inacademic community building by bringing together academics from a variety of institution typesinterested in topics broader than (but indirectly related to) promotion and tenure requirementssuch as support and technical networks, fostering women interested in academia, and bestpractice sharing.With respect to network building the SWE Women in Academia community facilitatesmentorship, collaboration (industry, academic), and consultant opportunities. As discussedpreviously, a formal mentoring program was started to connected junior and senior faculty froma variety of

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Interactive Panel on Perspectives and Practical Skills for Men as Advocates for Gender Equity

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence J. Genalo, Iowa State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Archie L Holmes Jr., University of Virginia; Brian P Kirkmeyer, Miami University; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh University; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division, Minorities in Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

, to better serve as gender equity allies. Dr. Green is the author of a series of advocacy tips, published by the Women in Engineering Division (WIED) of ASEE and available at wied.asee.org.Dr. Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette Beth Holloway is the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education and Director of the Women in Engi- neering Program (WIEP) in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. She is the current chair of the Women in Engineering Division of ASEE. Holloway received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue University.Prof. Archie L Holmes Jr., University of Virginia Archie Holmes, Jr. is a Professor in the Charles L