Conference Session

Engineering Futures: Navigating the Pathways of Education, Inclusion, and Professional Growth

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sara Jordan-Bloch, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

as they would have hoped… Interviewer: How do people find out that they’re kind of mandatory? Isabel: They find out when they don’t get promoted. They find out, like, too late, I think.Isabel’s comments on the mis-construction of stretches as optional and non-essential calls for asecond look at words of another interviewee, Olivia, who indicated that stretches are moreimportant later on in one’s career (not in the early stages), and at a large organization (not thesmaller organization she currently works for). Olivia did not appear to feel that much work wasmake-or-break for her now—things at her organization were collaborative, generously assessed,and straightforward. However, even Olivia’s assessment might not be so simple—we

Collection

2024 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Katherine Robert

�oncriteria that do not promote inclusion, innova�on, flexibility, or responsiveness. This trend is notable inthat the professions and industries that employ engineers recognize the value of crea�vity,interdisciplinarity, novel thinking and solu�ons, and that diverse employees, including those who areneurodivergent, are key to increased success in their fields (Grandin, 2022; Taylor et al., 2019) and roleslike na�onal security (Weinbaum, Khan, Thomas, & Stein, 2023), crea�ng an ongoing gap between thetype of graduate supplied and the actual demands of these sectors.Another missing factor for faculty cri�cal self-awareness is the rela�vely recent impacts of neoliberalismon U.S. higher educa�on since the late twen�eth century to present (Olssen &

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Ilana Karpman, University of California San Diego

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

not knowing about grant opportunities or collaborations with teams that people are forming, and in these days, it’s very hard to write a grant by yourself.She continued to explain that the lack of access to informal networks has the potential tonegatively impact productivity or efficiency. An associate professor in a different department atResearch University II, wondered, “maybe men just feel more comfortable working with men.”Another faculty member explained that although the university had hired more women, there isno mechanism to bring women faculty together. She stated: People would say, “Oh, yeah. We have like 15% of woman faculty which is higher than the national average.” That doesn’t mean anything. I think maybe

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia Kellam, University of South Carolina; Veronica Addison, University of South Carolina; Michelle Maher, University of South Carolina; Mann Llewellyn, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland; Walter Peters, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Science (Physics) from UQ, as well as a Graduate Certificate of Education (Higher Education). Major research interests include; Engineering Education, Sustainability, Teaching and Learning, Engineering Design, Technology and Society.David Radcliffe, University of Queensland DAVID RADCLIFFE is the Thiess Professor of Engineering Education and Professional Development in the School of Engineering at the University of Queensland. His research draws on and involves collaboration with the social sciences including education and anthropology. David is co-director of the Catalyst Centre and Director of Professional Development in the School. He was a National Teaching Fellow, in 1994 and a Boeing