, improvingopportunities available to them.Methodology The study was conducted at Alcorn State University and Jackson State University.Alcorn State University is a land grant, historically black institution located in Lorman,(southwest) Mississippi, with an enrollment of 3,100 undergraduate students(http://www.alcorn.edu)1. Alcorn State University’s Department of IndustrialTechnology currently has 45 female students out of 125 undergraduate students. TheDepartment has 12 teaching faculty members (e.g. instructors, assistant professors,associate professors, and professors) (K. Agyepong, personal communication, September05, 2003)3. However, as noted by Dr. B. W. McGowan (personal communication,September 16, 2003) 29, only 1of the 12 teaching faculty is a
competition’. (9/6/2005)”Sherry became worried during this project because communication in her team was poor andnobody assumed the team management role. She believed that the criterion they had chosen wasa challenging one for their design that required effective team collaboration and planning.Sherry also describes the bridge project testing day as an embarrassing experience because shesays “we built a bridge that could hardly hold itself and was not at all aesthetically pleasing.”B) Lack of Social PersuasionsDuring the bridge project, Sherry experienced participation in a team that was unsuccessful. Theteam communication continued to be poor throughout the design project. Nobody in her teamtook the leadership and management role. She did not want
affirmative. Students reflected on the influenceof single experiences (such as research, internships, and engineering organizationalinvolvements) on their sense of belonging, educational persistence, or professional persistenceplans18.Building on prior literature, this study sought to answer the following research questions: 1. Do male, female, white, and non-white students have similar experiences in terms of: a. Consideration of leaving engineering at the same points and with the same frequency? b. Consideration of the same factors to be encouraging / discouraging for continuation in engineering? c. Involvement in engineering organizations, campus activities, and the community? 2
contact with real world engineers. At these events, she asked several professionalengineer alumni “What was the most useful class you ever took?,” a common answer wasEngineering Leadership) and the importance of Calculus and math calculation skills on the job.She particularly wanted to clarify the importance of Calculus, after she received a disappointing“B” in her first semester. The engineers’ answers reinforce her sense that real-world engineeringhas a place, and a prominent place, for Rachel: And he's like, let me tell you-- on a really bad day I have to square something. Like I have to like make the cosine of Pi/3. And I was like oh really? He's like yeah… like… I don't, like, and he was saying like, you can always be an
students accepted this invitation, including five White men,one Middle-Eastern woman, one Black woman, and one Latina. Engineering majors of the FGparticipants included three from Mechanical Engineering, two from Electrical Engineering andComputer Engineering, two from Civil Engineering, and one from Chemical Engineering. To serve as facilitators, students were trained in: (a) explaining the purpose of the FGsand the PAR process of listening to all voices and developing action steps for change; (b)building rapport through creative ice-breakers; (c) encouraging all FG members to voice theirthoughts and concerns; (d) listening without judgement and establishing trust; (e) responding tocomments with appropriate follow-up questions; (f
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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about a variety of topics, sothat we may engage our students and ourselves in a continuous cycle of improvement.References1. Brelin-Fornari, J., Homsher, B., and Sullivan, L. “Kettering University’s Bioengineering Summer Program for High School Women”. ASEE Annual Conference. Salt Lake City, UT. 2004.2. http://www.kettering.edu/futurestudents/precollege/lite/lite_courses.jsp3. Eccles, J.S. (2007). “Where are all the women? Gender differences in participation in physical science and engineering.” In S.J. Ceci & W.M. Williams (Eds.), Why aren't more women in science? (pp. 199-210). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.4. National Highway Transportation Administration, US Department of Transportation, Traffic
, Engineering and Mathematics Mentoring from the White House and the 2008 IEEE Education Society Hewlett-Packard/Harriett B. Rigas Award. Dean Schrader received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University, and her M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Systems and Control, both from University of Notre Dame.Patricia Davies, Purdue University Dr. Patricia Davies. Dr. Davies currently serves as a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and director of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories. She joined the faculty at Purdue in 1987. She may be reached at daviesp@ecn.purdue.edu.W. M. Kim Roddis, George Washington University Dr. Kim Roddis. Professor
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Paper ID #30545IMPROVED METRIC FOR IDENTIFYING FEMALE FACULTY REPRE-SENTATION INENGINEERING DEPARTMENTSDr. Jennifer Retherford P.E., The University of Tennessee at Knoxville Dr. Retherford is an alumna of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Among many structural engineer- ing courses, Dr. Retherford manages the Senior Design Project course for all undergraduate civil & environmental engineering seniors.Dr. Sarah J Mobley P.E
howwomen consider leaving a job and in some cases, exit engineering altogether. A 'chilly' climatehas often been implicated as a primary or contributing reason for these exit decisions and hasbeen classified in the literature under such descriptors as a hostile or macho work culture,mysterious pathways to career advancement, and extreme work pressures. This study expands onthese previous studies by (a) emphasizing the engineering workplace experiences of millennialsin order to understand whether these chilly climate conditions have evolved over time or aretending to persist into the next generation; and (b) studying men as well as women to gain deeperinsight into which negative working conditions tend to occur across gender and which may begender
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Paper ID #17793Following in the Footsteps of Distinguished Leaders in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM): Narratives of the Next Generationof Young People Preserving key Oral Histories of our Societal HistoryMs. Kelsey Morgan Irvin, University of Missouri, Columbia Kelsey Irvin is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is studying youth emotion dysregulation and how its physiological presentation correlates to depression.Ms. Elizabeth Hiteshue, Bain & Company Elizabeth graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2015 with a degree in Systems Engi
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three items from the questionnaire: (a) “Virginia Techis a good place to work”, (b) “I feel I ‘fit in’ at Virginia Tech”, and (c) “Overall, I am satisfiedwith my job at Virginia Tech”. Respondents gauged their agreement to these and otherquestionnaire items using a four-point scale (1=strongly disagree; 2=somewhat disagree;3=somewhat agree; 4=strongly disagree). It is common in social science research to clustersimilar questionnaire items in what are called factors or scales and to confirm their reliabilitythrough a statistical procedure called factor analysis. A complete list of all the questionnaireitems in each of the scales appears in an appendix at the end of the paper. A reliability index(Chronbach Alpha) is included with each scale.Most
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current BS to PhD ratio of over fifteen (Bowman,2014). Page 24.604.5 Figure 2 United States (a) BS degree production and (b) PhD degree production for engineeringand ECE from 2002 until 2012 (data from ASEE, 2013).Diversity in Gender and Nationality at the Bachelor’s and Doctoral LevelsA modest decline in the fraction of women earning BS degrees in engineering was accompaniedby a steady increase in the fraction of women earning engineering PhDs across the past decade(Bowman, 2014). For the ECE disciplines the decline in the number and fraction of female BSdegrees was
-respondents.The SRC removed any connection to personal identifiers before distributing a copy of the dataset of questionnaire respondents for each institution. Members of the research team developed a student and faculty questionnaire from partsof The Student Persisting in Engineering Survey developed as part of the Assessing Women andMen and Engineering Project (AWE). The Engineering Student Survey contains 114 questions.After a set of demographic items, the questionnaire is organized in seven sections: (a) ImportantFactors in Career Choice, (b) Self-Assessment of Abilities, (c) Classroom Experiences, (d)Support Networks, (e) In- and Out-of-Class Engagement, (f) Opinions about University andDepartmental Climate, and (g) Family and Educational
, facing female faculty of color in engineering and computerscience. Some of these issues have been identified in broader STEM studies as few studies onfemale faculty of color experiences in engineering and computing fields exist. Therefore, thisstudy serves as the first step in the development of comprehensive survey tool for a more in-depth analysis of the current state of the workplace climate for female faculty of color inengineering and computing. An in-depth understanding of the climate and associated issues willaid in the development of measures aimed at offering a better climate so that female faculty ofcolor in engineering and computing can thrive in their careers.References[1] C. B. Leggon, “Women in Science: Racial and Ethnic