AC 2007-977: FOUR YEARS OF HELPING UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTSSUCCEED IN ENGINEERINGGretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University Gretchen Hein is a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Technological University. She received her BSME at Kettering University in Flint, MI and her MSE at Purdue University and Ph.D. from Michigan Technological University. Prior to pursuing her master’s degree, she worked as a mechanical engineer at General Motors Corporation. Gretchen teaches first year engineering courses and Thermo/Fluids for non-Mechanical Engineers.Amy Monte, Michigan Technological University Amy E. Monte is a lecturer in the Department of Engineering
) is a three-year NSF-funded ADVANCEPAID project aiming to increase faculty diversity and improve the climate for women andminority faculty at a large decentralized research extensive land grant institution with tenacademic colleges and particular focus on engineering, agriculture and life sciences, andveterinary medicine. This paper describes how the D3 project was developed, the DevelopingDiverse Departments project components, and gives our impressions about what has worked welland what the payoffs have been. It also describes parts of the project that will be retained aspermanent programs at the university after the grant funding is exhausted.Guiding PrinciplesAn experienced administrator wisely suggested that the first step in forming the
AC 2010-1402: ADVANCE-PURDUE: STRATEGIES TO MAKE THEDIFFERENCE FOR NEW FACULTY SUCCESSSuzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue UniversityBarbara Clark, Purdue UniversitySusan Geier, Purdue UniversityChristie Sahley, Purdue University Page 15.130.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 ADVANCE-Purdue: Strategies to make the difference for new faculty successIntroductionThe unequal representation of gender and race in the STEM academic workforce has been longnoted. In fact, concerted efforts have been made over the past two decades to remove barriersthat have prevented women and minorities from full participation as faculty. As a result
, 2008Advancing Women Faculty in Engineering through InstitutionalTransformation: The Iowa State University NSF ADVANCE Program in theCollege of Engineering Page 13.161.2Abstract:The goal of the ISU ADVANCE program is to investigate the effectiveness of a multilevelcollaborative effort to produce institutional transformation that results in the full participation ofwomen faculty in science, technology, engineering and math fields in the university. Ourapproach focuses on transforming departmental cultures (views, attitudes, norms and sharedbeliefs), practices (what people say and do), and structures (physical and social arrangements), aswell as university policies, through
AC 2007-751: GENDER GAP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: STUDYING ITSABSENCE IN ONE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICHasmik Gharibyan, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Hasmik Gharibyan is a Full Professor in the Computer Science department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The first 15 years of her career (1981-1996) she held faculty positions in the Applied Mathematics and Informatics department at Yerevan State University, Republic of Armenia (USSR). Then she moved to San Luis Obispo, USA, and in 1998 joined the faculty of the Computer Science department at Cal Poly. Dr. Gharibyan teaches undergrad and grad courses, including such courses as Theory of Computing, Data
AC 2008-1444: ATTRACTIVE SCIENCES - RECRUITING AND RETENTIONACTIVITIES FOR WOMEN IN ACADEMIC CSET EDUCATIONNina Dahlmann, Technische Universitaet Berlin Nina Dahlmann has been working on several eLearning projects at the Berlin University of Technology since 2001. She began as a student member of the Mumie team where she was involved in the design, the development process as well as the implementation of the eLearning platform Mumie, a platform using new pedagogical concepts to support teaching of mathematics for mathematicians, engineers and natural scientists. Further on, she assisted the project management of the Mumie project in its future orientation and development. In the past year
AC 2012-3045: CHOOSING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: TEN YEARSLATERDr. Lisa G. Bullard P.E., North Carolina State University Lisa G. Bullard is a teaching professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Chem- ical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from NC State and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. She served in engineering and management positions within Eastman Chemical Co. from 1991-2000. A fac- ulty member at NCSU since 2000, Bullard has won numerous awards for both teaching and advising, including being named as an NCSU Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor, the ASEE Raymond W
12.1060.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 MentorNet's Wisconsin and Hawaii Statewide InitiativesAbstractThe state of Wisconsin and state of Hawaii are the only states in the nation to have offeredMentorNet membership to all public universities and technical colleges. This innovativepartnership highlights a new model to launch MentorNet on college campuses. MentorNet, theE-Mentoring Network for Diversity in Engineering and Science and an award-winning nonprofite-mentoring organization, offers a proven effective means to connect students (protégés) inscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors with professionals (mentors) inindustry, government and higher education. Since mentoring is recognized as an
AC 2007-2310: ISISHAWAII: THE POWER OF ONE PLUS ONE FOR BRINGINGGIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN INTO THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGPIPELINELynn Fujioka, isisHawaii and Women in Technology In 2002, Lynn Fujioka left the advertising industry after 25 years to launch isisHawaii, a women's online mentoring resource. Since partnering in 2003 with The Women in Technology (WIT) Project (a statewide workforce development initiative administered by The Maui Economic Development Board and funded, in part, by the U.S. Departments of Education, Agriculture and Labor), Lynn's new-found passion in educational outreach provides a rewarding outlet for her creative and business skills.Sheryl Hom, isisHawaii and Women in
2006-2451: HOW TO PREVENT MARGINALIZATION OFUNDERREPRESENTED STUDENT POPULATION MEMBERS ONENGINEERING STUDENT TEAMSPaige Smith, University of Maryland-College Park PAIGE E. SMITH, Ph.D., Director of the Women in Engineering Program, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland. Dr. Smith has received several grants in the area of team behavior and improving team environments for members of underrepresented student populations in engineering. She provides leadership in recruiting and retaining female engineering students for the college. Her current research focuses on engineering design teams and project management.Linda Schmidt, University of Maryland-College ParkPatricia
Paper ID #8538Oral Histories of Distinguished Female Leaders: Inspiring the Next Genera-tion of Young People in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM)Ms. Kelsey Morgan Irvin Kelsey Irvin is currently an undergraduate sophomore at Washington University in St. Louis. She is ma- joring in the Cognitive Neuroscience Track of Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and hopes to pursue a career in social work or a related psychological field. She is currently working in a Cognition and Development Lab at Washington University in St. Louis studying child preferences.Ms. Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania
Paper ID #11279Easing the Tortuous Road that Under-represented Minorities Travel to Be-come Engineering FacultyDr. Teresa J. Cutright, University of Akron Dr. Cutright is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at The University of Akron. She has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with emphasis on environmental remediation techniques with over 20 years of experience conducting site assessments, soil characterizations and treatability studies for a variety of environmental contaminants. In addition she also conducts education research via an EPA education grant and a NSF Scholarships for STEM education
effectiveness to the Committee forGovernment Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Performance Assessment, where it has alsobeen very well received. Project outcomes show that colleges that proactively recruit women intotheir technology programs will show a significant increase in the percentage of women studentsin those programs in a little over a year. Of the four community colleges participating in theProject’s first cohort, the two sites that implemented recruitment strategies within recommendedtimelines experienced a significant increase in women in targeted programs: City College of SanFrancisco’s (CCSF) Computer Networking and Information Technology (CNIT) program wentfrom 18% to 30% female students and San Diego Mesa College’s Geographic
AC 2007-2256: ATTRACTING AND RETAINING FEMALES IN ENGINEERINGPROGRAMS: USING AN STSE APPROACHLisa Romkey, University of Toronto Lisa Romkey is the Lecturer, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning with the Division of Engineering Science at the University of Toronto. In this position, Lisa plays a central role in the continuous improvement of the design and delivery of a dynamic and complex curriculum, while facilitating the development and implementation of teaching and learning initiatives and innovations. Lisa is cross-appointed with the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/UT (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto). Lisa holds a Masters in
AC 2011-1381: COMPLICATING DIFFERENCE: EXPLORING AND EX-PLODING THREE MYTHS OF GENDER AND RACE IN ENGINEERINGEDUCATIONDonna M Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Associate Professor of Engineering at Smith College.Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University Dr. Alice L. Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program and Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of
AC 2008-2165: PATHS TO DISCOVERY: CHICANAS IN MATHEMATICS,SCIENCE, AND ENGINEERING.Lupita Montoya, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteCleopatria Martinez, Phoenix College Page 13.965.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Paths to Discovery: Chicanas in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering.AbstractLack of participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields fromunderrepresented minority students is a recognized problem in higher education. Institutionsaround the country have developed a plethora of plans and strategies to promote these fields andattract this population. Participation from minority
science and engineering with WGBH resources. In addition, Ms. Sahr has facilitated training workshops around the country where educators learn how to incorporate WGBH's educational resources into their programming and engineers and scientists learn how to engage youth. Ms. Sahr has her M.Ed. from Boston University.Natalie Hebshie, WGBH Educational Foundation Page 13.496.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Engineer Your Life: Talking to High School Girls About EngineeringAbstract:In 2004, members of the engineering community formed a coalition to examine the question:“Why are academically
Paper ID #14771Oral History Project of Underrepresented Leaders in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)Ms. Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis Kelsey Irvin is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis double majoring in the Cognitive Neuro- science track of Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and Psychology and hopes to pursue a career in clinical psychology. She is currently working on her honors thesis, which involves using neural measures to research reward processing in preschoolers with depression.Miss Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania Elizabeth Hiteshue
AC 2008-1240: RETENTION PROGRAMMING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: ANINNOVATIVE GROUP MENTORING COMPONENTSuzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Zurn-Birkhimer, Associate Director of the Women in Engineering Program at Purdue University, received a BS in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, and an MS and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from Purdue. Prior to joining WIEP, she was an Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences at St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, IN and Assistant Department Head of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue. Her research focuses on developing programs to enhance the recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups to the STEM disciplines.Beth
Paper ID #28837”I’m not good at math,” she saidProf. Astrid K Northrup P.E., Northwest College, Powell WY Astrid Northrup earned her B.S. degree in petroleum engineering from the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology (Montana Tech) in 1984 and her M.S degree in petroleum engineering from Mon- tana Tech in 1986. She also earned a Certificate in Land Surveying from the University of Wyoming in 2005. She is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado and Wyoming. She worked in the petroleum industry as a reservoir engineer and as a private consultant before moving into a teaching career at North- west
2006-2560: WOMEN, ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH - PROVIDING CHOICEAND BALANCE?Cecilia Chan, Dublin Institute of Technology Cecilia Chan has published a number of conference papers on Engineering Education in areas of retention, recruiting, motivation and support for non-traditional students such as international students, and female engineers to disseminate successful educational strategies. She is also committed to encourage more women into Engineering. She is also an active researcher in the areas of digital signal processing, machine vision, bio-metrics and medical imaging engineering.Michael Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology
AC 2011-670: IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME (AND STAY): RE-CRUITING AND RETAINING WOMEN AND UNDERREPRESENTED MI-NORITY STUDENTSHyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University Hyun Has been working as a graduate assistant on the Engineer of 2020 research grants that the Center for the Study of Higher Education received from the National Science Foundation at Penn State.Rose M Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia Rose M. Marra, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. She is Director of Research of the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) and Assessing Women in Student Environments (AWISE) projects, and a co
inclusion in the Women in Engineering Division willinclude panelists from various federal and non-profit funding agencies. The topics that will beaddressed include availability of funds for new and seasoned faculty including any newprograms, guidelines for a successful proposal and common mistakes made by proposing facultyand researchers. The agencies that will be targeted for inclusion in the panel will be the NationalScience Foundation with representatives from the Division of Undergraduate Education andDivision of International Affairs, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy,Department of Education, and Sloan Foundation to name a few. The panel will be beneficial toall faculty and especially so to newer faculty who are navigating
Paper ID #21039Probing Correlations Between Undergraduate Engineering Programs’ Cus-tomizability and Gender DiversityDr. Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado Boulder Marissa H. Forbes is a research associate in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the Uni- versity of Colorado Boulder and lead editor of the TeachEngineering digital library. She previously taught middle school science and engineering and wrote K-12 STEM curricula while an NSF GK-12 graduate engineering fellow at CU. She went on to teach advanced placement and algebra-based physics for the Denver School of Science and Technology, where she
Paper ID #23068Women in STEM: What Experiences Influence DecisionsDr. Stephany Coffman-Wolph, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Stephany Coffman-Wolph is a Lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Computer Science. Research interests include: Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic, Game Theory, Teaching Computer Science, Outreach of STEM, Women in STEM, and Software Engineering.Dr. Kimberlyn Gray, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech. Dr. Kimberlyn Gray is an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University Institute of Technology in the department of Chemical Engineering. She coordinated STEM outreach
2006-885: LONGITUDINAL SURVEY OF FEMALE FACULTY IN BIOLOGICAL& AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADAAlicia Abadie, Louisiana State University Alicia is a senior in Biological Engineering at LSU. She is a section leader in the LSU Band, where she plays clarinet. Alicia is a successful undergraduate student researcher and has co-authored three successful research proposals, including one to the Environmental Protection Agency.Ann Christy, Ohio State University Ann is an associate professor in food, agricultural, and biological engineering and a registered professional engineer (civil). She has been at The Ohio State University for ten years.Marybeth Lima, Louisiana State
Paper ID #18904Why Has Female Enrollment in One Engineering Elective Increased to Al-most 80% Over the Past Six Years?Dr. Mark M. Budnik, Valparaiso University Mark M. Budnik is the Paul H. Brandt Professor of Engineering at Valparaiso University. Prior to joining the faculty at Valparaiso University in 2006, Mark worked in the semiconductor industry, culminating as a Principal Engineer and Director of White Goods and Motor Control at Hitachi Semiconductor. He is the author of more than fifty book chapters, journal articles, and conference proceedings. Mark’s current research interests are in the field of creativity and
2006-979: REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE LIMITEDPOWER OF TITLE IX TO TRANSFORM STEM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMSCatherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame Catherine Pieronek, J.D., is Assistant Director of Academic Programs and Director of the Women’s Engineering Program at the University of Notre Dame College of Engineering. She has worked as a senior systems engineer on NASA spacecraft projects at TRW Space & Defense Sector, and as Director of External Relations for the Notre Dame Law School. She serves as a faculty advisor and editorial referee for the Journal of College of University Law, a student-edited legal journal published by the Notre Dame Law School and the National
AC 2008-1683: WEPAN'S DIGITAL WOMEN IN ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGECENTERJenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech UniversityC. Diane Matt, WEPAN Inc. Page 13.1396.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 WEPAN’s Digital Women in Engineering Knowledge CenterAbstractThe mission of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, (WEPAN) is to be a catalyst,advocate, and leading resource for institutional and national change that enables the success ofall women in engineering. In support of this mission, WEPAN is leading an effort to create adigital Knowledge Center focused on women in engineering. Many resources about women inengineering exist, but they are scattered, and often
AC 2011-1687: ISU ADVANCE SUSTAINING AND INSTITUTIONALIZ-ING EFFORTS TO ENHANCE RECRUITMENT, RETENTION AND AD-VANCEMENT OF WOMEN FACULTY IN ENGINEERINGKristen P. Constant, Iowa State University Kristen P. Constant is a Professor in Materials Science and Engineering. Her physical research is in the area of photonic materials and her academic research is related to Gender in the Sciences. Page 22.980.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 ISU ADVANCE – Sustaining and Institutionalizing Efforts to Enhance Recruitment, Retention and Advancement of Women Faculty in