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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Caroline Ghio, Northeastern University; Sydney Anne Morris, Northeastern University; Hannah Marie Boyce, Northeastern University; Bradley Joseph Priem, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University

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the online survey, and qualitative analysis of transcripts of follow-upphone interviews with 13 women and 4 men were performed.Through the application of grounded theory to transcripts, supported by statistical analysis ofdata from the online survey, it was deduced that increased confidence and preparedness in futureendeavors was the core category that linked individuals’ tutoring experiences. Participantsreported that relationships developed with tutees, fellow tutors, and faculty mentors during theirtutoring experiences impacted them beyond their experiences as tutors. Participants reportedimproved soft skills, including communication, teamwork, and leadership, and strengthenedacademic abilities, which resulted from a deeper understanding

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Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

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IndustrialDistribution students into high power careers by creating a space that consistentlyexhibits the achievements and perspectives of Industrial Distribution alumna, as well ascultivates soft skills to create meaningful impact and interactions. These skills can varyfrom proper interviewing skills, work life balance, contract negotiations, changing careerpaths, etc.The idea of SWID came about after a student attended a guest lecture, wherein a maleexecutive shared his career path. The student felt that this presentation was over achinglythe same as the majority of the guest speakers that present their experiences to the studentbody. There was no female perspective. The speakers did not seem to realize that thesediscourses target a very specific number of

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Retention of Women Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California, Berkeley; Ryan Shelby, University of California, Berkeley; Farzana Ansari, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa A. Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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appreciationfor the experience and skills gained from the leadership module, as well as an increase inconfidence for women as engineers.IntroductionProfessional skills are often underemphasized in engineering programs. These “soft” skills –proficiencies such as leadership, teamwork, and communication – are important attributes of asuccessful engineer. Traditional engineering curricula and lecture formats need to be revised toenhance these professional skills, as “the quality of future engineers depends very much on thequality of engineering education”1. Service learning and design projects are new pedagogicalmethods found to be effective in nurturing these skills2,3. Moreover, service learning has thepotential to attract and retain women in engineering4

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Maureen C Smith, San Jose State University; Jinny Rhee, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

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19.4% (33) more about my field; Learn about new fields Support Find a mentor; Support other 13.5% (23) women in STEM; Gain inspiration Develop Network; Improve soft skills 7.6% (13) Communication Skills Connection to Direct Connection Network with professionals; 43.8% (71) Career Goals c work opportunities, learn to

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shafagh Jafer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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 Allocate $5,000 additional merit scholarship for every qualified female applicantThe additional funding have been already requested from two external agencies (pending results)to help cover the following costs:  Travel: $2,500 to assist students attending conferences to present their research  Student Salary: $2,000 for student assistants working at the WEI  Scholarships: $2,500 to fund five scholarships ($500 each) for women engineering students with high academic achievement and financial need  Page 26.1745.5 Workshop: $2,000 to host technical or soft skills workshop on-campus)  Outreach activities

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University; Dongyang Deng, North Carolina A&T State University; Cheryl Monique Stevens, North Carolina A&T State University; Kayla Gore; Iyshea Borders-Taylor, North Carolina A&T State University

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their knowledge gained using the preferred arts.Fifty-nine percent (59%) of the girls made statements about use or development of soft skills suchas teamwork and creativity. During their presentation practice sessions, there was a lot of peerteaching and coaching. The teams were great at negotiating team options and agreeing on a teamapproach to this interesting and exciting arts-infused presentation. Notably, 46% of the girlsindicated that they had fun working and presenting with their teammates.Research Question 3. How did the various research and learning activities impact the self-efficacy of minority middle-school girls?The research and learning activities in this STEAM ACTIVATED! program had an impact onthe self-efficacy of the girls as

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Women in Engineering Division: Curricular Programs

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

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herself, which has been rehearsed and reinforcedover time due to its productive empowerment.A final way Rachel resists the “suck at math” narrative is through active work to counter aculturally dominant belief about the importance of math in engineering. Rachel develops a senseof a bigger “real world” out there that rarely gets represented in her STEM classes, a sense thatengineering jobs rely more on soft skills and cultural understandings and less on math. We seeagency through what bell hooks style “liberatory theorizing” simply in the production of thatcounter-narrative; but remarkably, Rachel actively seeks evidence in the “real world” to confirmher theorizing. She attended networking events (set up by her Women in Engineering program)to make

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Women in Engineering Technical Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University

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girls in Guilford county. She has also worked with the STEM of the Triad home-schooled children at Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2017, Dr. Ofori-Boadu established the REAL Professional Development Network for developing the leadership, networking, and other soft skills of undergraduate students at NCAT. She is married to Victor Ofori-Boadu and they are blessed with three wonderful children. c American Society for Engineering Education, 20181 Improving Middle-School Girls’ Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Interest in ‘Sustainable Construction Engineering’ through the STEAM ACTIVATED! ProgramUniversities provide informal educational opportunities to cultivate

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shaundra Bryant Daily, Duke University; Jessica Sperling, Duke University; Megan Gray, Duke University; Medha Gupta, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology; Amy Arnold, Duke University; Kelly Perri, Duke University

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lot aboutcommunication and collaboration. This was unexpected but definitely a good experience”).Although the summer internship occurred in an applied context, notably, smaller gains were alsoseen in these same skills in an academic setting according to survey data. This suggests that soft-skill gains in an applied setting may carry forward into the classroom.When examining data by program site, we find that self-efficacy and soft skills gains wererelatively lower (though still present) for the Silicon Valley site. In some cases, this may in partresult from a participant selection bias in Silicon Valley. For instance, Silicon Valley participantson average show greater self-efficacy at the program start relative to those from the other

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith J. Bowman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Sue Rosser, California State University System, Office of the Chancellor

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of unemployment, men eschew trainingand careers in these health professions, presumably because of their focus on service and historyof female participation.As previously described above, computing and engineering topics were not traditionally includedin elementary education. Their introduction across the past decade has been strongly tied topreparing students for careers. As is evident from Draw-a-Scientist or Draw-a-Mathematicianresearch [25-27], young people already recognized that science and math provided more than skillsand knowledge; they are very relevant to having careers. Perversely, exactly the same educationtopics that have not been emphasized to young students as important for career success havebecome the “soft skills” sought

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Women in Engineering Technical Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hadil Mustafa, California State University, Chico; Shelby Ann Freese

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forced them to manage their time better tomeet deadlines. “practicing being clear and concise while meeting time goals/constraints."II: Outreach and Engineering Skills and KnowledgeAside from its influence on social skills, students indicated that outreach helped them polish theirunderstanding of Engineering concepts and forced them to enhance their presentation skills. "Outreach not only helps cement what I already know but also builds soft skills that can also be applied to classes and life. Outreach helped me get my foot in the door for my internship." "Outreach broaden my horizons and helped me to better understand some tough topics."III: Outreach and STEMUpon establishing the outreach event, one of the primary

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International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nina Dahlmann, Technische Universitat Berlin, Inst. f. Mathematik; Sabina Jeschke, Technische Universitat Berlin, Inst. f. Mathematik; Christian Thomsen, Technische Universitat Berlin; Marc Wilke, Technische Universitat Berlin

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für ihre Notwendigkeit zu konkreten Checklisten, 2002. Skript zum Vortrag, BMBF-Workshop, Berlin.13. Many of the problems attributed to technical education that we are about to describe affect male as well as female students. Actually, the interest of men as well as women in technical/engineering science studies is decreasing, we are facing a global “unattractiveness problem”.8 For years, industrial managers have been increasingly voicing concern about the growing gap between the job specifications and the actual qualifications claimed by the college graduates. Massive deficiencies are especially noticeable among the non-technical, methodical and systematical competencies as well as the soft skills.2

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Victoria Beth Sellers, University of Florida; Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida

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participants (n = 10) developed skills to cope with HC. “Developingskills” means that participants develop academic skills, such as taking courses, learning to solveengineering problems, practicing soft skills, or pursuing interests as a way to negotiate someaspect of their personal and engineering identity. Majority and minoritized women used thisstrategy similarly (6% vs. 5%). For example, a Hispanic/Latina industrial engineering graduatestudent noted that because she was an honors student, a tennis player, and worked, she “learnedto organize and manage my time and your tranquility in a cost-effective way to achieveeverything successfully.” This participant aligned her skills and identity to match normativeengineering skillsets, so she developed

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lisa Abrams, Ohio State University; Adithya Jayakumar, Ohio State University; Lucille Sheppard, Ohio State University; Amy Kramer P.E., Ohio State University; Toni M. Calbert, Ohio State University

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insight on how to address sociocultural issues and a broadened view ofdifficult problems within society related to not only women but other demographics as well. Itmade me re-evaluate my behavior, perspective, the perspectives of those around me, and how Iwant my future to be. I loved the class!”“I gained a lot of soft skills and strategies I can use in the future. This class was refreshing anddifferent. I can honestly say I have changed by becoming much more aware of who I am and theeffects of people's words and actions. When instances occurred this semester where a presenter,student, or friend used micro-aggressions or made discriminatory jokes, I directly thought of thisclass. Because of this class, I now have strategies to confront others

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University; Victor Ofori-Boadu, Penuel Consult Inc.; Jacob Randall Vanderpool, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Dongyang Deng, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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-Boadu, M. A. Shofoluwe, R. Kelley, E. R. Sowells, and R. B. Pyle, “Assessing theimpact of an industry-led professional development workshop on the 21st century ‘soft’ skills ofCM students at an HBCU,” Proceedings of the 2017 American Society for EngineeringEducation (ASEE) conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 25 – 28, 2017, 2017, pp. 1 - 17.A. Phipps, “Engineering Women: The ‘Gendering’ of professional identities,” Int. J. Engng. Ed.,vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 409-414, June 2002.J. Piaget and B. Inhelder, The Psychology of the Child. New York, NY: Basic Books. 1969.D. Porter and A. N. Ofori

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific; Eileen Kogl Camfield, University of California at Merced

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cultivating inter-personal communication skills that would improve theexperiences of women working on design teams. Inherent in this endeavor is the belief that inter-personal communication and other “soft skills” can be taught, a perspective shared by others,such as those working to foster empathy in engineering courses [15].Capstone course structureThe first author is a civil engineering faculty member at the University of the Pacific where thecivil engineering capstone course is completed in one semester during the senior year, usuallyfollowing the mandatory co-op experience. Students work in teams and take on one of thefollowing roles: structural designer, geotechnical designer, water resources designer, orenvironmental designer. Each team has a

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Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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in primary and secondary grades toward science, they founda common more positive attitude towards life sciences explained by the girls as a common desireto care for people and animals.It has also been suggested that women’s choice to enter a particular field of engineering is relatedto their perceived strengths in certain areas,16 such as communication and interpersonal skills.Women in engineering often report lower confidence in science and math skills than men despitehigher or equivalent grades,8,16 or women’s confidence and performance decrease throughout anengineering program18. However, women are often perceived to have better communication andinterpersonal skills, but these so-called “soft skills” are not as emphasized in

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Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evelyn R. Sowells, North Carolina A&T State University; Nina Exner, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University; Sherry F. Abernathy, North Carolina A&T State University; Rajeev K. Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University ; Brenda S. Faison Ph.D., North Carolina A&T State University

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members within their program of study. What made this workshop design different is the participation from each entity in the alliance and their knowledge about technology programs. The objectives for the workshops are accomplished by the following activities: 1. The students joined American Toastmasters or similar organizations which assists them with soft skills and helps them with their writing skills and public speaking. 2. Students received job training through practical lab assignments and real life applications. The students then present discoveries and are evaluated by their peers, industry, faculty, and advisory board. 3. Increase students’ technical

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Conference Session

Institutional Transformations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University

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