Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 6 - Institutional Contexts

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Regina Werum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Patricia Wonch Hill, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Joseph C Jochman, University of North Dakota; Andrea Johnson; Lance C. Perez, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Stephen Cooper, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University oStephen Cooper, University of Nebraska, Lincoln ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Institutional Context Matters: Linking Characteristics of Universities to theGender Composition of Engineering and Computer Science ProgramsAbstractOur research focuses on assessing how institutional factors shape the gendered compositionof engineering and computer science degrees. We use data from the Integrated PostsecondaryEducation Data System (IPEDS) to identify how institutional-level (rather than individual-level) parameters shape this outcome. The