Conference Session

Corporate Engagement Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Cheryl L. Knobloch, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

Corporate Engagement, Diversity

Conference Session

Corporate Engagement Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Olga Maria Stavridis, Ohio State University; Aimee T. Ulstad, Ohio State University; Lisa A. Barclay, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Corporate Engagement, Diversity

insurmountable during their2nd year when classes become more abstract and the impact of their grades on admission to majorlooms large. The researchers for this paper sought to understand if assisting women students indetermining how they could use engineering later in their career by understanding the paths thatother engineers took and what they do now on a regular basis would increase their self-efficacyand persistence toward their degree. According to Albert Bandura, self-efficacy is developedthrough four factors: master experiences, vicarious experiences, social persuasion, and impactmodels.1 The researchers wanted to understand if providing unique vicarious experiences tofamiliarize students with engineering careers after graduation could impact