ideas. They prefer technical tasks to social or interpersonal issues. They learn through experimentation with new ideas, through simulations or laboratory experiments. 4. Diverger: People with this learning style prefer working in groups and listening to different points of view. They are emotional, imaginative and have broad cultural interests. They perform well in tasks that call for brainstorming new ideas.Philbin, Meier, Huffman, and Boverie conducted a study, based on ELT, to determine if therewere differences in learning styles by gender.9 The authors found that men were more than twiceas likely to have an assimilator learning style, implying a preference for reading, lectures andanalytical models in a
contributed to the development of the new ProLine Fusion Flight Control System and served as the project lead for two aircraft. She earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a mathematics minor from Rose-Hulman Insti- tute of Technology in 2005. Her research interests include control systems, mechatronics, instructional laboratories, and experiential learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #15210Dr. Mary C. Verstraete, The University of Akron Mary Verstraete is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Associate Chair for the Undergraduate
time for laboratory and field research which couldlead to scholarly products in the STEM fields. Prior to AY 2003, the scholarly requirement offaculty was significantly lower than it is at the present time. In addition, the ranks of associateand full professors have minimal female representation; at Gannon, tenure does not presumeadvancement in rank. Just as there has been increasing number of advanced degrees awarded tofemales across STEM disciplines, many of the recent hires affected by the increased emphasis onscholarship at Gannon University were female. Some STEM departments had no senior, femalefaculty to serve as mentors (see Table 7) and most full professors had received promotion whenthe university culture placed the majority of its