Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session III

Collection

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

Authors

Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Richelle Leone Johnson

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Undergraduate Education

. Knowing that 20% of engineering school graduates arewomen, yet women make up only 11% of practicing engineers is a concern for the fieldof engineering and for the future of female engineers in the engineering profession [1].We are looking to quantify what we are seeing and develop strategies for eradicating itfrom our engineering environment.Current efforts are underway in our capstone design course (CED) – a course mandatedfor all seniors at our institution. In CED, students work in teams of 3 to 5 to accomplishtheir capstone project over the course of the Spring Semester. In these teams, we continuetheir leadership education using the LEAD model. Students have Learned the leadershiptheory in previous course work and we build on that theory