Conference Session

Gender Track - Technical Session III

Collection

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

Authors

Tim John Weston, University of Colorado, Boulder; Wendy DuBow, National Center for Women & IT; Alexis Kaminsky, Kaminsky Consulting, LLC

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Gender

active interest in these areas when in high school. For both Tech- and CS-persistergroups, computing interest decreased from high school to college, but tech majors’ interestdecreased less than did non-tech majors. It is somewhat counterintuitive to see lower ratings inInterest for both groups when they reach college. This is most likely a reflection of loss of 9interest in the individual items that make up the composite such as gaming or game design orhardware, for instance. This interest shift coupled with the specialization that takes place in CSor IT majors may account for the overall decreased interest we observed. It makes sense thatstudents who choose a specialized major focused on

Conference Session

Gender Track - Technical Session VI

Collection

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

Authors

Lalita G. Oka, California State University, Fresno; Kimberly Stillmaker P.E., California State University, Fresno

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Gender

well below the current estimates of Nationalrepresentation of women in undergraduate engineering programs of 22% [6]. Student distributionsby gender, department, and student level (i.e. freshman through senior) are shown in Figure1. Fresno State classifies student level based on the number of units a student has completed andmay not necessarily reflect their progress in their degree program. Because many students takemore units than that are required for a degree program, ‘seniors’ are disproportionately representedusing this classification system. Because of the ethnic diversity surrounding Fresno State, theuniversity serves multiple underrepresented minority populations and is officially designated as aHispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and