Cremeans, L., & Morse, A. N. (2017, June), Women Engineers in Entrepreneurship: An Alternative Pathway  Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. 10.18260/1-2--29136

\bibitem{asee_peer_29136}
  Cremeans, L., \& Morse, A. N. (2017, June), \emph{Women Engineers in Entrepreneurship: An Alternative Pathway}
  Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.
  10.18260/1-2--29136

Lesley Cremeans and Audra N. Morse P.E..  "Women Engineers in Entrepreneurship: An Alternative Pathway".  2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2017.  https://peer.asee.org/29136 Internet.  08 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_29136}
  Lesley Cremeans and Audra N. Morse P.E..
  "Women Engineers in Entrepreneurship: An Alternative Pathway".
  \emph{2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2017.
  https://peer.asee.org/29136 Internet.  08 Jan, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Women represent 50.2% of the US resident population and represent 12.9% of the Engineering workforce (NSF, NCSES, 2015). The underrepresentation of women in traditionally male-dominated academic programs and professions urge scholars to investigate strategies to attract, develop, and retain more females for future innovation and discovery (Balakrishnan & Low, 2016). The purpose of the Women Engineers in Entrepreneurship (WE²) program is to create an alternative industry pathway for females in engineering and computer science (CS) academic degree programs through entrepreneurship. The National Science Foundation recognizes the importance of developing entrepreneurial skills and knowledge in the new generation of scientists and engineers, and the skill set required to succeed are different from the skills needed for basic research (NSF, I-Corps, 2012). Entrepreneurship education and mentoring activities will provide scaffolding for the participants in terms of social capital in the field, self-confidence, and entrepreneurship identity formation. Engineering is constructed as masculine, and women must create an identity independent from the gender frames that construct engineering as belonging to men. The paper will explore the literature on identity formation of female students in engineering and summarize external data on the impacts of entrepreneurship education and real-world application on identity formation.
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