Attracting women into engineering-a case study

Zywno, Malgorzata; Gilbride, Kimberley; Hiscocks, Peter; Waalen, Judith Kelly; Kennedy, D.

doi:10.1109/13.804556

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“…The problem starts early, with society stimulating girls to take an interest in subjects said to be 'feminine' rather than 'masculine'. Many studies show that the problem is not with the girls (Whyte 1986, Räsänen 1989, Zywno et al 1999, Little and de la Barra 2009.…”

Section: The Programme 'Encouraging Girls In Technology Science and mentioning

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UCS-PROMOVE: The engineer of the future

Villas-Boas

2010

European Journal of Engineering Education

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The Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS) elaborated the cooperative project called 'The engineer of the future', with the objective of promoting science and engineering among high school teachers and students. This project aims to improve the quality of the teaching and to increase the interest of students in technological areas, leading to a future career in engineering. The activities of this project were planned to give meaning and foundation to the teaching-learning process of science and for the application of theory in the solution of real problems, while articulating scientific, economic, environmental, social and political aspects and also to reinforce the important role of engineering in society. Amongst the activities to be offered to high school teachers and students are a specialisation course for teachers based upon new educational methodologies, workshops in different areas of science and technology, a programme entitled 'Encouraging girls in technology, science and engineering', science fairs and visits to the industries of the region. Activities with the engineering instructors of UCS are also being developed in order to help them to incorporate in their classes more effective pedagogical strategies for educating the engineer-to-be.

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Section: The Programme 'Encouraging Girls In Technology Science and mentioning

confidence: 97%

UCS-PROMOVE: The engineer of the future

Villas-Boas

2010

European Journal of Engineering Education

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“…The More the Better Outreach programs are considered 'recruitment' and their success is measured in terms of number of participants who eventually enroll in science and engineering [3,4,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][28][29][30]. Clearly, this equates more with better: the purpose is to get as many women as possible to scientific fields, independently of what these women want.…”

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“…It is typically taken for granted that, since women are under-represented in science and engineering, their enrollment should be increased [4,[12][13][14][15][16][17][26][27][28][29][30]:…”

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“…Motivating the Economy As science and technology play an ever-increasing role in society and economy, the number of science and engineering graduates must increase; and since females and minorities are under-represented they offer great potential sources of engineers [2,4,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Furthermore, more women in engineering would be good because of the greater variety of designs which more diverse teams could invent [2,3,[6][7][8].…”

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On Enrolling More Female Students in Science and Engineering

Bouville

2007

Sci Eng Ethics

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Many people hold this truth to be self-evident that universities should enroll more female students in science and engineering; the main question then being how. Typical arguments include possible benefits to women, possible benefits to the economy, and the unfairness of the current female under-representation. However, when clearly stated and scrutinized these arguments in fact lead to the conclusion that there should be more women in scientific disciplines in higher education in the sense that we should expect more women (which various kinds of discrimination may prevent), not that we should actively enroll more women. Outreach programs towards high school students may therefore be logically incompatible with the arguments supposed to justify them. They should purport to allow women to graduate in a field congruent with her abilities and desires, rather than try to draw as many of them to scientific disciplines as possible: one cannot try to 'recruit' as many female students as possible while claiming to help them choose more freely.

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“…Although engineering camps are certainly not new [3]- [7], this article is intended to illustrate how one school, with a small engineering program and an even smaller budget, dealt with this challenge. …”

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Bringing "engineering forward" to the high schools: one university's experience in starting an engineering summer camp program

Lorenz

34th Annual Frontiers in Education, 2004. FIE 2004.

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The concept of "Engineering Forward" has proven successful in increasing freshman engineering retention, despite the heavy course loading in mathematics, chemistry and physics, which are typically taught by faculty outside of engineering. Under this doctrine, students are engaged early in their college stay through innovative courses with the aim of establishing an engineering identity. The success of this model can be seen in that most engineering curricula now employ some form of the Engineering Forward concept.The author, however, contends that the full potential of this approach lies not only with the engineering freshmen but also at the high school level, where a similar set of imposed mandates has shaped the curricular offerings. To address this problem, many universities have instituted an engineering camp. This paper presents a description of the objectives, planning, methodology, administration and statistical results for the Engineering Summer Camps offered at Widener University. Although many engineering camps exist, this paper is intended to relate how one university, with limited resources, was able to meet this challenge.

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Attracting women into engineering-a case study

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