TY - GEN
T1 - Empowering female students
T2 - 33rd Annual Frontiers in Education, FIE 2003
AU - Hartman, Harriet
AU - Hartman, Moshe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003 IEEE.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Participation in student chapters of professional organizations can be considered a form of self-help expected to enrich students through extra-curricular activities, social support and networking. For female students, affiliation with the disciplinary professional organizations (e.g., ASME, IEEE, AiChE, etc.) offers the benefits of networking with coed students and faculty on the basis of substantive interests in their major; while affiliation with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) offers the benefits of interdisciplinary networking with other female students and faculty in a "safe" environment. The current paper focuses on the differences between female undergraduate engineering students who choose one or the other type of affiliation - or no affiliation, and the effect of affiliation on engineering outcomes such as engineering self-confidence, satisfaction with the major, involvement in extra-curricular activities, and commitment to the major and the profession. Data are taken from an NSF-funded survey of engineering students at Rowan University during the 2000-1 and 2000-2 academic years.
AB - Participation in student chapters of professional organizations can be considered a form of self-help expected to enrich students through extra-curricular activities, social support and networking. For female students, affiliation with the disciplinary professional organizations (e.g., ASME, IEEE, AiChE, etc.) offers the benefits of networking with coed students and faculty on the basis of substantive interests in their major; while affiliation with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) offers the benefits of interdisciplinary networking with other female students and faculty in a "safe" environment. The current paper focuses on the differences between female undergraduate engineering students who choose one or the other type of affiliation - or no affiliation, and the effect of affiliation on engineering outcomes such as engineering self-confidence, satisfaction with the major, involvement in extra-curricular activities, and commitment to the major and the profession. Data are taken from an NSF-funded survey of engineering students at Rowan University during the 2000-1 and 2000-2 academic years.
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U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2003.1264673
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2003.1264673
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946096127
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
SP - F1D2-F1D7
BT - 33rd Annual Frontiers in Education
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 5 November 2003 through 8 November 2003
ER -