2005 WEPAN/NAMEPA Third Joint National Conference: Leveraging Our Best Practices: Hitting the Parity Jackpot

Date: April 10 - 13, 2005
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Chris Anderson (Chair)
Jacqueline Smith (Chair)

2005 WEPAN/NAMEPA Third Joint National Conference Proceedings: Leveraging Our Best Practices: Hitting the Parity Jackpot
Toronto: X-CD Technologies, 2005
Barbara Bogue (Proceedings Co-Editor)
Rose Marra (Proceedings Co-Editor)
Mary Anderson-Rowland (Proceedings Co-Editor)
Rights: © 2005 Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network

Table of Contents

Program
24 pages
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Keynote Speakers
Leveraging Our Best Practices: Hitting the Parity Jackpot
Shan Carr; 14 pages
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Rising Above Cognitive Errors: Guidelines for Search, Tenure Review, and other Evaluation Committees

JoAnn Moody; 2 pages
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The Role of Diversity in US Commpetitiveness

Doug Busch; 18 pages
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Engineering Learning Initiatives: Intel Foundation Retention Program Progress Report 2004-2005

Carla Carick; 21 pages
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Strategic Diversity Initiatives: Learning From and Leveraging Best Practices

Cathleen Barton; 14 pages
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Texas Interdisciplinary Plan: University of Texas at Austin

Cathy Stacy; 21 pages
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Creating Inclusive Environments
Engaging Middle School Girls by Aligning Culture and Science
Christine L. Andrews, Jenilynne Gaskin, Sheryl Hom, and Leslie Wilkins; 9 pages
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Tapping the Rich Diversity of the Community Colleges: Akamai Summer Internship Program - An REU Model at Maui Community College

Christine L. Andrews, Lisa Hunter, Malika Moutawakkil, and Leslie Wilkins; 9 pages
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Transition Students Encourage Each Other in Obtaining an Engineering Degree

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Debra L. Banks, Elizabeth L. Chain, and Donna L. Zerby; 11 pages
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Sustained Gender Equity High School Programs Enrich Pipeline of Female Future Engineers

Christine L. Andrews, Sheryl Hom, Leslie Wilkins, and Isla Yap; 6 pages
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Leveraging Scholarships to Narrow the Retention Gap between Postsecondary Minority and Non-minority Students Enrolled in Engineering

Aileen M. Walter; 9 pages
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Designing Our Community: A Program for Recruiting and Retaining American Indian Students in Engineering

Carolyn Plumb, Heidi M. Sherick, and Sheree J. Watson; 10 pages
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Having Their Voices Heard: Women Engineering Students' Answers To Why The Classroom Climate Is Still Chilly

Anita Persaud, and Daniel W. Salter; 6 pages
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Faculty
FacultyForTheFuture.org
Barbara Bogue, and Susan Staffin Metz; 5 pages
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Advancing Women on Engineering Faculties: MentorNet's Academic Career E-Mentoring Program

Jennifer M. Chou-Green, and Carol B. Muller; 11 pages
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Women in Engineering Leadership Institute (WELI)

JoAnn S. Lighty, Deb Niemeier, and Judy Vance; 6 pages
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K-State ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture Series

Ruth A. Dyer, and Beth A. Montelone; 6 pages
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Pre-College Outreach and Recruitment
Girl Power 21st Century: An Early Intervention Approach To Enhancing Gender Diversity in Technology Education
Janice A. Grackin; 10 pages
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The GROW Project: Impacts on Academic Performance

Susan Arnold Christian, Kimberyly D. Douglas, Ruth A. Dyer, Lisa Freeman, Beth A. Montelone, and Jacqueline D. Spears; 9 pages
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From your community to the United Nations: Growing a successful pre-college program, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

Katie Kizziar; 8 pages
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"Rose-Hulman's Homework Hotline: Supporting Indiana Math and Science Education Using Telecommunication and Computer Technology

Susan L. Smith; 7 pages
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Effect of Engineering Advocates on Young Women's Interest in Engineering

Susan A. Linnemeyer, and Jacob Marszalek; 9 pages
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The Pennsylvania State University "MTM Engineering Camp for Girls:" Generating Under-Represented Pathway Prospects Through A Diversity-Rich Pre-College Outreach Project

Cheryl Knobloch; 10 pages
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Implementing a Project-based Technology Program for High School Women

Theodore J. Boudria; 10 pages
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Robotics Programs Stimulate Hawaii County Girls' Interest in Engineering

Shawna Sodersten, and Leslie Wilkins; 6 pages
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Analysis of Science Trade Books Based on Terminology, Illustrations, and Demographics

Julie Libarkin, Amanda Rogers, and Aviva Sussman; 9 pages
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Integrating a Faculty Directed Research Experiences into a High School Bridge Program

Cyndi Freeman Fail, and Jody Markley; 8 pages
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Academic and Support Program Activities for retention
GLUE: Graduates Linked with Undergraduates in Engineering
Tricia S. Berry, and Kerry A. Kinney; 10 pages
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Texas Research Experience Program: A Model for Undergraduate Research Programs

Andrea M. Ogilvie; 7 pages
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Research Experiences for Undergraduates to Encourage Graduate Studies

Marianne Cinaglia, Jess W. Everett, Kauser Jahan, and Mariano Savelski; 9 pages
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Increasing the Number of Minority and Women Engineering Students Obtaining a Graduate Degree

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Patricia A. Buckingham, and Donna L. Zerby; 10 pages
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Rutgers University Women in Engineering Leadership League (RU WELL): A Dynamic Approach to Mentoring and Leadership Training

Evelyn Hann; 7 pages
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The California Association of MESA Directors (CAMD) and the Basic and Advanced Science and Technology Academies of Research (B A STAR)

Derrick W. Booth, Lucy Casale, and Milton Randle; 4 pages
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Creating a Successful Model for Minority Students' Success in Engineering: The PREF Summer Bridge Program

Amy L. Freeman, and Anita Persaud; 7 pages
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ALVA: A Successful Program for Increasing the Number of Minority Undergraduates who Earn Engineering Degrees

Cathryne Jordan, Lisa Peterson, and Scott Pinkham; 8 pages
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Academic Summer Enhancement (ASE) Program

Amy Freeman, and Anita Persaud; 9 pages
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Balancing on the Tightrope: Maintaining Gender Parity in a Successful Undergraduate Engineering Program

Betty J. Harris, Teri J. Murphy, Randa Shehab, Deborah Trytten, and Susan E. Walden; 12 pages
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Systematic Change in Engineering Education: Preparing Effective Change Agents for Programs in Engineering

Nancy E. Algert, and Karan Watson; 10 pages
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The San Diego State University Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Scholars Program

Theresa M. Garcia; 8 pages
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Successful and Rewarding Mentoring

Regina A. Moliff; 12 pages
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Developing Effective Programs and Processes
Growing a STEM Team: Review of an Innovative Program for Middle School Students
Stephanie Blaisdell, Suzanne Sontgerath, Anna Swan, Peter Wong, and Katherine Ziemer; 7 pages
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A Model Partnership for WIEP and MEP at the University of Colorado at Boulder

David Aragon, and Beverly Louie; 9 pages
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Women in Engineering: Investigating Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation As They Relate to Targeted Support Initiatives

Kimberly D. Douglas, Jessica L. Heier, and Malgorzata J. Rys; 8 pages
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Meeting the Challenges of Cross-Institution Initiatives: An Inside View of a Successful Multi-Institution Collaboration

Barbara Bogue, Brenda Hart, Marie Elena Reyes, and Barbara Ruel; 10 pages
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Women in Engineering: A Review of the 2004 Literature

Lisa M. Frehill, Cecily Jeser-Cannavale, and Lauren N. Ketcham; 10 pages
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Assessment Methods & Research Results
They Come and They Go -- An Instrument for Assessing Why Students Leave Engineering
Barbara Bogue, Rose M. Marra, and Mieke Schuurman; 13 pages
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Discover Engineering Follow-up Surveys: Assessment/evaluation of recruitment programs

Lisa S. Anderson, Nandita Bajaj, and Kimberley A. Gilbridge; 7 pages
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Utilizing On-Line Surveys for Program Assessment and Enhancement

Kimberly D. Douglas, and Jessica L. Heier; 8 pages
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Career Outcomes of Science and Engineering Graduates

Suzanne G. Brainard, Sheila Edwards Lange, and Elizabeth Litzler; 10 pages
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Understanding the Gender Schema of Female Engineering Students: A Balanced Sex-Type and an Ideal of Autonomy

Erin A. Cech; 8 pages
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The Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University, Center for Engineering Diversity and Retention: A Study of Persistence and Graduation Rates for Participating and Exiting Undergraduate Engineering Students

Susan Haag, Dana Newell, Ronald Roedel, and Katrina Vance; 9 pages
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The influence of workplace experience during college on early post graduation careers of undergraduate engineering students

R.D. McClintic, R.N. Pangborn, and M.K. Schuurman; 9 pages
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Beyond the Numbers: A Deeper Look into the Retention of Female Engineering Students

Carrie A. Graf, Mark L. Gunty, Leo H. McWilliams, Catherine Pieronek, Stephen E. Silliman, and John J. Uhran; 9 pages
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Building a Comprehensive Assessment Model for Combined WISE & MSEP Programs

Suzanne G. Brainard, Sheila Edwards Lange, and Carmen K. Sidbury; 8 pages
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Measuring Graduate School Recruitment and Retention

Patricia B. Campbell, Yolanda George, Tom Kibler, David Neale, Lesley Perlman, and Michelle Ringuette; 9 pages
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