Women in the predominantly male oriented college of engineering which is afflicted by the high dropout rate and the low employment rate of coeds in their majoring fields because of the gender sensitivity differences. In order to resolve the related problems Korea government made a WISET(Women in Science Engineering and Technology) program since 2006. And P University has been actively engaged in a movement to raise the gender sensitivity Engineering and to train women engineers for highly qualified work force. As part of the movement a subject called ｢Women sensitive Engineering｣ or ｢Women Sensitivity Ergonomics in daily life｣ that focuses on the gender sensitivity are effective to reduce the dropout rate and to land a job inside their fields. The title of established subject in P university was ｢Women Sensitivity Ergonomics in our Daily Life｣ as well. This study was conducted a survey of the coeds who have completed the ｢Women sensitive Engineering｣ or ｢Women sensitive Ergonomics｣ course to evaluate the degree of satisfaction ergonomics not taken the course. The results showed statistically significant responses indicating that both groups of coeds aware the gender sensitivity differences to Engineering and learned the optimization skill of gender sensitivity ergonomics by this ｢Women sensitive Engineering｣ subject. Also factor analysis for student’s enrollment this new subject was conducted in order to search the student’s satisfaction. This may lay the foundation to offer other major engineering courses for juniors and seniors that emphasize the gender sensitivity differences and ergonomics in Engineering. And we could be expected the decreasing the women students dropout rate from Engineering related fields by studying this subject we develope

Abstract. To increase the retention rate of women engineering students as human resources of the field of Graphic Arts and Printing (GAP) industries in South Korea, we introduced the simulation based engineering education method and developed the screen printing simulator for same purpose. Before setting up this education method, factor analysis for female engineering students at P University, which is a model university in South Korea, was conducted. The analytical results showed that social and cultural effects are more significant ones than social effect alone, and the effects of gender discrimination in industrial fields. Also results showed responses that the physical differences between man and women students, such as the ability to drive printing machines or to handle tools, their parents' financial support for experiments, and the gender cognitive engineering education. In this research, we developed the measurement tool to measure women students' competencies in GAP industries and contributed to make the women in engineering education according to the results of factor analysis. These researches have been progressed since 2006 annually, and we had proposed to programs for the gender cognitive engineering education and the special programs for women engineering students. The retention rate of female engineering students was increased from 30% at 2006 to over 50% in 2016. And the rate of women students who change their major from 5% to decreased 1 %. According to the lecture evaluation, 98% of women students were very satisfied the simulated education method. So we found that the factor analysis and the simulated engineering education system for GAP women students have progressed successfully.

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