2007 Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--2993
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Attracting Underrepresented Groups To Engineering With Service Learning

Abstract: Lowell. She is a second career Mechanical Engineer, who also brings over twenty years of human services management to this position. She assists faculty in all five engineering departments to develop course-based service-learning projects by linking them with appropriate non-profit organizations to meet real community needs. John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-LowellProfessor of Mechanical and Solar Engineering, faculty coordinator of the SLICE project (Service-Learning Integrated throughout a College of E… Show more

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“…Recent experience at Purdue indicates that voluntary S-L courses attract twice the percentage of women engineering students compared to the student engineering population 11 . Our own experience with voluntary capstone courses also indicates a similar overrepresentation of women (in one course 4 to 1 over 6 years) and older and more diverse students (Duffy, 2008; Barrington et al, 2007) 12,13 . Page 13.1074.3…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 52%
“…Recent experience at Purdue indicates that voluntary S-L courses attract twice the percentage of women engineering students compared to the student engineering population 11 . Our own experience with voluntary capstone courses also indicates a similar overrepresentation of women (in one course 4 to 1 over 6 years) and older and more diverse students (Duffy, 2008; Barrington et al, 2007) 12,13 . Page 13.1074.3…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 52%
“…Our sample was limited in size and scope, and we do not suggest that the results generalize to all populations. Since we only had one SBL female in our sample, a future research direction would be to include more females in our sample and perhaps get a better understanding of why women are drawn to SBL experiences in higher numbers than in engineering overall 2,3,15,25,26 . A second direction is formatting the design task using a digital workbook supported by Robobooks TM software, which would allow for more widespread testing by other universities and using more participants.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… a better understanding of how problems are socially embedded, reducing stereotyping and prejudicial perspectives.  a higher percentage of women participants in relation to the percentage of women in engineering overall 2,10,12,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] .…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The goal was to have students exposed to S-L in on average one course in each of eight semesters during their engineering program with an overarching aim to graduate better engineers and more engaged citizens. Previous papers have summarized earlier results [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%