Interactive Panel on Perspectives and Practical Skills for Men as Advocates for Gender Equity

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Fellowship. His current research interests include the design of novel infrared optoelectronic devices and how instructional changes can help students more quickly advance from novice to expert problem solvers. He has co-authored over 120 referred technical articles and has won numerous awards for his teaching.In his role as Vice Provost, Archie's major responsibilities include areas related to the undergraduate educational experience including advising, expanding and enhancing university-wide high impact experiences, and connections between academic and student affairs. He also works on building the interdisciplinary capacity of U.Va. and further efforts to establish institutes and centers to foster interdisciplinary research and education. Professor Kokini's research activities include the study of failure mechanisms and design of high-temperature advanced materials such as functionally graded and composite ceramic thermal barrier coatings. He also works on interdisciplinary research related to the biomicromechanics of ECM-cell interactions.He is an ASME Fellow (2002) Adrienne is currently co-Chair of ASEE's Diversity Committee and PIC I Chair; she has previously served on WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams and contributed to 37 ASEE conference proceedings articles. Prof. Beena Sukumaran, Rowan UniversityBeena Sukumaran has been on the faculty at Rowan University since 1998 and is currently Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Under her leadership, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Program has seen considerable growth in student and faculty numbers. Her area of expertise is in micro-geomechanics and has published over 100 peer reviewed conference and journal papers including several papers on engineering education and the unique undergraduate curriculum at Rowan University, especially the Engineering Clinics. She has been involved in various outreach activities to recruit more women and minorities into engineering and is Interactive Panel on Perspectives and Practical Skills for Men as Advocates for Gender Equity AbstractMen can serve unique and critical roles as advocates of gender equity, particularly in maledominated units or organizations, such as most engineering departments and many universities. This panel brings together a group of men with diverse backgrounds and experiences to discuss their perspectives and offer practical skills for men to effectively serve as advocates for gender equity. This paper augments the panel and captures the backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and recommendations of the panelists, thereby providing a lasting resource for those unable to attend the panel or future interested individuals. The information we present targets men and administrators, who will better understand the barriers to advocacy, learn best-practices of effective advocacy, and hear first-hand experiences of successful advocacy. BackgroundMany factors -systemic and non-systemic, conscious and unconscious, policy and climate -can negatively impact the participation of min...

Action on Diversity: A Content Analysis of ASEE Conference Papers, 2015–2016

“…For example, "panelists recommend creating safe zones where discussions about literature related to gender bias or workshops addressing inherent biases can be conducted and discussed." (Genalo et al, 2015). Here the authors suggest clear action and specific work to be done.…”

“…One particular study evaluated the parental influence of a female student's decision to major in engineering (Madjar, Huey, & Shor, 2016). Another interesting paper was a panel discussion hosted by men for an intended audience of men regarding practical skills on how to serve as advocates for gender equity (Genalo et al, 2015). In the ethnic/racial minority sections, most publications focused on Latinos/Hispanics and/or African Americans.…”

“…Similarly, open-ended surveys were also used as a form of collecting qualitative participant responses. Some unique forms of data sources were online blogs (Jafer, 2015), online forum posts and emails (Blaser, Steele, & Burgstahler, 2015), student artifacts (Gray et al, 2016), panel proceedings (Genalo et al, 2015), and reflective journals (Brewer et al, 2015). Through these examples, we see that in order to contribute to these divisions and the conversation on diversity we can look beyond the conventional methods of obtaining information and incorporate novel data sources.…”

Improving Gender Equity in Engineering—Perspectives from Academia and Literature

“…Against women [5], [13], [15], [16] and women from historically underrepresented groups [6] Not specified 2 [17], [18] Related to research 1 Less work in commercialization, fewer publications, and women are concentrated in non-research-intensive universities [13] Changing careers 1 [13] Family sacrifices 1 [19] Receive fewer accolades 1 [12] The biggest disparity identified in the literature was the underrepresentation of women in faculty positions, specifically the lack of women in higher faculty ranks [3]- [9] and postdoctoral positions [7]. However, once women are in higher faculty ranks, they are not exempt from the disparities that women in lower ranks face [14].…”

“…Women in engineering in academia are subject to all the aforementioned biases, and in these cases, bias awareness initiatives can be helpful to combat these issues [18]. For the sake of being precise, we have separated bias from other preconceived notions about women, which include stereotypes [4], [6], [7], [12], cultural norms [3], sexism [17], and stigma [9].…”