“She’s More Like a Guy”: The Legacy of Gender Inequity Passed on to Undergraduate Engineering Students

Christman, Jeanne; Yerrick, Randy

doi:10.18260/1-2--36536

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“…Research on engineering student major selection indicates that students choose bioengineering or biomedical engineering (BME) 1 based on interest in the content, because the broad scope allows for pursuit of various careers upon graduation and because they believe they can help others [1][2][3] among other reasons. While most engineering majors remain largely dominated by men [4,5], many undergraduate BME programs have shown equal or higher rates of women students enrolled than men compared to other engineering disciplines [6]. This enrollment breakdown may be due to how BME is viewed as a field.…”

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Determinants of Intra-major Specialization and Career Decisions Among Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Students

Miller,

Lopez-Alvarez,

Cardador

et al. 2024

Biomed Eng Education

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Biomedical engineering is a broad and interdisciplinary field that prepares graduates for a variety of careers across multiple career sectors. Given this breadth, undergraduate degree programs often have formal or informal opportunities for students to further specialize within the biomedical engineering major to develop skills in subdisciplines of biomedical engineering. While previous work has explored factors that influence student decision-making of engineering major choice, including the role of gender, limited work has explored factors that influence intra-major specialization in biomedical engineering. The present study sought to expand on existing research to understand factors that influence biomedical engineering students’ choice of intra-major specializations and how, if at all, these factors are related to gender. Grounded in social cognitive career theory, the present study leveraged quantitative surveys from undergraduate biomedical engineering students to understand factors influencing intra-major specialization choice, including the impact that students viewed on their career plans. Participants rated multiple factors as important in their intra-major specialization decisions, with professors/classes rated as the most important influence and alumni as the lowest. Similarly, participants rated multiple outcome expectations of their specialization, although income was rated lower than other factors. Participants most commonly indicated interest in pursuing careers in industry and medicine. We found some differences in intra-major specialization, outcome expectations, and career interests by gender, with women students indicating a higher influence of professors/classes and higher expectations for their track decision to provide a career with a good income. Further understanding of how undergraduate students select specializations in engineering coursework will inform curriculum design and student advising.

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Determinants of Intra-major Specialization and Career Decisions Among Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Students

Miller,

Lopez-Alvarez,

Cardador

et al. 2024

Biomed Eng Education

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“…An individual who is lower in these areas will engage in fewer interactions with peers, which reduces what that individual would learn in the problem-solving process. It is important to note that female engineering undergraduates are lower in these areas than their male counterparts (Christman & Yerrick, 2021; Nagahi et al, 2020; Verdín, Godwin, & Benedict, 2020), while female Magic: The Gathering players may not have the same difficulties unless participating in the online or tournament environments (Falcao, Macedo, & Kurtz, 2021).…”

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Proximal Processes and Problem Solving: Gamers vs. Students

Jacques

2022

Simulation & Gaming

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Background Problem-solving and collaboration occur frequently in serious games. They are also considered necessary skills for students to learn, so many engineering and computer science programs design assignments with them in mind. Understanding the similarities and differences between each scenario would strengthen problem-solving interventions aimed at students. Aim This qualitative study examined how engineering and computer science undergraduates (students) and players of Magic: The Gathering (gamers) identified a problem as being complex, used the inquiry cycle for problem-solving, and engaged in proximal processes. Method Undergraduates in engineering or computer science and players of Magic: The Gathering’s Elder Dragon Highlander format completed an online questionnaire where they described how they solved a complex problem and how they engaged with others (or why they chose not to engage with others) during each part of the process. Responses were grouped by role (gamer or student) and by gender then coded to identify where each was alike and where they differed. Results Gamers and students engaged in the problem-solving process differently, with gamers using more of the inquiry cycle than students did. Proximal processes, however, were used differently based on both group and gender, with female gamers engaging in them most often and female engineers least often.

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“…Figure 1 shows the number of papers in each of the three categories used to organize the information in the articles. Only one study talked about women's epistemologies directly, though the target population of the study was not specifically women [14]. In this ethnographic case study, Christman and Yerrick show that women were aware of an epistemological mismatch between the paradigmatic epistemologies of engineering education and their own personal epistemologies through how they noticed the "implicit and explicit bias and gendered ways of socializing neophyte engineers" [14, p. 5] that their male peers did not pick up on.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Women’s Epistemologies in Engineering Education

Thomas,

Kirn,

Cross

2022 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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“She’s More Like a Guy”: The Legacy of Gender Inequity Passed on to Undergraduate Engineering Students

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Determinants of Intra-major Specialization and Career Decisions Among Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Students

Determinants of Intra-major Specialization and Career Decisions Among Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Students

Proximal Processes and Problem Solving: Gamers vs. Students

A Systematic Literature Review of Women’s Epistemologies in Engineering Education

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