Event
Engineering Inclusion Into University Programs
Monday, November 11, 2024
4:30 p.m.
1202 Glenn L. Martin Hall
Darcy Long
301 405 3114
dlong123@umd.edu
Sponsored by Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering (WECE)
Featuring speakers from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Kerri Phillips, Air and Missile Defense Sector Chief Scientist
Sylvie DeLaHunt, Discovery Program Assistant Group Supervisor
It’s a fact: persistent gender stereotypes lead more women than men to experience low self-efficacy in engineering and technology fields. Resulting socially-induced individual obstacles, such as imposter syndrome and stereotype threat, may affect how women perceive and respond to institutional barriers commonplace in engineering departments such as underrepresentation, biases, alienating cultures, and opaque grading policies. The evidence on this topic is both anecdotal and data-driven.
The speakers will present both, and reveal how college engineering programs can improve retention by dismantling the institutional barriers that disproportionately discourage talented women. All members of the engineering community seeking to promote the inclusion and success of diverse students and recent graduates will leave this session with recommendations for mitigating individual and institutional obstacles.”
Register HERE
Refreshments will be provided.
