[PDF][PDF] Women in engineering: A review of the 2019 literature

P Meiksins, P Layne, K Beddoes, J Deters - SWE Magazine, 2019 - swe.org
The past few years have, in some ways, been discouraging for advocates of gender diversity
in engineering. The share of engineering jobs held by women has not increased …

[PDF][PDF] Coding with Block Programming Languages in Educational Robotics and Mobiles, Improve Problem Solving, Creativity & Critical Thinking Skills.

I Moraiti, A Fotoglou, A Drigas - International Journal of Interactive …, 2022 - researchgate.net
The purpose of the article is to highlight how students' computational thinking, which is a
critical thinking skill, can be developed through educational robotics and programming. It is …

[HTML][HTML] Why not STEM? A study case on the influence of gender factors on students' higher education choice

P De las Cuevas, M García-Arenas, N Rico - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The gender gap in STEM-related job positions is a fact, and it is closely related to the low
percentage of women studying STEM degrees. This poses a problem because Europe, as …

Trade-offs for substituting a human with an agent in a pair programming context: the good, the bad, and the ugly

SK Kuttal, B Ong, K Kwasny, P Robe - … of the 2021 CHI Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Pair programming has a documented history of benefits, such as increased code quality,
productivity, self-efficacy, knowledge transfer, and reduced gender gap. Research …

Missed opportunity for diversity in engineering: Black women and undergraduate engineering degree attainment

TL Fletcher, JP Jefferson, BN Boyd… - Journal of College …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Efforts dedicated towards broadening participation for Black and other underrepresented
groups in engineering at post-secondary institutions has intensified in recent decades …

Building a diverse engineering and construction industry: Public and private sector retention of women in the civil engineering workforce

JA Maurer, D Choi, H Hur - Journal of management in engineering, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
The gender gap in the construction and engineering workforce persists, despite efforts to
close it over the past several decades. Increasing gender diversity is a critical strategy for …

A comparative study on the support in engineering courses: A case study in Brazil and Spain

A García-Holgado, CS González-González… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The gender gap in engineering careers is a well-known problem. Despite several studies
showing the under-representation of women in STEM fields, few explore the factors that …

Gender gap in the STEM sector in pre and university studies of Europe associated with ethnic factors

S Verdugo-Castro, MC Sánchez-Gómez… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The ground-breaking current project builds on the latent gender gap in the education sector
in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The objective of …

Gender differences in engineering students' understanding of professional competences and career development in the transition from education to work

J Chen, A Kolmos, NR Clausen - International Journal of Technology and …, 2023 - Springer
Gender studies constitute an important part of engineering education research. Although
great efforts have been made over recent decades, there is still a gender imbalance in the …

[HTML][HTML] Educating engineering students to address bias and discrimination within their project teams

S Isaac, N Kotluk, R Tormey - Science and engineering ethics, 2023 - Springer
What training should engineering students receive to enable them to contribute to reducing
bias, discrimination and the persistent lack of diversity in engineering? Collaboration is …