• DocumentCode
    1083388
  • Title

    Can a one-day conference change female high school students´ perception of electrical engineering?

  • Author

    Hazzan, Orit ; Tal, Ayellet ; Keidar, Idit

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    415
  • Lastpage
    416
  • Abstract
    This short paper focuses on an annual one-day conference that aims at exposing female high school students, who excel in mathematics, to the discipline of Electrical Engineering (EE). The findings presented in this short paper reinforce observations previously published at length in IEEE Transactions on Education
  • Keywords
    engineering education; gender issues; professional aspects; IEEE Transactions on Education; electrical engineering; female; high school students; Calculus; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Electrical engineering; Mathematics; Power generation; Research and development; Electrical engineering; electrical engineering profession; gender; professional development;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Education, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9359
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TE.2006.879245
  • Filename
    1668286