Women in Engineering: Curriculum, Applications, and Networking (WE CAN)

Author

Karp, Tanja ; Baker, Mary C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

122

Abstract

This paper describes a summer camp during which part of the electrical engineering freshmen class is taught to female high school juniors in an effort to recruit more qualified females into electrical engineering. We will describe the camp format, the course curriculum, and the student feedback obtained from a survey at the end of the camp

Keywords

educational courses; educational institutions; electrical engineering education; gender issues; recruitment; teaching; WE CAN; course curriculum; curriculum-applications-networking; electrical engineering freshmen class; high school juniors; qualified females recruitment; student feedback; summer camp; teaching; women in engineering; Application software; Biomedical engineering; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Electrical engineering; Electrical engineering computing; Engineering profession; Physics; Power engineering and energy; Recruitment; freshmen curriculum; high school camp; preparation for electrical engineering; women in engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Signal Processing Workshop, 12th - Signal Processing Education Workshop, 4th

Conference_Location

Teton National Park, WY

Print_ISBN

1-4244-3534-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0535-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSPWS.2006.265450

Filename

4041043