Title :
A study of female academic performance in mechanical engineering
Author :
Chen, John C. ; Owusu-Ofori, Samuel ; Pai, Devdas ; Toca-McDowell, Eugenia ; Wang, Shih-Liang ; Waters, Cynthia K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC, USA
Abstract :
We examine the relative performance of female mechanical engineering students at North Carolina A&T State University in a range of classes, each emphasizing different skills. Contrary to all previous studies that we have found, the female students in our study performed better, by all measures, than the males in all but one class, and they performed equally well in that. Possible explanations for this finding are discussed
Keywords :
educational courses; engineering education; gender issues; mechanical engineering; North Carolina State University; female academic performance; female mechanical engineering students; males; mechanical engineering education; student performance; Data engineering; Degradation; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Employment; Engineering profession; Engineering students; Maintenance engineering; Mechanical engineering; Performance evaluation;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3348-9
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1996.573067
