Over 380 female undergraduate engineering and technology students were surveyed on eight categories including demographics, role models, and scenarios that might make a female student more comfortable studying engineering. One important result from the survey is that female students who had four to six female professors were more likely to report having an educational or career role model (55.8%) compared to those who had only one to three female professors (50.7%) or no female professors (46.0%).

This SAME-TEC pre-conference workshop guide includes worksheets to help you create a blueprint for a recruitment program, design a learning community, design a mentoring program, and match mentors with participating students. The guide also includes descriptions and links to recruitment, retention, and mentoring program case studies, example websites, and resources.

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Two years after implementing a cross-year mentoring scheme, the percentage of female students retained into their third year in the University of Lincoln's Department of Computing and Informatics (DCI) increased from 25% to 100%.

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This comprehensive guide to starting and maintaining a mentoring initiative will teach you how to create a vital program.

For female students, mentoring can be critical to sticking with their engineering education. This article reviews the literature on successful mentoring programs and examines strategies such as peer-, multiple- and collective mentoring that may work for women.

The mostly female student body at Bronx Community College is very low income; the majority of students qualify for financial aid. Short, intensive courses in basic skills combined with student support significantly improved their grades and retention.

El Camino College expanded lab time for their welding and electronics classes, enabling students to work on assignments while other classes are in session. This has benefited all students, but especially female students in introductory courses, who often need more time to learn lab tools and techniques. El Camino College is one of eight colleges that participated in IWITTS' NSF-funded CalWomenTech Project.

Dr. Linda Kekelis and Jeri Countryman of Techbridge, an after-school and summer program designed to encourage girls in technology, science and engineering, discuss practical strategies and resources that will help teachers, Girl Scout Leaders and after-school program providers to conduct outreach.

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Fifty-one members of the Women in Technology club at Purdue University share their experiences. Find out what they gain from the club and what they need from faculty.