TY - JOUR
T1 - Supporting Graduate Women in Engineering
T2 - 2023 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition - The Harbor of Engineering: Education for 130 Years, ASEE 2023
AU - Parthasarathy, Aadhy
AU - Nigam, Rupal
AU - Gupta, Aanchal
AU - Kopperstad, Tove Elisabeth
AU - Pirosmanishvili, Ani
AU - Saxton-Fox, Theresa Ann
N1 - This work was funded by the Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in the Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois (Grant #: 2022-04) and the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute. This study received IRB approval from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office for the Protection of Research Subjects (IRB #: 23254). The authors thank the Grainger College, the engineering departments, graduate coordinators, and student volunteers for supporting GrOW.
Theresa Saxton-Fox is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Masters and PhD from Caltech and did her postdoctoral research at Princeton University, prior to starting at the University of Illinois in January 2019. Her research focuses on wall-bounded turbulent flows. She is the Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the American Physical Society: Division of Fluid Dynamics. She was awarded the Young Investigator Program award from the Office of Naval Research in 2021 and the Centennial prize for best thesis in the Mechanical and Civil Engineering department at Caltech in 2018. She won the College Award for Leadership or Institutional Impact in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2023.
PY - 2023/6/25
Y1 - 2023/6/25
N2 - This paper summarizes the approach and findings of a targeted, year-long orientation program in the first year of graduate school for minority genders in engineering, implemented in the Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 academic year. The program aimed to enhance the first-year graduate experience of gender minorities in engineering through several interventions: professional networking, community building, advice for finding financial support, supporting the undergraduate-to-graduate transition, and sharing strategies for navigating academia. The program achieved these interventions through a series of events and measured their impact through surveys. Findings from the programmatic effort and lessons learned are provided in this paper.
AB - This paper summarizes the approach and findings of a targeted, year-long orientation program in the first year of graduate school for minority genders in engineering, implemented in the Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 academic year. The program aimed to enhance the first-year graduate experience of gender minorities in engineering through several interventions: professional networking, community building, advice for finding financial support, supporting the undergraduate-to-graduate transition, and sharing strategies for navigating academia. The program achieved these interventions through a series of events and measured their impact through surveys. Findings from the programmatic effort and lessons learned are provided in this paper.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85172166644
SN - 2153-5965
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
Y2 - 25 June 2023 through 28 June 2023
ER -