Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/DSPWS.2006.265450
