Analysis of women enrollment in Engineering programs at the Public University of Navarre

Author

Perez-Artieda, G. ; Gubia, E. ; Barrenechea, E. ; Sanchis, P. ; Lopez Martin, A. ; Astrain, D. ; Morato, D. ; Lopez Taberna, J. ; Matias, I.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Ind. & Telecommun. Eng., Public Univ. of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Women represent more than 50% of the University students both in Europe and the United States. According to this, one might assume that the number of female students in Engineering might have been progressively increasing. But, the under-representation of women in engineering degrees has become a persistent problem. This work presents an analysis of women enrolment in engineering degrees at the Public University of Navarre, where a negative tendency has been detected over the past 10 years. In order to understand the underlying causes of this situation, a survey was conducted among students of all engineering programs. As a conclusion, some straightforward actions that could attract more women to technological studies are proposed.

Keywords

educational institutions; engineering education; gender issues; Europe; Public University of Navarre; United States; engineering programs; women enrollment; Computers; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Europe; Indexes; Telecommunications; career choice; gender; technology; underepresentation in engineering; women in engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2014.7044066

Filename

7044066