WEPAN 2003
National Conference
50/50 by 2020:
Working Together
for Equity

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Room Key

     

TE  Tower East

HR – Heritage Room

PEF – Parlors E & F

CB – Crystal Ballroom

TW – Tower West

PAB – Parlors A & B

HL – Hotel Lobby

BB – Ballroom Balcony

CR – Continental Room

PCD – Parlors C & D

WE – West Entrance

 

Sunday, June 8

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Registration

WE

8:00 am – Noon

Board Meeting

CR

9:00 am –10:30 am

Workshop 1: Sustaining an Adequate Outreach Program for Girls in Engineering

PAB

10:45 am – 12:15 pm

Workshop 2: Effective Assessment to Develop and Enhance WIE/WISE Programs

PEF

12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Luncheon

HR

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Hands-on Activities for Youth–Sponsored by CAMPWS, Agilent, Lockheed Martin and Chicago SWE

CB

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Workshop 3: Obtaining the Resources You Need to Develop or Sustain WIE/WISE Programs

PAB

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Architecture River Cruise (Meet in lobby at 1:00 p.m. to share rides.)

HL

3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

Workshop 4: Mainstream Your WIE/WISE Program

PEF

3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

Workshop 5: Gaining Visibility for Your WIE Program Through Effective Public Relations

PAB

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Reception–Sponsored by AT&T,Music by the Tim Green Trio

TW

     

Monday, June 9 Focus on Industry

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration

WE

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Resource Area

BB

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Newcomers Breakfast–Dr. Sherry Woods, President Elect of WEPAN and Dr. Jan Rinehart, President of WEPAN–Sponsored by American Gas Association

CB

9:15 am – 10:30 am

Concurrent Sessions I

 

Session 1: Getting Off the 20% Plateau

TE

 

Survival Skills for Successful Women Scientists and Engineers: Career Workshops

 
 

Participation Trends in and Lessons Learned from Outreach

 
 

Women in Technology (WIT): Paradigm for Change in STEM Education and Employment

 
 

Session 2: Undergraduate Retention Programs

TW

 

Factors Influencing First-Year Science and Engineering Academic Confidence

 
 

Sustaining a Multidisciplinary Summer Research Program for Women Undergraduates

 
 

The Women in Science and Engineering Living and Learning Community at Iowa State

 
 

Session 3: Images of Engineers and Engineering

CR

 

Best Practices in Recruiting and Persistence of Women in Engineering: A 2002 Snapshot

 
 

Media Images of Women Engineers and Scientists and Adolescent Girls' Conceptions

 
 

Mapping Technology on the Body, Again: Toys R Us...The New Essentialism

 

10:45 am – Noon

Concurrent Sessions II

 

Session 1: Outreach Programs in Industry

TE

 

Promoting Diversity in Kansas' Future Technological Work Force Through Outreach: Boeing

 
 

From Email Mentoring to Networking: Preparing for the Future a Spectrum of Programs

 
 

Session 2: High School Outreach Programs

TW

 

Creating a Successful Summer Institute for High School Girls

 
 

Assessing the Evolution of Engineering Saturday Academies for Middle & High School Girls

 
 

The GROW Project: Show Me the Money!

 
 

Session 3: Conference Reports: Tufts/Intel/NAE and IUPAP

CR

 

Leveraging Experience to Accelerate Progress: Gender Equity in Engineering Education

 
 

Learning From the World–The IUAP International Conference on Women in Physics

 

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm

Luncheon–Dr. Myra Gordon, Kansas State University–Sponsored by ALCOA and ExxonMobil

CB

1:35 pm– 3:35 pm

Concurrent Sessions III

 

Session 1: Corporate Recruiting for Women in Engineering: Planning for Success (Workshop)

TE

 

Session 2: Driving Equity via Faculty Diversity Education (Workshop)

CR

 

Session 3: WIE Program Assessment Tools (Panel)

TW

 

Session 4: Enhance Your Programs With JETS (Panel)

TW

3:45 pm– 5:15 pm

Meet the WIE/WISE Directors

TE

6:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Dinner Cruise on Lake Michigan–Sponsored by Intel

 

(Meet in lobby. Buses leave promptly at 6 p.m.. Board boat 6:30 and dock 10:00)

HL

     

Tuesday, June 10 Focus on Faculty and MentorNet Partners Workshops

7:00 am – 8:00 am

Committee Meetings:

 

Multi-Cultural Committee

CR

 

Student-Teacher Activities

HR

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Registration

WE

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Resource Area

BB

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Book Display

CB

8:00 am – 9:30 am

Breakfast–Dean Ilene Busch-Vishniac, Johns Hopkins University–Sponsored by Schlumberger

CB

9:40 am – 10:30 am

MentorNet Partners Workshop Session, Introducing MentorNet

TW

9:45 am – 11:00 am

Concurrent Sessions I

 

Session 1: Collaborations Between WIE and MEP Programs

TE

 

Mentoring and Community Service for Recruitment of Women in Science/Engineering

 
 

The Coalition of Minority Engineering Societies and the Society of Women Engineers

 
 

Contributing Factors to the Persistence Rate of Minorities in Engineering

 
 

Session 2: Identifying a Research Agenda on STEM Educational and Career Mentoring (Panel)

CR

 

Session 3: Understanding The Tenure-Track Experiences Of Black Women In Science And Engineering (Panel)

HR

11:35 am – 12:30 pm

MentorNet Partners Workshop Session, MentorNet In-Depth

TW

10:35 am – 11:30 am

MentorNet Partners Workshop Session, Mentors and Protégés : The Real Story

TW

11:10 am – 12:25 pm

Concurrent Sessions II

 

Session 1: ADVANCE Programs – Progress To Date

TE

 

The ADVANCE Program at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao

 
 

The University of Wisconsin–Madison ADVANCE Program: Progress to Date

 
 

Implementing A Transitional Support Program

 
 

Session 2: IT Scholars – A Collaborative WIE/MEP/UROP Initiative (Panel)

CR

 

Session 3: Identifying Hidden Gender Issues and Barriers (Workshop)

HR

12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Luncheon–Jamie Hewitt, IBM–Hosted by MentorNet with sponsorship by DuPont and NSF

CB

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

MentorNet Partners Workshop Session, Campus Success Stories

TW

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions III

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Session 1: Get Thinking Inside The Box (Workshop)

PCD

2:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Session 2: Preparing the Faculty of the Future

TE

 

Building Bridges: Using Technology to Attract, Retain, and Mentor the Engineering Work Force

 
 

Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE): First-Year Lessons

 
 

Ways to Attract and Retain Women Faculty and Graduate Students in Engineering

 

2:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Session 3: Update from the Experts: Past WEPAN Awardees Speak

CR

3:15 am – 4:15 pm

MentorNet Partners Workshop Session, Corporate Success Stories
The Seven Principles Of Building A Successful MentorNet Partner Program

TW

3:30 pm – 4:10 pm

Session 4: Overcoming Gender Bias in Recruiting and Retaining Faculty

TE

 

Women Engineering Faculty and Student Evaluations: Is There Gender Bias?

 
 

Changing Learning Environments Through Changing Faculty

 

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Session 5: Designed for Success-Edible Car-in-Residence Program (Workshop)

CR

4:15 pm – 5:00 pm

Session 6: Discussion Group on Nationwide Benchmarking of Best Practices (Discussion Group)

TE

4:20 pm – 5:20 pm

MentorNet Partners Workshop Session, Just How Good is MentorNet?

TW

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Reception–Sponsored by IBM, Music by Arthur Lee

CB

     

Wednesday, June 11

 

7:00 am – 8:00 am

Committee Meetings:

 

Awards Committee

CR

 

2004 Conference Committee

HR

 

MentorNet

TW

8:00 am – 10:00 am

Registration

WE

8:00 am – 9:30 am

Breakfast–Debra Rolison, Naval Research Laboratory–Sponsored by Microsoft

CB

9:45 am – 11:15 am

Concurrent Sessions I

 

Session 1: Middle School Outreach Programs

TE

 

Exciting Children About Engineering Through Interactive Exploration of Bridges/Dams

 
 

Hands-On Physics Programs for Middle Level Students

 
 

The Pennsylvania State University WEP "Girl Scout Saturdays" Program

 
 

Session 2: Title IX and Engineering/Science (Paper)
Title IX in Action (Panel)

TW

 

Session 3: How to Capitalize on Where We Are (Panel)

CR

     

11:30 am – 1:30 pm

Luncheon–WEPAN Awards and Business Meeting–Sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation

 
 

Awards sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, Kimberly-Clark, and Northrup Grumman

CB

 
 

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