Conference Program

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Keynote Speakers

Shan Carr

Leveraging our Best Practices: Hitting the Parity Jackpot

JoAnn Moody

Rising Above Cognitive Errors: Guidelines for Search, Tenure Review, and other Evaluation Committees

Doug Busch

The Role of Diversity in The Role of Diversity in US Competitiveness US Competitiveness

Carla Carick

Engineering Learning Initiatives: Intel Foundation Retention Program Progress Report 2004-2005

Cathleen Barton

Strategic Diversity Initiatives: Learning from and Leveraging Best Practices

Cathy Stacey

Texas Interdisciplinary Plan, University of Texas at Austin

Saturday, April 9, 2005

9:00 am - 3:00 pm

NAMEPA Board Meeting, La Luna

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

AWE Group Meeting, La Estrella

3:00 pm - 6:30 pm

WEPAN Board Meeting, Del Fuego

Sunday, April 10, 2005

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Registration, Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30 am - 3:00 pm

Pre-conference Tour, Chocolate Factory and Hoover Dam

8:00 am - 3:00 pm

WEPAN Board Meeting, Del Fuego

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

MentorNet Pre-conference Workshop, El Viento

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Newcomers Orientation, Del Mar I, II

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Opening Reception, Grand Ballroom III, IV
Welcome and proclamation, the Honorable Councilman Lawrence Weekly
Keynote Speaker, Dr. John Brooks Slaughter, CEO and President of NACME

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

WEPAN Committee Meetings Awards Committee, La Estrella Membership Committee, La Luna Professional Enhancement Committee, Del Mar I

Monday, April 11, 2005

7:00 am - 7:45 am

WEPAN Business Meeting, all WEPAN members, Grand Ballroom I and II

8:00 am - 9:15 am

Breakfast hosted by Intel Corporation

9:30 - 10:30 am

Leveraging Best Practices to Build a Diverse Workforce at Intel

M1

They Come and They Go: An Instrument for Assessing Why Students Leave Engineering

M2

Discover Engineering Follow-up Surveys: Assessment/Evaluation of Recruitment Programs

M2

Utilizing On-Line Surveys for Program Assessment and Enhancement

M2

Manage Your Program Information: Collect, Compare, and Report Data using AWE ADAPT

M2

9:30 - 10:45 am

Engaging Middle School Girls by Aligning Culture and Science

M3

Girl Power 21st Century: An Early Intervention Approach to Enhancing Gender Diversity in Technology Education

M3

The GROW Project: Impacts on Academic Performance

M3

From Local Community to the United Nations: Growing a Successful Pre-college Program, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at The University of Texas at Austin

M3

Supporting Indiana Math and Science Education Using Telecommunication and Computer Technology

M3

Panel: Building Coalitions that Leverage the Relationships Between Minority Engineering Programs and Underrepresented Student-based Engineering and Science Organizations

M4

Best Practices in Developing Initiatives for Minority Student Retention and Graduation

M4

Growing a STEM Team: Review of an Innovative program for Middle School Students

M5

Leveraging Best Practices to Build a Diverse Workforce at Intel

M6

GLUE: Sticking with Engineering through Undergraduate Research

M7

Texas Research Experience Program: A Model for Undergraduate Research Programs

M7

Research Experiences for Undergraduates to Encourage Graduate Studies

M7

Increasing the Number of Minority and Women Engineering Students Obtaining a Graduate Degree

M7

Tapping the Rich Diversity of the Community Colleges: Akamai Summer Internship Program  An REU Model at Maui Community College

M7

12 - 2 pm

Lunch and Keynote delivered by Louise Kleba, NASA Engineer

2:15 - 3:15 pm

Promotion and Tenure of Faculty: Advancing Women on Engineering Faculties

M8

Rutgers University Women in Engineering Leadership League (RU WELL)

M9

The POWER of Recruitment & Retention

M9

The METS Center: A Place Where Transition Students, Especially Women and Minority Students, Encourage Each Other in Engineering

M9

Career Outcomes of Science and Engineering Graduates

M9

Effect of Engineering Advocates on Young Women's Interest in Engineering

M10

The Pennsylvania State University MTM Engineering Camp for Girls: Generating Under-represented Pathway Prospects through a Diversity-Rich Pre-College Outreach Project

M10

Implementing a Project-Based Technology Program for High School Women

M10

Sustained Gender Equity High School Programs Enrich Pipeline of Female Future Engineers

M10

Robotics Programs Stimulate Hawaii County Girls Interest in Engineering

M10

3:30 - 4:30 pm

What is the Future of WIE/WISE Programs?

M11

3:30 - 4:15 pm

Leveraging Scholarships to Narrow the Retention-to-Graduation Gap between Minority and Non-Minority Engineering Students

M12

The California Association of MESA Directors and the Basic and Advanced Science and Technology Academies of Research Project

M12

Designing Our Community: A Program for Recruiting and Retaining American Indian Students in Engineering

M12

4:30 - 5:30 pm

NAMEPA Regional Meeting

WEPAN 2006 Conference Planning Meeting

5:30 - 6:30 pm

NAMEPA Business Meeting

7 - 9 pm

WEPAN and NAMEPA Joint Awards Dinner

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

8 - 9:15 am

Breakfast and Keynote hosted by Lockheed Martin

9:30 - 10:30 am

A Model for Minority Student Success in Engineering: The PREF Summer Bridge Program

T2

ALVA: A Successful Program for Increasing the Number of Minority Undergraduates who Earn Engineering Degrees

T2

Academic Summer Enhancement (ASE) Program

T2

On Planning and Executing a Successful Minority Engineering Student Recruitment Weekend Event

T2

9:30 - 11:30 am

A Model Partnership for WIEP and MEP at the University of Colorado at Boulder

T3

Systemic Tools for Program Assessment

T4

10:45 - 11:45 am

Someone Who Looks Like Me-Research and Best Practices in Mentoring Among Multicultural Women

T6

10:45 - 11:30 am

Having Their Voices Heard: Women Engineering Students Answers to Why the Classroom Climate is Still Chilly

T7

Communication and Gender Differences in the Classroom: a training kit to raise the awareness of engineering faculty members to gender issues

T7

K-State ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture Series

T7

12 - 2 pm

Lunch and Keynote delivered by Jo Ann Moody, diversity consultant and author, Faculty Diversity: Problems and Solutions

2:30 - 3:30 pm

The Role of Social Cognitive Career Theory in Elaborating Tinto's Model for Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students

T8

The Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University, Center for Engineering Diversity and Retention: A Study of Persistence and Graduation rates for Participating and Exiting Undergraduate Engineering Students

T8

Women in Engineering: Investigating Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation as They Relate to Targeted Support Initiatives

T8

The Influence of Workplace Experience During College on Early Post Graduation Careers of Undergraduate Engineering Students

T8

Beyond the Numbers: A Deeper Look Into the Retention of Female Engineering Students

T9

Balancing on the Tightrope: Maintaining Gender Parity in a Successful Undergraduate Engineering Program

T9

Understanding the Gender Schema of Female Engineers: A Balanced Sex-type and Idea Autonomy

T9

Women in Engineering: a Review of the 2004 Literature

T9

Panel: The Interdisciplinary Graduate Experience for Women

T10

The Interdisciplinary Graduate Experience: How Does It Better Prepare Women for a Career in Engineering?

T10

2:30 - 5 pm

Systemic Change in Engineering Education: The Role of Effective Change Agents for Women and Minorities in Engineering

T11

Web Registration 101: Impact Through Data Collection

T12

Making Cross-Institutional Coalitions Work: A View into the Workings of a Successful Multi-Institution Collaboration

T13

Poster Session and Book Fair

5 - 6 pm

The Women in Engineering Group at Simon Fraser University, Canada: an Innovative Way to Support and Retain Female Engineering Students

T14

SDSU CSEM (Computer Science, Engineering, & Math) Scholars Program

T14

Bristol Community College Women in Technology Summer Camp

T14

The Movement of Underrepresented Sisters in Engineering and Science

T14

Successful and Rewarding Mentoring

T14

Winning with WIMS: Innovative Approaches for K-16 Education Using Cutting-edge Engineering Research

T14

The Tutoring and Mentoring Component (TMC) Program  A Program Collaboration Between the National GEM Consortium, NAMEPA and the National Society of Black Engineers

T14

Analysis and Ranking of Earth Science Story-Books Based on Terminology, Illustration, and Demographics

T14

A Model for a Regional Data Base

T14

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

8 - 9 am

The Engineering Dean's Role in Faculty Diversity
Breakfast and Dean's Panel

9:15 - 10:15 am

Building a Comprehensive Assessment Model for Combined WISE & MSEP Programs

W1

Addressing the Downward Prospective Student Market Trends for Engineering Majors: UMRs. New Pipeline Strategy for Growing Engineering Enrollments of Women and Underrepresented Students.

W2

9:15 - 11:15 am

Integrating a Faculty Directed Research Experience into a High School Bridge Program

W3

10:30 - 11:30 am

Measuring Graduate School Recruitment and Retention

W4

10:30 - 11:30 am

Collaborative Recruitment and Retention Efforts That Have an Impact: The Michigan Technological University Department of Educational Opportunity.

W5

11:30 - 12 pm

Conference Closing