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This webinar, from the National Center for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge, features three separate presentations that discuss strategies for building enrollment in nanotechnology and STEM programs.  The first presentation was given by Dr. Jared Ashcroft, Ph.D. from Pasadena City...

This study, from the American Society for Engineering Education, looked at the effect of a six-day residential camp focused on introducing girls to chemical engineering. Results of the first year of the camp found that it increased awareness of and interest in chemical engineering amongst the girls...

This 9-page report includes details about the Akami Summer Internship Program. The program "offers an intensive eight-week introduction to research methods and tools with an emphasis on adaptive optics science." This report includes the following sections: Introduction, The Role of Two Year...

This webinar presented by Sheryl A. Sorby, Ph.D., explains why it is important to teach female students spatial reasoning skills. The webinar is 42 minutes and includes a demonstration of Dr. Sorby's software "Introduction to 3D Spatial Visualization: An Active Approach."

These presentation slides, made available by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), provide tips for improving student recruitment into technical education programs. The slides provide information on trends in enrollment as of 2008 as well as some background on the presenter and Fox...

Over 380 female undergraduate engineering and technology students were surveyed on eight categories including demographics, role models, and scenarios that might make a female student more comfortable studying engineering. One important result from the survey is that female students who had four to...

This National Academy of Sciences book on better practices for the recruitment, retention and promotion of women scientists and engineers can be browsed online or downloaded for free. It includes strategies actually implemented by universities to recruit more women to undergraduate and graduate...

This 8-page paper, from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2014 Conference, discusses the accomplishments of a STEM transfer program. The program featured a graduation rate of over 95% with more than 60% of students being female or an underrepresented minority. Dr. Mary R....

This 11-page paper by Donna Milgram was presented at the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education​ (ASEE) Conference. The paper shares the CalWomenTech Project model and strategies, many requiring minimal costs and time commitments, that resulted in increases of female students in technology...

This webinar, provided by the Centers Collaborative for Technical Assistance, addresses Prior Learning Assessments (PLAs) and how colleges can use PLAs to assign academic credit for "skills an individual has gained outside the classroom or from non-college instructional programs including...