University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
8-1-2013
Abstract
Academics have become increasingly interdisciplinary while at the same time, the sciences, engineering and research in general are increasingly data driven. Most higher education curricula, especially in Engineering are, however, still rooted in more traditional, discipline bound curricula and make little use of the vast amounts of data available. We describe an experimental course that address this and aims to include women from non-engineering fields. The interdisciplinary course took a data driven approach to the intersection of womens issues, water rights, and workers' rights, taught by faculty from Civil Engineering, History, American Studies, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geography, and Informatics. We provide an analysis of how students adapted to this novel approach and what impact it may have on female students' career choices, especially in engineering. The course familiarized students with the use of cyber-based tools (e.g., shared databases, internet portals, monitoring devices/sensors, visualization, data collection and analysis tools) to gather, depict, compare and/or reuse data.'
Publisher
iCeer
Publication Title
Conference Proceedings, International Conference on Engineering Education and Research
Language (ISO)
English
Sponsorship
International Conference on Engineering Education and Research, ICEER 2013, Marrakesh, Morocco
Keywords
Women in Engineering, Water data, Women data, Work data, Interdisciplinary teaching, Informatics, Cyber-Infrastructure
Recommended Citation
van Reenen, Johann and Kevin Comerford. "Creating a pipeline to engineering for women through an interdisciplinary data-driven and cyber-infrastructure enabled course." Conference Proceedings, International Conference on Engineering Education and Research (2013). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ulls_fsp/108
Comments
Chapter in conference proceedings