Female Participation in Engineering Fields: Successes, Challenges, and Recommendations in a Non-western Context Conference Paper

abstract

• 2018, Springer International Publishing AG. This paper describes a collaborative faculty-student research project examining female students perspectives on their academic and social experiences studying engineering at an American branch campus in Qatar. It draws on data collected from a series of focus groups, an anonymous survey, and self-reflexive research team meetings. The experiences are discussed in relation to the universitys institutional strengths and challenges in terms of supporting female students for working in engineering-related careers in the Arab Gulf and recommendations are given.

name of conference

• Teaching and Learning in a Digital World

authors

• Hillman, Sara
• Salama, Ghada

published proceedings

• TEACHING AND LEARNING IN A DIGITAL WORLD

author list (cited authors)

• Hillman, S., & Salama, G.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Hillman, Sara||Salama, Ghada

editor list (cited editors)

• Auer, M. E., Guralnick, D., & Simonics, I.

publication date

• January 2018

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing  Journal

keywords

• Education In The Arab Gulf
• Female Engineering Students
• Women In Engineering
• Women In Stem
• Women In The Arab Gulf

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/978-3-319-73204-6_36

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-3-319-73203-9

start page

• 323

end page

• 331

volume

• 716

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73204-6_36