Doctoral Dissertation

Dispelling stereotypes and building capacity : repairing the leaky pipeline between high school and post-secondary engineering education through participatory action research. Dissertation successfully defended on the 20th of April, 2018; Doctor of Social Sciences degree conferred on the 18th of July, 2018. Supplemental materials available here.

Conference Papers

From Physics to Where? Diagnosing the Effect of a Discovery-based Teaching Paradigm on Continued Barriers to Women’s Entry to the Physical Engineering Science Professions (RTP, Diversity). Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. Paper publicly available after December 2018.

Testing an engineering design teaching technique for improving self-efficacy and belonging in Physics 11 classrooms. Paper presented at 2018 CEEA/ACEG Annual Conference and Exposition, Vancouver, British Columbia. Paper publicly available after December 2018.

Where are the women? Perceived Barriers to Engineering Education: Exploring the feminist influences on curriculum in British Columbia and on the career choices of women with high school physics credit. Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.25070

Where are the women? Perceived Barriers to Engineering Education: A review of feminist influences on curriculum in British Columbia that contribute to the persisting and evolving barriers to women’s entry into engineering education. Paper presented at 2015 ASEE-SE Conference and Exposition, Galveston, Florida.

Where are the Women? Trends in transition rates from high school physics to engineering education. Presentation at Walls Optional, Camosun College, Victoria, British Columbia

Where are the women? Exploring the ramifications of feminist influences on curriculum in British Columbia through trends in career choices of women with high school physics credit. Presentation at Hi-Tec Conference, Portland, Oregon.

Articles

Scholarly Musings on the “F-Word” by an Interdisciplinary Engineer

Where are the women? Perceived barriers to engineering education: Exploring the feminist influences on curriculum in British Columbia and on the career choices of women with high school physics credit

Gender Balance in Engineering: Is this an issue worth pursuing?