Speaker
Description
The number of women has increased greatly in higher education over the last decades but women are still underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education programs. This gender difference has been reported and analysed, and many recommendations put forward and interventions tried focusing on different issues, but the effects and changes are slow. In our presentation we give an overview of our research on engineering education at Reykjavik University with focus on the student’s journey throughout their study, gender difference in engineering students’ attitude toward engineering and the development of gender ratio within different engineering study programs during the last decade.
References:
Matthiasdottir, A. and Audunsson, H. (2022). Gender differences in attitudes towards engineering studies and in graduates. Proceedings of the 18th International CDIO Conference, Reykjavik University, Iceland, June 13-15, 2022.
Audunsson, H., Matthíasdóttir, A. and Fridgeirsson, T, V. (2020). Student’s journey and personal development in an engineering program. Proceedings of the 16th International CDIO Conference, hosted on-line by Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 8-10 June, 2020.
Matthiasdottir, A. (2018). Gender differences in engineering students´. Choice of Studies. Proceedings at 14th International CDIO Conference, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan, June 28-July 2, 2018.
Audunsson, H., Sæmundsdottir, I. and Matthiasdottir, Á. (2015). Introduction to Engineering as a two-phase course. Proceedings of the 11th international CDIO conference, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R. China, June 8-11, 2015.
