Retention Study for Women in Engineering
Final Report
Submitted by Ruth E. Davis
Computer Engineering Department
This project is designed to track retention of women and other minority groups in engineering, and to discover any correlation between attitudes toward their field of study and self-identified competence in it and their success in completing an engineering degree.
This is a longitudinal study tracking students entering Fall 1994 through Fall 2004. I am also comparing all students with those women who participated in a special project involving handheld computers (entering Freshmen in 1998 & 1999), to see if the project had an effect on their confidence and/or retention.
The support provided by the CSTS was used for summer support in the design and implementation of web-based surveys used to gather the data necessary to track the students.
