Resumen de Student perspectives in an all-female first-year engineering innovation course
In Fall 2008 the University of Dayton first offered their restructured first-year design course entitled Engineering Innovation. Ayear later an all-female section of the course was offered, in conjunction with the development of a Women in Science andEngineering Living Learning Community. Now having finished the second year of this initiative, this paper focuses on studentperspectives of having been in an all-female engineering design class. Reflection papers written by the students detailed bothperceived benefits and consequences of the all-female class experience. This paper examines these perceptions and discusses theimplications these perceptions have for teaching traditional mixed-gendered innovation courses so that they might be more inclusiveto all students.
