Enabling Engineering Student Success: The Final Report for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education

The University of Washington Center for the Advancement of Engineering Educationâ (CAEE) conducted multi-year studies with over 5,400 students at more than 20 universities, and made sure to over sample for gender and race in order to identify ways to increase diversity in engineering. Section 2.9 of this report focuses on âSummarizing Results about Diversityâ and shows how female engineering students tend to approach design differently from male students and report less confidence and course preparation to do design. According to this study, mentors were also more likely to influence female students to study engineering than male students