Dean Rosser Leads Research on Retaining Women
Atlanta (November 10, 2008) — Ivan Allen Dean Sue V. Rosser is at the mid-point of a three-year research initiative investigating ways to retain women and underrepresented minority students as engineering majors. In a recently published article in On Campus with Women, Rosser explains the problem and the curricular solutions that are being explored.
In her article “Keys to the Engineering Gateway: Using Creative Technology to Retain Women and Underrepresented Students,” Rosser writes, “In order to implement our approach in a large classroom environment with limited time and resources, we turned to computer technology. A computer-based interactive system can help students make the crucial connections between mathematical models and real-world problems. ”
Rosser is the principle investigator for the project, “InTEL: Interactive Toolkit for Engineering Learning,” which is funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) award. Her co-principal investigators from across Georgia Tech are Janet H. Murray, Graduate Director of Digital Media and Professor of Literature, Communication, and Culture; Laurence Jacobs, Associate Dean of Engineering and Professor of Civil Engineering; Wendy Newstetter, Director of Learning Sciences Research in Biomedical Engineering; and Christine Valle, lecturer in Mechanical Engineering.
“We hope,” writes Rosser, “that by incorporating new uses of computer technology, we will encourage women and underrepresented minority students to persist in engineering.”
Related Links
Dean Sue Rosser CV
http://www.hts.gatech.edu/faculty/rosser-sue.php
Rosser article - Full Text
http://www.aacu.org/ocww/volume37_2/feature.cfm?section=1
For more information contact:
Rebecca Keane, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Contact Rebecca Keane rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu
404-894-1720
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
