Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

Career development provides avenues for educators to help shape academic interests, career goals and expectations, and facilitate the development of relevant skills (Lent et al., 2005). Despite literature suggesting benefits from incorporating student values into STEM course content to make lessons …

This study explores women's experiences with project-based learning within the context of introductory engineering courses at two community colleges and one four-year institution. The study was framed by Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological systems theory [Bronfenbrenner, U., The Ecology of Human Deve…