Participation of Women in Architectural Engineering: What Causes It?

Participation of Women in Architectural Engineering: What Causes It?
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女性参与建筑工程：原因是什么？

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2011
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P. Brady
P. Brady
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A. Estes;P. Brady

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由于合格工程师供应的减少继续困扰着国家的进步，工程领域女性代表性不足令人担忧。了解哪些因素影响工程学科的选择有可能改变教育，以适应更多样化的学生群体，从而在工程领域取得成功。全国有十七个获得认可的建筑工程专业，它们各不相同。它们在课程重点、学位长度、建筑工作室的包容程度以及是否位于土木工程系方面存在很大差异。尽管存在这些差异，建筑工程专业的毕业生中女性比例平均为 30%，远远高于其他工程专业的女性比例。本文比较了全国范围内建筑工程专业与土木、机械和电气工程专业的女性比例，并试图解释其中的差异。对加州理工大学建筑工程系的女性进行了一项调查，以了解为什么这些女性个人选择 AE 作为专业，为什么她们坚持选择该专业，以及为什么她们认为女性在该专业中的比例如此之高。结果代表了建筑工程项目所具有的竞争优势，并且引起了建筑工程学院的极大兴趣。
Under-representation of women in engineering is of concern as the decreasing supply of qualified engineers continues to plague the nation’s advancement. Understanding what factors influence choices of engineering disciplines has the potential for altering education to accommodate a more diverse student body that can be successful in engineering. There are seventeen accredited architectural engineering programs in the nation and they are very different. They vary greatly in terms of the emphasis of curriculum, the length of the degree, the degree of inclusion of architecture studios, and whether they are collocated in a department of civil engineering. Despite these differences, architectural engineering programs graduate on average 30% women which is far higher that the percentages of women in other engineering programs. This paper compares the percentage of women in architectural engineering programs to those in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering programs nationwide and attempts to explain the difference. A survey of women in the Cal Poly architectural engineering department was administered to discover why these women personally chose AE as a major, why they persist in the major, and why they think women are so largely represented in the major. The results represent a competitive advantage that architectural engineering programs have and are of great interest to the Architectural Engineering Institute.