GIEE 2011: Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers: Formation Interdisciplinaire des Ingénieurs et Problème du Genre

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
An Ethical and Sociological view on Women Engineers and on the Role Interdisciplinary Courses can Play in Attracting Young People, and Women, to Engineering Education....Pages 1-10
The Bologna Process and Transparency in European Engineering Education....Pages 11-19
Women in Technology in the U.S.....Pages 21-34
A Vision for the Future of European Engineering....Pages 35-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning for Diverse and Sustainable Engineering Education....Pages 47-63
Women in Engineering in the UK....Pages 65-78
Influence of the Perception of Science on Engineering & Technologies Study Choices in Lithuania....Pages 79-99
Gender and Science Studies Competence for Students in Engineering, Natural Sciences, and Science Education. The Project “Degendering Science” at the University of Hamburg, Germany....Pages 101-114
Roles that Gender, Systemizing and Teacher Support Play in STEM Education....Pages 115-129
Project-Mentoring....Pages 131-146
The Appeal of Innovation....Pages 147-158
Facteurs D’Influence Des Choix D’ Études en Génie Des Femmes....Pages 159-168
Serious Games as an Interdisciplinary Approach in Engineering Degree Courses....Pages 169-182
Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries – Deconstructing Gendered Practices in Engineering Education....Pages 183-196
Thinking Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Education....Pages 197-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Interdisciplinarities – Students’ Perception of Interdisciplinary Engineering Education in Europe....Pages 209-221
Female Engineering Students....Pages 223-240
Students’ Perception of IT Curricula and Career Opportunities in Serbia and Macedonia....Pages 241-253
Social Relevance and Interdisciplinarity in Canadian Engineering Education....Pages 255-266
Interdisciplinarity as a Factor of Success to Attract more Students - A Sociological-Empirical Analysis of IT Study Programmes in Austria....Pages 267-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
The Micropolitics of Disciplinary Summer Universities for Women....Pages 283-296
Women-only Engineering Education – a Promising Austrian Model Initiative....Pages 297-307
Technical Companies in Switzerland on the way to a Corporate Culture in line with Gender Equality....Pages 309-325
Make Engineering and Technology more Appealing to Women via Gender Competence as an Innovative Element of Teacher-Training in Mathematics....Pages 327-339
How to Promote Young Boys and Especially Girls for Engineering Issues....Pages 341-353
La Relative Féminisation et ses Raisons D’une Structure Française Originale....Pages 355-367
Are Single-Sex Educational Programmes Still Relevant for Young Women?....Pages 369-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Interdisciplinarity Towards Gender Equality in Engineering and Technology Education. Recommendations....Pages 383-399
Breaking Patterns: How Opportunistic Sponsorship and women’s Moral Compass Shape Careers of Female Scientists....Pages 401-401
Women Presence in Engineering in Spain: Causes and Measures to Attract more Women. the case of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM)....Pages 403-419
Changing the face of STEM: the Example of Computer Science in Germany....Pages 421-437
Gender Counts?! Analysis of Student Dropout at Vienna University of Technology....Pages 439-453
HELENA Software for Curricula Analysis....Pages 455-469
Conclusion of GIEE 2011....Pages 471-473
Back Matter....Pages 475-486