Felicity Bilow (’21), MS student in Civil Engineering (expected graduation May ’23)
Title of talk, as well as conference details:
Bilow, F., DeWaters, J. (2022) “Examining Student Responses and Gender Differences to a First-Year Sociotechnical Engineering Course.” In: Proceedings of the 52nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, October 8-11, 2022.
The Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference is a major international conference sponsored each year by the Education and Computer Societies of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the ASEE’s (American Society for Engineering Education) division of Educational Research Methods. The conference focuses on educational innovations and research in engineering and computing education leading the World in the development of new research insights and educational approaches.
FIE 2022 continued a long tradition of disseminating results in engineering and computing education. The theme for 2022 was Grand Challenges in Engineering Education. It was held in the historical city of Uppsala, Sweden, and was sponsored by both Uppsala University, which has been educating leading scholars since 1477 and is the oldest university in Sweden, and by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden’s premier technical university. Conference meetings were held at the modern Uppsala Congress Centre with additional events at the ancient Uppsala Castle and Uppsala University’s historic Main Building.
Felicity’s Research:
Felicity Bilow is an MS student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) whose research explores the relationship between student exposure to engineering coursework presented within a sociotechnical context, and their attitudes and perceptions toward engineering and their sense of belonging in the field. At FIE 2022 she presented the results of a research project conducted while an undergraduate student at Clarkson, which looked specifically at gender differences in first year students who were exposed to sociotechnical coursework in their first semester.
