TY - CHAP

T1 - Gender and Diversity aspects in Engineering Education and their impact on the design of engineering curricula

AU - Block, Brit-Maren

AU - Guerne, Marie Gillian

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 IEEE.

PY - 2021/6/18

Y1 - 2021/6/18

N2 - Today’s global transformation processes and sustainability issues, lead to challenges and modified competence requirements that the engineering sciences have to face. In addition to digitalization as a major influencing factor, graduates need to be prepared to develop complex and interdisciplinary solutions in teams. Engineering sciences have to take up the challenges to provide suitable engineering curricula for a divers and a broader target group (e.g. non-technical and female students); especially in light of the current shortage of qualified specialists. As a consequence, there is a need for evidence-based innovative curriculum design dealing with diversity and heterogeneous target groups and encouraging interdisciplinary approaches. This paper contributes threefold to that discourse on transformation processes and diversity aspects in Engineering Education: (1) by considering gender-specific data in Engineering Higher Education and Engineering Education Research (EER); (2) by presenting a qualitative study, which analyses gender-specific curriculum design requirements; and (3) by introducing a research-based bachelor’s program for a divers target group.

AB - Today’s global transformation processes and sustainability issues, lead to challenges and modified competence requirements that the engineering sciences have to face. In addition to digitalization as a major influencing factor, graduates need to be prepared to develop complex and interdisciplinary solutions in teams. Engineering sciences have to take up the challenges to provide suitable engineering curricula for a divers and a broader target group (e.g. non-technical and female students); especially in light of the current shortage of qualified specialists. As a consequence, there is a need for evidence-based innovative curriculum design dealing with diversity and heterogeneous target groups and encouraging interdisciplinary approaches. This paper contributes threefold to that discourse on transformation processes and diversity aspects in Engineering Education: (1) by considering gender-specific data in Engineering Higher Education and Engineering Education Research (EER); (2) by presenting a qualitative study, which analyses gender-specific curriculum design requirements; and (3) by introducing a research-based bachelor’s program for a divers target group.

KW - Engineering

KW - Gender and diversity in Engineering

KW - Transformation processes in engineering

KW - innivative curriculum design in engineering

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/71d5de0c-4deb-3d8f-a5e6-17e638899a9e/

U2 - 10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454043

DO - 10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454043

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-1-7281-8478-1

T3 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON

SP - 738

EP - 744

BT - Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021

A2 - Klinger, Thomas

A2 - Kollmitzer, Christian

A2 - Pester, Andreas

PB - IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

CY - Piscataway

T2 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference - EDUCON 2021

Y2 - 21 April 2021 through 23 April 2021

ER -