Webinars

WEPAN and NASEM Present: Supporting Caregivers in STEM

WEPAN and NASEM discuss ways in which the labor and contributions of caregivers are often invisible and undervalued, with a specific focus on the academic STEMM ecosystem.

The Inventor’s Patent Academy Webinar Series: Working with the Patent Office

Executive Coaching

WEPAN hosted three experts on executive coaching to discuss what executive coaching is and how it can be a beneficial investment for any individual.

Ecosystems of Inclusion

As diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) efforts strive to endure recent attacks, organizations must consider how to develop sustainable strategies with demonstrated impact.

The Inventor’s Patent Academy Webinar Series: Understanding Patent Law

The second in this WEPAN webinar series will cover the specifics of patents, patent rights, and duration, including the steps of applying for a patent and the professionals, such as patent attorneys and patent agents, who play a key role in the process.

The Inventor’s Patent Academy Webinar Series: Promoting Equitable Innovation

The first in this WEPAN webinar series will explore topics covered in The Inventor’s Patent Academy (TIPA), a free course that supports current and future inventors and promotes equitable innovation ecosystems by providing open access to patenting information often withheld from marginalized inventors.

DiscoverE Persist Series: International Women's Day

The Persist Series for women in STEM is back for a special International Women's Day episode presented in collaboration with WEPAN.

Promoting Development of Alcohol-Related Research Through NIAAA SBIR/STTR Funding

Explore the NIAAA Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program, priority research interests, best practices for preparing a competitive application, upcoming funding opportunities, and other resources for small business grantees.

DiscoverE Persist Series: Dr. Paige Brown

The Persist Series for women in STEM is back with a brand-new season presented in collaboration with WEPAN.

Women in Leadership: How Culture & Commitment Contribute to Career Progression

Career advancement is something most people think about and want from their employers.

Supporting the Success of Women in STEM: Mentorship and Coaching Through Hula Perspective

This presentation focuses on three cohorts trained in mentorship and coaching under the ADVANCE Partnership Grant at the University of Hawaii Community Colleges, UH Hilo, and UH West Oahu.

Women in Engineering: 20-Year Literature Review

The Society of Women Engineers has been conducting an annual literature review since 2001 to better understand the factors affecting our ability to increase gender diversity in the engineering and technical fields.

Listening Session: ProActively Impacting National Priorities through the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance

The Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) empowers the engineering community to identify nascent opportunities and priorities for engineering-led innovative, high-impact, cross-domain research that addresses national, global and societal needs.

Removing Barriers to Success for Women Engineering Students: Improving 3-D Spatial Thinking Skills

The ability to visualize in three dimensions is a cognitive skill that has been shown to be important for success in engineering and other technological fields.

Cultural Humility and Inclusive Environments: Knowing Ourselves to Know Others

This interactive session introduced participants to cultural humility and how one’s identity-based lenses and perspectives contribute to intentionally inclusive or passively exclusive environments.

Joint WEPAN and ARC Network Webinar Series: Intersectionality, International Faculty and Inclusive Excellence

This session presented some of the findings based on interviews and focus groups concerning the perceptions of international faculty and panel speakers encouraging the importance of inclusive excellence in academia. 

Advocates & Allies: Best Practices

The work of advancing diversity and inclusion has often been led by women, including women of color, and other minoritized groups on university campuses.

Increasing the Diversity of Faculty Search Pools: Strategies for Success

Campbell University's School of Engineering has 65% female faculty and 100% of their administrators are women. All of their faculty searches have included women in the final pool.

Sowing the Seeds of Diversity in Engineering

Engineering organizations succeed when they successfully leverage diverse perspectives and include differing viewpoints.

Hidden Treasure: Universal Design Practices in Post-Pandemic Engineering Education

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused drastic change in the way post-secondary educational institutions deliver instruction.

Getting to Know You: How Biases can Shape How We See (and Judge) Others

Four Approaches to Equity: The Good, the Bad, and the Fruitless

This webinar will introduce the Four Frames, which are categorizations of activities intended to promote and achieve equity. 

Exploring the Engineering Experience for Latina Students: The Importance of Nurturing STEM Identity

Latina students are entering higher education at greater rates than before, yet they have disproportionately lower completion rates and career representation in STEM disciplines.

Research-based Recommendations for Creating an Inclusive Culture for Diversity and Equity in Engineering Education

The Research Institute for STEM Education (RISE) brings together a multi-disciplinary research team whose mission is to study the complex array of factors contributing to diverse students' successful academic experiences in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors (STEM) in the United States.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words: How Nonverbals Impact Your Personal Brand

We’ve all heard the phrase “actions speak louder than words,” but what do our nonverbal cues really communicate?

Intersectional Identities and how this Influences Black Women’s Success in STEM fields

Despite the growing number of women and minorities in STEM occupations, underrepresentation of Black women in the STEM workforce persists as they hold only 2.4% and 2% of science and engineering jobs, respectively, though they make up 6.4% of the total population.

Slack

This webinar will introduce you to the benefits of engagement via Slack, and demonstrate how to subscribe and post to WEPAN community channels.

Navigating Academia in the Midst of a Pandemic: Key Insightsfrom Kristina Dooley, CEP

Do you have a high school senior or current college student wondering if they will be on campus this fall?

4 Key Strategies to Effective Communication

One of the most important skills one can possess is the ability to effectively communicate, yet it is often the thing people struggle with the most, especially in the workplace.

Changing Paradigms for Diversity in Undergraduate Engineering Education through Critical Cultural Research

The paradigm we bring to diversity and inclusion issues is important for how we think about, talk about, and act on them. The typical diversity paradigms can limit focus to the individual and limit attention to the sources outside of our control.

Responding to Hate: Addressing bias incidents and hate crimes on campus

Presenters in this webinar discuss hate and bias incidents occurring on campuses, and guide campuses to understand obstacles while creating comprehensive methods to respond.

Negotiating for Success

Expanding Cultures: How where I come from informs where I am going and how I will get there

In this Webinar Chanel Beebe will discuss how her various identities inform her perspective within the classroom, community, and academy.

Targeted Harassment of Engineering Educators

Recently, there has been an increase in the number of STEM education scholars who have been the subject of harassment due to their scholarship.

ASEE MIND: A Guide to Organizing and Hosting Inclusive Events

Last October, a group of researchers, educators and diversity experts met at Clemson for the working conference entitled, “Who’s Not at the Table?: Building Research Capacity for Underserved Communities in Engineering”.

ASEE MIND: How to Write a Winning Best Paper

Want great tips on writing a winning best paper? Please join WEPAN and the ASEE Minorities in Engineering Division for an informational webinar!

Spatial Visualization: A Promising Intervention for Promoting Student Equity

Evidence-based intervention that promotes student equity, persistence, AND success in engineering education.

Building Bridges from College to Career

Learn about a course, led jointly by a WEPAN university institutional member and a WEPAN corporate partner, that demonstrates how colleges of engineering and their corporate partners can join forces to make a significant impact on the successful transition of women students as they complete their engineering degree and move on to the workforce.

STEMming the Confidence Gap: Mitigating Social Judgment and Isolation

Attention Engineering Educators! Use Piazza to create a virtual 24/7 learning place where students gather to ask, answer, and explore classroom material with educator guidance.

Counteracting Stereotype Threat: Research-Based Tools & Tactics

This applications-based webinar helps educators recognize and address the complex role diversity plays in learning environments. 

Academic Coaching: Empowering Women and Allies

Learn how to empower yourself and others to challenge biased cultural "norms" and utilize tools in coaching with which engineers are familiar.

The Power of Personal Vision: Linking Undergraduate Engineering Education and Professional Persistence

Small changes in classroom teaching can have a big impact on undergraduate engineering education and professional persistence and success, especially for women.

DiscoverE New Resources and Ideas for 2015

Have you heard of Girls Day, Global Marathon or Future City? Have you been doing these events for a while and need some new ideas to spice things up? Or maybe you have never participated before and need some information!

Thriving vs. Surviving: A Four-Frame Model for Creating Inclusive Learning Environments

A Useful, Effective, and Comprehensive Framework for Educators! 

Engineering Self-Efficacy: What it is, Why it Matters, and How to Encourage it in Engineering Learning Environments

Understanding the Role of Self-efficacy: Professional Development for Busy Educators 

Male Allies Moving the Gender Equity Needle

Collaborations that include men offer distinct benefits in efforts to achieve gender equity.

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Attracting diverse populations of students, and appreciating the value that diversity brings to engineering colleges and to employers is important.

The Myth: Pink and Blue Brains

Sex differences are a hot topic. Neuroscience has identified few reliable differences between men's and women's--or--boys' and girls' brains relevant to learning or education.

The Climate Survey: A Tool for Institutionalizing Diversity Work

Lily Gossage from Cal State Long Beach and Chris Anderson from Michigan Tech discuss how their schools leverage climate surveys as tools for achieving diversity-related goals.

Start Smart Salary Negotiation

Educate and Empower College Women Entering the Job Market to Negotiate Their First Salary.

Active Learning & Retaining Female Engineering Students

A good lecture has the power to instruct, even motivate students, and research shows that lectures paired with active methods of learning get better results.

Graduating to a Pay Gap

AAUW's released, a study, Graduating to a Pay Gap shows that engineering is an "equal pay" field! There is no significant difference in the pay received by men and women working as engineers one year after graduation.

Go Beyond "Add Women and Stir": Improve Gender Equity in Your Organization

Expand your understanding of gender equity and sustainable organizational change.

You Can't Graduate Them If You Don't Admit Them

Is the University Admissions Process Gender Biased? We used statistical analyses to determine potential gender bias and advanced modeling techniques to predict student success. Our research findings informed and changed admissions criteria weightings. This webinar will review research methods and the process for working with Admissions.

Stereotype Threat and the Nature and Nurture of Intelligence

Dr. Joshua Aronson will discuss what psychologists have learned about how certain situations can make people less intelligent, and what we can do to counter the power of these situations to encourage the expression and the development of intelligent thought and academic achievement.

Some Here, More There: What Attracts Women to Engineering Majors?

Why do some engineering majors have greater representation of women than others?

Implicit Bias: The Power of Automatic, Unintended Mindsets

Implicit mindsets operate on important life judgments and decisions. Implicit biases are linked to critical STEM outcomes such as choice of major and performance on high stakes tests.

Why Smart People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in It

Do you often dismiss your accomplishments as luck or timing? Do you think, "If I can do it, anyone can"?

Stemming the Tide:Why Women Leave Engineering

Stemming the Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering was published in March 2011 by the university's Center for the Study of the Workplace.

Mentoring Millennials: Evolving Practices for Guiding a New Generation of Women Engineers to Career

Mentoring Millennials: Evolving practices for guiding a new generation of women engineers to career success.

Identity & Persistence in STEM: Why it is Important to Think About How Women and Girls See Themselves

Identity as a scientist or engineer is emerging as a way of understanding research on interest, motivation, self-efficacy, and community support to provide a framework that supports persistence, especially for girls.