Women’s Motivation in their choice for the Engineering and Technology field

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María Amparo Oliveros Ruiz
Eduardo Cabrera Córdoba
Benjamín Valdez Salas
Michael Schorr Wienner

Abstract

In recent times, women have ventured into the field of engineering, one of the most booming career internationally. Nevertheless, the enrollment of students in Mexico has grown slowly: only about 30% of the total population of students enrolled in a program related to engineering are women. To carry out this research a survey was applied to registered women students to the career of Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at the semester 2014-1. In order to present the results, research was done on the reasons for the choice of this discipline of study and model the future performance of female students of engineering degrees in the municipality of Mexicali. The findings show that there is missing a female role model for students, so it is proposed the inclusion of a model Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics STEM to increase preference and enrollment of women at the Faculty of Engineering.

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Oliveros Ruiz, M. A., Cabrera Córdoba, E., Valdez Salas, B., & Schorr Wienner, M. (2017). Women’s Motivation in their choice for the Engineering and Technology field. Entreciencias: Diálogos En La Sociedad Del Conocimiento, 4(9). https://doi.org/10.21933/J.EDSC.2016.09.157

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María Amparo Oliveros Ruiz, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Profesora en el área de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad del Instituto de Ingeniería de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, en Mexicali. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores nivel I.

Eduardo Cabrera Córdoba, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Becario del Conacyt. Estudiante de doctorado en Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.

Benjamín Valdez Salas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Investigador en el área de Corrosión, del Instituto de Ingeniería de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Miembro de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencia. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores nivel II.

Michael Schorr Wienner, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Profesor (doctor honoris causa) del Instituto de Ingeniería de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, en el área de Química. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores nivel III.