Description:

The gender gap in engineering continues to be a significant issue, with both academia and industry being dominated by men. This topic continues to receive a growing amount of research attention, looking at both why women are less likely to go into engineering, and why women engineers may not be retained in industry.

This work aims to help understand how gender stereotypes impact the perceptions of who should become an engineer. We plan to follow the recent work from Cutrupi et al. [1], in which they asked school aged children (Primary and Intermediate) to draw a software engineer, in order to collect their perceptions and investigate whether gender stereotypes still persist. This work will include, helping to conduct the “draw an engineer” sessions, analysing the output of these sessions, and preparing a research paper.

[1] Cutrupi et al., “Draw a Software Engineer Test - An Investigation into Children’s Perceptions of Software Engineering Profession” at ICSE 2023

Type:

Undergraduate

Outcome:

- Plan and conduct workshops 

- Analyse workshop outputs  

- Present findings (Research report)

Prerequisites

NA

Specialisations

• Computer Systems Engineering
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Software Engineering

Categories

• Games & Education Aids 1

Supervisor

• James Tizard

Co-supervisor

• Craig Sutherland

Team

• Lia Arroyo
• Michelle Lie

Lab

HASEL (405.662, Lab)