Juliette Sweeney - Women Working Capital, Admission and Success within Canadian Graduate Engineering Programs
In 2022, only 27% of graduates from Canadian graduate engineering programs were women, not much more than the 22% they were in 2002. Universities, governments and the engineering profession have worked for many years to increase the number of women in engineering, including in graduate engineering schools, but these programs have had limited success. In this seminar, I examine how women leverage social and cultural capital to enter Canadian graduate engineering programs and succeed within them. My conclusions highlight how gendered norms within the culture of graduate engineering schools inform women students' experience and complicate their success.
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Juliette Sweeney
Juliette obtained her PhD in Higher Education from OISE at the University of Toronto where she also graduated from the Engineering Education Collaboration Program. Juliette's research interests include diversity within engineering programs with a focus on gender, internationalization of engineering programs, student experience within online engineering courses, and employment pathways of engineering graduates. At the University of Toronto, she investigated student learning and socialization in online environments for the Institute for the Study Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice. Juliette worked in the software development sector for more than 20 years prior to returning to graduate school and currently teaches at Humber College in the engineering faculty's Sustainable Building Program.