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egular basis, to have heard an engineering guest speaker outside of class, and to have
gone on at least one engineering field trip over the course of the academic year. They
were at least as likely as men to have had summer or year-round internships in
engineering.
Students were also asked which of the five professional organizations on campus 25
they participated in, were members of, and were officers of (Table IIC-9). Since most
students participated in and were members only of the discipline-specific organization in
their major, responses about membership in each the four discipline-specific student
chapters were combined into a single index. Participation and membership in SWE was
kept separate, since it pertained mainly to the female students.
Females are more likely than the male students to participate in and be officers of the
student chapters of professional engineering societies on campus: high percentages of
both males and females participate, 75% of females, and 61% of males (Table IIC-9).
Among upperclassmen, the participation rate climbs to 87% for females and 72.5% for
males. This does not even include participation in the Society of Women Engineers,
which is attended by over half of the women at least occasionally, and over a third of the
women are members of SWE (while SWE activities are open to men, few attend and
none claim membership).
25 Chapters of SAE (Society for Automotive Engineers) and of the New Jersey
Engineering Honors Society were organized after the year of the survey.
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