ASEE PRISM - NOVEMBER 2007

TEACHING TOOLBOX: Knowledge Builders - WITH ‘ELECTRIC PICKLES,’ SPACE-SHUTTLE TILES AND OTHER ATTENTION-GRABBING STRATAGEMS, COLLEGE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS SEEK TO INSPIRE A YOUNG GENERATION OF POTENTIAL ENGINEERS. BY BARBARA MATHIAS-RIEGEL

DATABYTES: A New Face - COMPILED BY MICHAEL GIBBONS - Data source: American Society for Engineering Education - INFOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION BY I-SHAN CHEN

The face of engineering education is gradually changing. Female tenured/tenure-track faculty members increased their representation by 26 percent since 2001, while the share of minority faculty members grew 23 percent. These changes affected all minorities and faculty levels. Although the overall percentages are still low for underrepresented minorities, the trend is toward greater diversity.

Data source: American Society for Engineering Education. More data can be found online at www.asee.org/colleges.

ENGINEERING COLLEGES WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF MINORITY TENURED/TENURE-TRACK FACULTY MEMBERS***
GENDER BREAKDOWN OF ENGINEERING FACULTY**
PERCENTAGE OF TENURED/TENURE-TRACK FACULTY MEMBERS WHO ARE WOMEN
TENURED/TENURE-TRACK ENGINEERING FACULTY BY RACE AND ETHNICITY*

ENGINEERING COLLEGES WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF MINORITY TENURED/TENURE-TRACK FACULTY MEMBERS***
1. Prairie View A&M University	95.2%
2. Morgan State University	90.9%
3. Howard University	89.5%
4. Tuskegee University	88.9%
5. Southern University and A&M College	87.9%
6. University of Arkansas at Little Rock	80.0%
7. Alabama A&M University	79.4%
8. North Carolina A & T State University	70.1%
9. University of Michigan, Dearborn	67.2%
10. Tennessee State University	66.7%
11. West Virginia University Institute of Technology	64.0%
12. Texas A&M University, Kingsville	63.0%
13. University of Tulsa	62.2%
14. University of Texas, Pan American	61.5%
15. California State University, Fullerton	60.0%
16. FAMU-FSU College of Engineering	58.5%
17. Florida International University	58.4%
18. San Diego State University	58.2%
19. University of Alaska Fairbanks	57.6%
20. San Jose State University	56.5%
*** minimum of 25 faculty members. 224 schools fit this criterion. Data source: American Society for Engineering Education. More data can be found online at www.asee.org/colleges.

GENDER BREAKDOWN OF ENGINEERING FACULTY**
YEAR	PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN WHO ARE A MINORITY	PERCENTAGE OF MEN WHO ARE A MINORITY
2001	23.4%	24.5%
2006	31%	30.2%
**These data do not include the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, or the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. They also do not include 6 schools that reported all faculty members under “other.” 325 total schools are included in the above calculations. Minorities include all non-Caucasian categories. Data source: American Society for Engineering Education. More data can be found online at www.asee.org/colleges.

PERCENTAGE OF TENURED/TENURE-TRACK FACULTY MEMBERS WHO ARE WOMEN
YEAR	All Faculty	Full Professor	Associate Professor	Assistant Professor
2001	8.9%	4.4%	11.1%	17.5%
2006	11.3%	6.3%	13.2%	19.5%
Data source: American Society for Engineering Education. More data can be found online at www.asee.org/colleges.

TENURED/TENURE-TRACK ENGINEERING FACULTY BY RACE AND ETHNICITY*
YEAR	Caucasian	Asian	Other	African-American	Hispanic
2001	75.5%	17.9%	2.3%	2.2%	2.1%
2006	69.8%	22.8%	2.4%	2.5%	2.5%
* “Other” includes Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander, Native American, and multiracial/ethnic. Data source: American Society for Engineering Education. More data can be found online at www.asee.org/colleges.

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