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- Motivating female students for engineering coursesPublication . Pereira, Rita; Borges, Cristina; Ferreira, Eduarda PintoWorldwide initiatives for promoting motivation in female students for engineering courses are taking place in a regular form. Those initiatives are directed to different age groups and scholar levels. This paper addresses a methodology that was recently developed in Portugal to allow custom actions for motivating female students to those courses that historically rises them less interest. A workshop with different engineering universities and polytechnic institutions from Portugal, Brazil and Mozambique took place allowing to generate a network and a list of proposed actions. From this list each institution selected one or more actions to be implemented in their own institution. The workshop named “Good practices network for motivating female students to engineering courses” was the kick-off for this initiative. Detailed procedure of the work-in-progress and future working plan are here detailed.
- Women and STEM: a methodology for studying factors affecting attractivityPublication . Pereira, Rita; Williams, Bill; Soares, Filomena; Cunha, João Carlos; Leão, Celina P.; Borges, Cristina; Coutinho, Fernanda; Vaz, Gilberto; João, Isabel; Meireles, Maria JoãoA research group formed by several higher education institutions (HEIs) came together with a common objective: study the factors that influence the choice of female students in STEM programs like engineering and technological ones. Based on a phenomenological analysis, semi-structured in-depth interviews were first conducted as pilot studies in two HEIs and these were used to arrive at the final methodological framework for the study planned for completion in 2020. Due to the pandemic the implementation phase had to be postponed. This paper reports on the methodology to be followed, the implementation challenges encountered in the different HEIs and expected outcomes. The study is intended to provide insights into what drives female students to choose STEM programs and their perceptions about difficulties they come across during the 1st year of studies. Also, it will contribute to improve procedures and methodologies applied to 1st year students in general and enhance motivation for new strategies to attract female students.