Alice Pawley

Student Status Contact Information Research/Career Interests Education Background Publications and Presentations Certifications and Awards Affiliations and Memberships Work Experience

Student Status

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Contact Information

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Research/Career Interests

My current doctoral research is focused on the gendered construction of academic engineering through disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundary definition in engineering and the social and historical organization of academic engineering practice.

With my master's work, I wanted to develop a different way of talking with undergraduate women engineering majors about women's historical and persisting underrepresentation
in engineering. 

Find my master's thesis here:

http://80-madcat.library.wisc.edu.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=pawley%2C%2Balice&SL=None&Search_Code=NAME
_&PID=18085&CNT=25&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=3

In Fall 2005, I am teaching a course called “Diversity in the College Classroom” for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) graduate students who are interested in learning how to teach better.  The course is focused around the topic of diversity – what we mean in STEM when we use the term in different contexts, and what impact these definitions might or should have on how we organize and teach our STEM courses. 

Read more about this course here:

http://www.delta.wisc.edu/courses/2005_fall/05f_dcc.html

Other research interests:

• feminist science and technology studies
• feminist science pedagogy
• sociology of the university

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Education Background

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, McGill University
• M.S. Industrial Industrial, UW-Madison

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Publications and Presentations

Publications

• "Expeditionary Learning in universities: A model for professional development for graduate students, post-docs, instructional staff, and faculty.”  Manuscript accepted for publication in To Improve the Academy October 2005.  Co-authored with Chris Carlson-Dakes.
• “The feminist engineering classroom: a vision for future educational innovations.”  Conference proceedings for the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition (Salt Lake City, June 20-23 2004).
• “Designing Them Out: Constituting engineering as a bounded and gendered form of knowledge.”  Manuscript in preparation

Presentations

• "The 'woman question,' the f-word, and engineering: feminist engineers leading change in higher education." Invited speaker. Presented October 14, 2004 at the Society of Women Engineers National Conference (Milwaukee WI, October 14-16 2004).
• “The feminist engineering classroom: a vision for future educational innovations.”  Presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition (Salt Lake City, June 20-23 2004).
• “The “women” problem, the “f” word, and engineering: Some of what engineers need to know about feminist theories of science.” Presented 2004 Society of Women Engineers Region H Conference, (Madison WI, February 7, 2004).
• “Creating an Inclusive Classroom Community.” Workshop co-developed for the Teaching Improvement Program (College of Engineering, UW-Madison, August 28, 2003).
• “‘Designs Not Considered': The limitations of using retention as an indicator for diversity in engineering education.” Presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition (Montreal, Quebec, June 16-19 2002).

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Certfication and Awards

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Affiliations and Awards

• American Society for Engineering Education
• Society of Women Engineers
• Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network
• National Organization of Women

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Work Experience

Delta Program, Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, Wisconsin Center for Education Research Research assistant
2003 - Present, UW-Madison, Research Assistant

• Worked collaboratively with the Learning Community team and Delta staff to develop, implement, facilitate, and evaluate professional development programs focused on teaching and learning.
• Facilitated "Expeditionary Learning" program
• Helped design and organize Roundtable Dinner Program
• Acted as webspinner for Delta website (http://www.delta.wisc.edu).

Wisconsin Engineering Education Library
2000 - 2003, UW-Madison, Research Assistant

• Organized and administered College of Engineering LINKS Program
• Developed and directed College Fellows Program
• Was active in Foundation Coalition initiatives
• Assisted with Fall 2002 EPD 160 instruction.

Wisconsin Engineering Education Library
Spring 2000, UW-Madison, Research Assistant

Organized and administered College of Engineering LINKS Program.

Engineering Learning Center
Summer 1999, UW-Madison, Student Hourly

Helped with organization and administration for the Science and Engineering Education Scholars Program (SEESP), held at UW-Madison July 18-23, 1999.

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