GIEE 2011; gender and interdisciplinary education for engineers; proceedings. de GIEEE 2011: Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers (2011: Paris, France). Ed. by Andr� B�raud, Anne-Sophie Godfroy and Jean Michel - 2012

Sense Publishers, 2012. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This conference held in Paris in June 2011 rested on one adventurous point of thought: increasing the interdisciplinarity of engineering education could possibly both reduce the vast gender imbalance in the field and simultaneously draw more students to its study. But unlike many conferences, it was preceded by a specific research project that looked at literature and data from studies of both traditional and pilot European Higher Education curricula. These provided a focus for the discussion of experts from 17 countries. One editor holds a position with ECEPIE, a non-profit association working to promote the presence of women in technical fields, while the other two are in academia. No index is provided. (2012 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)