With this being my last semester, I can offically say that I've never had a female teacher in a class counting towards graduation.

I've had lots of girl TAs, took foreign language classes on the side that had a female teacher, and of course had to deal with lots of women working in support positions.

I've heard of maybe one female lecturer in engineering, and I know my department does have any.


isn't this kind of... unhelathy for engineering? I think it's a very NC State thing. other experiences?

1/23/2006 4:43:03 PM

stop being sexist
everybody knows that men are inherently stronger than women at math, science, and chess

1/23/2006 4:47:16 PM

i've had several female teachers.......... in biological engineering

of course we also have more female students than a lot of other engineering majors

1/23/2006 4:49:27 PM

i've had two female MAE profs. they weren't that great.

but to be honest, most of my male MAE profs weren't either

1/23/2006 4:50:08 PM

^^ tis true. I have known girls in biological engineering, and you appear to be a female of the species yourself.

1/23/2006 4:51:13 PM

che has more hoes than any other eng concentration that i know of

1/23/2006 4:52:56 PM

You can't exactly judge the whole COE based on the NE department. The MAE department has 4 female professors, which is roughly 10% of the faculty, corresponding to the roughly 10% of students in the department who are female. Of those female professors, only half are American, which seems to be on par with the amount for the department overall.

As a female engineering student, I'm not bothered by the low percentage of female professors in a male dominated field, and expect that the population becoming professors tracks the graduating population. My bones are with the high percentage of faculty that don't speak english as their first (or even second) language, and the seemingly high percentage of graduate school funding that goes to international students over in-state students.

1/23/2006 4:57:34 PM

I also took about 18 hours of electrical engineering classes. I know i can't fully judge any large orginization just by my experience. But... It's my experience, it's the only truly hard data i got.

That said, EE and NE have got to be among the absolute worst in terms of percentage of female teachers and students. In my junior year, we ran out of girls in my class.

someone from industrial engineering post plz

1/23/2006 5:02:00 PM

townsend, ozturk, and duel hallen

1/23/2006 5:05:01 PM

hatch teaches a course or 2 - i wouldn't classify her as a professor

carol miller is a fulltime lecturer

1/23/2006 5:21:32 PM

They have been trying to address this problem for YEARS now and its not just faculty, as you mentioned, its also keeping/retaining students. Do a search for "diversity" on any university website and see what pops up.

If you have some solutions that you think would work ... post them here.

1/23/2006 5:28:10 PM

in my experience

male engineering professors > female engineering professors

actually...

male professors > female professors in general

but maybe that's just because i'm a lazy,disorganized guy and females are organized and have their own "strict" rules

[Edited on January 23, 2006 at 6:33 PM. Reason : disclaimer: by ">" i mean "i prefer", not "better"]

1/23/2006 6:31:55 PM

I had Dr. Peter's for MAE 473 (Aero structures II) and learned more in that class than I did with Dr. Yuan, Dr. Davoodi, and Dr. Seelecke combined (that's for MAE 371, MAE 314, and the lab for 472).


If I had a choice I'd take a class with her again over any of those other professors.

1/23/2006 7:38:52 PM

So far had three female in CHE; two were awesome, the other FUBARed the course. I was looking forward to taking Transport Phenomena, but she made me hate going to that class and doing the homework (learned absolutely nothing from it).

1/23/2006 8:29:58 PM

i can think of a few female lecturers in COE

1/23/2006 10:08:55 PM

I have Dr. Peters now, she is pretty good relative to my other MAE professors, but that isn't saying much.

1/23/2006 10:14:27 PM

Hatice Ozturk, Cecilia Townsend

to name a couple

1/23/2006 11:26:19 PM

I've had two female professors in MAE 314, of course I failed that class both times, and I am changing majors

1/24/2006 1:57:18 AM

Quote :

"townsend, ozturk, and duel hallen"

1/24/2006 8:08:49 AM

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"That said, EE and NE have got to be among the absolute worst in terms of percentage of female teachers and students. In my junior year, we ran out of girls in my class"

That's unusual. Usually at least one or two of them stay. You guys must have just been asses.

That being said, it's not like we're not trying to recruit and keep women in the NE department.

You'll probably see more women as professors in the future. I doubt there will be more female faculty than male faculty unless your enrollment numbers in engineering drastically change.

1/24/2006 12:15:00 PM

my class never had 2 to start out with, i don't think it's us.

I think about what "progress" we've had about changing the concentration in Engineering. If people can urk out 4 names in this thread (this is out of how many?), then i immagine that like 30 years ago people would have hardly been able urk out 4 names of well established women engineers in the entire nation. that or there has been no significant change.

[Edited on January 24, 2006 at 12:36 PM. Reason : ah, 600th post!]

1/24/2006 12:35:43 PM

There is only 1 women in Civil.. or at least there used to be only 1 when I was still there.

1/24/2006 1:04:35 PM

you can add Laura Bottomley and Cristal Gordon to the list of ECE lecturers

1/24/2006 1:49:09 PM

^^Overton. I never took any of her classes, but all I've heard were bad things from folks who took her class.

There used to be 2 females in the CE department - Overton and Laefer. Laefer left to go teach in Europe. Took a class with her, and although she wasn't a bad professor, it was just the delivery that was horrible (it took her a while (and many complaints) to figure out that we weren't learning from powerpoint slides). Of course, since my concentration was structures, I didn't have much interest in the majority of the geotechnical topics.

I've had plenty of complaints regarding classes taught by male professors, and if I was able to take a 50/50 split between male and female professors throughout my college career, I have a feeling that the complaint disparity between the two would be slim.

1/24/2006 2:05:37 PM

Hatice Ozturk is one of my top 3 favorite lecturers I've ever had in EE. I've taken 25+ hours of EE courses.

1/24/2006 10:05:19 PM

for ECE,

Quote :

"townsend, ozturk, and duel hallen"

Quote :

"Laura Bottomley and Cristal Gordon "

don't forget ginger yu

[Edited on January 24, 2006 at 10:21 PM. Reason : ]

1/24/2006 10:21:27 PM