• 공학교육연구
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.8-12
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• 2014

Women in engineering subject were developed for women included engineering education in Korea. Women in the predominantly male-oriented college of engineering which is afflicted by the high dropout rate and the low employment rate of coeds in their majoring fields because of the die-hard male dominant culture. In order to resolve the related problems, Our University has been actively engaged in a movement called "Women into Engineering" (WIE) to raise the gender cognitive awareness and to train women engineers for highly qualified work force. As part of the movement, a subject called "Women in Engineering" that focuses on the gender cognitive perspective is effective to reduce the dropout rate and to land a job inside their fields by stimulating their interest in their specialty made soft/hard skills. The study was conducted a survey of the coeds who have completed the "Women in Engineering" course to evaluate the degree of satisfaction perceived, and a t-test through comparing the group of the coeds and a group of coeds who have not taken the course. The results showed statistically significant responses indicating that both groups of coeds would like to see WIE offer more basic engineering courses like "Women in Engineering." This may lay the foundation to offer other major engineering courses for juniors and seniors that emphasize the gender cognitive approach.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.3-8
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• 2011

Women in the predominantly male-oriented college of engineering which is afflicted by the high dropout rate and the low employment rate of coeds in their majoring fields because of the die-hard male dominant culture. In order to resolve the related problems, P University has been actively engaged in a movement called "Women into Engineering" (WIE) to raise the gender cognitive awareness and to train women engineers for highly qualified work force. As part of the movement, a subject called "Women in Engineering" that focuses on the gender cognitive perspective is effective to reduce the dropout rate and to land a job inside their fields by stimulating their interest in their specialty and masting soft/hard skills. The study was conducted a survey of the coeds who have completed the "Women in Engineering" course to evaluate the degree of satisfaction perceived, and a t-test through comparing the group of the coeds and a group of coeds who have not taken the course. The results showed statistically significant responses indicating that both groups of coeds would like to see WIE offer more basic engineering courses like "Women in Engineering". This may lay the foundation to offer other major engineering courses for juniors and seniors that emphasize the gender cognitive approach.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권7호
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• pp.2676-2682
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• 2024

Despite its remarkable socioeconomic development, South Korea underperforms in terms of female labor force participation and women in leadership positions. As women appear to avoid nuclear engineering, we aim to evaluate its relative performance in attracting women to its labor force compared to other college majors. Using college-major level information from 2000, we test whether the female faculty share in nuclear engineering is lower than its counterparts. Although nuclear engineering has one of the lowest female faculty shares, its share exceeds that of agricultural science, business and economics, chemical engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, and industrial engineering once we properly control for gender composition among students and other compounding factors. In other words, once female students major in nuclear engineering, they are less likely to leave their fields compared to their counterparts in other disciplines. This result implies that if the nuclear engineering field aims to attract more women to its workforce, it is important to target them from the early stage of their careers.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.38-51
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• 2010

이 연구는 공학과 젠더에 관한 이론적, 경험적 연구이자 여학생 공학교육 선도대학 (WIE) 사업의 발전 방향을 다루는 정책 연구의 성격을 갖는다. 우리나라의 WIE 사업은 성인지 공학교육 시스템, 여학생의 현장 적응력 향상, 산학협력 프로그램의 도입을 통해 우수한 여성 엔지니어의 양성을 촉진하려는 목적을 갖는다. 이 연구는 WIE 사업이 공학교육에서 갖는 의미를 분석하기 위해 젠더 연구들을 검토하였다. 공학 분야 여성을 발전시키는데 있어서 교육적, 제도적 공평성을 확보하는 것만으로는 충분하지 않다. 무엇보다 여성의 경력 개발을 좌절시키는 상황에 주목해야 한다. 대학교육에서는 공과대학 교수진이 젠더 공평성에 대한 인식을 향상시킬 필요가 있다. 여성 엔지니어의 전문가 정체성 확립, 남녀가 함께 참여하는 프로그램 개발, 그리고 여성 네트워크 발전 등이 WIE 사업을 성공적으로 수행하는데 있어서 매우 중요한 요소이다. 향후 WIE 사업에 대한 지속적 지원과 대학 단위의 프로그램 확대 등이 정책적 과제로 논의되었다.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.46-52
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• 2014

In order to aware the situation and factors of women students' dropout from engineering college, the factor analysis for women students in P university was performed. The results showed responses that social cultural effects is more significant ones than social effect alone, and the effects of negative gender cognition in industrial circle and college to the women employees and coeds are more significant than effects of regional or positional ones. Also showed responses that the physical difference from man students, the ability for handling machine and tools, her parents' moral support, the gender cognitive engineering education and the boosting for job recruiting are more significants effects than the scholastic ability or the ageism. This may lay the foundation to make a curriculum for women included engineering education that emphasize the gender cognitive approach and the circumstances.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.69-78
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• 2013

This study investigated various attributes that contributed to successful employment in order to develop employment support programs, especially for female engineering students. We surveyed engineering students who graduated between 2006 and 2011. The 401 employed graduates participated in an online survey. The surveys inquired about their attachment towards their major, participation in various academic and non-academic activities, and their participation's contribution to their successful employment. In regards to their majors, women, in general, had lower levels of satisfaction, confidence, attachment, and motivation to succeed in their fields when compared to their male counterparts. These results show that engineering colleges still need to work on empowering female engineering students to gain confidence in their engineering major and attachment. The graduate school experience was highly rated by both men and women, whereas double majors exhibited somewhat lower scores. Among academic activities, part-time work experience and major-related internships were rated as the most helpful, and among extracurricular activities, study-abroad for language training and participation in student council or clubs received high scores. There was little difference between men and women in study-abroad participation, and women participated more actively in student councils. However, women had much less major-related work experience, reaffirming that colleges need to expand internship and field experience programs for female students.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.20-32
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• 2022

This research sought to investigate the relationships among self-leadership, social support and interpersonal competence of women engineering students. First, women undergraduate students' differences respecting self-leadership, social support and interpersonal competence were examined. Second, the relationships among self-leadership, social support and interpersonal competence were identified in terms of sub-factors of those three variables. Third, the effects of social support and interpersonal competence, as perceived by women undergraduate students, on self-leadership were explored. A total of 398 women undergraduate students from three universities in Korea responded to survey based on a three-variables scale. The findings were that, firstly, women engineering students scored lower in all of the three variables including self-leadership, social support and interpersonal competence, and that these major differences were statistically significant. Secondly, a positive correlation among self-leadership, social support and interpersonal competence was identified. Thirdly, it was determined that self-leadership was affected significantly by social support and interpersonal competence. The practical implications of these findings are discussed herein, with particular attention on education for promotion of self-leadership, social support and interpersonal competence.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.163-171
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• 2015

The aim of this study was to investigate kinematic mechanism of gait different road conditions(dry vs. oil) in order women. For this study, twenty older women and ten young women participated in this research. twelve infrared cameras were used to collect data. It appeared that the gait strategies of older women were slower velocity and higher CoM than young women. Depending on road conditions, gait velocities of dominant muscle older women on dry surface were faster than dominant sense older women, but those of them were inverse on oil surface. The slip displacement of dominant muscle older women was less than young women, but the slip displacement of dominant sense older women was greater than young women. In case of blind during stance phase on oil surface, the rotational motion of the ankle and knee joints were increased. In conclusion, older women were subjected to self-organization theory and phase shift in dynamic theory.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.79-89
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• 2008

본 연구의 목적은 수도권 소재 D대학고 여성 공학도를 대상으로 삼각측정법을 적용한 여성 공학도 인식을 조사하여 시사점을 도출하고 이를 기반으로 바람직한 교육 프로그램을 제언하는 것이다. 연구기간은 2007년 12월 15일부터 2008년 4월 4일까지 1,2차에 걸쳐 진행되었다. 1차 조사대상은 D대학교 공과대학 재학중인 여성 공학도 187명, 공과대학 여자 대학원생 3명, 공과대학 C학과 교수 2명이다. 1차 조사 후, 여성공학도 인식에 관한 구체적인 요인들을 찾고자 2차 조사대상은 휴학을 경험한 공대 여학생 5명, 4학년 졸업반 공대 여학생 5명, 공대를 졸업하고 기업체 취업한 여성 공학도 5명이다. 조사방법은 web survey, 개별 인터뷰, focus group meeting, e-mail survey 및 전화인터뷰 등으로 이루어졌다. 연구결과, 여성 공학도들이 대학교육에서 원하는 교육지원 요소는 여성공학도가 비전을 가질 수 있는 여성의 역할모델 제시, 남성과 함께 있는 커뮤니티에서 남성의 리더가 되었을 때 필요한 리더십교육, 협동으로 일을 할 때 필요한 기본적인 인성과 능력을 갖출 수 있도록 협동학습 또는 협력학습 프로젝트 경험, 마지막으로 전공 또는 직장인이 되었을 때 갖추어야 할 능력에 관한 실질적인 교육으로 나타났다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.163-168
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• 2012

Elderly women are reported to have greater risk of falls. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the possible gender differences in the reaction performance of ankle joint muscles, which have dominant role in the control of sagittal plane balance. Twenty-six elderly men and women with comparable mean age participated in this study. Reaction times to the audible beeps were measured in the tibialis anterior muscle and gastrocnemius muscle. Reaction time variables included premotor time, electromechanical delay and total reaction time. Gender difference in each reaction time was investigated by independent t-test. In both muscles, premotor time was longer in men but the electromechanical delay was longer in women (p < 0.05). Resulting total reaction time was longer in men in tibialis anterior muscle (p < 0.01) and it tended to be longer in men also in gastrocnemius muscle (p = 0.25). The results demonstrates that the overall reaction performances of elderly women is better than or comparable to those of elderly men in ankle joint muscles. This suggests that the reaction performance of ankle muscles is hardly the cause of the greater risk of falls in elderly women.