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• Johnson, B. D., Elodie Pozzi (2022). 1-100-EngineeringDemographics-ModelingScenario. SIMIODE, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/KDQV-0T66

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Finally, the students will discuss possible implications and weaknesses of the three models in predicting the percentage of engineering degrees awarded to women over the next ten years.

In 1966, fewer than 1% of the 35,826 bachelor's degrees in engineering awarded in the United States were earned by women.

This percentage showed rapid growth over the following ten years, but undergraduate women in the United States still remain underrepresented in engineering some fifty years later, despite comprising the majority of the undergraduate student body. In fact, women comprised 57% of the undergraduate student body in 2017 while earning just 22% of the bachelor's degrees in engineering awarded that year.

This project makes no attempt to explain why women remain underrepresented in undergraduate engineering programs; however, students are encouraged to learn more about this issue by visiting the Society of Women Engineers website or reading about the history of this organization.

Rather, the goal of this project is to use historical data to examine the following question:

Does the growth in the percentage of women in undergraduate engineering programs over the last fifty years appear to be on track to achieve a gender balance mirroring that of the entire undergraduate population