Taking on new roles are Leslie Babinski at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, Ashlee N. Ford Versypt of Oklahoma State University, Tracy Fessenden at Arizona State University, and Amy W. Apon of Clemson University in South Carolina.
In 2004, women made up 10.4 percent of all engineering faculty at U.S. colleges and universities. Over the next decade, women have increased their percentage of all engineering faculty each and every year. By 2013, women were 14.5 percent of all engineering faculty.
While the gender gap in bachelor's degree awards appears to be widening, women have made slight progress in closing the gender gap in master's and doctoral degrees in the field.
A report from the American Society for Engineering Education shows that in 2004 women earned 20.3 percent of all bachelor's degree awarded in engineering. By 2012, the percentage had dropped to 18.9 percent.
