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Episode 1

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This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome,”…

This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome,” and how to deal with being undermined in the workforce. Also available on Spotify! 
ContributorsRivera, Valentina (Author) / DiCaro, Isabella (Co-author) / Hjelsmtad, Keith (Thesis director) / Boyce-Jacino, Katherine (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Eng Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05

Episode 2

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This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome,”…

This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome,” and how to deal with being undermined in the workforce. Also available on Spotify! 
ContributorsRivera, Valentina (Author) / DiCaro, Isabella (Co-author) / Hjelsmtad, Keith (Thesis director) / Boyce-Jacino, Katherine (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Eng Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05

Episode 3

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This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome,”…

This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome,” and how to deal with being undermined in the workforce. Also available on Spotify! 
ContributorsRivera, Valentina (Author) / DiCaro, Isabella (Co-author) / Hjelsmtad, Keith (Thesis director) / Boyce-Jacino, Katherine (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Eng Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05

Episode 4

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This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome,”…

This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome,” and how to deal with being undermined in the workforce. Also available on Spotify! 
ContributorsRivera, Valentina (Author) / DiCaro, Isabella (Co-author) / Hjelsmtad, Keith (Thesis director) / Boyce-Jacino, Katherine (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Eng Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05

Episode 5

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This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome,”…

This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome,” and how to deal with being undermined in the workforce. Also available on Spotify! 
ContributorsRivera, Valentina (Author) / DiCaro, Isabella (Co-author) / Hjelsmtad, Keith (Thesis director) / Boyce-Jacino, Katherine (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Eng Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05
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Women in Construction: The Dwindling Numbers and the Effects of Upbringing, Background, and Culture in Abstaining from the Industry

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This report attempts to understand the effects of the many aspects that pertain to a woman’s path into the construction industry and their role in limiting women’s overall representation in the construction industry. More specifically, it aims to understand how upbringing, background, and culture impact women that do pursue careers…

This report attempts to understand the effects of the many aspects that pertain to a woman’s path into the construction industry and their role in limiting women’s overall representation in the construction industry. More specifically, it aims to understand how upbringing, background, and culture impact women that do pursue careers in the construction industry. This paper presents some of the current and prominent issues being faced by women in in the construction industry, including those in the trades. These issues then contribute to their lack of representation and forceful exit. Additionally, it assesses personal narratives from a localized group of women who are currently employed at a large construction company. This information and these narratives are analyzed jointly to try and gain a better understanding of the current challenges being faced by women in comparison to those reported previously. This joint comparison allows for a deeper understanding of women’s perception of the construction industry as a whole.
ContributorsContreras, Marisa (Author) / Lou, Yingyan (Thesis director) / Parrish, Kristen (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor) / School of Social Transformation (Contributor) / Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Eng Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05

The STEM Podcast

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This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome”,…

This podcast focused on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. The episodes will explore three main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with a predominantly male presence, whether or not women experience “impostor syndrome”, and how to deal with being undermined in the workforce. Also available on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/6iyemJ08Et4JCEATtlgNls?si=03167fd008e94bb6
ContributorsRivera, Valentina (Author) / DiCaro, Isabella (Co-author) / Hjelsmtad, Keith (Thesis director) / Boyce-Jacino, Katherine (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Eng Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05

The STEM Podcast: An Exploration of the Experiences of Women in STEM with an Emphasis on Civil Engineering

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The goal of this creative thesis is to focus on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. This project will explore four main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with predominant male presence, how women…

The goal of this creative thesis is to focus on the experience of women in the field of STEM and more specifically civil engineering. This project will explore four main topics surrounding women in the workforce: how women navigate and succeed in a workforce with predominant male presence, how women advance their career given the gender barriers of the industry, including motherhood, and “impostor syndrome” in the workforce
ContributorsDiCaro, Isabella (Author) / Rivera, Valentina (Abridger) / Boyce-Jacino, Katherine (Thesis director) / Hjelmstad, Keith (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Eng Program (Contributor)
Created2022-05

The Impact of Best Management Practices on Water Nutrients Levels in the United States

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Best Management Practices (BMPs) are often designed to restore the water quality of impaired waterbodies. They are expensive to install and maintain and often have limited post-installation analysis. There is a gap in our knowledge of the long-term real-world efficiency of such systems as their dynamics are complex and poorly…

Best Management Practices (BMPs) are often designed to restore the water quality of impaired waterbodies. They are expensive to install and maintain and often have limited post-installation analysis. There is a gap in our knowledge of the long-term real-world efficiency of such systems as their dynamics are complex and poorly understood, and we have very limited data about these systems. We looked at water quality changes pre- and post-BMP implementation from sites around the US to better understand the impacts of BMPs on the nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations in the waterbodies. Water quality data was obtained from 72 waterbodies across the United States using the National Water Quality Monitoring Council’s Water Quality Portal. This data was analyzed for trends using the Kaplan-Meier method, exceedance probability, and lag time analysis. Out of the seventy-two (72) watershed locations, twenty-two (22) did not have enough data for analysis. Of these fifty (50) remaining watersheds locations one hundred eighty-four (184) monitoring sites were analyzed. Only sixty-nine (69) of these monitoring sites were found to have enough data for analysis. Forty-eight (48) sites saw improvement in nutrient levels, where overall post-implementation exceedance probability for critical thresholds (defined as 1 mg/l for N and 0.1 mg/l for P) decreased. Twenty-one (21) sites did not see improvement, where post-implementation exceedance probabilities did not show any reduction; in some cases, it showed an increase. Even among the efficient sites, where improvement was found, significant variation was observed in changes in exceedance probability with time, with many sites not demonstrating an expected uniform decreasing trend. It was also found that 56 out of the 72 water bodies had some biological indicator present, these included dissolved oxygen concentrations, benthic macroinvertebrate populations, fish communities/aquatic life, bacteria, and index scores. However, data gaps were detrimental to conclusively assessing BMPs with biological indicators. It was determined that sparse biological indicators data were not indicative of BMP success. These observations highlight the importance of designing a monitoring strategy that can capture these unexpected trends and allow a better understanding of BMPs. Along with better monitoring strategies, consistent and frequent monitoring is needed. Therefore, the effectiveness of best management practices was inconclusive due to a lack of available data on many sites.
ContributorsBlair, Antonio (Author) / Baker, Kayla (Co-author) / Kumar, Saurav (Thesis director) / Weiss, Josh (Committee member) / Johnson, Abbey (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Eng Program (Contributor)
Created2024-05