Our study, "Affects of the WPI Society on Students Over Time," was conducted to determine the differences in the effects on students at a male-dominated engineering school as compared to non-male dominated liberal arts school, Assumption College. Some of the major observable results of the WPI society on students as compared to Assumption College are less study time per day, higher sense of comfort with professors, more females pressured into sexual relations, more students attending fraternity parties, fewer female to female social and academic interactions, and more males having negative attitudes towards fellow female students. This study will make recommendations in an attempt to rectify the negative issues that have arisen due to the WPI society.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Krager, Michael Kenneth
• Rondeau, Darrell Kenneth
• Armitstead, Suzanne Mareda

Subject

• Community
• Learning
• Security
• Well-Being
• Inclusion

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 01E018I

Keyword

• Women Engineers--Education
• Women in engineering
• Women--Social conditions

Advisor

• Dunn, Patrick P.

Year

• 2001

Date created

• 2001-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright