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Jan 9, 2024

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Unit 2 Guided Practice: Perceptions (100 points) Electrical Engineering Engineering students observe and practice distinct culture, skills, language, practices and values through group projects, where they learn how to think like engineers. Collaboration and teamwork constitute a core component of being an engineer. For many women engineering students, their first encounter with collaboration is to be treated with gender stereotypical ways, often from peers. When working with male classmates, for example, they often speak of being relegated to doing routine managerial and secretarial jobs, often being excluded from the real engineering work. Instructions: Address the following questions: 1.) Explain how women working in Electrical Engineering collaborative groups would perceive this event? If this evet was to really happen, I would think they would feel a variety of emotions. I think they would perceive this in a negative way. 2.) Do you feel the men counterpart’s perceptions would result from top-down or bottom-up processing? Be sure to explain your response. Not really sure. I think it would be top-down processing. Engineering in the past like many other jobs has been a man’s profession. Women when I was growing up were always in the kitchen and at home being home makers. I know things have changed dramatically and you see women with carriers and some of the best engineers I have known are women now. The perception that women are just home makers has been gone in my opinion for some time now. 3.) What are some ways men may have formed perceptions? (Provide at least two examples). I think men can form perceptions from the older generation’s views on women or at least follow them and their point of views not really believing in them themselves. 4.) How might our perceptions differ from those of someone with a different cultural background or perspective? I know our perceptions in America are completely different than someone in various parts of the country. Take for example the middle east. 5.) How would acknowledging how people form perceptions and understanding how inaccurate they can be, be useful in your future career? It can be very useful. Just knowing how people perceive things in a work environment can help you to understand and deal with different personalities.

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