RT Journal Article ID 089491b256428515 A1 Erickson, Shelley K. T1 'CAN I GET YOUR EMAIL': GENDER, NETWORKING AND SOCIAL CAPITAL IN AN UNDERGRADUATE BIOENGINEERING CLASSROOM JF Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering JO JWM YR 2007 FD 2007-06-01 VO 13 IS 2 SP 175 OP 189 AB Based on observations and interviews, this article explores how female and male biomedical engineering students network and generate social capital (who one knows) in an undergraduate classroom. Stark differences were observed between female and male students and their interactions with a series of guest lecturers. Although women engineering students may be differentially affected by how they raise their social capital, this study does not suggest that women engineering students are wholly incapable of raising their social capital. Rather, a disconnect occurs between the student population receiving information about networking and women students acting on informal and spontaneous opportunities as they arise. Institutional and departmental support (i.e., internship programs and discussion in the classroom and at orientation) appears to favor those who rely on more formal means of networking. PB Begell House LK https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/00551c876cc2f027,40aa2f4c72cec067,089491b256428515.html