Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140
MS 382
Karen L. Tonso
Papers, 1993-1997
Descriptive summary
| creator: | Tonso, Karen L. |
| title: | Papers |
| dates: | 1993-1997 |
| extent: | 0.21 linear ft. (1 half-document box) |
| collection number: | MS 382 |
| repository: | Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University. |
Administrative information
| access: | Open for research |
| publication rights: | Consult Head, Special Collections Department |
| preferred citation: | Karen L. Tonso Papers, MS 382, Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library. |
Biographical note
Karen L. Tonso received her B.S. (1972) in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, her M.A. (1990) in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Colorado at Denver, and her Ph.D (1997) in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was employed as an engineer with the Robert K. Morse Consulting Engineers (1972-1973) and Continental Oil Company (1973-1975); a Reservoir Engineer with the Marathon Oil Company (1975-1981) and a Senior Reservoir Engineer with the Central Bank of Denver (1981-1987). She then became a tutor, part-time instructor and adjunct professor with the following: Wheat Ridge High School (1988-1989); West High School (1990); Colorado Black Firefighters Association (1990); Cole Community College (1991); Metropolitan State College of Denver (1991-1992); University of Colorado at Boulder (1992-1994) and Professional Seminar III (1993-1996). She is currently a visiting faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research has focused on the impact of gender on women engineers and her dissertation is titled: Constructing Engineers Through Practice: Gendered Features of Learning and Identity Development. |
Collection description
This collection contains unpublished articles, published articles and presentations and a dissertation. The topics include the impact of gender on women in engineering; the experiences of women in the engineering classroom; and communication and teaching techniques. |
Container list
Box |
Folder |
Title |
Dates |
1 |
1 |
Curriculum vitae |
1997 |
1 |
2 |
"Becoming engineers while working collaboratively: Knowledge and gender in a nontraditional engineering course" |
1993 |
1 |
3 |
"Organization, knowledge and identity: A collaborative team in a nontraditional engineering class" |
1994 |
1 |
4 |
"Discourse as a mediational tool for constructing a 'masculinized' engineering classroom" |
1994 |
1 |
5 |
"Disrupting masculinist settings: Women engaged in teamwork in an engineering classroom" |
1994 |
1 |
6 |
"Women student engineers becoming engineers while working on real-world engineering projects" |
1995 |
1 |
7 |
"Discourse in an engineering classroom: Whose talk counts?" |
1995 |
1 |
8 |
"Violence (s) and silence (s) in engineering classrooms and parallels to an education classroom" |
1995 |
1 |
9 |
"Student learning and gender" |
1996 |
1 |
10 |
"Engineered research: How much does insider status matter?" |
1996 |
1 |
11 |
"Engineering equality: An oxymoron?" |
1996 |
1 |
12 |
"Creating engineers: Processes that exclude women" |
1996 |
1 |
13 |
"The impact of cultural norms in women" |
1996 |
1 |
14 |
"Teaching a "Sunrayce" '95 team- Linking technology decisions with students' beliefs and an authentic activity" |
1996 |
1 |
15 |
"Improving teaching with alternative assessment: Gauging the effectiveness of engineering sketches" |
1996 |
1 |
16 |
"Fear of fears, we find we'll soon be one of them: Living at the intersection of academic prestige and gender status" |
1997 |
1 |
17 |
"Succeeding in science: Women and learning from margins of practice" |
1997 |
1 |
18 |
Constructing engineers through practice: Gendered Features of Learning and Identity Development (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado-Boulder) |
1997 |