Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session III

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Paula Lynn Rees, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Tagged Topics

Race/Ethnicity

averages for females, and at about half of thenational average for URMs, Table 1. Time to graduation and graduate rate by demographic groupare highly variable but indicative of equity issues for our engineering URM undergraduates.Persistence data for students who have declared engineering as a major by their second year arepresented in Table 2. While women tend to graduate from engineering in six years at a rateequivalent or higher than the total population, graduation rates for URM students within engineeringare consistently lower. Although a number of these students graduate from the University with otherdegrees, others choose to leave the University