Conference Session

Track Special Topic: Intelligence Technical Session 14

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Turhan Kendall Carroll, Ohio State University; Amy Kramer P.E., Ohio State University; Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Intelligence

mechanisms.”The result, Hatt concludes, has direct implications for diversity and inclusion in that “whitenessand smartness get reproduced” [6, p. 1143].For the aspiring engineer, being classified as intelligent based on achievement scores, or smartbased on informal classroom criteria, affords the label’s recipient certain privileges andopportunities, in the form of things like admission into engineering programs, scholarships,internship opportunities, or potential employment after graduation. Because of this, it is vital thatengineering educators be aware of the idea of smartness as a construct that is distinct from, yetrelated to, intelligence, so that they can begin to 1) reflect on their own beliefs about therelationship between smartness and