Conference Session

Disability Track - Technical Session IV

Collection

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

Authors

Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Rice University

Tagged Topics

Disability

the regulations as a model forincreasing inclusion of people with disabilities. For instance, creating a goal of establishing acompany workforce of 7% could be adopted by engineering organizations not yet operating atthat level. While the average proportion of engineers with disabilities in 2015 was 9% of allengineers, several engineering occupations are operating below or just at the 7% thresholdincluding aerospace engineer (7%), chemical engineer (4%), civil engineer (7%), and industrialengineer (6.1%) meaning that there is great work still needed within these occupational workinggroups from engineering organizations across the US. The statistics available also do not giveinformation about the amount of variation in the employment of people