Conference Session

Innovative Strategies for Enhancing Engineering Education Across Diverse Learning Environments

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aya Mouallem, Stanford University; Trisha Kulkarni, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

participating in studies on technologies for disability, overlookingtheir much-needed insight, and treating them as unequal engineering partners in the design andresearch processes [2]. Another literature survey focused on ASEE publications noted that therewas a significant lack of research focusing on disability as an identity and on the experiences ofstudents with disabilities in engineering education [3].Several works have explored the stigma, social exclusion, systemic marginalization, devaluation,and feelings of “otherness” experienced by students with disabilities in engineering education[4], [5]. These consequences were attributed to a variety of reasons, including the lack of rolemodels with disabilities, educators’ misconceptions about the