Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ieshya Anderson, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

the purpose of helping provide insight for further research direction ofculturally contextualized STEM curricula for Tohono O’odham students. The research questionguiding this work is:How do Tohono O’odham Wa:k community members perceive engineering in the context oftheir community and culture?Researcher RoleMy life experiences and beliefs shape my research role. I am a Tohono O’odham woman, bornfor the Diné (Navajo). I am a first-generation college graduate, an engineer, an engineeringeducation PhD student, and a mother. Growing up on the Navajo Nation, my parents and eldersencouraged me and other Native people to pursue higher education. We were encouraged topursue education for the purpose of helping Native people, community, and culture

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Natalie Schaal, Loyola Marymount University; Spencer Edwin Chan, Loyola Marymount University; Julian K. Saint Clair, Loyola Marymount University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

: Word cloud visualization of the college-level challenges faced by the participantsIn addition to a word frequency query, a coding analysis was performed on the responses toquestion M1 from the matching survey to distill this qualitative information. In doing so, fourinductive codes were generated by the researcher while reading and sorting the data: academics,path uncertainty, personal and social struggles, and time balance. The “academics” code wasused to label any struggles related to coursework, such as low grades, dropping courses, or poorstudy habits. The “path uncertainty” code broadly labels any lack of clarity in students’ academicor career trajectory in engineering, such as being unsure about their major or having troublefinding an

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

in engineering educationresearch on underrepresentation. We find it important to remind the engineering educationresearch community of the theoretical and methodological limitations of homogenous reliance onone metaphor to guide research studies. This paper critically explores the discourse of “pipeline”as an aim to (re)introduce to engineering education researchers both the method of discourseanalysis as well as alternative metaphorical frameworks. We use empirical data collected forADVANCE Purdue’s Academic Career Pathways study using oral history and participatoryresearch methods to explore the consequences of pipeline metaphor’s predominance. These dataare the academic stories of STEM faculty and help us explore: 1) what theoretical