Conference Session

Disability Track - Technical Session IV

Collection

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

Authors

Cassandra J. Groen, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech; Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Disability

Experiencing Disability in Undergraduate Civil Engineering Education: An Initial Examination of the Intersection of Disability and Professional IdentitiesAbstractWhile recent calls throughout the engineering education community have focused on increasingdiversity and broadening participation in STEM, these conversations typically center on race andgender with little to no work addressing disability. But research in higher education broadlysuggests that cognitive, physical, and learning disabilities can markedly impact the ways inwhich students perceive and experience school, develop professional identities, and move intothe engineering workforce. To address this gap, we build on emerging conversations that explorethe