Conference Session

Track: Faculty - Technical Session I

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University; Ines Basalo, University of Miami; Gemma Henderson, University of Miami

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Faculty

further the understanding of how educators at HSIsperceive their undergraduate students, including their assets and needs. Thirty-six engineering educatorsfrom 13 HSIs in Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas attended one of two workshops in the springof 2018. Participants engaged in individual and group activities that helped them reflect on their studentsand actively design an educational innovation for their institution, using information previously gatheredthrough interviews with students. Qualitative analysis of the data across the thirty-six educators at bothworkshops identified differences between how instructors describe characteristics of Latinx engineeringstudents across regions and instructor type. The overall findings provide a set