professors and peers, and engagement in co-curricular andextracurricular activities, among others. University-affiliated makerspaces have gained 2widespread adoption with the hope of positively impacting successful outcomes among thestudents that use them. However, it is unknown whether these spaces—where students mightparticipate as a requirement for a course, as an activity associated with a specific club or todevelop prototypes for their entrepreneurial pursuits—perpetuate existing heteronormative(White, male, heterosexual, middle/working class dominated) cultures common to engineering.Makerspaces value individuals having freedom and flexibility with
and arranged the music and lyrics for a stage musical in collaboration with a Los Angeles based playwright. Dr. Wood went on to earn a Master of Science in Engineering in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Her love of teaching has grown through fifteen years of private tutoring, three years of teaching summer drama classes to teenagers, and her years as a teaching assistant at UT Austin. She has published research papers in incentivizing decentralized sanitation and wastewater treatment, sustainability analysis of coastal community water and sanitation service options, and automated data acquisition for integrating multiple datasets
industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now a research professor of integrated engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and the managing partner of Kaizen Academic.Ms. Stephanie Quiles-Ramos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Stephanie is a NSF Graduate Research Fellow attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Uni- versity. She has a BS in Industrial Organizational Psychology, a BA in Sociology, and a Certification in Women and Gender Studies. She is a Virginia Tech Pratt Fellow and a Virginia Tech Graduate Mc- Nair Scholar. Her research interest are in Engineering Culture, Institutional Behavior, Women & Racial
anaverage of 5 minutes to complete each part of the survey. Each of the questions focused on a concept we believe to address an implicitly biased perspective that manifests in engineering, particularly misconceptions associated with race, gender, age, ability, and class. Some of the questions were also considered to have intersecting concepts such as ones that addressed race/ethnicity and gender or ability and gender. The