Paper ID #25003Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. inLearning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning,and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Race, Veteran, and Engineering Identities among Black Male Student VeteransAbstractUsing interviews with seven Black Student Veterans in Engineering (BSVEs) at threepredominantly White institutions (PWIs), we explore how the identities of Black, Male, Veteran,and Engineering student are enacted during their undergraduate engineering experience. Weapproach this study informed by
shows that putting too much weight on high stakes standardized tests is resulting in a misrepresentation of actual student potential for academic success and may disadvantage students from historically underrepresented groups. This is especially true with undergraduate engineering programs where a minimum standardized test score is frequently required for admission. This dynamic is relevant in Nebraska where the demographics of the high school graduates, and in particular the growth of the Hispanic/Latino/a population, is changing quickly. In response to this, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering (UNL-COE) admits students who would not ordinarily be admitted under the
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"correct."MethodsThe research team invited conversations with professors and graduate students from Women,Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) who are scholars in the area of oppression and privilege.Through these brainstorming sessions, possible subjects for the vignette were generated, most ofwhich had to do with the treatment of individuals with identities outside of the dominantparadigm (e.g., women’s experiences in engineering, racial or cultural insensitivity in a socialsetting, and gender as a social construct). A vignette format was chosen because it could beeasily constructed to elicit responses around several different underlying concepts believed to beimportant indicators of an understanding of oppression and privilege. The input from