Conference Session

Track : Special Topic - Identity Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Michael Lorenzo Greene, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Identity

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