Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session VI

Collection

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

Authors

Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E. Foor, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Race/Ethnicity

ofgroups collected under this label [5-7, 9, 20-25]. Also, there are many other dimensions ofdifference through which students or engineers are subjected to marginalization because they areperceived as Other within the norms of engineering [26-28].Owning exclusionThe language of "underrepresented minority" masks the responsibilities of the engineeringeducational system to correct exclusion manifested through culturally accepted practices andstructural policies prescribed by the dominant culture. We offer a limited set of many availableexamples from our research and that of others to demonstrate how common practices andpolicies are exclusionary. Historically, the concept of a challenging curriculum to “weed-out”students not suited for the