Paper ID #223102018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Experiencing Disability in Undergraduate Civil Engineering Education: AnInitial Examination of the Intersection of Disability and Professional Identi-tiesDr. Cassandra J Groen, Virginia Tech Dr. Cassandra Groen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Education and the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech. Her primary research interests include pro- fessional identity formation in undergraduate civil engineering students, grounded theory methods, and
, science, and medicine - especially in educational spaces for these fields.Paula C Johnson, University of Arizona Paula C Johnson is an Associate Librarian at the University of Arizona. She is the liaison to the College of Engineering, working out of UA Libraries’ Research and Learning Department.Stephanie Zawada M.S., The University of Arizona A graduate student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, Stephanie Zawada is a research assistant to the Senior Vice President, Jon W. Dudas, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, and co-investigator on a joint AZ-Israel collaboration in the lab of Marvin J. Slepian, MD, inventor of the SynCardia Artificial Heart. Bridging
Paper ID #240892018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29New Affirmative Action Federal Contractor Regulations: An Opportunity forAll Engineering Organizations to Broaden the Participation of People withDisabilitiesDr. Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University Canek Phillips (P’urepecha) is a postdoctoral research associate at Rice University in the Brown School of Engineering. Canek’s research interests broadly relate to efforts to broaden participation in engineering. Currently, he is working on a project to improve mathematics education for visually
Paper ID #213792018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Why inclusion programs are beneficial to students with disabilities and howuniversities can help: perspectives of students with disabilitiesMs. Meenakshi Manas Das, Mississippi State University Meenakshi Das is a junior computer science student at Mississippi State University and has an active interest in Accessibility in tech.Dr. Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University Sarah Lee joined the faculty at Mississippi State University after a 19 year information technology career at FedEx