Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Student Organizations Technical Session 14

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Jennifer Sheridan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Manuela Romero, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mary E. Fitzpatrick, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Fabian Bell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Eve Fine, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Carmen Juniper Neimeko; Katherine Fallon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Student Organizations

, Engineering has a lower percentage of women than all fieldsexcept computer science and physics, and lower percentages of underrepresented minority (URM)students (Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, and/or NativeHawaiian or Other Pacific Islander) than Physics, Astronomy, Earth, Atmospheric, and Ocean Sciences,and Agricultural Sciences [1], [3]. The underrepresentation of women in Engineering holds across allracial and ethnic groups [1]. The proportion of URM graduates in Engineering is far below therepresentation of people from these groups in the general population [4].1 University of Wisconsin-Madison

Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Student Organizations Technical Session 13

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Student Organizations

11 So I think for me it's basically, apart from really culturally aware, I think it's almosteverything the school does generally, outside of NSBE. But I think, talking more about theculturally aware part, I would say for me it's more…I think that means like, being awareof I guess “me” but also other people. But like expectations, stereotypes, but also how to navigate through those. I think…so yeah, why I started with that was that I think, yea school, I'm going through school to become professionally skilled and things like that. But NSBE adds that, "Weknow who you are and where you're coming from. We know what the world expects of you, or what the world might think of you, or what the situation