Paper ID #24829Intelligence and Smartness in Engineering: Gatekeepers to Diversity and In-clusionTurhan Kendall Carroll, The Ohio State University Turhan Carroll is currently a graduate research associate in the engineering education department at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. He received BS degrees in Physics and Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University. He also worked for approximately 7 years as an engineer performing re- search in magneto-photonics. His research interests now focus access and persistence of underrepresented minority student, and low socio-economic status students in