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

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Diversity, Special Topic: Student Organizations

Paper ID #25013Integration outcomes and cultural capital in a NSBE ChapterTasha Zephirin, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Tasha Zephirin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is an Executive Assistant for the National Association of Multicultural Program Advocates (NAMEPA) Inc. and has served as the Graduate Student Representative on the Purdue Engineering Advisory Council. Her research interests include exploring the role of noncurricular engineering education initiatives in the engineering experience, especially within and across

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

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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