Conference Session

LGBTQ+ Track - Technical Session III

Collection

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

Authors

Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity, LGBTQ+

their students suffer from the loss of potential. When faculty membersare not forced to expend energy on hiding aspects of their identities, it releases that energy sothat they can live up to their full potential. Welcoming all faculty members to personalize theiroffices to the extent they feel comfortable and engaging students in critical discussions of howtheir multifaceted identities affect their motivations to engineer/design innovative solutions tothe world’s most pressing problems could go a long way to dissolve the technical/social dualismthat has long been the culture within engineering [10-12]. Obviously, there are limitations towhat information should be shared in a work environment. However, this author would proposethat the limits

Conference Session

LGBTQ+ Track - Technical Session IV

Collection

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

Authors

Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Zoe Reidinger

Tagged Topics

Diversity, LGBTQ+

institutions to advance work on project-based learning. She believes project- based learning holds significant potential for increasing the diversity of students who succeed in college and who persist in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and she views her work with the Center as contributing to education reform from the inside out. She holds an M.A. in Developmental Psychology from Clark University and a B.A. in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. Her background includes working in the field of education evaluation, where she focused primarily on the areas of project-based learning; STEM; pre-literacy and literacy; student life; learning communities; and professional development. She has

Conference Session

LGBTQ+ Track - Technical Session IV

Collection

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

Authors

David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Genny Beemyn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Tagged Topics

Diversity, LGBTQ+

studentunion craft center [10] and an electrical and computer engineeringprofessor. Students were surveyed about their (self-reported) academicmajors. The students come from a wide range of campus majors,including literature; theater; astronomy; management; communications;linguistics; psychology; women, gender, and sexuality studies; publichealth; engineering; sociology; art; and accounting as shown in Fig.2. Inthis figure, “CHC” represents participation in Commonwealth HonorsCollege, which is a dual-major category. The majors having the largestrepresentation are theater and engineering. On the first day of class,students were asked to self-assess their knowledge background in Figure3.Studentbackgroundelectronics and computer programming, with results