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Exploring Inclusive Spaces for LGBTQ Engineering Students

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+
already been thinking about new ways topromote diversity and inclusion in STEM education.7 Soon after the Prism letter, DonnaRiley, a leader in engineering education who was the new NSF Program Director forEngineering Education Research, helped to organize an NSF Ideas Lab that would bringtogether stakeholders in undergraduate STEM education to devise innovative approachesto the “durable problem” of “social inequality in engineering education and practice.”Rather than thinking about particular groups that had been underrepresented in STEM,Riley and her team sought to convene thinkers to “focus on changing the system itself.”8The first strong LGBTQ-themed funding proposal submitted to NSF’s Division ofEngineering Education after the Ideas Lab was
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Understanding the Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Engineering Faculty and Actively Engaging Them in the ASEE Deans Diversity Initiative

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+
Paper ID #242402018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Understanding the experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual engineering fac-ulty and actively engaging them in the ASEE Deans Diversity InitiativeDr. Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder Robyn Sandekian is the Managing Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Com- munities (MCEDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder). She joined the Engineering for Developing Communities Program (now known as the Mortenson Center) in spring 2004, just as the first
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Queer Lights: Combining Technology, LGBTQA, and Diversity Topics in an Accessible and Inclusive Learning Environment

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+
)topics while the students in the class literally cast light—building LGBTQA-themed electronic light displays. An engineeringprofessor will teach the students how to create and program the displays, and the director of the Stonewall Center will lead thestudents in discussions about LGBTQA issues in the news and in their own lives. Some of the topics to be covered include theintersections of racial and LGBTQA identities, the campus climate for LGBTQA students, and the legal and political rights ofLGBTQA people today”. The intent is to offer students from all campus majors an interesting, accessible combination of topicsand an inclusive learning environment.1. IntroductionSTEM fields, and engineering in particular, struggle to achieve diversity [1
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