Conference Session

Track Special Topic: Intelligence Technical Session 14

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Turhan Kendall Carroll, Ohio State University; Amy Kramer P.E., Ohio State University; Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Intelligence

, we aim todiscuss the role that we as engineering educators play in the construction of smartness inengineering classrooms. To do so, we synthesize literature related to the construct of intelligenceincluding a brief overview of the history of intelligence, examples of how intelligence has beenused as a tool to systematically marginalize the less powerful, and a discussion on the culturalconstruction of intelligence. We then introduce the idea of smartness, using literature to discussthis construct. We include a synthesis of how smartness has been defined in literature andconsequences of smartness in classrooms. We then discuss the implications of intelligence andsmartness in classrooms for minority groups in engineering as a result of