Conference Session

Track : Special Topics - Identity Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Stephen Secules, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Cassandra J. Groen-McCall, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Identity

industry and the civil engineering profession, overall. Myexperiences as an undergraduate civil engineering student inform my interests and the areas Iexplore as an engineering education researcher. As a woman who didn’t excel academically incollege and struggled to fit in with her mostly male peers, I was unaware that other students werehaving the same experiences as me. Inspired by other students’ stories and the realization that myexperiences were not unique, I became interested in exploring engineering identity and the keyevents, relationships, and identity dimensions that shape it. Because my significant experienceshave shaped who I am and how I perceive myself as an engineer, I want to know how otherstudents experience, manage, and navigate