Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gillen, Virginia Tech; Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

/program availability at the high school (Matusovich,Carrico, Paretti, & Boynton, 2017). Although only cited by one participant, the idea of needingto know what engineering is to even pursue an engineering degree is also represented in currentliterature (Matusovich, Streveler, Miller, & Olds, 2009)While these factors themselves are not new, we identified nuances that emerged through ourability to compare across different schools in proximal locations with different resources asdescribed in the methods. For example, we confirmed findings from literature that people matter(Boynton, 2014; Carrico, Murzi, & Matusovich, 2016). However, nuanced in our data set is thatdespite the schools’ proximity to one another, the ways people talk about