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#ILookLikeAnEngineer: Using Social Media-Based Hashtag Activism Campaigns as a Lens to Better Understand Engineering Diversity Issues

Conference Session
Engineering Workforce Track - Session VI
Collection
2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference
Authors
Aqdas Malik, George Mason University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Rajat Handa, George Mason University; Habib Karbasian, George Mason University; Hemant Purohit, George Mason University
Tagged Topics
Engineering Workforce
novel ways of connecting with relevantaudience. Our analysis demonstrates that diversity initiatives related to STEM attract voices fromvarious entities including individuals, large corporations, media outlets, and community interestgroups.IntroductionThe term “STEM education” refers to teaching and learning in the fields of science, technology,engineering, and mathematics. According to Sanders (2008), in the 1990s, the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) “SMET” was the shorthand for “science, mathematics, engineering, andtechnology” and an NSF program officer complained that “SMET” sounded too much like “smut,”that resulted in the new acronym “STEM” [1]. Although it took some time for STEM to catch on,and even as recently as 2003 few people know
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Engineering vs. Engineering Technology: Toward Understanding the Factors Influencing the Academic and Career Pathways of African-American Students

Conference Session
Engineering Workforce Track - Session VI
Collection
2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference
Authors
Lesley M. Berhan, University of Toledo; Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue Polytechnic Institute
Tagged Topics
Engineering Workforce
performance and attributes of engineering technology students and using that knowledge to engage them in their studies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engineering vs. Technology: Toward Understanding the Factors Influencing the Academic and Career Pathways of African American StudentsThe American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) reported that in 2016 the percentagesof bachelor’s degrees in engineering and engineering technology that were awarded to Black orAfrican American students were 3.9% and 8.6%, respectively. The report “EngineeringTechnology Education in the United States” by the National Academies Press [1] cites a similarstatistic for the share of four-year degrees in
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