, and race and gender in engineering. In general, she is always excited to learn new things and work with motivated individuals from diverse backgrounds to improve the experiences of people at any level in engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Intelligence and Smartness in Engineering: Gatekeepers to Diversity and Inclusion Turhan K. Carroll, Amy Kramer, Emily Dringenberg The Ohio State University, Engineering Education DepartmentAbstractThe ideas of intelligence and smartness are woven into all levels of engineering education. Theindividuals who are 1) accepted to study engineering, and 2) persist to practice engineering