. degrees in Civil Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 To Be or Not to Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers’ Hidden and Transitioning Identities Introduction Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence “I am”. With this opening adapted from a poem by Richard O. Moore (2010), we emphasize howsome of the simplest aspects of the human experience contain vast complexity: identity;belonging; education; justice. The CoNECD community focuses on these aspects and centers thescholarship and practice of equity and
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students who have been in the program for at least one year (i.e. sophomores, juniors, seniors, and transfer students who have been in residence at least one year). We would like to have an even distribution of students among our four academic programs: Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. We realize that each of these groups will still include a variety of intersecting identities, and in some cases some aspects of a student’s identity may not be emphasized in the conversations that ensue. Due to practical limitations on the number of students expected to be available for focus groups, these six groups were chosen as the best option to capture the population