Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Identity Technical Session 10

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Andrea Haverkamp, Oregon State University; Ava Butler, Oregon State University; Naya Selene Pelzl; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Identity

virtualspaces became a place for respite and finding community: The cruelty of my peers caused me to become deeply and painfully introverted. I shrunk away from any sort of social obligation, and became a denizen of the internet. I spent most of my free time locked away in my room, reading or cruising online forums. (Document 1, paragraph 15)Online spaces which centered on her political identity and gender identity became ways to feelincluded while she continued to form in-person support networks which would be validating insimilar ways. Her day-to-day interactions during the first term of her 1st year were dominated bycisgender students on campus and in engineering classrooms leaving the internet as an importantsocial support

Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Identity Technical Session 13

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity, Special Topic: Identity

Paper ID #25003Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. inLearning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning,and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Race, Veteran, and Engineering Identities among Black Male Student VeteransAbstractUsing interviews with seven Black Student Veterans in Engineering (BSVEs) at threepredominantly White institutions (PWIs), we explore how the identities of Black, Male, Veteran,and Engineering student are enacted during their undergraduate engineering experience. Weapproach this study informed by

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

great deal of self-care. Whenpursuing social justice work on topics I care about but have not as deeply victimized me, I sensethat I am not weighed down as deeply. In the times when I have given LGBTQ inclusionworkshops, I found I was particularly sensitive and not as easily generous to faculty whodiscounted the opinions of LGBTQ students or who microaggressed them in dialogue. I imaginemy perspective on which research questions to pursue will continue to evolve; currently I workon issues which matter deeply and intellectually to me, they relate to experiences and problems Ihave had, but they are not so extremely personal that I find myself paralyzed or despondent overthe findings.Cassandra’s reflection on the questions she asks