Bowen, C. L., & Johnson, A. W., & Powell, K. G. (2021, July), Critical Analyses of Representation and Success Rates of Marginalized Undergraduate Students in Aerospace Engineering  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--36878

\bibitem{asee_peer_36878}
  Bowen, C. L., \& Johnson, A. W., \& Powell, K. G. (2021, July), \emph{Critical Analyses of Representation and Success Rates of Marginalized Undergraduate Students in Aerospace Engineering}
  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference.
  10.18260/1-2--36878

Corin L. Bowen, Aaron W. Johnson, and Kenneth G. Powell.  "Critical Analyses of Representation and Success Rates of Marginalized Undergraduate Students in Aerospace Engineering".  2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2021.  https://peer.asee.org/36878 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_36878}
  Corin L. Bowen, Aaron W. Johnson, and Kenneth G. Powell.
  "Critical Analyses of Representation and Success Rates of Marginalized Undergraduate Students in Aerospace Engineering".
  \emph{2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2021.
  https://peer.asee.org/36878 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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The field of aerospace engineering is collectively grappling with the problem of disproportionate underrepresentation of women and people of color both within educational programs and within the aerospace industry. Identifying the problems is a vital preliminary step towards building equitable systems, and the underrepresentation and inequitable outcomes of women and students of color is indeed a well-documented problem. However, building on the theoretical foundation of critical theory, we argue that there exists another substantial sector of the population that is currently marginalized within aerospace engineering: the working class. As income inequality continues to grow both nationally and globally, the population of students who are not coming from highly affluent backgrounds are at a continually growing disadvantage within educational spaces.

This quantitative study takes place at a large, highly selective public research university. Working class Americans account for the vast majority of the national population but are a minority amongst the students studying engineering at this institution. Marginalization processes on the bases of ethnicity and social class have a compounding effect, as is recognized by the theory of intersectionality. Nationally, people of color are more likely than people who are white to be members of the working class, and the same is true at this institution. The aerospace field is also known to have even lower rates of representation of women than other engineering disciplines. Thus, this study seeks to examine how systemically oppressed identities affect outcomes for the undergraduate student population. To do so, we evaluate representation rates and the effects of student identity on the measured outcomes of graduation rate, time to graduation, and cumulative grade point average using critical quantitative methodology. The results offer insights into how systems of oppression are perpetuated within aerospace academia and what specific goals must retain our focus as we build collectively toward systemic change.
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