Bakka, B., & Chou, V. X., & Borrego, M. J., & Clayton, P., & Sugerman, G. P., & Prince, C., & Marchioni, J., & Upreti, R. (2021, July), Queering Engineering Through a Student Driven LGBTQIA+ Reading Group (Experience)  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--37632

\bibitem{asee_peer_37632}
  Bakka, B., \& Chou, V. X., \& Borrego, M. J., \& Clayton, P., \& Sugerman, G. P., \& Prince, C., \& Marchioni, J., \& Upreti, R. (2021, July), \emph{Queering Engineering Through a Student Driven LGBTQIA+ Reading Group (Experience)}
  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference.
  10.18260/1-2--37632

Brandon Bakka, Vivian Xian-wei Chou, Maura J. Borrego, Patricia Clayton, Gabriella P. Sugerman, Cassandra Prince, Jeffrey Marchioni, and Ria Upreti.  "Queering Engineering Through a Student Driven LGBTQIA+ Reading Group (Experience)".  2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2021.  https://peer.asee.org/37632 Internet.  26 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_37632}
  Brandon Bakka, Vivian Xian-wei Chou, Maura J. Borrego, Patricia Clayton, Gabriella P. Sugerman, Cassandra Prince, Jeffrey Marchioni, and Ria Upreti.
  "Queering Engineering Through a Student Driven LGBTQIA+ Reading Group (Experience)".
  \emph{2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2021.
  https://peer.asee.org/37632 Internet.  26 Apr, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - In this paper, we describe a queer engineering reading group comprised of undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members. Studies over the last decade have shown that LGBTQ+ engineering students have continuously felt excluded and devalued in STEM spaces. A key factor in this chilly climate is the social-technical dualism that is often strictly enforced in engineering curriculum. Professors and students alike see discussing politics and social issues as irrelevant to the highly technical curriculum. As a result, queer identities are erased from engineering and students are never able to formally connect engineering with their queer (or other) identity in any meaningful way. In an effort to combat this, we have implemented a LGBTQ+ reading group that challenges the depoliticizing culture of engineering and allows students to further connect to their engineering and queer identities. This reading group centers weekly discussions of relevant education and sociology literature about queer and/or STEM issues. Each week a different student summarizes the paper’s key concepts then facilitates group discussion where participants voice their personal connections to the themes of the paper. A wide variety of literature has been discussed, with a focus on the intersection of queer identity with other identities marginalized in STEM.  Here we present the development and structure of the reading group and lessons learned over the course of the reading group offering in Fall 2020. Furthermore, we will explore the ways this group has helped augment queer engineering spaces and has served as a catalyst for student activism. Importantly, we have included student reflections of their experiences in the group and how the readings connect with their experiences as a queer engineering student. 
AU  - Brandon Bakka
AU  - Vivian Xian-wei Chou
AU  - Maura J. Borrego
AU  - Patricia Clayton
AU  - Gabriella P. Sugerman
AU  - Cassandra Prince
AU  - Jeffrey Marchioni
AU  - Ria Upreti
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TI  - Queering Engineering Through a Student Driven LGBTQIA+ Reading Group (Experience)
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