Villanueva Alarcon, I., & Simmons, D. R., & McNealy, J. (2023, June), Work in Progress: Towards a Participatory Action Research Approach to Improve Representation of Black Ph.D.s in Engineering  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44375

\bibitem{asee_peer_44375}
  Villanueva Alarcon, I., \& Simmons, D. R., \& McNealy, J. (2023, June), \emph{Work in Progress: Towards a Participatory Action Research Approach to Improve Representation of Black Ph.D.s in Engineering}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44375

Idalis Villanueva Alarcon, Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., and Jasmine McNealy.  "Work in Progress: Towards a Participatory Action Research Approach to Improve Representation of Black Ph.D.s in Engineering".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44375 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_44375}
  Idalis Villanueva Alarcon, Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., and Jasmine McNealy.
  "Work in Progress: Towards a Participatory Action Research Approach to Improve Representation of Black Ph.D.s in Engineering".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44375 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This work-in-progress introduces a participatory action research design approach to improve representation and support for Black Ph.D.s in engineering. In 2019, only 3.9% of doctoral engineering degrees were awarded to Black students (ASEE, 2020), thereby affecting who goes on to become future faculty members, leaders, and role models (Burt et al., 2019). Most research on broadening participation in engineering has focused on undergraduate education with relatively limited work on graduate populations (Burt et al., 2018). A recent systematic literature review on Black students in engineering identified 132 references situated in undergraduate education and only 5 in graduate education (Holloman et al., 2020). This statistic speaks to the need to improve the support of Black graduate students in engineering. For this work, we present a use-inspired approach where the target population, Black engineering Ph.D. students and their faculty advisors, along with recent Black engineering Ph.D. alumni, become academic partners in co-creating a professional development curriculum, procedures, and policies needed to equip individuals to be agents of change while enabling institutional and programmatic spaces for this agency to thrive in. For this paper, we will discuss strategies and approaches towards participatory action that build inclusive and equitable engineering educational spaces for Black Ph.D. students in engineering, even when the environments are exclusionary and systemically inequitable in power. 

AU  - Idalis Villanueva Alarcon
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