Critical Analyses of Outcomes of Marginalized Undergraduate Engineering Students

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Strategies in Engineering and Computer Science

“…Some scholars have even gone further and questioned the systemic nature of EDI issues in engineering academia. In general, systemic oppression or discrimination is perpetuated by dominant groups who wield hegemonic power to manipulate societal structures and beliefs to maintain their privilege and power [17]. The demographics of the engineering field and student body in North America is predominantly White or east Asian, male, and wealthy [18].…”

Inclusive leadership development for engineers

“…When we operate as we have always done, without teaching new skills and having higher expectations for inclusion, the hidden curriculum is that the status quo is okay. In doing so, we remain complicit in upholding the systems of oppression that have historically marginalized and excluded people from engineering (Bowen et al., 2020). The cost of not taking action is immense, and the work starts with examining the self.…”

Critical Analyses of Representation and Success Rates of Marginalized Undergraduate Students in Aerospace Engineering

“…This study follows the authors' previous investigation of marginalized students in the engineer ing college, which consists of 12 disciplinary departments [1]. Our previous quantitative study found that students marginalized on the bases of gender, race/ethnicity, and/or household income level experienced both disproportionately low representation rates and diminished outcomes.…”

“…Analysis of Variance, or ANOVA, tests are used to test the dependence of time to graduation and grade point average on these identity factors. All results are compared to those for the aggregated engineering undergraduate student body, which were presented in [1]. The significance of discrepancies in these comparisons are again tested us ing chisquared analyses.…”

“…One purpose of this study is to quantitatively compare the representation rates and outcomes of undergraduate students studying aerospace engineering to those of the undergraduate student body in the engineering college as a whole, which were previously published in [1]. To do so, we generate subsets of this dataset that consist of students who declared majors in aerospace engi neering.…”