To cross the picket line or join it: Facing engineering education's role in the socioeconomic exploitation of marginalized peoples to further a discipline

Students’ Experiences of Unfairness in Graduate Engineering Education

“…The integration of social justice viewpoints may have the additional benefit of engaging engineers in problem-solving for problems faced by traditionally oppressed and marginalized communities. Similarly, engineering education can actively stand for a broader set of social justice issues to assist in positioning engineering to answer problems for all people, such as in the recent editorial by Justin Major reflecting on worker's rights and conferences [43].…”

Predicting Interest in Engineering Majors: The Role of Critical Agency and Career Goals

“…This process is also entrenched in the history, culture, and practices of engineering education that are raced, classed, and gendered. A significant body of work has emphasized how structural and cultural norms replicate Whiteness and masculinity in engineering, and this work emphasizes the need to dismantle structures that perpetuate inequity within engineering education [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Other work has examined how these norms are linked to particular ways of being, thinking, and knowing that continuously limit who can do engineering [9], who belongs in engineering [10], and what counts as engineering [11][12].…”