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Social And Latent Identities That Contribute To Diverse Students’ Belongingness In Engineering, Brianna Benedict, Dina Verdín, Allison Godwin, Thaddeus Milton
Social And Latent Identities That Contribute To Diverse Students’ Belongingness In Engineering, Brianna Benedict, Dina Verdín, Allison Godwin, Thaddeus Milton
School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series
This work-in-progress (WIP) research paper investigates contributing factors for how students describe what it means to be an engineer and what particular characteristics enable students to belong in engineering. We answer the research question, "What are the key contributing factors that influence how diverse students feel that they belong in engineering?" We used a semi-structured protocol to interview 12 diverse engineering students during Fall 2016 about their pathways into engineering, identities, and belongingness in engineering. The participants were selected from a pool of students who completed an attitudinal survey during Fall 2015 as a part of a larger study. They …