Feds Spend $599,905 ‘Addressing Intersectionality’ in Engineering

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 Feds Spend $599,905 ‘Addressing Intersectionality’ in Engineering
Posted By Elizabeth Harrington On August 12, 2016 @ 2:40 pm In Issues | No Comments

The National Science Foundation is spending roughly $600,000 on a study to address “intersectionality” in college engineering programs.

Arizona State University is conducting the study, which will investigate the rise of “makerspaces” at engineering schools to see if large breakout rooms for group work represent just “another institution of privilege, exclusion, and inequity.”

“Recently, the creation of university-affiliated makerspaces has begun to gain momentum,” a grant for the study reads. “Engineering education researchers have developed an understanding of the extent to which experiences in engineering impact student identity formation. However, little is known about how engaging in makerspaces impacts the identity formation of undergraduate engineering students, specifically, women and those from underrepresented groups (URGs) (e.g., Hispanics, African Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians, persons with disabilities, veterans, LGBT).”



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[rodamala]

Uh... maybe it was just the engineering school that I put myself through, but white males at my school were a minority... yet we had no White Male Engineering Society student chapter on campus.