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Changing the Face of Engineering: The African American Experience
Book
2015
Published by:
Johns Hopkins University Press

summary
How can academic institutions, corporations, and policymakers foster African American participation and advancement in engineering?For much of America’s history, African Americans were discouraged or aggressively prevented from becoming scientists and engineers. Those who did enter STEM fields found that their inventions and discoveries were often neither recognized nor valued. Even today, particularly in the field of engineering, the participation of African American men and women is shockingly low, and some evidence indicates that the situation might be getting worse.In Changing the Face of Engineering, twenty-four eminent scholars address the underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering from a wide variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives while proposing workable classroom solutions and public policy initiatives. They combine robust statistical analyses with personal narratives of African American engineers and STEM instructors who, by taking evidenced-based approaches, have found success in graduating African American engineers.Changing the Face of Engineering argues that the continued underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering impairs the ability of the United States to compete successfully in the global marketplace. This volume will be of interest to STEM scholars and students, as well as policymakers, corporations, and higher education institutions.
Table of Contents

Part One: Historical Background
Part Two: Educational Systems
pp. 90-119
pp. 120-148
pp. 149-188
Part Three: Workforce Participation
pp. 241-255

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Download 9. Socializing African American Female Engineers into Academic Careers: The Case of the Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty
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Part Four: Policies and Programs to Broaden Participation
pp. 305-334

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Download 12. Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers for African American Students: A Critical Review of Promising and Best Practices
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pp. 354-386

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Download 14. Enhancing the Number of African Americans Pursuing the PhD in Engineering: Outcomes and Processes in the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program / Kenneth I. Maton, Karen M. Watkins-Lewis, Tiffany Beason, and Freeman A. Hrabowski III
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Part Five: Future Directions
ISBN | 9781421418155 |
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Related ISBN(s) | 9781421418148 |
DOI | 10.1353/book.42522![]() |
MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 924719355 |
Pages | 448 |
Launched on MUSE | 2016-01-01 |
Language | English |
Open Access | No |