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Title: Work in Progress: Intersection of Race and Gender on Experiences of Undergraduate Engineering Students of Color in Positional Leadership Roles
This work in progress discusses an NSF sponsored project that explores the leadership beliefs, experiences, and knowledge/skills of undergraduate engineering students who have self-identified as having leadership experience at a Research I minority serving institution (MSI) for Asian Americans and Native Americans, as well as a Hispanic Serving Institution. Thirty-two undergraduate engineering students with self-identified leadership experience were recruited from the College of Engineering at the MSI across the various majors. In this paper, the perspective of how students described their self-identities and the emerging categories of negative leadership experiences is presented and discussed. The research illustrates how nuances need to be explored to understand how intersectionality increases the complexity of creating an inclusive logic model that can be incorporated into a theory of change that increases academic and professional success of engineers as future leaders within an organization.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1738132
PAR ID:
10209382
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ASEE 2020 Virtual Conference
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Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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