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Session Description

This session examines issues of culture, race, and gender in engineering.

Moderated by

1. Dr. Sean Moseley and Dr. Tris Utschig

Papers Presented

1. "You choose between TEAM A, good grades, and a girlfriend - you get to choose two!" - How a culture of exclusion is constructed and maintained in an engineering design competition team [view paper]
   Ms. Cindy E Foor (University of Oklahoma), Dr. Susan E. Walden (University of Oklahoma), Dr. Deborah A. Trytten (University of Oklahoma), and Dr. Randa L. Shehab (University of Oklahoma)
2. “Learning from small numbers” of underrepresented students’ stories: Discussing a method to learn about institutional structure through narrative [view paper]
   Dr. Alice L. Pawley (Purdue University, West Lafayette)
3. Gender Differences in the Long-Term Impacts of Project-Based Learning [view paper]
   Prof. Richard F. Vaz (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Ms. Paula Quinn (Quinn Evaluation Consulting), Prof. Arthur C Heinricher (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), and Prof. Kent J Rissmiller (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
4. Science Literacy and Text Book Biases [view paper]
   Dr. Gisele Ragusa (University of Southern California)