Paper Abstract

Engineering culture has traditionally limited rather than fostered diversity in engineering. This culture serves to limit representation of diverse individuals within engineering and create environments that are detrimental to creativity, problem solving, and productivity. One way to address this issue is to understand how students align themselves with the cultural values of engineering and navigate their pathways through earning their engineering degrees. We present an analysis of ten participants previously identified through attitudinal survey data as belonging to a "normative" attitudinal group of engineering majors. These individuals provide a way to understand students who are attitudinally similar to the accepted norms and practices of what it means to be an engineer.

Ma, B., Doyle, J. M., Rohde, J.A., Boon, H., Godwin, A., Potvin, G., Benson, L., & Kirn, A. (October, 2017). Understanding the Pathways of Students with Normative Attitudes in Engineering. Proceedings from FIE 2017: Frontiers in Education. Indianapolis, IN (p. 9).

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