Underrepresented Groups in Engineering Education

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Miller-Young, Janice

• SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: This qualitative study will explore engineering and design team experiences among undergraduate students from understudied, underrepresented groups, and at the intersection of multiple minority identities: women, black, indigenous, students of colour, students with visible and invisible disabilities, and LGBTQ2S+. We will use semi-­structured interviews and a qualitative thematic analysis approach to investigate how these students describe engineering culture and their design team experiences, and how these experiences influence their engineering identity, belonging, and self­efficacy. The Collegiate Achievement Model—a well­-established conceptual model that demonstrates links between academicself­-efficacy, intersecting identities, institutional integration, and achievement—will be used to understand the extent to which these experiences and psychosocial factors affect student integration and success. Before disseminating or using the qualitative results, we will also take the findings to the interviewees using focus groups to get their insight about the themes. This step is crucial to finalize the qualitative themes.

• Date created

  2021-02-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Insight Development Grant
  • IDG
  • SSHRC
  • Education
  • Teams
  • Diversity
  • Inclusivity
  • Engineering
  • Belonging
  • Identity
  • Self-Efficacy
  • Student Experience
  • Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Post-Secondary Education and Research
  • Gender Issues
  • 2021AD-2023AD
  • North America
  • Western Canada
  • Canada

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-q25x-ff10

• License

  ©️Miller-Young, Janice. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2025.