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Developing Engineering Career Pathway Perceptions for Students Interacting with Near-Peer Mentors in an Informal Learning Environment
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Deidre Horne Mangin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Given the worldwide shortfall of engineers that threatens innovation and global stewardship, educators and industry must find ways to engage and prepare the next generation of engineers. To attract and train candidates to fill global needs, researchers need to expand engineering career pathway perceptions for students of all ages. Engineering…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Career Pathways, Mentors, Peer Relationship
"Pláticas" with Mexican American Engineering Teachers in High School: Counterstorytelling of Students, Educators, and Professionals in the STEM Pipeline
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Gustavo Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The following study was conducted as a qualitative narrative study of four Mexican American secondary engineering teachers, including my own auto-ethnography as a Mexican American engineer and educator, working in school districts populated by primarily Mexican American students. The study stemmed from a general lack of attention in the literature…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, High School Teachers, Mexican Americans, School Districts
Exploring the Experiences of Black Geotechnical Engineers in Employee Recruitment and Retention as It Relates to Increasing Diversity within the Field of Engineering: A Phenomenological Study
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Ricardo Todd – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Over the years, there has been an underrepresentation of Black males in the Geotechnical Engineering field in the United States. White men have dominated the Geotechnical Engineering sector, and that practice continues today. According to Fatourou et al. (2019), the disparity of Blacks in the engineering workforce is a universal matter that speaks…
Descriptors: Technical Occupations, Recruitment, Labor Turnover, Diversity (Institutional)
Mending the Broken STEM Pipeline through Support Networks: Helping Women to Be Future Leaders in Engineering
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Janelle Renee King; Katelyn Marguerite Hitzges – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A "leaky pipeline" exists for women to obtain a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) leadership position in the United States (U.S.). A deeper dive into what was holding women back from an engineering leadership position is imperative in today's technology-driven world. Utilizing feminist theory as a theoretical lens,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Leadership Role, Engineering
Mending the Broken STEM Pipeline through Support Networks: Helping Women to Be Future Leaders in Engineering
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Katelyn Marguerite Hitzges; Janelle Renee King – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A "leaky pipeline" exists for women to obtain a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) leadership position in the United States (U.S.). A deeper dive into what was holding women back from an engineering leadership position is imperative in today's technology-driven world. Utilizing feminist theory as a theoretical lens,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Leadership Role, Engineering