Changing the Face of Engineering: The African American Experience

Changing the Face of Engineering: The African American Experience
ISBN-10
1421418142
ISBN-13
9781421418148
Category
Education
Pages
449
Language
English
Published
2015-12-15
Publisher
JHU Press
Authors
John Brooks Slaughter, Yu Tao, Willie Pearson

Description

"The underrepresentation of African Americans in STEM fields in general, and in engineering in particular, according to John Slaughter "is at best benign neglect, and at worst active discrimination." In one of the first broad-based studies of the African American experience in engineering, Slaughter and his coeditors set out to describe the problem and propose workable solutions in the form of education and public policy initiatives. In this book, twenty-four eminent scholars address this shortfall from a wide variety of disciplinary angles. They draw insight from robust statistical analyses and contextualized analyses grounded in personal narratives of African American engineers and instructors at a diverse set of research institutions with evidenced-based approaches to their success in graduating African American engineers. This definitive volume will certainly be of interest to scholars and policymakers"--

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