IEEE Technology and Society Magazine - December 2020 - 18
COMMENTARY
Joel Alejandro Mejia, Renata A. Revelo, and Alice L. Pawley
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2020.3031776
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Thinking about
Racism in
Engineering Education
in New Ways
ISTOCK/LEONTURA
ontempora r y cir-
cumstances in the
United States, both
in broader politics,
recent protest move-
ments around police brutality, and
in the demographics of engineer-
ing education, have prompted us as
authors to look for new ways to bring
theory on gender, race, and class to
audiences who would not normally
consider it their usual reading. We
are engineering education faculty
members and scholars in the U.S.,
who teach engineering classes,
work with community members,
mentor engineering students, and
do engineering education research.
We each inhabit different social and
occupational positions in the acad-
emy, including in terms of racial
context and our relationship to dif-
ferent forms of symbolic capital.
We write this paper to share some
of the insights we have gained from
our lived experiences and thinking
about social theory with a broader
audience, who here we imagine
as predominantly engineering fac-
ulty members.
In this paper, we seek to explore
the impact of engineering's persist-
ing predominant whiteness in the
United States. Its persisting male-
ness is also relevant, and we will
address this a little more below, but
what we want to do here is share
a framework that has helped our
thinking in this space, and we hope
it can inform yours. We say persist-
and policymakers as a means by
which to increase the number of
engineers the education system pro-
duces for employment by industry
or government. Yet, with some small
exceptions over time, and at some
ing, as since the 1970s, or even
earlier [1], the category of " women
and minorities " (by " minorities, "
scholars meant racially minoritized
people), has been of interest to en-
gineering education researchers
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