Diversity in engineering education: An African American female professor's perspective

Abstract

Diversity of the engineering workforce begins with addressing the diversification issues in the education of engineers. The author describes some of the issues related to diversifying engineering education, which include not only the diversification of students and faculty but also the curriculum. She suggests that special attention be paid to the doubly underrepresented group-the female engineering student of color. She concludes that such diversification would benefit both female and male engineering students. © 2008 ASCE.