Student Perspectives on Navigating Engineering Pathways

Abstract

is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology. Her dissertation research, "Steel Toes and Ponytails: Gender and Belonging in Engineering", investigates the boundaries of membership in engineering in the Capital District of New York. She is honored to be a research assistant on the NSFsponsored study on engineering education reform entitled "The Distributed System of Governance in Engineering Education." In addition to her academic experience, she is a former mechanical engineer with several years of experience in the aviation and construction industries.

The Modalities of Governance in Engineering Education

“…While this allowed us to gain greater access and insight into change processes that the institutions themselves deemed most important, it is necessary throughout this paper to recognize this inherent sample bias. The student interviews are described in a separate paper at this conference [11]. We used MAXQDA, a qualitative data analysis software similar to NVivo and ATLAS.ti, for data analysis.…”