Author : John Brooks Slaughter
Release : 2015-12-15
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 142/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Changing the Face of Engineering by : John Brooks Slaughter
Download or read book Changing the Face of Engineering written by John Brooks Slaughter. This book was released on 2015-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--