Black Males In Engineering

Author : Willie L. King, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593301248
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Males in Engineering written by Willie L. King, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the roughly 1.5 million engineering jobs held by engineers in the United States in the year 2002, Black males accounted for approximately 50,000 of those engineering jobs. In other words, one out of every thirty engineers (3%) working in America was a Black male. Furthermore, current research conducted on the engineering profession demonstrates that individuals who aspire for careers associated with high monetary returns, prestige, and job opportunities generally finds it in the field of engineering. Therefore, the problem is that it is possible that the present work environment hinders positive outcomes for Black males' career growth, development, and promotion in the profession of engineering.

Author : John Brooks Slaughter
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418150
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing the Face of Engineering written by John Brooks Slaughter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can academic institutions, corporations, and policymakers foster African American participation and advancement in engineering? For much of America’s history, African Americans were discouraged or aggressively prevented from becoming scientists and engineers. Those who did enter STEM fields found that their inventions and discoveries were often neither recognized nor valued. Even today, particularly in the field of engineering, the participation of African American men and women is shockingly low, and some evidence indicates that the situation might be getting worse. In Changing the Face of Engineering, twenty-four eminent scholars address the underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering from a wide variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives while proposing workable classroom solutions and public policy initiatives. They combine robust statistical analyses with personal narratives of African American engineers and STEM instructors who, by taking evidenced-based approaches, have found success in graduating African American engineers. Changing the Face of Engineering argues that the continued underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering impairs the ability of the United States to compete successfully in the global marketplace. This volume will be of interest to STEM scholars and students, as well as policymakers, corporations, and higher education institutions.

Author : Amy E. Slaton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674054639
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U. S. Engineering written by Amy E. Slaton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the educational and professional advances made by minorities in recent decades, African Americans remain woefully underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Even at its peak, in 2000, African American representation in engineering careers reached only 5.7 percent, while blacks made up 15 percent of the U.S. population. Some forty-five years after the Civil Rights Act sought to eliminate racial differences in education and employment, what do we make of an occupational pattern that perpetually follows the lines of race? Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering pursues this question and its ramifications through historical case studies. Focusing on engineering programs in three settings--in Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s--Amy E. Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. Her study reveals aspects of admissions criteria and curricular emphases that work against proportionate black involvement in many engineering programs. Slaton exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes--ideas and practices that are as limiting for the field of engineering as they are for the goal of greater racial parity in the profession.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309679540
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impacts of Racism and Bias on Black People Pursuing Careers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the changing demographics of the nation and a growing appreciation for diversity and inclusion as drivers of excellence in science, engineering, and medicine, Black Americans are severely underrepresented in these fields. Racism and bias are significant reasons for this disparity, with detrimental implications on individuals, health care organizations, and the nation as a whole. The Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine was launched at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2019 to identify key levers, drivers, and disruptors in government, industry, health care, and higher education where actions can have the most impact on increasing the participation of Black men and Black women in science, medicine, and engineering. On April 16, 2020, the Roundtable convened a workshop to explore the context for their work; to surface key issues and questions that the Roundtable should address in its initial phase; and to reach key stakeholders and constituents. This proceedings provides a record of the workshop.

Author : Jonson Miller
Publisher : Lever Press
ISBN 13 : 1643150170
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering Manhood written by Jonson Miller and published by Lever Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not an accident that American engineering is so disproportionately male and white; it took and takes work to create and sustain this situation. Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute examines the process by which engineers of the antebellum Virginia Military Institute cultivated whiteness, manhood, and other intersecting identities as essential to an engineering professional identity. VMI opened in 1839 to provide one of the earliest and most thorough engineering educations available in antebellum America. The officers of the school saw engineering work as intimately linked to being a particular type of person, one that excluded women or black men. This particular white manhood they crafted drew upon a growing middle-class culture. These precedents impacted engineering education broadly in this country and we continue to see their legacy today.

Author : Andre Fields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692874097
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CANT CULTURE: the Social Engineering of Black Male Failure and a Solution to the Madness written by Andre Fields and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Open Synopsis on CANT CULTURE. MALADAPTIVE COPING + INTERNALIZED STIGMA = CANT CULTURE CANT CULTURE was created by ideas. It was built around the collective Black male's idea that, "the world is unfair to us", "we have no control over our futures", and "therefore we have little worth". This idea was built into the Black male psyche via the social mechanisms of American Racism, National Stigma, and Systemic Discrimination. MALADAPTIVE COPING The CANT CULTURE ideology expresses itself through goal avoidance, withdrawal, self-sabotage, minimal long-term planning, and the avoidance of responsibility. These counter-productive coping behaviors serve the purpose of COLLECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTION to an unfair and threatening social environment. These collective maladaptive coping behaviors serve the purpose of minimizing the fear, stress, sadness, anger, and frustration connected to the frequent and intense experiencing of social stigma and marginalization. Race-related stress, fear, frustration, sadness, and anger are minimized through CANT CULTURE'S creation of a set of norms, customs, values, and beliefs that are different from those of the discriminating mainstream group. Black males who are psychologically immersed in the beliefs, norms, customs, and expressions of CANT CULTURE are role models for each other as they inform and inspire one another with distorted messages, failure-laced expectations, and dysfunctional forms of self-expression. Guided by the beliefs, expectations, and norms of CANT CULTURE, young Black males are eventually driven to obtain identities that are characterized by socially counter-productive forms of expression. INTERNALIZED STIGMA When a Black male internalizes stigma, he downloads a combination of psychological tendencies and personality traits that will predispose him to social failure. These psychological tendencies and personality traits (i.e. the fear of failure, anticipated race-related catastrophe, chronic race-related pessimism, recurring sense of race-related detachment from success, etc.) combine with maladaptive coping strategies (i.e. self-sabotage, avoidance, withdrawal, escapism, etc.) to compel Black males to pursue socially inappropriate goals (misguided motivations) that are ineffective as it pertains to acquiring the American Dream. This leads to a developing Black boy investing his mental and emotional energy on the standards, goals, aspirations, and pursuits of a counterculture that psychologically embraces failure and underachievement. This state of existence negatively influences general decision-making, long-term planning, impulse control, emotion regulation, etc. ESCAPING CANT CULTURE The purpose of this book is to re-socialize Black males into a classification of American citizen that is capable of success and expected to succeed. The identity and image of these prototypical Black males will be linked to a set of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that will reverse the trend of negative life outcomes Black males characteristically encounter. Andre Fields, Ph.D.

Author : Betty M. Vetter
Publisher : Advancement of Science
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Status of African Americans in Science & Engineering in the United States written by Betty M. Vetter and published by Advancement of Science. This book was released on 1995 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Courtney B. Sanders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiences of African American Male Engineering Students: a Qualitative Analysis written by Courtney B. Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the 1970s, African Americans were essentially invisible in the science and engineering academic and professional communities (Babco, 2001a). The few who did earn degrees in these fields, obtained them primarily from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and these institutions also served as the primary employer for these graduates in science and engineering (Hines, 1997; Babco, 2001a, 2001b). Since the 1970s, African Americans have made considerable progress, but still are not on a level playing field with White males in terms of opportunities for preparation of science and engineering careers or for employment and advancement in those careers. The purpose of this study was to explore second and third-year African American male engineering students0́9 perceptions and examine what experiences have contributed to their access to and persistence in engineering. A qualitative research design was employed to gather data necessary to answer the research questions. Eight second and third-year African American male engineering students from Research University (pseudonym) participated in interviews with the researcher. The data from the interviews was used to consider the themes that emerged from the participants. The findings from this study suggest that African American male engineering students at Research University have specific experiences that influence their persistence and academic achievement. Themes identified from the interview data include: (1) pre-college experiences; (2) participation in academic and social networks; (3) institutional programming and organizational support; (4) personal accountability and motivation; and (5) goals outside of engineering. As a result of this research, several future implications are highlighted. These include acknowledging the value of diversity, continued support through organizations, and increased knowledge of best practices.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Athena Factor written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: