Geeks Are Chic: Cultural Identity And Engineering Students’ Pathways To The Profession

Brittany A. Claar is an undergraduate student at Regis University, studying sociology; she has recently transferred from Colorado School of Mines, where she was a Chemical Engineering student and worked as a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) student for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE). She has worked for CAEE for two years and has had direct involvement with preparing transcripts to be coded, developing a codebook for analysis of ethnographic interview data, and coding in ATLAS.ti, a software package used in analysis of qualitative data.