Access To Engineering: A Description And An Evaluation Of A Pre Collegiate Program For Minorities And Women | Zendy

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Access To Engineering: A Description And An Evaluation Of A Pre Collegiate Program For Minorities And Women

Author(s) -

William P. Darby,

Nancy Shields,

H. Richard Grodsky

Publication year - 2020

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--5878

Subject(s) - underrepresented minority , economic shortage , engineering education , science and engineering , service (business) , session (web analytics) , political science , medical education , sociology , engineering , computer science , engineering ethics , law , medicine , business , marketing , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , world wide web

For example, by the year 2000, 85 percent of those entering the labor force for the first time are expected to be women, minorities, immigrants, and disabled individuals. Furthermore, in 1990, 23 of the largest 25 school districts in the United States were dominated by “minorities.” Accordingly, the need to diversify the pipeline of engineering students arises not only from a desire to provide equal opportunity to all, but from a very practical concern of a serious shortfall of scientists and engineers in the very near future. 1

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