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Changing the face of engineering : the African American experience /
"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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword by Shirley Ann Jackson
- Introduction by John Brooks Slaughter
- Part one: Historical Background
- A brief history of the collaborative minority engineering effort: A personal account by Percy A. Pierre
- Part Two: Educational Systems
- African American Engineering Deans of Majority-Serving Institutions in the United States / Cheryl B. Leggon
- Engineering the Future: African Americans in Doctoral Engineering Programs / Yu Tao and Sandra L. Hanson
- African American Women and Men into Engineering: Are Some Pathways Smoother Than Others? / Lindsey E. Malcom-Piqueux and Shirley M. Malcom
- Clarifying the Contributions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Engineering Education / Tafaya Ransom
- Beyond the Black-White Minority Experience: Undergraduate Engineering Trends among African Americans / Sybrina Y. Atwaters, John D. Leonard II, and Willie Pearson, Jr.
- Part Three: Workforce Participation
- Profiles of Distinguished African American Engineers at NASA / Carl S. Person and Lenell Allen
- African American Engineers in Business and Industry / Rodney Adkins and Garland L. Thompson
- Socializing African American Female Engineers into Academic Careers: The Case of the Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty / Cheryl B. Leggon and Gilda A. Barabino
- Race for the Gold: African Americans--Honorific Awards and Recognition / Tyrone D. Taborn and Lango Deen
- Part Four: Policies and Programs to Broaden Participation
- College Me, Career Me: Building K-12 Student Identities for Success in Engineering / Darryl N. Williams and Angelicque Tucker-Blackmon
- Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers for African American Students: A Critical Review of Promising and Best Practices / Irving Pressley McPhail
- Spelman's Dual-Degree Engineering Program: A Path for Engineering Diversification / Carmen K. Sidbury, Jennifer S. Johnson, and Retina Q. Burton
- Enhancing the Number of African Americans Pursuing the PhD in Engineering: Outcomes and Processes in the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program / Kenneth I. Maton, Karen M. Watkins-Lewis, Tiffany Beason, and Freeman A. Hrabowski III
- Part Five: Future Directions
- Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Generation / Daryl E. Chubin.