THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

Diversity in the Workplace

• Additional Diversity Pages
  Problem situations that arise in engineering practices that have been submitted by visitors to OEC, and student projects on problem situations.

• Abstracts of Studies about Diversity in Engineering and Science
  The studies abstracted here provide information on attrition factors, intervention programs, trends in the workplace, and more. Many studies explore the experiences of women and minorities as they move through education, industry, and academia. Here we offer abstracts of some of the key literature. Some studies deal with mathematics, as well as science and engineering, because it is often possible to generalize from one area of scientific work to another.

• New Faculty Guides from the Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence in Education and Leadership (ECSEL)
  ECSEL is an organization that tracts the success of minorities and women in science and engineering; it also is focused on the teaching of design in its social and ethical context as applied to women and minorities.

• Essays about Diversity
  Details current situations of women and differences in the performance, retention, attitudes, and advancement of women compared to men, such as: engineering ethics, mentoring and mathematics.

• Experiences of Minorities and Women in the High Tech Workplace
  Index to cases of minorities and women in high tech workplace.

• Additional Web Resources for Minorities and Women
  List of additional resources to be found on the internet discussing minorities in science engineering and computers.

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