Background Many engineering education researchers acknowledge that their positionality
impacts their research. Practices for reporting positionality vary widely and rarely incorporate …

Background The higher education literature is replete with deficit-based studies of first-
generation college students. By thinking of students' social relationships as embedded …

Though engineering is often perceived as a pathway of upward mobility in the United States,
very little is known about the experiences of undergraduate engineering students who come …

Background Pipeline and pathways models influence persistence metrics used to study how
students navigate engineering education. Purpose This study presents pipeline, pathways …

Background Students who are the first in their families to attend college are an integral part
of undergraduate engineering programs. Growing bodies of research argue that educators …

Increasing the number of underrepresented groups (eg, first-generation college students,
women, and ethnic minority groups) in engineering is necessary to not only meet the …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the math and science beliefs of
underrepresented students, with a focus on first‐generation college (FGC) students. We do …

Social capital theory is a valuable theoretical framework in the field of higher education—as
it has been used to examine differences in important educational outcomes based on …

This study investigates first-generation and non-first-generation engineering
undergraduates' math/science identities, subject-related interests, and career plans. First …

This full research paper focuses on a systematized review of the literature on low-
socioeconomic students in engineering. Increasing the diversity of engineering cannot be …