2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Exploring Black male participation on undergraduate engineering student teams using interpretative phenomenological analysis (Work in Progress)

Presented at Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 2

Engineering education requires students to successfully navigate participation in student teams at several stages throughout their undergraduate education. As a result, researchers have explored key factors for successful teaching and learning through student team projects and assignments. However, few researchers have explored the connection between racial identity and experience on undergraduate student teams. This work-in-progress paper describes a recently initiated NSF project investigating the experiences of Black men on undergraduate engineering student teams. Our project will integrate two complementary research approaches, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) with photo-elicitation methods, to better understand how Black male experiences on undergraduate student teams might inform instructors’ approaches to supporting undergraduate engineering student projects. We hope that our findings will provide theoretical support for a deeper exploration of the experiences of Black men on student teams. In addition, we hope our findings inspire other researchers to more deeply investigate the connection between various aspects of identity and their implications for students’ participation in undergraduate engineering teamwork.

Authors
  1. Dr. Jerrod A Henderson Orcid 16x16http://orcid.org/https://0000-0002-0501-5805 William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering [biography]
  2. Dr. David Horton Jr University of Houston [biography]
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