- Browse these resources:
- African Americans
- Broadening Participation
- Gender Equity
- Hispanics
- Native Americans
- Persons with Disabilities
- Women and IT
In all engineering disciplines, the workforce does not reflect the diversity of the U.S. population. Today, Hispanics make up 17% of the college-age population, but as engineers, they represent only 2% of the workforce and only 8% of our students. African Americans are 14% of the college-age population, but less than 2% of the engineering workforce and only 6% of its college students. (Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering, NSF, 2006)
The gaps are even larger for women and for faculty. Women
in engineering are only 11% of the workforce and less than 5% of
the faculty in the U.S.
This lack of diversity in engineering classrooms, research
laboratories, design studios, industry and corporate boardrooms
threatens the vitality of the U.S. scientific and engineering
enterprise.
- Professional Societies and Organizations that Serve Under-represented Engineers
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
- Association of Women in Science (AWIS)
- MentorNet
- National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME)
- National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
- Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
- Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES)
- Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
- Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network (WEPAN)
