Increasing Diversity through Internationalization of Engineering Education based on the Pedagogy of Humanitarian Engineering

摘要

The lack of diversity in engineering classrooms is a cause of concern for both academia and industry, as industry looks to academia to provide the much needed diverse workforce in engineering. Though there exist various suggestions on how to increase diversity in engineering classrooms, not many exist that creates intrinsic motivation for students. This paper discusses how internationalization of the engineering education through the pedagogy of humanitarian engineering could increase diversity in engineering classrooms through creating intrinsic motivations in students to remain in engineering education. This paper is based on a five semester long study of how internationalization embedded in the Introduction to Engineering Curriculum increased retention and success of underrepresented students in engineering. Teaching pedagogies applied and results are also discussed in this paper. We also discuss our NSF-UC Berkeley funded collaboration on Context-Based Learning and the IEEE-CPMT/SCV Section's support for Humanitarian Engineering Students Projects at Ohlone College.