Organizations to Build an Engineering Identity

Dr. Renata Revelo talks about the importance of identity when educating and retaining engineers. Dr. Revelo is an electrical engineer, a professor, and a researcher in engineering education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She’s studied Latina/Latino students who participated in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) during their education, and she found that the organization helped them better see themselves as engineers, without separating themselves from their own communities. As a follow-up to the previous episode of the podcast, this episode explores Dr. Revelo’s work with Hispanic students at the college level, while applying the ideas to all students. Mentioned in this episode: • Dr. Renata Revelo at the University of Illinois at Chicago: https://www.ece.uic.edu/k-teacher/renata-revelo-phd/ • SHPE: http://www.shpe.org/ • SHPE Conference with Precollege Symposium: https://shpeconference.shpe.org/ • Dr. Revelo’s research on professional organizations and identity development: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/78420 • Purdue University EPICS program for service-learning in design: https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS Mentioned in the post-show notes: • Engineering Word Of The Day (EWOTD) podcast: http://engineeringwordoftheday.com • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html • Preview of “Improv Professional Development” (ImprovPD) project: http://www.improvpd.com/ Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Help Pios Labs continue! You can donate at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs