Overview
biography
- Trina Fletcher has an interdisciplinary background with both her education and full-time experiences. Fletcher holds a doctorate in engineering education from Purdue University and has industry experience including roles with Johnson & Johnson, Eaton Corporation and serving as the director of pre-college initiatives for the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).
research interests
- Diversity, equity and inclusion in engineering; minority serving institutions (HBCUs) and STEM education; K-12 STEM education
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected scholarly works & creative activities
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Article
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2024Gender and STEM Education: An Analysis of Interest and Experience Outcomes for Black Girls within a Summer Engineering ProgramFull Text via DOI: 10.3390/educsci14050518 Web of Science: 001232785500001
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2023Missed Opportunity for Diversity in Engineering: Black Women and Undergraduate Engineering Degree Attainment. JOURNAL OF COLLEGE STUDENT RETENTION-RESEARCH THEORY & PRACTICE. 25:350-377.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1521025120986918 Web of Science: 000609709900001
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2023Impact of COVID-19 on sense of belonging: Experiences of engineering students, faculty, and staff at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 112:488-520.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jee.20512 Web of Science: 000971061300015
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2023Engineering Faculty's Mindset and The Impact on Instructional Practices. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 39:719-731.
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Book Chapter
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2022Who Engineering Includes Impacts How Engineers Work. 1884-1903.Full Text via DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2405-6.ch093
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2021Who Engineering Includes Impacts How Engineers Work. 224-248.Full Text via DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4745-8.ch008
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2020Who engineering includes impacts how engineers work: Diversity challenges and design thinking solutions. 224-248.Full Text via DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4745-8.ch008
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Conference
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2024Empowering Students in Learning Engineering and Design: Ethical and Transformative Pedagogy for a Socially Conscious Future. 2029-2036.Full Text via DOI: 10.22318/icls2024.647082
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2015Factors Associated with Student Participation in Cooperative Education Programs (Co-Ops). 26.757.1-26.757.7.Full Text via DOI: 10.18260/p.24094
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2014A community of practice approach to becoming an engineering education research professional. 2011 ASEE ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION.Web of Science: 000383779701015
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2014
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2014Access to Cooperative Education Programs and the Academic and Employment Returns by Race, Gender, and Discipline. 2011 ASEE ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION.Web of Science: 000383779701060
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2014
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Other Scholarly Work
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2021Who Engineering Includes Impacts How Engineers Work: Diversity Challenges and Design Thinking Solutions. 1884-1903.Full Text via DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2405-6.ch093
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Research
principal investigator on
- CAREER: An Asset-based Longitudinal and Intersectional Analysis of African American and Black Women¿s Experiences within Informal and Formal Engineering Education awarded by National Science Foundation 2022 - 2026
- Exploring the Success of HBCUs Development of Blacks Earning Engineering and Computing Graduate Degrees awarded by National Science Foundation 2019 - 2024
- RAPID: The Impact of COVID-19 on Broadening Participation in Engineering at HBCUs awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 - 2022
- RAPID: Understanding the Impact of Abrupt Changes to Instructional Methods on Underrepresented Engineering Students awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 - 2022
- Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FG-LSAMP) awarded by Florida Agricultural and Mechanical Univ 2019 - 2021
co-principal investigator on
subproject principal investigator on
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowships awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 - 2025
- Developing New Pathways to Enhance CELL-MET Educational Impact awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 - 2021
investigator on
Contact
full name
- Trina Fletcher
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-5957 (confirmed)
