Overview
biography
- Stephen Secules uses critical qualitative methods to look at everyday educational settings in engineering and shift them towards equity and inclusion. Stephen founded the Equity, Culture, and Social Justice in Education Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Engineering Education and the 2021 edition of the Cambridge Handbook for Engineering Education Research.
research interests
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Critical, qualitative, discourse analysis, and ethnographic methodologies
Participatory and action research
Equity in everyday educational settings in engineering
Shifting dominant cultural norms that marginalize students
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected scholarly works & creative activities
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Article
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2024The Impact of a Community of Practice Scholarship Program on Students' Computing Identity. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTING EDUCATION. 24.Full Text via DOI: 10.1145/3623615 Web of Science: 001193671100008
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2024Student-Led Institutional Change for Diversity and Inclusion: Insights From the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Ambassador Program. JOURNAL OF DIVERSITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/dhe0000618
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2021The social construction of professional shame for undergraduate engineering students. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 110:861-884.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jee.20419 Web of Science: 000690690900001
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2021Positionality practices and dimensions of impact on equity research: A collaborative inquiry and call to the community. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 110:19-43.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jee.20377 Web of Science: 000614913300001
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2019Making the Familiar Strange: An Ethnographic Scholarship of Integration Contextualizing Engineering Educational Culture as Masculine and Competitive. ENGINEERING STUDIES. 11:196-216.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/19378629.2019.1663200 Web of Science: 000486660600001
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2018Supporting the Narrative Agency of a Marginalized Engineering Student. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 107:186-218.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jee.20201 Web of Science: 000441247000003
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2018Zooming Out from the Struggling Individual Student: An Account of the Cultural Construction of Engineering Ability in an Undergraduate Programming Class. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 107:56-86.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jee.20191 Web of Science: 000428434700005
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2009Testing the limits: Quantifying the degradation of automatic speech recognition in reverberant environments.. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 126:2218-2218.Full Text via DOI: 10.1121/1.3248830
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Book Chapter
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2023Critical and Cultural Analysis of Engineering Learning. 199-217.Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9781003287483-12
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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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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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2021Developing a Survey for Engineering Faculty Knowledge and Interest in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion TopicsFull Text via DOI: 10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637133 Web of Science: 000821947700024
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2020
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2019Smartness in Engineering Culture: An Interdisciplinary DialogueFull Text via DOI: 10.18260/1-2--33272
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2018
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Other Scholarly Work
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2023On the importance of (white) humility: Epistemological decentering as a positional orientation toward research. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 258-261.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jee.20508 Web of Science: 000956146000001
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Research
principal investigator on
- CAREER: Using Equity Metrics and Reflective Engagement to Transform Engineering Classrooms Towards Racial Equity awarded by National Science Foundation 2023 - 2028
- HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: JEDI Ambassadors: Empowering Undergraduate Engineers towards Inclusive Institutional Change Through Research and Organizing awarded by National Science Foundation 2023 - 2027
- Audio for Inclusion: Uncovering Marginalized Student Narratives to Provide Insight to Faculty on the Known Unknowns of Inclusion awarded by National Science Foundation 2021 - 2024
co-principal investigator on
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Grant
- HSI Institutional Transformation Project Voces (Voices for Organizing Change in Educational Systems) awarded by National Science Foundation 2022 - 2027
- Supporting the Whole Student: Identifying and Mitigating Barriers to Persistence for Underserved Post-Traditional Engineering Students awarded by National Science Foundation 2023 - 2026
- Collaborative Research: Florida IT Graduation Attainment Pathways (Flit-GAP) awarded by National Science Foundation 2021 - 2026
- JEDI Audio for Inclusion awarded by National Science Foundation 2022 - 2023
Contact
full name
- Stephen Secules
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3149-2306 (confirmed)
