Social Capital From Professional Engineering Organizations and the Persistence of Women and Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates

Professional engineering organizations (PEOs) have the potential to provide women and underrepresented and minoritized (URM) students with social capital (i.e., resources gained from relationships) that aids their persistence in their engineering undergraduate programs and into the workforce. We hyp...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Sociology
Main Authors:	Chrystal A. S. Smith, Hesborn Wao, Gladis Kersaint, Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, Phyllis Gray-Ray, Ellen Puccia, Julie P. Martin, Reginald Lee, John Skvoretz, George MacDonald
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Subjects:	STEM degree persistence equity engineering education professional engineering organizations social capital
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.671856/full