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Poor teacher training partly to blame for stalled engineering diversity goals

  • Written by Lisa Bosman, Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
imageBlack students remain significantly underrepresented in engineering. Tara Moore/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Diversifying the science, technology, engineering and math fields has long been a top priority of many universities and tech companies. It’s also a goal of the National Science Foundation, the biggest funder of university-led...

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