Carroll, T. K., & Kramer, A., & Dringenberg, E. (2019, April), Intelligence and Smartness in Engineering: Gatekeepers to Diversity and Inclusion  Paper presented at 2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--31773

\bibitem{asee_peer_31773}
  Carroll, T. K., \& Kramer, A., \& Dringenberg, E. (2019, April), \emph{Intelligence and Smartness in Engineering: Gatekeepers to Diversity and Inclusion}
  Paper presented at 2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--31773

Turhan Kendall Carroll, Amy Kramer P.E., and Emily Dringenberg.  "Intelligence and Smartness in Engineering: Gatekeepers to Diversity and Inclusion".  2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia, 2019, April.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://strategy.asee.org/31773 Internet.  15 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_31773}
  Turhan Kendall Carroll, Amy Kramer P.E., and Emily Dringenberg.
  "Intelligence and Smartness in Engineering: Gatekeepers to Diversity and Inclusion".
  \emph{2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia, 2019, April}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://strategy.asee.org/31773 Internet.  15 May, 2024

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author = "Turhan Kendall Carroll, Amy Kramer P.E., and Emily Dringenberg"
title = "Intelligence and Smartness in Engineering: Gatekeepers to Diversity and Inclusion"
booktitle = "2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity "
year = "2019"
month = "April"
address = "Crystal City, Virginia"
publisher = "ASEE Conferences"
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number = {10.18260/1-2--31773}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The ideas of intelligence and smartness are woven into all levels of engineering education.  The individuals who are 1) accepted to study engineering, and 2) persist to practice engineering are broadly recognized as smart.  In Western contexts, intelligence is often believed to be a person’s innate and analytical ability, which can be measured by an instrument such as an IQ test and is reflected in grades or standardized assessments.  Smartness, on the other hand, is an implicit classification based on collective values, which are co-constructed within a local context.  However, these cultural constructions of intelligence and smartness are limited and often lead to negative implications for those who don’t fit the prototypical mold of an engineer (i.e. white, male, and middle class).  In this paper we seek to start a conversation about how the construction of intelligence and smartness can act as gatekeepers to diversity in engineering.  Further, we aim to discuss the role that we as engineering educators play in the construction of smartness in engineering classrooms.  To do so, we synthesize literature related to the construct of intelligence including a brief overview of the history of intelligence, examples of how intelligence has been used as a tool to systematically marginalize the less powerful, and a discussion on the cultural construction of intelligence.  We then introduce the idea of smartness, using literature to discuss this construct.  We include a synthesis of how smartness has been defined in literature and consequences of smartness in classrooms.  We then discuss the implications of intelligence and smartness in classrooms for minority groups in engineering as a result of unexamined normative beliefs that often perpetuate stereotypes.  We hope to encourage those in academic and non-academic settings to think critically about how their views of intelligence and smartness could lead to exclusionary behaviors, especially for underrepresented students in engineering. 

Keywords:  intelligence, smartness, engineering, inclusion

AU  - Turhan Kendall Carroll
AU  - Amy Kramer P.E.
AU  - Emily Dringenberg
CY  - Crystal City, Virginia
DA  - 2019/04/14
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Intelligence and Smartness in Engineering: Gatekeepers to Diversity and Inclusion
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