Doing Engineering
eBook - ePub

Doing Engineering

The Career Attainment and Mobility of Caucasian, Black, and Asian-American Engineers

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eBook - ePub

Doing Engineering

The Career Attainment and Mobility of Caucasian, Black, and Asian-American Engineers

About this book

The first to systematically compare Caucasians, African Americans, and Asian Americans in engineering, this study of the career attainment and mobility of engineers in the United States tells how these three groups fare in the American engineering labor market and what they can look forward to in the future. The numbers of black and Asian engineers recently have grown at a much faster rate than the number of Caucasian engineers. With a projected steady increase in engineering jobs and demographic shifts, this trend should continue. Yet, recent writings on the engineering profession have said little about career mobility beyond graduation. This book identifies and explores key issues determining whether minorities in the US will attain occupational equality with their Caucasian counterparts. Highlighting implications for theory, policy making, and the future of the profession, Doing Engineering offers important insights into labor, race and ethnicity that will be of interest to anyone studying stratification in a wide range of professional occupations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Figures and Tables
  8. Preface
  9. 1 The Rise of the Engineering Profession
  10. 2 Trends in Participation and Profile of Engineers
  11. 3 Theoretical Approaches to Stratification in Engineering
  12. 4 Getting In: Engineers for Hire
  13. 5 Fitting In: Professional Identity and Commitment
  14. 6 Beyond Engineering: Crossing Over the Drawing Board
  15. 7 Track Switching and Backtracking: The (Un)making of a Manager
  16. 8 Conclusion: The Future of Engineers in Engineering and Management
  17. Appendix: Methodological Issues
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author