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Gender & Ethnic Diversity
Among engineering faculty, it’s at the assistant professor level where the largest proportion of women and underrepresented minorities can be found. Depending on the discipline, women represent between 15 and 38.5 percent of engineering assistant professors, based on data submitted to ASEE in 2013. Of 22 disciplines, 15 are majority white, with Asian Americans the second-largest group in all but one, where they are the largest. The five engineering disciplines with the highest proportion of women assistant professors are management, environmental, biological and agricultural, biomedical, and chemical. The five with the lowest proportion of women are petroleum, electrical/computer, nuclear, engineering science and engineering physics, and aerospace. The five most ethnically diverse disciplines are mining, civil and environmental; computer; electrical; and the combined industrial, manufacturing, and computer science and engineering. The five least ethnically diverse are architectural, nuclear, engineering science and engineering physics, management, and petroleum.