Michelle Madsen Camacho is professor and chair of the Sociology Department, University of San Diego. Her most recent research on STEM education and Latinos has appeared in Latino Studies, the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (a SAGE Publication), the Journal of Engineering Education, and the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. She and her colleagues received the William Elgin Wickenden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2011.
Susan M. Lord is professor and coordinator of electrical engineering, University of San Diego. Dr. Lord's leadership positions in engineering education include serving as president of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010, associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education, general co-chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, and on the national administrative board of the ASEE Education and Research Methods (ERM) Division. She and her colleagues received the William Elgin Wickenden Award for the best paper in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2011 and the best paper award for the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011.

Acknowledgments
Acronym List
Chapter 1: The Borderlands of Education
Chapter 2: A Culture of Exclusion: Race, Gender, and Engineering Education
Chapter 3: Debunking the Myths: Trajectories of Latinas in Engineering
Chapter 4: Voices of Latinas in Engineering
Chapter 5: Crossing Borders: Opportunities and Challenges
Chapter 6: Conclusions
References
About the Authors
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Why are there so few Latina engineers and what is the potential for change given demographic shifts of the Latino population? This interdisciplinary, mixed-methods approach offers a new paradigm for examining the crisis of Latinas in engineering (a field that remains 82% male), illuminating the nuanced and multiple exclusionary forces that shape the culture of engineering and its borderlands.