Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Research in Engineering Education: Preliminary Results from a Scoping Literature Review

There is a broad consensus that DEI issues influence teaching, learning, and scholarship in Engineering Education. The research around DEI is an emerging and rapidly growing field. Therefore, there is a need to understand the state of the existing literature about DEI in Engineering Education, including the research contexts, methods, and theoretical frameworks used when researching in this space. This work-in-progress paper presents the results of a scoping review of DEI research to provide a first overview of the DEI scholarship landscape. Using an inclusive search strategy, we retrieved 233 items mentioning DEI and engineering education, including common synonyms. We identified 128 articles on engineering education and DEI through abstract screening and full-text sifting. We report here on preliminary findings related to the status of contexts, research approaches, and theoretical frameworks in DEI literature