• Professor of Geography and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Penn State
While Black and Hispanic workers made up 14% and 19% of the population in 2021, they made up only 9% and 8% of the STEM workforce. John Fedele/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Diverse teams can improve engineering outcomes − but recent affirmative action decision may hinder efforts to create diverse teams

Diverse teams can not only solve engineering problems more effectively, but the outcomes tend to be more inclusive, as a geographer and feminist scholar explains.

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