Oregon State University Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Student Experience StoryCorps Collection, 2023
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Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Cate, Rachael.
- Title
- Oregon State University Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Student Experience StoryCorps Collection
- Dates
- 2023 (inclusive)20232023
- Quantity
- 1.52 gigabytes, (9 video files)
- Collection Number
- OH 053
- Summary
- The Oregon State University Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Student Experience StoryCorps Collection is comprised of video recorded testimonies provided by EECS students from non-traditional or historically underserved backgrounds. The stories shared by these students are meant to document their experiences while also providing insight to university and industry leaders on approaches to improve support for Engineering students from underserved communities. The collection is entirely born digital and the raw video of each interview is available online.
- Repository
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Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
Electrical Engineering was established as a department at Oregon Agricultural College in 1897. In 1973, the department broadened its scope to include Computer Engineering. A year later, Computer Science was added as a discipline within the School of Engineering. The College of Engineering at Oregon State University was established in 1983 and, in 2003, a new School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was created under the college's umbrella. By 2023, EECS had become home to more than 4,800 undergraduate students, 500 graduate students, and 100 faculty members attracting about $14.5 million in annual research funding.
SESAP project director Rachael Cate holds two degrees from Oregon State University -- an M.A. in rhetoric and composition (2011) and a Ph.D. in higher education and leadership (2016). She joined the faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2016, focusing primarily on instruction, research, and program development related to engineering education and social justice pedagogies.
Brief biographical sketches of each narrator who contributed a testimonio to this collection are included in the container list for this finding aid.
Content Description
The EECS Student Experience StoryCorps Archive Project (SESAP) was created in the 2022-2023 academic year and led by Dr. Rachael Cate, Senior Instructor and Educational Program Researcher in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. The project collects the experiences of undergraduate and graduate students in EECS who self-identify as members of historically underserved communities, based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, first-generation college student status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and/or disability. In each interview Cate provides introductory remarks, after which time narrators share their stories drawing on guiding prompts including: individual identity, community and cultural background, intersectionality, their strengths as Engineering students, and recommendations for how the academy and industry can better support students from underserved communities.
The collection is comprised of 20-30 minute recorded Zoom interviews structured as autoethnographic testimonios. In their project documentation, the SESAP organizers describe this approach as follows: "The term auto-ethnography designates the agency exercised by each of the participants appearing in the archive as the authors of their own stories that center on their experiences of culture, identity, and power. The term testimonio further designates the type of narratives offered here as accounts that bear witness and testify about events, including injustices, that have powerfully impacted the lives of individuals and communities."
In addition to Zoom recordings saved as *.mp4 files, the collection consists of narrator biographies, signed permissions forms, and administrative documents. The raw video of each interview is available online.
Use of the Collection
Preferred Citation
Oregon State University Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Student Experience StoryCorps Collection (OH 053), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Administrative Information
Arrangement
The collection is organized into one series: 1. Interviews, 2023
Acquisition Information
Collection materials were donated to SCARC by Rachael Cate in July 2023.
Related Materials
SCARC is home to multiple oral history collections that document the experiences of OSU students from historically underserved communities. These include the Voices of Oregon State University Oral History Collection (OH 009), the Oregon Multicultural Archives Oral History Collection (OH 018), the Oregon State University Cultural Centers Oral History Collection (OH 021), the Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Collection (OH 026), and the OSU Queer Archives Oral History Collection (OH 034).
SCARC is also the repository for the Electrical Engineering Department Records (RG 121), the Computer Science Department Publications and Newspaper Clippings (RG 214), and the Computer Science Department Photographs (P 240). Finally, the Student Club and Organization Records (RG 276) include materials documenting the activities of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Association, among other student groups connected to the College of Engineering.
Preservation Note
All interviews described in this collection are available online.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Series 1: Interviews, 2023
9 video filesAll interviews were conducted over Zoom, as lead by Rachael Cate. Links to the raw video for each interview are available in the item listings below. The full collection of videos is also available online.
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Description: Garrett Berliner0:21:59
Garrett Berliner is an undergraduate in Computer Science and an officer in OSU's oSTEM club, a club for LBGTQIA+ individuals within STEM.
Dates: April 4, 2023 -
Description: Bryan Alvarez0:18:46
Bryan Alvarez is an undergraduate in Computer Science who is originally from Celaya, Guanajuato Mexico.
Dates: April 6, 2023 -
Description: Mae Graham0:29:19
Mae Graham is a non-binary transfer student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the first in their immediate family to obtain an undergraduate degree. For the duration of their junior and senior years, they interned with Intel as a software engineer specializing in content management.
Dates: April 20, 2023 -
Description: Daniel Yirenya-Tawiah0:16:07
Daniel Yirenya-Tawiah is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering who is originally from Accra, Ghana.
Dates: May 23, 2023 -
Description: Bolivar Beleno0:19:35
Bolivar Beleno is an undergraduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering who is originally from Panama City, Panama.
Dates: May 24, 2023 -
Description: Javier Corona0:23:39
Javier Corona is a Chicano PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dates: June 1, 2023 -
Description: Jazmin Cartagena0:29:04
Jazmin Cartagena, an undergraduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is also a military veteran and mother of two.
Dates: June 5, 2023 -
Description: Fernando Rodriguez-Estrada0:35:42
Fernando Rodriguez-Estrada is a first-generation college student majoring in Computer Science, whose parents immigrated from Mexico.
Dates: June 22, 2023 -
Description: Sanjida Yeasman0:17:21
Sanjida Yeasmin is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who was born and raised in Bangladesh.
Dates: July 6, 2023
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Subject Terms
- Engineering students--Oregon--Corvallis.
- Minority college students--Oregon--Corvallis.
Corporate Names
- Oregon State University. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Form or Genre Terms
- Born digital.
- Oral histories (literary genre)
