Diversity in engineering education: Opportunities for universities of applied sciences

In many places, diversity is successfully integrated as a cross-sectional task in the organisational development of universities. This paper examines the related hurdles from the perspective of a medium-sized university. Implemented diversity-reflective and habitus-sensitive teaching measures for the heterogeneous student body of an engineering course are analysed, and the reactions to the attempt at a cultural change are explored. This raises the question of how sustainable such a procedure can be. Qualitative research is then used to obtain the perspective of students who have been underrepresented in the universities to date.