Conference Session

Cross-cultural Sensitivity, Moral Imagination, and Diversity in Engineering Ethics Education

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Yousef Jalali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christian Matheis, Guilford College; Marc Edwards, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

: Washington Aqueduct,D.C. Water and Sewer Authority, Environmental Protection Agency Mid-Atlantic RegionalOffice, and D.C. Department of Health. The semester-long activities, team exercise centeredaround a book and individual project on a real-world ethical situation with the integration oflistening exercises and ethical theory were among other influential components.The course in fact provided and continues to provide various opportunities for emotionalengagement and imaginative understanding of ethical reasoning even though developingimagination is not one of the major objectives of the course. As one of the students noted in thesurvey, we administered in 2020, “I think moral imagination is the unspoken ultimate objectiveof the class.”Reimagining

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 9

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Rohini N. Abhyankar, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

engineers are mostly likely tohave this attitude in the results section.MethodsThis section describes our process for classifying engineers according to their acculturationattitudes, as determined by their acculturation preferences, and exploring differences in theseattitudes based on their personal and job characteristics.Participants: Data for this study was collected as part of a larger research project administered inFall 2019 [46]. Nearly twelve thousand alumni who earned engineering degrees from a large,public university in the southwestern U.S. within the past 15 years were invited to participate inan online survey via an initial invitation email and two reminder emails sent over the course of atwo-week period. All participants had the

Conference Session

Bring Your Own Experiment: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University; Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack, Western Carolina University; Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Hayrettin B. Karayaka, Western Carolina University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Amanda Gonczi, Michigan Technological University; Whitney Nicole McCoy, University of Virginia; Robert M. Handler; Jennifer L. Maeng, University of Virginia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

informing mechanisms to helpteachers realize the vision set forth in the NGSS, increase science achievement, and foster STEMinterest and a STEM identity among students. MethodsContext and ParticipantsParticipants included 27 grade K-8 teachers in a mid-Atlantic state. These teachers representedthe first of two cohorts involved in an NSF funded project designed to support ETS instruction.Baseline data was collected on these teachers prior to professional development between Januaryand April 2020. Participants were primarily White (n = 20) and female (n = 23). Teachingexperience ranged from one to thirty-four years (M = 12.6; SD = 10.0). All participants held adegree in education and none had a degree in