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Cellular Agriculture: An activity guide to support an engineering ethics and impacts discussion in high school settings (Resource Exchange)

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 12: Resource Exchange

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Page Count

3

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43142

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/43142

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186

Paper Authors

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Merredith D. Portsmore Tufts University

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Dr. Merredith Portsmore is the Director for Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (www.ceeo.tufts.edu).

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Tyrine Jamella Pangan Tufts University

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Tyrine Jamella Pangan is a STEM Education PhD student at Tufts University and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO). She is interested in integrating social and emotional learning (SEL) in engineering, specifically within the elementary school context. Tyrine hopes to explore how Transformative SEL can be implemented to cultivate socially responsible engineers.

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Brianna D. Starling Tufts University

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Abstract

Cellular agriculture is the emerging field of producing animal products from cell culture, rather than directly from animals. A multidisciplinary field, cellular agriculture integrates biomedical engineering, nutrition, animal science and more. Our project has developed a set of resources and prompts that support educators in having high school students discuss the potential cascading consequences of advances in cellular agriculture. Leveraging YouTube videos, presentations, and Google JamBoard, the resource supports students doing research and mapping who is involved and impacted by changes in agriculture. The resulting Google JamBoards serve as representations to ground discussions about the wide range of impacts and ethics involved in both the engineering of cellular agricultural products and their distribution. This Resource Exchange submission will share a free activity guide and resources to support other educators enacting this discussion in their setting.

Portsmore, M. D., & Pangan, T. J., & Starling, B. D. (2023, June), Cellular Agriculture: An activity guide to support an engineering ethics and impacts discussion in high school settings (Resource Exchange) Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43142

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