Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 1: Sense of Self in Biomedical Engineering Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Jill Lunn, Florida International University; Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

the Context of Prompts and PerceptionsAbstractStorytelling can be valuable for developing empathy and enhancing communication, allowingindividuals to make connections with themselves and others. In this work, we sought tounderstand the potential of story-driven learning, the process of developing stories to connectdefining moments of the past and consider future goals, within the context of engineering. Wedescribe a required, non-traditional undergraduate course that employs this pedagogical approachfor biomedical engineering students to encourage them to integrate, reframe, and make meaningof their diverse experiences. We then detail our study, where we sought to explore: 1) how uniquestory prompts may elicit different aspects of empathy, in