Collection

2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Felicity Bilow, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters P.E., Clarkson University

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Diversity

engineer [6], making it difficult for some students to staymotivated and to continue their engineering studies [7]. In addition, this lack of societalcontextualization causes engineering students’ social responsibility to decrease over the courseof their education [1, 8, 9]. Engineering is sociotechnical by nature; the design process involvestechnical and non-technical (social, economic, environmental, political, legal, cultural, ethical)factors that are simultaneously connected with one another [10-12]. Graduates should beprepared with sociotechnical problem solving skills to tackle the complex engineering challengesfacing the world today and in the future [13, 14]. Courses that approach engineering from asociotechnical framework may better