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2024 ASEE PSW Conference

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Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; John Misasi PhD, Western Washington University

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Diversity

have led to positiveoutcomes, there remain significant challenges and institutional roadblocks when it comes toimprovement of the overall culture climate at WWU. Due to rising concerns, a team of facultyand staff formed together in the summer of 2023 to identify the problem(s) and work towardplausible solutions that could improve overall culture in the department. This team dedicatedthemselves to the “Engineering a Culture Overall” (ECO) initiative, which is an effort focusedon improving the culture in the department by focusing on accessibility, diversity, equity, andinclusion (ADEI). In the Fall of 2023, undergraduate students joined the ECO team with theintention of amplifying the student voice to help enact change that would benefit the

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2024 ASEE PSW Conference

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Paul Lu, University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. Depart of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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Diversity

%20mental%20illness%20is%20a,ability%20to%20relate%20to%20others.3 Minas, Harry. The Centre for International Mental Health Approach for Mental Health System Development. 37.4 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). https://www.nami.org/mhstats5 Sharfstean, Steven S. Despair of Hope. The Future of Mental Health Service Delivery in the United States. 241.6 Ibid.241.7 Wang, Ying; Byrne, Louise; Bartram, Timothy; and Chapman, Melissa. Developing Inclusive and HealthyOrganizations by Employing Designated Live Experience Roles: Learning from Human Resource ManagementInnovations in the Mental Health Sector. 1974.8 Ozturkan, Selcen and Merdin-Uygur, Ezgi. Humanoid Service Robots: The Future of Healthcare? 166