Conference Session

Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Hladik, University of Manitoba

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

, promoting legitimacy andintellectual authority, and centering critical reflection.Creating a community of learningOne of the main ideas that hooks puts forward in Teaching to Transgress is the importance ofcreating a community of learning in the classroom. A community of learning for transformativepedagogy involves “making the classroom a democratic setting where everyone feels aresponsibility to contribute” [1, p. 39]. My efforts to build a community of learning in ENG 3020began on the first day of class. After going through the course syllabus, I devoted time toclassroom conduct and norms. First, I highlighted main ideas from Arao and Clemens’s chapter“From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces” [5], as they have noted that “safe spaces” may hinderstudent

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xueni Fan, Texas Tech University; Joshua M. Cruz, Texas Tech University; John Carrell, Texas Tech University; Michael Scott Laver, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Technology). Thesecourses are unique because they are co-taught by an engineering professor and a historyprofessor who regularly collaborate to develop the syllabus and lessons within the classroom.Both iterations of the course are titled “War, Machine, Culture, and Society: History andEngineering in the Second World War,” and focus on teaching students the social and politicalfoundations of World War II while discussing technical issues, design thinking, and problem-solving skills associated with the war. As we describe in the review below, there are variousreasons to develop an interdisciplinary model in STEM courses, integrating the humanities intoengineering coursework. However, it is often difficult for STEM faculty to integrate their