Conference Session

Engineering Education in Colonial and Local Contexts (Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division ECSJ Technical Session 8)

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashish Agrawal, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

the emphasis on professionalethics, consideration of wellbeing, and attention to global, economic, environmental, and societalcontexts in engineering education, which has led to the development of new curricular contentaround ethics and contemporary issues. Yet compared with other initiatives such as increasingtraining in engineering design processes, development of entrepreneurial thinking, andundergraduate research opportunities, the inclusion of justice issues into the undergraduatecurriculum has been slow [1], and still remains obscure for students [2]. The challenges are, in large part, cultural. Mainstream engineering culture views ourdiscipline as depoliticized and purely technical, and thus free of bias [2], [3]. Any injustices