Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica R. Deters, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

)Relationships Beliefs around the right way for people to relate to each other within engineeringRelationship to the Environment How engineering education interacts with broader systems (i.e., university, higher education, engineering profession, national context)MethodsThis paper presents a single pilot case study, where a mechanical engineering department is acase and students are subunits of that case [13]. We draw on hour-long interviews with threemechanical engineering students at a U.S. university in the mid-Atlantic region. This universityshifted all courses online in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Conference Session

Identity, Culture, and Socialization

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Benjamin Goldschneider, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of the US involvement.MethodsParticipantsThe students that participated in this study were all interviewed in the second semester of theirfirst year at the aforementioned Mid-Atlantic university. The study institution is a primarilySTEM focused university. The participants were from three disciplines: three from Biochemistryand six each from Chemistry and Chemical Engineering for a total of fifteen students. All self-reported demographic information can be found in Table 1 below, along with the pseudonymsassigned to each participant. Pseudonym Discipline Race Sex Seojun Biochemistry Asian Male Catalina

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Hannah Sabo; Gina Marie Quan, University of Maryland, College Park

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ASEE Board of Directors, Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering design (e.g., designthinking, engineering epistemology, teamwork and equity). Our peer educators move betweenthese two activity systems: one is the field site for their teaching responsibilities within one of~15 sections of a first-year engineering design course (UMD ENES100), and the second is anengineering-design focused pedagogy seminar (UMD EDCI488E). The co-occurence of theseexperiences in the same semester allows our peer educators to have firsthand experiencesworking with students while trying to make sense of key ideas from education theory andresearch. Details of the design of the pedagogy seminar and the design course context areprovided in Quan et al. (2017), and the design of ENES100 course is presented in Calabro,Gupta, &

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lisa R. Volpatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alex Jordan Hanson, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer M. Schall; Jesse N. Dunietz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amanda X. Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rohan Chitnis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eric J. Alm; Alison F. Takemura, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute; Diana M. Chien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

TechnologyDr. Eric J. AlmDr. Alison F Takemura, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute Alison loves wading into a good science story. Her first was her MIT doctoral thesis project, unlocking the gastronomical genome of a Vibrio bacterium. For some of the Vibrio’s meals, she collected seaweed from the rocky, Atlantic coastline at low tide. (Occasionally, its waves swept her off her feet.) During grad school, Alison was also a fellow in MIT’s Biological Engineering Communication Lab. Helping students share their science with their instructors and peers, she began to crave the ability to tell the stories of other scientists, and the marvels they discover, to a broader audience. So after graduating in 2015 with a