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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 9: Collaboration and Community

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Rose Tawney, California Institute of Technology; Morgan L Hooper, University of Toronto; Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California; Maria Jose Azcona Baez, California Institute of Technology; Meredith Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Matthew Alexander Langley; Nina Mohebbi, California Institute of Technology; Micah Kalaihi Kushi Nishimoto, California Institute of Technology; Kay T Xia, California Institute of Technology

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: A Project is Conceived at ASEE On a rainy evening in Baltimore, three engineering educators are at the LEES mixer during the 2023 ASEE National Conference and Exhibition. Jacque, then a graduate student at a STEM-focused institution, Meredith, a graduate student at the same in- stitution, and Morgan, a recent graduate, were leaving the event, feeling inspired by the discourse, connections and support they’d found throughout the conference. A theme for them had been feeling the difference between their “normal” STEM set- ting and their interactions at the conference, which often went beyond the technical to discuss identity, belonging, community, and sociotechnical impacts. They won

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 1: Critical Reflections on Teaching and Learning

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abigail Brooks-Ramirez, University of California, Berkeley; Rebecca Dang, University of California, Berkeley; Bryan Adolfo Ventura Benitez, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Yan, University of California, Berkeley

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of scholars from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at theinstitution studied. The three undergraduate researchers in this study identify as members ofhistorically underrepresented groups in engineering, bringing with them life experiences thatshape their understanding of equity, access, and pedagogy in DS education. Two of theseundergraduate researchers also currently serve as TAs within the DS degree programs, furtherpositioning them at the intersection of both institutional structures and student experiences. Theirdual role as both educators and students enables a critical perspective on how teaching assistantsnavigate the sociotechnical divide, particularly in how they balance technical instruction withfostering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 3: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging II

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clay Walker, University of Michigan; Mariel Krupansky, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Kenneth M. Alfano, University of Michigan; Colleen Hart, University of Michigan

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Paper ID #48280Being and Becoming an Engineer: How Generative AI Shapes UndergraduateEngineering EducationDr. Clay Walker, University of Michigan Dr. Walker is a Lecturer III in the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering Technical Communication Program. He regularly teaches first-year, intermediate, and senior writing courses for students in all engineering disciplines, but especially Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science Engineering. His research focuses on the interplay between identity, experience, and agency in language and literacy practices, with a focus on style and the development of expertise in AI

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 4: Sociotechnical Integration

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark J. Povinelli, Syracuse University

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, perceptual expectations areupdated in an active process of attention, experience, and memory, leading to causal inferencesabout the world. Imagination and reasoning—fundamental aspects of human cognition—mayhave contributed to the evolution of traits such as empathy, sympathy, and moral reasoning,which form the basis of ethical understanding [52], [53].Figure 3. Conceptual interplay between reason and imagination giving rise to causalityThis figure helps students understand how cognitive processes relate to empathy and ethics andhow they might serve as a foundation for creative processes—highlighting their role in shapingcausal understanding and informing design thinking.While the influence of love on design and technology has fluctuated throughout

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Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert P. Dalka, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Devyn Shafer; Brianne Gutmann, San José State University

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known as NetworkFellows (NF), who oversee communication between sites and document, plan, and implementprojects for network and site level activities. In practice, the AF team’s work is focused intenselyon planning the Assembly, while the NF team does its work continuously over a semester-longtimescale. The NF team is the focus of our study in this paper.The NF team is made up of student representatives from each site in Access. They are given astipend that is compensation for their work during their semester-long tenure. The NF teamincludes both undergraduate and graduate students, usually at a 2:1 ratio, respectively. Studentswho serve in this role may also be involved in their own site leadership; some NFs have gone onto become members of

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Courtney Van Kirk; Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Emily York, James Madison University; Shannon Conley; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; Marisa Renee Brandt, Michigan State University; Kathryn Peck

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facilitators andcreated three groups– each with two Faculty Fellows from different disciplines, three StudentFellows, and visiting student and PI faculty facilitators. Two of the Student Fellows in eachgroup had been brought into the project by a Faculty Fellow; the third was unaffiliated witheither Faculty Fellow. This was intended to help facilitate the development of interdisciplinaryconversations. Mines PIs and Student Fellows spent significant time with this material inadvance of the event. With that preparation, Student Fellows took a primary role in promptingconversation, making the workshop space more than just another conversation between faculty.With support from Mines PIs and visiting faculty facilitators, Student Fellows led FacultyFellows

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 9: Collaboration and Community

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahreum Lim, Arizona State University; Emma Frow, Arizona State University

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structure involving faculty,research staff and fellow students [9]. These social dynamics play formative roles in students’development of self-efficacy, scientific identity, and scholarly aspirations [10], ultimatelyinfluencing how they come to understand academic work [11]. Individual labs can reinforcebroader cultural patterns in engineering education—for example, often prioritizing technicalexpertise over social concerns [12], [13], [14]—and serve as key spaces where students learn whatcounts as legitimate knowledge and practice. Understanding how students cultivate attachment andbelonging within lab settings [15], [16], [17] offers a window into the deeper pedagogical workthat labs perform. In this paper, we start not from the perspective of

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 4: Sociotechnical Integration

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Alan Chong, University of Toronto

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students and instructors bridge thesocio-technical divide.Performance functions as a critical paradigm in this course [2]. It provides a lens for criticalanalysis, as students investigate what is occurring when scientific information—their dominionof expertise—is being communicated to or performed for the public. It is also deployed insituated learning, as students take on and perform different roles in the science communicationprocess. It is one such activity that we describe in this paper, and which provides students withthe space to straddle the boundary between science and the arts.2. Context: Engineering and Humanities Intersections projectDespite lively discourse on the importance of broadening scope in engineering education andspecifically

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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, California State University, Channel Islands; Andrew Li; Rebecca Jun, University of Virginia

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, speaking, listening; managing process; adapting approach to circumstances; persuading and influencing others) 3. Teams and Groups a. Coordination, cooperation, collaboration b. Multidisciplinary teams, knowledge integration c. Negotiation and conflict management d. Relationship between individual capabilities and group functioning 4. Identity and Culture a. Duality/sociotechnical differentiation (technical/nontechnical; either/both; simplistic/complex; deterministic/contingency) b. Stage of career/role in organization c. “Typical/average engineer” as leader/entrepreneur (norm vs. exceptional)4.3 Topic Models Tables 2-4 display the

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 10: Institutions and Structures

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saskia van Beers, University of Toronto; Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto

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these under-represented students had been pushed to find uniqueways to make themselves indispensable to peers and teammates on projects, to proactivelycombat exclusion [19]. In later work drawing on survey data of U.S. STEM professionals(n=25,324), Cech found that white able-bodied heterosexual men (WAHM) experiencedenhanced social inclusion and professional respect compared to members of under-representedgroups [21]. Here, the under-represented groups Cech identified were 31 different intersectionalgender, race, sexual identity, and disability status groups [21]. These findings reinforce thatintersectionality likely plays a role in the mythical norm in engineering. It may not just be a man,it may in fact be a WAHM—similar to the mythical norm

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Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kari Zacharias, University of Manitoba; Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Chantal Rodier; Laura M. Patterson, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus; Renato B. Rodrigues, University of Manitoba; Ken Tallman, University of Toronto

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, as well as other engineering contexts where they believed that sociotechnicalthinking would be helpful, or a good fit. While many of these characterizations presentedsociotechnical thinking as something new - see below for more on this - others identifiedapplications for sociotechnical thinking within established engineering ways of working,learning or designing. Many of these examples surfaced in the context of design-based courses,exercises, or practices. Participants noted the importance of sociotechnical thinking for thinkingthrough “real-world” or “wicked” problems in a comprehensive way, and discussed the potentialfor sociotechnical thinking to improve communication between people. Often, this was discussedin the context of students or

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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; Sean M. Eddington, Kansas State University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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a school work with students who are “under-prepared”? (unspoken cultural expectations + academic preparation) 2. How can we increase buy-in among ECE faculty? 3. How can we get students actively involved with each other in a lecture setting? 4. How can we build connections/bridges between/among students? 5. How can we get faculty, graduate students, and undergrads to see empathy, diversity, and inclusion as part of their day jobs?______________________________________________________________________________This ECE Session 4 invoked Discourses of DEI, university and school missions, student survivaland success, community, belongingness, time, “day jobs” (i.e., work for which one is responsibleand has priority over other

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AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tammy Mackenzie, The Aula Fellowship; Leslie Salgado, University of Calgary; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, ThatStatsGirl; Victoria Kuketz, Catalyst ; Solenne Savoia, Mila-Quebec AI Institute; Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida

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society can provide,technical solutions gain potential impact. Van den Beemt et al. observed: “one of the important roles forinterdisciplinary education efforts is to help students develop the kind of flexible adaptive expertise that will preparethem to solve a range of complex problems and work with scientists trained from a variety of perspectives as isincreasingly becoming the case in cutting-edge research fields” [7].Collaboration deepens an engineer’s understanding of what’s needed and the effects of a technological solution onceit’s deployed, especially as they relate to complex challenges, coined wicked problems [8] of our times, such asclimate change [9]. Collaboration enables us to make tools with a better fit-to-purpose. Interaction