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Wellness, Readiness, and Thriving

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julianna Gesun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Rachel Eve Gail Swan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Bryan Watson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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resilience of modern system. The goal of their work is more reliable services to users, increased user safety, and increased sustainability for connected manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure systems. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024An Ecosystem Analysis of Engineering Thriving with Emergent Properties at the Micro, Meso, and Macro LevelsABSTRACTThis paper combines prior work on engineering thriving and complex systems science to providean ecosystem model perspective with implications at the Micro, Meso, and Macro levels. Priorwork on engineering thriving has largely focused on the Micro level (individual focus) and Mesolevel (organizations focus) with little focus on the

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Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Royce A. Francis, The George Washington University; LaKeisha McClary, The George Washington University

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Diversity

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Paper ID #37415”Studies in the Strategies of Overcomers”: Literature Review of theExperiences of High-achieving Black Male Undergraduate EngineeringStudentsDr. Royce A. Francis, The George Washington University Dr. Royce Francis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Sys- tems Engineering. His overall research vision is to conduct research, teaching, and service that facilitates sustainable habitation of the built environment. This vision involves three thrusts: 1.) infrastructure management, including sustainability, resilience, and risk analysis; 2.) regulatory risk assessment and

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

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey John Hatala, West Texas A&M University; Celeste Arden Riley, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., Texas A&M University System RELLIS Campus; Andrew Steven Crawford, Tarleton State University; Victoria June Vinzant, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; London Knight, West Texas A&M University

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design decisions. 4. Analyze connections among human motivation, behavior change, and environmental factors with an evidence-based perspective. 5. Apply research on psychological adaptation and resilience regarding environmental and community sustainability. 6. Describe design influences on community services and programs. 7. Recognize cross-disciplinary questions that need to be asked regarding community health, community resiliency, and community development. 8. Describe means to affect communication across multiple constituencies for effective community-based infrastructure and environmental projects. 9. Develop and evaluate the workflow of an interdisciplinary team.Twelve undergraduate students

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; David A. Butler, National Academy of Engineering

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]. NAE’s reportcommittee chair, Dan Arvizu, elaborated on the areas impacted by these individuals and theircareers—“not just technology and the nation’s infrastructure, but the economy, population health,manufacturing services, disaster resilience, and individual qualities of life” [53]. Below aresummaries of the speeches of three symposium speakers that aim to encapsulate their narrativesand areas of societal impact.Exemplary Engineers & their ImpactsKaren Lozano shared her journey from Monterrey, Mexico, to becoming an Endowed Professorof Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). [54]. In heryouth, Lozano was a waitress and sold dresses door-to-door before embarking on her engineeringjourney. Encouraged by

Conference Session

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

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; David A. Butler, National Academy of Engineering; Davis Chacon-Hurtado, University of Connecticut

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Connecticut Davis Chacon Hurtado, Ph.D., is an assistant research professor at UConn. He co-directs the Engineering for Human Rights Initiative, which is a collaboration between UConn’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the College of Engineering, and the Human Rights Institute, to promote and advance interdisciplinary research in engineering with a clear focus on societal outcomes. Davis is working with several faculty on campus to develop research and curriculum at the intersection of human rights and engineering, such as the one discussed herein. Davis completed his Ph.D. in Transportation and Infrastructure Systems at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 2018. His research interests include

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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in which science, technology, and race are constructed and construct each other. How do technologies express ethno-racial and gender politics reflected elsewhere in society? How do race and ethnicity shape technologies, technical design, and technology policies? We will examine how medical technologies, infrastructure, workplaces, and digital media platforms continue to reinscribe – and occasionally reinvent – racial categories and hierarchies. We will also explore counterexamples, including feminist and anti-racist thinkers and labs repurposing oppressive tools for liberatory applications. Learning Outcomes: ● Demonstrate an understanding of the historical and contemporary

Conference Session

Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd E. Nicewonger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Stacey Anne Fritz; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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. Construction of a home using the integrated truss system. Image courtesy of Cold Climate Housing Research Center, Inc.MethodThis multiple source case study is based on ethnographic fieldwork on housing security issues inAlaska Native villages. Our overarching goal was to investigate the research question, How canpost-design investigations of the socio-cultural effects and technical performance ofcold climate housing design structures contribute to the development of human-centricapproaches for strengthening rural Alaskan infrastructures? We characterize both our methodsand the communities we worked with as “remote”: we examined building designs and practicesin Alaska Native villages that were often off the road system with

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 8: Communication and Liberal Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadine Zeeni, Lebanese American University; Haidar Harmanani, Lebanese American University; George E Nasr, Lebanese American University; Rony S. Khnayzer, Lebanese American University

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-intensiveindustries, contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation.However, engineers also possess the unique skills and knowledge to develop innovativesolutions, such as renewable energy technologies, sustainable transportation systems, andclimate-resilient infrastructure.Despite this critical role, studies have shown that senior engineering students often holdmisconceptions about climate change [1]. These misconceptions can include underestimatingthe severity of the crisis, lacking a comprehensive understanding of its interconnectedimpacts, and over-relying on purely technological solutions. Faulkner [2] and Cech [3]highlight how engineering education often reinforces a technical/social dualism, wheretechnical aspects

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 7: Interdisciplinarity

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Fay Booker, Whatcom Community College; Tyler L Honeycutt, Whatcom Community College; Pat Burnett, Whatcom Community College; Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Anna Wolff, Whatcom Community College

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knowing how to answer a good historicalquestion [9].Part three of the scaffolded HMP includes a field trip to the state and local archives. By this time,students are self-selected into four teams to investigate the causes of contamination at one of thewaterfront sites. This is the first time that students have been to an archive (see “Student SelfPerceptions of Learning” below), and there is enthusiasm for “seeing the volume of stuff” andthe engineering infrastructure, like temperature-controlled rooms, involved in protecting thesematerials. Before the visit, the history instructor had contacted the archivists to pull specificmaterials for each of the five sites. A guided reading question facilitated analysis of thesehistorical materials

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 5: Decoloniality and Indigenous Knowledges

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica N. Tran, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Jessica Wolf, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba

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, Mitra et al. [19] highlight the prominent example ofthe steam engine, widely celebrated as an engineering feat that prompted the industrialrevolution, being funded by British enslavers in the Caribbean to drive plantation economies.With the expansion of European settlements, the pervasiveness of colonial techno-science alsoresulted in the increased dependency of colonized nations on the technologies of the colonizers,such as agricultural, military, transportation, and medical infrastructures, to name a few [19].Our discussion in this paper builds on our experiences seeing engineering education asreproduced by and reproducing racial capitalist and settler colonial power structures throughfocusing on neoliberal technocratic and military

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MC Forelle, University of Virginia; Kent A. Wayland, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

optimize the needs of society.”23Humanitarian Oregon State University Oregon State University Humanitarian engineering • Innovation for Social • “We define humanitarian engineering as Impact the co-development of science or • Environmental Justice engineering-based solutions to improve the human condition, namely through OSU improved access to basic human needs, • Computational an improved quality of life, or improved Humanitarianism level of community resilience.”24

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

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Rabb, California State University Los Angeles; Desen Sevi Özkan, University of Connecticut

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misinformation beliefs. His research and academic service work center on critical STEM education, sociotechnical thinking, critical study of misinformation, and systemic change theory and practice. ¨Desen Sevi Ozkan, University of Connecticut Desen is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on sociotechnical engineering education and how people make sense of complex sociotechnical energy infrastructure and systems. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Maintaining Hope Amidst Critique: The Role of Social Change

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis Suzanne Capitano, Colorado School of Mines; Ryan Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

their interconnectednessmay be invisible to those in power. Tara noted that people who hold individualistic mindsetsmight be less receptive to seeing problems related to social justice and macroethics. “sometimes the attitude of the people in [this city] is a lot more individualistic, but they don’t understand the impact of the society on their life. So the privilege of living in a developed country, having your roads always working, your police not taking bribes, your systems always being in place, your infrastructure always being there, has made you not understand the impact of having people who can actually do these things in the future.” (p. 8)Individualism is also reflected in the culture Tara observed at the