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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 6: LEES Works in Progress

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University; Lori Scarlatos, Stony Brook University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. TheScholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Stellenbosch: SUNPRESS (2015).6 Halada, G. P., & Sharma, S. L., & Scarlatos, L., & Zhang, Y. (2024, April),Enhancing Inclusivity through Alternative Rhetoric in STEM Education Paperpresented at ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference, George WashingtonUniversity, District of Columbia. 10.18260/1-2--457497 Dunkin, Robin. "Teaching students how to get comfortable with theuncomfortable feeling of not knowing." In Teaching Environmental Justice, pp.240-248. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.8 Halada,G.P., S. Sharma, L. Scarlatos, and Y. Zhang, “Enhancing Inclusivitythrough Alternative Rhetoric in STEM Education”, presented at the ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference, 2024

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

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Tonn, Boston College; Brit Shields, University of Pennsylvania; Ryan Hearty, The Johns Hopkins University; Adelheid Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

university in the Mid-Atlantic, my responsibility is toteach courses that take engineering from the outset to be about both technology and society. Alarge introductory lecture course offered in our department is called “Technology and Society”(as it is at many other schools). In it, I aim to appreciate together with the students technologyand society as phenomena that we can subject to systematic analysis just as phenomenaelsewhere in the universe (physics, genetics, linguistics, etc.). I also try to appreciate togetherwith them that, at this point, we have at our disposal well-developed and widely sharedmethodical techniques to do this. I assign texts, film, music, and photography/painting, and byreading, watching, and listening to, others’ work

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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna G Burchfield, University of South Florida; April A. Kedrowicz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

communication will afford students with thecompetencies necessary to navigate the challenges faced by 21st Century engineers.The authors’ experiences teaching interpersonal communication in technical engineering coursesoffers a roadmap for how professional communication instruction can be effectivelyimplemented even in large-section engineering courses to further discussions around diversity,equity, and inclusion. Furthermore, the authors’ research and experiences working in anddeveloping integrated communication programs in engineering and other STEM fields providesthree unique cross-disciplinary case studies at three different institutions that offer clear andtransferrable recommendations for how communication instruction can be

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey T Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Courtney Burris

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

HurricaneKatrina and (3) the student selected research project on an engineered system that negativelyimpacted their local community. For each case, we discuss the learning goals of the givenactivity, how the activity was enacted for the class, and finally draw connections between theactivity and the theories of power it emphasized. After presenting the details of each case weshare our reflections on each of them as instructors. Our reflections explore what went well witheach activity, what challenges it had, and what we might change for future implementations.Study ContextThe three cases reported here all happened in a year-long senior capstone course for a multipledisciplinary engineering degree at a Mid Atlantic University with a large engineering

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

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Appelhans, Lafayette College; Rebecca Thomas, Bucknell University; Jenny Tilsen, Bucknell University; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

identify with only one persona. Rather, our hope is that students will seethemselves in multiple personas as a creative process of identity-building in engineering.MethodsInstitutional Context Our research team analyzed the origins, identities, and trajectories of students at a small liberalarts college in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in an Electrical and Computer Engineering(ECE) department. Engineering within a liberal arts context offers smaller class sizes and enablesprofessors to engage more closely with students on an individual basis. Students who choose this setting,rather than typically larger engineering programs at research institutions, are often well-roundedindividuals seeking greater breadth to both their

Conference Session

AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

, workshops, design challenges, andpresentations that illuminated presumptions and prejudices through a technical, ethical, social, and legal lens(complete list of activities in Appendix C). Following lectures, participants did hands-on AI case-studies. In additionto the week-long group case studies, the mid-week project was a large collective case study on AI’s uses for theprediction of antibiotic resistance conducted by Concordia University. At the end of the week-long program, therewere group presentations and roundtable discussions. This allowed for a variety of perspectives to emerge ondifferent topics, time for questions, and inspiration for post-program plans.Participants have generally deemed the program delivery to have been strong and the