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Working Against Unjust Social Forces

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Desen Sevi Ozkan, Tufts University; Avneet Hira, Boston College

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Assistant Professor in the Human-Centered Engineering Program at Boston Col- lege. She received her PhD in Engineering Education and MS in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University, and BE in Aeronautical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College. Her scholarship is motivated by the fundamental question of how engineering and technology can support people in living well in an increasingly engineered world. Her research focuses on affordances of technology, humanis- tic design, and engineering epistemology to promote purpose and connection in engineering education. In her work, she partners with students and educators (middle school to undergraduate), youth and their families, community organizations, artisans

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For Students to Know and Grow

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Emily Lauber, Microsoft; Benjamin Emery Mertz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #32802Implementation of a Module to Increase Engineering Students’ Awarenessof Unconscious BiasEmily Lauber, Microsoft Emily Lauber graduated in May 2017 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a minor in Science, Technology and Society from Arizona State University. Since then, she has worked in various product management roles in software consulting. Most recently, Emily joined Microsoft as a Technical Program Manager.Dr. Benjamin Emery Mertz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Benjamin Mertz received his Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2010 and B.S. in Mechanical

Conference Session

Changing How We Pursue Change

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Joseph Valle, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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electro- chemical energy storage systems.Dr. Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles Corin (Corey) Bowen is a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology at California State University - Los Angeles, where she is working on the NSF-funded Eco- STEM project. Her engineering education research focuses on structural oppression in engineering sys- tems, organizing for equitable change, and developing an agenda of Engineering for the Common Good. She conferred her Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor in April 2021. Her doctoral research included both technical and educational research. She also holds an M.S.E. in aerospace

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Working Against Unjust Social Forces

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Anna Marie LaChance, University of Connecticut; Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut; Danielle Gan, University of Connecticut; Justyn James Paquette Welsh, University of Connecticut; Thomas James Pauly, University of Connecticut; Patrick Paul, University of Connecticut

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execute stress relief through a weighted, scented blanket. He also served as a METAS (Mentoring, Educating, and Transforming to Achieve Success) mentor for incoming and transfer LatinX students, is a flute player in the UConn Concert Band, the Treasurer of the University’s Engineering World Health Chapter, and a KUBE (Kids and UConn Bridg- ing Education) Leader in which he designs and executes lesson plans for middle schoolers interested in STEM. Justyn hopes to get involved with the groundbreaking research in genetics, pharmaceuticals, or the aerospace industry as he prepares to graduate from UConn and begin to work on his Master’s degree.Mr. Thomas James Pauly, University of Connecticut Thomas Pauly is a senior

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Changing How We Pursue Change

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Madeleine Jennings, Arizona State University

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, feats that have been done and changed and um, yeah. It was just, it was really cool. Because originally, she’d gotten an aerospace engineering degree. And then it was like, oh, at the time women couldn’t fly, you know, like, planes and stuff – like especially Black women and like, and um, and so she was like, “Screw this,” and went back for her – I think she ended up going for justice studies or something. I don't know what it would be called at the time. But um, but yeah. Anything incorporating a lot more of that into things.Imagining a revolutionary curriculum for STEM was a thematically common trend among manyof the participants. My participants and I suggest that the reconceptualization (or queering