, and diverse minds” (Holmes, 2018, p. 140).Learning how to design solutions to real-world problems is one of the cornerstones of anengineering student’s formation. From the industrial to the everyday settings, engineers play aninfluential role in how the tools, objects, and systems we interact with daily are designed. Yet,during their engineering education, quite often students experience a disconnection between thesocio-technical aspects of engineering design and the more technical courses in their curriculum,which can lead students to favor a view of engineering as a neutral discipline and put lessimportance on the human-centered aspects of design (Loweth et al., 2021; Miska et al., 2022). Inturn, when applying their knowledge to create a
National Science Foundation projects in the engineering education realm, researching engineering career trajectories, student motivation, and learning. Sreyoshi has been recognized as a Fellow at the Academy for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech (VTGrATE) and a Fellow at the Global Perspectives Program (GPP) and was inducted to the Yale Bouchet Honor Society during her time at Virginia Tech. She has also been honored as an Engaged Ad- vocate in 2022 and an Emerging Leader in Technology (New ELiTE) in 2021 by the Society of Women Engineers. Views expressed in this paper are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those of organizations she is associated with. Learn more about Sreyoshi’s impact
U.S. is affecting U.S. higher education campuses as more students arrive on campus withdiagnosed disabilities and mental health conditions and request accommodations (Greenburg, 2022),making research on mental health and disabilities salient. Specifically, within engineering education, 2Dignity and well-being: Narratives of modifying the culture of engineering education to improve mental health among underrepresented STEM studentsprevious quantitative research indicates that engineering students have “high rates of mental healthstruggles” (Danowitz and Beddoes, 2018, 2020, 2022a; Jensen and Cross, 2021; quoted in
., 2022).In this interrogation, we draw from Bell, Daggett and Labuski, who posit that there is a need to“name the injustices inherent in the life cycles of all types of energy production – not just fossilfuels” (2020, p. 7). They note that, while solar adoption is critical for the transition away fromfossil fuels, it has its own set of issues around the hazardous materials used in the manufacture ofsolar cells (Bell, Daggett, and Labuski, 2020). While the authors acknowledge the wariness ofefforts to challenge any aspect of the long-awaited energy transition, particularly “given the highstakes of the climate crisis” (ibid, 4) they maintain that integrating thinking and action aroundsystemic change alongside the energy transition is necessary to
1 Story-driven Learning in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review Abstract Stories have been a pervasive, ubiquitous feature of our lives throughout humanhistory—indeed, storytelling itself is robustly associated with a host of positive benefits,including better mental health (Robertson et al., 2019), increased empathy (Cummings et al.,2022), and a greater sense of belonging (Ritter et al., 2019). As such, storytelling has thepotential to be a powerful tool in a range of settings, including higher education (i.e., story-driven learning). To uncover how story-driven learning has been used in higher education sofar—as well as to discover patterns in pedagogical methods and
economy” ofhome building in this region. The integrated truss has influenced the home buildingcollaborations of ‘Northern Builders’ (pseudonym), a non-profit organization in Alaska’s Interiorthat works with remote (off the road system, fly- or barge-in only) Alaska Native communities toaddress sustainable housing needs. Home builders, engineers, and other specialists at NorthernBuilders have extensive experience designing and constructing homes in the region and theirwork with communities has provided rich insights into the complexities of building in remoteareas with extreme climates (Nicewonger, Fritz, and McNair 2022).BackgroundThe general idea behind the design of integrated truss systems for home building is to simplifythe framing process
exist within and transcend their institutional contexts?Our review of the literature is selective, not systematic, and is guided by an asset-basedperspective. Our efforts focus attention on the experiences of high-achieving black men in theliterature. We believe this approach honors the efforts of the many researchers who have focusedon countering the deficit narrative (Tolbert Smith, 2022) associated with black men over the last15 years of work and we rely on this research extensively in the present review. However, wewill demonstrate that more research is needed to better understand the range of experiences ofblack men in general, and high-achieving black men in particular, in undergraduate engineeringprograms.PositionalityWe are both
financial return on investment, EA can make aconvenient case that a career can aim at altruism without unreasonable self-abnegation. At thesame time, even a massive philanthropic payout may give us pause if our graduates aredeliberately making the most lucrative decision at every turn. We can posit that an engineer whoaffiliates with EA takes seriously a calling to social welfare, and that the pursuit of wealth ismerely a means to benevolent ends, and still worry—for instance, about ethical lapses made inthe sincere belief that “the ends justify the means.”SBF and FTX: The Road to RuinA basic description of the 2022 FTX collapse will suffice for this argument; this is the condensedtreatment provided by The New York Times. On Nov. 2, the
hireemployees with proficiency in these non-technical competencies and provide on the job trainingto get them up to speed on the technical aspects of the job (Smith, 2022).The need for interculturally competent engineering graduates is apparent, and employersincreasingly expect to hire engineers who are proficient in this and other areas ofcommunication. However, the implementation of communication training in engineeringeducation continues to face many challenges, including that, in engineering schools,Communication is frequently essentialized to “writing and speaking skills,” and as a result, theempirical and theoretical richness of the Communication field is rarely recognized orincorporated into engineering communication training programs.Below, we
of Engineering for Undergraduate Students,” 2021.[4] C. G. P. Berdanier, “A hard stop to the term ‘soft skills,’” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 111, no. 1, pp. 14–18, 2022, doi: 10.1002/jee.20442.[5] P. Eshun and K. Beddoes, “Work in Progress: An Investigation of the Influence of Academic Culture on Engineering Graduates’ Workforce Expectations and Subsequent Work Behaviors”.[6] K. Beddoes, “Accounting for Occupational Identity Work in the Attrition of Newcomer Civil Engineers: Theoretical Model,” J. Civ. Eng. Educ., vol. 149, no. 3, p. 04023001, Jul. 2023, doi: 10.1061/JCEECD.EIENG-1917.[7] H. Ramsey, “Engineering Moment as a Pedagogical Approach: Using Narrative Theory to Promote Student Awareness of their Engineering
Examining Gender-Based Differences in Students’ Attitudes toward Engineering and Sociotechnical Understanding: A Structural Equation Modeling StudyAbstractThis research study uses structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the relationships amongundergraduate engineering students’ attitudes toward and perceptions of engineering and theirunderstanding and appreciation of engineering’s broad, sociotechnical aspects, with a particularfocus on examining how these relationships vary with respect to student gender and exposure tosociotechnical engineering coursework. Subjects were 314 undergraduate students at one smalltechnically-focused research university, who completed Likert-type surveys in spring 2022. Afactor
. (2019). Narrative co-construction of stances towards engineers’ work in socio-technical contexts. Critical, transdisciplinary and embodied approaches in STEM education, 251-272.[11] Ozkan, D., & Andrews, C. (2022, August), Perspectives of Seven Minoritized Students in a First-Year Course Redesign toward Sociotechnical Engineering Education 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Minneapolis, MN. https://peer.asee.org/41382[12] Pangan, T. J., & Andrews, C. (2022, August), (Work in Progress) Examining how students critically evaluate racial bias in a medical device in a first-year computing course. 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Minneapolis, MN
endeavor to critique and “re-engineer” engineering through the framework ofSE, our approach to collaborative inquiry is itself grounded in the premises of SE. We are notsimply academic colleagues doing professional tasks together; we strive to be a communitybased in respect, care, appreciation, and love for one another, a manifestation of SE in action.We have met once a week via Zoom since early October, 2022. These meetings were scheduledfor one hour but in practice often lasted an hour-and-a-half to two hours. We also maintainedcommunication and built community through a WhatsApp group chat outside of our meetings. Inour Zoom meetings and group chat, we engaged in practices aimed at creating communitythrough dialogue. We intentionally placed a
last decade. This is not surprising given that both areas are emphasized inThe Engineer of 2020 (2006), which has exerted noticeable influence on the ways engineeringschools define their missions and market their programs (Neeley, Zajec, and Stup, 2022). The growth in leadership is most noticeable in ASEE. The 2016 study referenced aboverevealed that the discourse on leadership within ASEE is much larger than that on the other threetopics. In “The History of Engineering Leadership Development in Academia,” Handley, Lang,Mittan, and Ragonese (2022) report over 50 engineering leadership programs in existence (p. 24)and describe an organizational infrastructure that includes the Community of Practice forLeadership Education for the 21st
Directorate established the Engineering ResearchCenters (ERC) program which continues today. The ERC program is lauded for facilitatinginterdisciplinary research, advancing technology, preparing generations of engineeringprofessionals and leaders, and enabling research breakthroughs to move from labs to market[13].Since the 1980s, ENG has expanded significantly. Engineering research has also become centralto other new directorates, such as the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships(TIP) established in 2022. The CHIPS bill formally codified this new directorate into law, thefirst in over 30 years, and authorized $81 billion in new funding for NSF from 2023-2027 [22], asubstantial portion of which will go towards TIP’s support of
post-COVID model of operation.MethodsThe findings presented in this article come from a survey that was presented to a cohort of U.S.engineering students four times from Fall 2019 through Fall 2022.Survey DesignThe instrument used for this data collection was modeled off of the instrument used in numerousstudies of mental health in engineering students [15], [16]. It is composed of the Patient HealthQuestionnaire [17], a survey used to determine rates of depression, anxiety, and eating disordersin a population; The Kessler 6 [18], a survey designed to measure major and moderate [19]psychological distress; and the PC-PTSD [20], an instrument designed to identify PTSD-likesymptoms in a population. The survey also included questions about
by Recognizing the Framing Power of Implicit Messages Kathryn A. Neeley University of VirginiaI. IntroductionSince the founding of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Commission in 2011, interest andactivity in diversity have grown in ASEE, culminating with the establishment of the Year ofImpact on Racial Equity (2021-2022) and the formation of the Equity, Culture, and Social JusticeDivision in 2020. These initiatives were preceded by several ASEE programmatic effortsincluding the Year of Action on Diversity (2014-2015), the Best Diversity Paper Award (2015),the Deans Diversity Pledge (2017), the Diversity Recognition Program (2019), and the
more broadly, including working on diverseteams and supporting equity and inclusion through writing and collaboration.The goal of this paper is to share where the program is currently and the next steps to expandefforts to continue to support student learning. Starting in 2022, the integrated communicationeducation has been expanded to the sophomore lab to create a three-course sequence focused oncommunication and professional skill development. This scaffolding and multi-year focus allowsfaculty to build student confidence in their ability to work as technical professionals after theygraduate. By the time undergraduates reach their senior capstone, they are more fully prepared totake on complex communication situations within challenging team
2114242. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions, or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation.References[1] P. Moen, “The Uneven Stress of Social Change: Disruptions, Disparities, and Mental Health,” Soc. Ment. Health, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 85–98, Jul. 2022, doi: 10.1177/21568693221100171.[2] Z. Abrams, “Student mental health is in crisis. Campuses are rethinking their approach,” Monit. Psychol., vol. 53, no. 7, p. 60, 2022, doi: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/10/mental-health-campus-care.[3] T. N. Hanh, Peace Is Every Step. Bantam Books, 1992.[4] J. Kabat-Zinn, Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face
questions, the authors felt it important to better understand this subset ofparticipants [2].Figure 1. Proposed terms for active and passive HCA and its transmission and adapted from R.J.Downey & I.Villanueva Alarcón (2022). This secondary analysis inspired us to explore more deeply these active and passive HCand identify how intersectional identities (e.g., first-generation-FG, POC, and marginalized)connected to an expression of experiencing more negative or positive emotions. For this, we re-visited the original 984 participants and identified those participants thatresponded to a drop-down menu of 14 discrete emotions connected to the HC they haveexperienced. Also, participants was asked if the emotion selected was positive or
intersection of science and/or technology in society, and the theme for our work is “what is good engineering and science.”This is an excerpt from an email that two authors of this paper, Elizabeth Reddy and MarieStettler Kleine, sent out in the summer of 2022. We were excited for the opportunity to invite ourcolleagues to join us in the project of interdisciplinary engineering education, informed byScience and Technology Studies (or STS). This project was an opportunity to stage playfulworkshops and facilitate conversations we did not often get to have, all designed to stimulateinterdisciplinary reflections on what we do and why we do it. We were informed by theories of“trading zones” from STS and theories of the classroom drawn from
ofNorthern California) but now is part of a nationally coordinated effort (through NCSEA,National Council of Structural Engineers Associations) with many chapters in many differentstates. To learn more about this work and to glimpse the strengths and weaknesses of theinitiative, I interviewed past and current leaders of SE3 from SEAONC, reviewed materialsavailable on their website, and looked at some internal resources that were shared with me. Iinterviewed ten people between April 2022 and August 2022 via zoom. I have kept theirquotations anonymous and sent a draft for their review, to be sure that no unwanted identifyingmarkers remained. Prior to this work, I contacted the UCLA Institutional Board of Review aboutthis project, explained my research
Association / Association Canadienne de l’éducation engénie (CEEA-ACÉG) is a national organization for engineering education practice and researchin Canada. Many CEEA-ACÉG members organize into Special Interest Groups (SIGs) toadvance their specific interests in engineering education and maintain communities of practice.The Humanities and Engineering SIG is a network of educators, academics, and artists workingwithin or studying the intersections between humanities and engineering.At the 2022 CEEA-ACÉG annual conference, the Humanities and Engineering SIG facilitatedroundtable discussions on four transdisciplinary approaches in engineering education. Over atwo-hour period, participants rotated between four tables, focusing on one of the following
Paper ID #37726Three-Year Capstone Design: An Innovative Interdisciplinary Preparationfor Authentic Engineering PracticeDr. Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette Mary Pilotte is a Professor of Engineering Practice from the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. She instructs a range of Multidisciplinary engineering coursework, and from 2014-2022 was Director of the Engineering Education undergraduate programs in Interdisci- plinary Engr. Studies and Multidisciplinary Engr. She is co-creator and co-director of the Fusion Studio for Entertainment & Engineering (FSEE
development.At the same time, a team of researchers at the University of Manitoba developed a conceptualframework based on existing literature to characterize salient dimensions of sociotechnicalthinking in engineering. Fajardo et al. (2022) synthesized literature related to sociotechnicalthinking in both engineering education and practice and highlight six dominant aspects ofsociotechnical thinking in engineering (e.g., cultural impact, sustainability, environmental impact)[17]. They used this framework to code senior design reports for the presence of differentsociotechnical elements. Overall, they found that while most reports exhibited some sociotechnicalthinking, the degree to which these dimensions were consistently and meaningfully
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stewardship processes that rejects hierarchical relationships betweenhuman society and the natural world.Although these questions are not answered in this work, they serve as point of departure forthose interested and engaged in work related to tech stewardship. In the next steps of ourwork, through interviews, focus groups, and document analysis, we will further explore thesequestions and the range of engineers’ possible responses to them, and analyse theunderstanding of “stewardship” that the Tech Stewardship Practice Program enacts throughits content.References[1] K. Zacharias, J. S. Cicek, and R. Bezerra Rodrigues, “Technological Stewardship: Assessing a Value-Sensitive Approach to ‘Engineering For Good,’” in 2022 IEEE Frontiers in
they do not continue reproducing unfair neo-colonial practices andassumptions of past development practices. Here we explore how STS concepts have servedengineering students to develop critical praxis, a more robust and responsible understanding ofthe relationships between engineering faculty, students, and communities, and the materialand social worlds in which they are embedded, using community development projects relatedto artisanal gold mining, inclusive management of electronic waste, and water access forunderserved communities as examples.BackgroundAs shown in our 2022 ASEE paper [1], pedagogies of formation are explorations that implicatethe self in questioning “what engineering is for” and how answers to these questions begin toshow
by other students and how instructors can work todisrupt these dynamics and support all students in engaging in more careful classroominteractions.References[1] D. Ozkan and C. Andrews (2022). “Perspectives of Seven Minoritized Students in a First-Year Course Redesign toward Sociotechnical Engineering Education”. Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. https://peer.asee.org/41382[2] Fries-Britt, S., George Mwangi, C. A., and Peralta, A. M. (2014). Learning race in a U.S. context: An emergent framework on the perceptions of race among foreign-born students of color. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 7(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035636[3] Ross, M. B. Capobianco, and A