Paper ID #27591Board 4: Curriculum on Diversity and Ethics: Impact in an IntroductoryBioengineering CourseC Gunnarsson, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCamille Birch, University of Washington Camille Birch is a graduate of the Bioengineering and Computer Science departments at the University of Washington. She developed curriculum concerning the interplay of diversity and ethics for undergrad- uate engineering students at UW and is interested in the power of education to enact change in future generations of engineers. She currently works for Microsoft in the Bay Area.Dr. Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington
Paper ID #34988Teaching Social Justice to Engineering StudentsDr. Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington Dr. Dianne Hendricks is a Lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and the Director of the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Washington. She designs and teaches courses involving universal design, technical communication, ethics, and diversity, equity and inclusion. She co-founded HuskyADAPT (Accessible Design and Play Technology), where she mentors UW students in design for local needs experts with disabilities. She also leads STEM outreach activities for
spreadthroughout the semester and weekly lectures which focused for five weeks on areas ofbiomedical engineering with the remaining lectures being divided between professionalism,ethics, and curriculum information. A final design project was included but it was entirelytheoretical with minimal instruction provided on the design process. The 2016 class included 51students who attending lecture together but were divided across 3 sections for workshops.In the fall of 2017, the course was restructured. The lectures were mostly recreated to focus on asemester-long design project, but a handful were maintained to cover professionalism, ethics,and curriculum information. Students attended weekly two-hour workshops instead of 3 persemester which were used to
the course as a technical elective towards my degree, but not seeking a BME minor 4. If your major is NOT Biomedical Engineering, please state your primary major. If your major is Biomedical Engineering, please type “N/A”. (Free response) 5. At the end of this course, how do I rate my ability to: a. Define complex biomedical engineering problems and their critical features. i. Poor, Fair, Good, Excellent, N/A b. Develop and evaluate hypotheses framing complex biomedical engineering problems. i. Poor, Fair, Good, Excellent, N/A c. Identify appropriate safety and ethical issues relevant to biomedical engineering problems
values in theirassumptions scaffolds the engineering ethics (Feister et al., 2016; Dyrud, 2017). Just withinsubfield of biomedical engineering, unaddressed biases have led to situations such as not includingwomen’s anatomy and physiology in the design of joint implants resulting in irreversible healthissues, given the fact that women form more than 65% of joint replacement patients makes thisissue even more painful (Hutchison, 2019), pulse-oximeters read the SpO2 level of patients withdarker skins 8% lower than real value, which can have some fatal consequences for the patientsespecially at the time of coivd-19 pandemic (Sjoding et al., 2020), left-handed surgeons notreceiving appropriate equipment during training (Adusumilli et al., 2004), and
-departure symposium, the students will travel together to Stockholm tobegin their research projects at SciLifeLab. The author will travel with the students and be onsiteduring the first 3 weeks of the program. During these first three weeks at the host institution,weekly 2-hour research development workshops are to be held (Table 3). These workshops aredesigned to provide students with information on how to be an effective and ethical scientist.Since many of the student participants will be new to scientific research, workshop topicsinclude: the scientific method, hypothesis formulation, searching the scientific literature,managing references, writing scientific reports, experimental design, laboratory documentation(lab notebooks and data
University, Syracuse, NY. Registered Professional Engineer (Ohio). Robinson’s teaching approach comes from an amalgam of academic, industrial (Bell Labs), governmental (VA) and clinical experiences, plus an interest in science and ethics from his undergraduate days.Ms. Loretta Driskel, Clarkson University Since the late 1990’s my passion has been to create engaging, diverse teaching and learning experiences for students and faculty. As the senior instructional designer at Clarkson University, I have presented at conferences such as the Online Learning Consortium and I have presented at a wide variety of other venues including ADEIL; Sloan-C International Online Learning; Sloan-C Blending Learning; eLearning Consortium of
use their senses and insight to determine how these diagnostic devices work.These early pregnancy tests were purchased at a local “dollar store” and are very simplistic andeasy to disassemble. Higher-level students/participants are challenged to determine molecularmechanisms involved, whereas less-experienced students/participants are asked to hypothesize ageneral methodology.After approximately 5 minutes, we continue the discussion with a YouTube video showing theactual mechanism and then discuss other potential applications for at-home diagnostic devices,the engineering challenges associated with their development, and ethical considerations ofalternative applications (e.g. cancer tests). Advanced students are also challenged to use
andTranquillo, 2014).Values Thinking and Live Case StudiesValues Thinking derives from the ethical dimensions of over-consumption and theinequitable distribution of resources, but extends beyond these considerations. Anabbreviate list of elements of value thinking are: • Considering how various views, values and cultures have been constructed from past choices and preconceived value-based beliefs (Rawls, 1985). • Recognizing major human conflicts as arising from conflicting worldviews, unequal resource allocation and historical biases (Ostrom, 1990). • Positioning value-based tensions between stakeholders in ethical terms. • Finding mechanisms to be more inclusive and equitable across stakeholders to reduce bias
quarter. They wanted toimprove the users’ experience with added features. The remaining seven groups proposedprojects from a variety of areas: one group worked on an project for a third world country, onegroup looked at determining thyroid levels, one group developed a warning system for a facultymember’s research, one group looked at developing a device for physical therapy, one groupworked with an ME Capstone Design group, one group adapted a workout device for athletes,and one group developed a toy for college students.Students were required to write an in-depth proposal for their project. Their writing abilityshowed marked improvement along with their ability to express the social, environmental,economic, and ethical aspects of their
Human Centered Design & Engineering and the Director of the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Washington. She designs and teaches courses involving universal design, technical communication, ethics, and diversity, equity and inclusion. She co-founded HuskyADAPT (Accessible Design and Play Technology), where she mentors c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #23659UW students in design for local needs experts with disabilities. She also leads STEM outreach activitiesfor the UW community and local K-12 students involving toy adaptation for children with disabilities. Di