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Working Against Unjust Social Forces
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Matthew Sleep, University of Kentucky; Yasha Rohwer, Oregon Institute of Technology
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consulting.Dr. Yasha Rohwer, Oregon Institute of Technology Yasha Rohwer is an associate professor of philosophy at the Oregon Institute of Technology. Yasha received his PhD from the University of Missouri. Yasha specializes in philosophy of science and applied ethics– especially environmental ethics. He teaches logic, professional ethics, and other classes at Oregon Tech to students in many different fields of engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Development of a social justice mindset through discovery learning from the conflict between safety and welfare in engineering ethicsAbstractThe National Society of Professional Engineer’s
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For Students to Know and Grow
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Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; Courtney Deckard, Lipscomb University; Hannah Duke, Lipscomb University; Makenzie Cohn; Natalie Shaffer, Lipscomb University; Elizabeth Buchanan, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute
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Shaffer, Lipscomb UniversityDr. Elizabeth Buchanan, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute Elizabeth Buchanan PhD is Director of the Office of Research Support Services and Senior Research Scientist at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute. For over twenty years, Elizabeth’s scholarship has focused on research ethics, compliance and regulations, specifically around Internet, social media, and big data research. In these areas, she has written guidelines for IRBs/REBs, contributed to the Secretary’s Advisory Committee to the Office of Human Research Protections (SACHRP) in 2013, and was co-author to the 2012 Association of Internet Researchers Ethics Guidelines. Elizabeth serves as faculty at the Fordham University’s
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Bridging Content and Context in the Classroom
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Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Paul Taele, Texas A&M University; Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University; Christine A. Stanley, Texas A&M University; Seth Polsley, Texas A&M University
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,feeding to their fear about saying the wrong thing.The disconnect between the two groups often results in explicitly marginalizing classroomenvironments, i.e., environments where students feel unwelcome from blatantly marginalizing ordiscriminatory behaviors [1]. The data demonstrates that faculty are interested in developingimplicitly inclusive classrooms but fear that their lack of expertise on these topics will lead tofailure and having a negative impact on students. However, students voiced strong support andinterest in having faculty discuss and teach about inclusivity and ethics in their engineeringclassrooms. To create implicitly inclusive environments, faculty are encouraged to acknowledgeand discuss such topics in their classes and
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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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, makers, designers, and technologists. Currently, she is part of a team setting up the Human-Centered Engineering program at Boston College. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Critical perspectives on teaching design in first-year engineeringIntroductionTo engineer is to bring science and technology into a society filled with competing economic,ethical, and political influences. Yet still, engineering programs teach technical content asseparate from their historical, social, and economic contexts, which creates a duality betweenthe technical and social (Cech, 2014; Faulkner, 2000; Leydens & Lucena, 2017). As studentslearn and practice
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For Students to Know and Grow
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Candice W. Bolding, Clemson University; Jennifer Harper Ogle, Clemson University; Luke J. Rapa, Clemson University
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Infrastructure Inequities: A Pilot StudyAbstractAs social justice issues facing our nation continue to be placed in the foreground of everydaylife, it is important to understand how undergraduate civil engineering students perceive andunderstand relations between social justice and our infrastructure systems. Additionally, as morecivil engineering undergraduate programs increase the emphasis on ethics and equity issues intheir curricula, we must also seek to understand students’ awareness of their influence, as civilengineering professionals, to improve infrastructure systems that contribute to injustice andinequity.This paper presents findings from a pilot study conducted as part of an NSF-funded grantimplementing cultural and curricular changes in a
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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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method being influenced by learning method. According toHassan, an assessment should be “something that affects the students’ learning, confidence inthemselves and their skills,” where “the assessment method can enrich the learning method andthey are coupled together by an appropriate methodology of learning and assessment” [55, p.327].Riley and Lambrinidou’s Canons against CannonsRiley and Lambrinidou explored the addition of six principles to the values and principlescurrently expressed in engineering ethics canon, namely the ethical principles: ● Engineers’ primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems ● Engineers challenge social injustice ● Engineers practice cultural and epistemic humility
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For Students to Know and Grow
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Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan; Caitlin Hayward, University of Michigan; Trevion S. Henderson, University of Michigan; Rebecca L. Matz, University of Michigan
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findingsof both explicit sexism and racism as well as more systemic patterns in how identity shapesexperiences in engineering, perhaps especially in teamwork. This paper discusses the tool itself,our goals for its further development, and ethical questions we have encountered while workingto help design this teamwork support tool to detect and push back against systemic inequities inteamwork experiences.BackgroundTeamwork pedagogy is common in engineering courses, especially in first year (cornerstone) andsenior year (capstone) design courses, but also across the curriculum. Faculty have multiplegoals for teaching using teams, including improving students’ teamwork skills as a coreengineering competency as well as pedagogical goals like increased
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Critical Conversations on Being Valued
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Qualla Jo Ketchum, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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technology to subdue the natural world in service to human needs and humanprogress [5]. In contrast, many Indigenous civilizations are more closely aligned with what hasbeen called the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP), which adopts a more holistic, interdependentview of these relationships oriented more toward an ethic of care for the natural world rather thanconquest [5]. These paradigm differences are especially important in the context of engineeringeducation because the DSP positions engineering and the technology it produces as a tool forsubduing nature in the service of humanity [8]. Individuals who hold more closely to the NEPmay thus find themselves further marginalized and alienated within the field because they hold afundamentally different
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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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Paper ID #33189 soybean crop yields in Dr. Kristina Wagstrom’s Computational Atmospheric Chemistry and Exposure (CACE) laboratory. For the past two summers, Thomas has worked two internships: the first as an en- gineering intern at Allnex in 2019, and the second as an Environment, Health and Safety Intern at Pfizer in 2020. Working at Pfizer especially developed Thomas’s work ethic and passion for chemical engineer- ing, influencing him to seek further related chemical engineering positions after graduation where he can apply the knowledge he has learned in school to the pharmaceutical or manufacturing industries. Thomas is now seeking a full-time position with an engineering firm starting summer 2021 where he can
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Critical Conversations on Being Valued
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Minha R. Ha, York University; Jeffrey Harris, York University; Aleksander Czekanski , CEEA-ACEG
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her teaching approaches, whether in lecture, work- shop, and laboratory settings. She has been actively involved in ethics, equity and leadership education in engineering since 2011.Jeffrey Harris, York University Dr. Jeffrey Harris is an assistant professor (teaching stream) in mechanical engineering at York University in Toronto, Canada. He currently serves at the Director of Common Engineering and Science within the Lassonde School of Engineering. He has a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto and is completing a M.Ed. from York University.Aleksander Czekanski , CEEA-ACEG Dr. Aleksander Czekanski is an Associate Professor and NSERC Chair in Design Engineering in Las- sonde School of
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Asset Sourcing for Remaking Engineering Learning
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Chelsea Haines Lyles, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David Reeping, University of Michigan
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. All of the paperswere published between 2011-2019. One paper was a journal article published in theInternational Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning and seven were conference papers: sixprepared for the American Society for Engineering Education annual conference and oneprepared for the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications. Sevenstudies took place in the United States and one took place in Ecuador. The online undergraduatecourses included mechanical engineering, systems engineering, ethical decision-making inengineering and technology, technology project management, and computer engineering.Sample sizes ranged from 25-49 students. The methods employed in the eligible papers includedstructural equation
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Changing How We Pursue Change
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Marissa H. Forbes, University of San Diego; Odesma Onika Dalrymple, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Caroline Baillie, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego
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framework for all theprojects we undertake [13]. The ExSJ supports the connection between engineering and socialjustice by providing a system whereby communities are supported to submit project ideas, whichare then developed and channeled through professionals and academics to create suitable projectsfor students through a variety of mechanisms also described in a later section of this paper.BackgroundThe campus context for the ExSJ is uniquely supportive of initiatives that advance social andenvironmental justice and socio-technical engineering. USD is an independent, private CatholicUniversity known for its commitment to the formation of values, community involvement, andpreparing leaders dedicated to ethical conduct and compassionate service.In
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Working Against Unjust Social Forces
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Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jennifer Mott, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. 5) an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. 8) an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Riley’s text uses a modular format that engages students in a four-step process (Engage, Analyze,Reflect, and Change). Figure 1: Learning Process for ModulesThe modules presented in Riley’s text can be integrated “as-is” into typical thermodynamicscourses. However, as the modules are not
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Bridging Content and Context in the Classroom
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Stephanie Lezotte, Rowan University; Harriet Hartman, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Tiago R. Forin, Rowan University; Theresa F.S. Bruckerhoff, Curriculum Research & Evaluation, Inc.
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are presented with practical applications, together with societal, global, environmental or economic impacts.Q43. What kinds of problems are used in your course(s)? • Level 1. Problems usually require focus on technical detail only. • Level 2. Between 1 and 3 • Level 3. Problems acknowledge societal needs but are still primarily technically focused. • Level 4. Between 3 and 5 • Level 5. Problems are open ended and focus on both societal and technical needs in their solution.Q44. Are problems approached in a multidisciplinary manner (e.g. do they draw upon orlink to a range of other academic areas such as ethics, social justice, or politics?) • Level 1. Strictly single-discipline approach • Level 2
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Working Against Unjust Social Forces
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Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo; Rebecca Walton, Utah State University; Natasha N. Jones, Michigan State University
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inequities and injustice when we encounter them. How an actor moves through the 4Rs depends on their margin of maneuverability.Call to Action ● All academic reviewing processes, from conference reviews to program reviews to Tenure and Promotion reviews, have the potential to enact inequities and injustice and to harm those with less power through epistemic and other forms of violence. As members of this community, we should commit to anti-racist, inclusive approaches to review that inhere an ethic of care and hold one another accountable [19], [28]Limitations and Further ResearchAs is obvious by now, this is not the paper we thought we were going to write; much more workcan, will, and has been done to illustrate
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For Students to Know and Grow
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Heather R. Beem, Ashesi University
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approaches/shifting to practical 5 approaches 8% Teamwork 8% 6 Being creative/innovative enough 7% Stress/working under pressure 6% 7 Fear of failure 7% Acting ethically 4% TABLE 6. Top challenges students expect to face in engineering 3- “Describe your personal experience working on the drone project.”Finally, the most frequent coded responses to the open-ended prompt for students to describetheir personal experience working throughout the project are shown in Table 7. These aregrouped into three categories: self-perception, emotion, and lessons. Nearly a third (28%) of thestudents
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Bridging Content and Context in the Classroom
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Heather Dillon, University of Washington Tacoma; Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland
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Special Topics: Conscious Considerations
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Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College; Bridget Eileen O'Connell, Wilbur Wright College; David Potash, Wilbur Wright College
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, "Ethics and the Development of Professional Identities of Engineering Students," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 383-390, 2005.[28] National Science Foundation, NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING STATISTICS DIRECTORATE FOR SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES, "Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering," National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, 2019.[29] C. Rozek, Ramirez, Gerardo, R. Fine and S. L. Beilock, "Reducing socioeconomic disparities in the STEM pipeline through student emotion regulation," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , vol. 166, no. 5, pp. 1553-1558, 2019.[30] G. M. Bettencourt, C. A. Manly, E. Kimball and R. S. Wells
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Bridging Content and Context in the Classroom
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Melissa Ellen Ko, Stanford University
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transition- ing to an education-focused career track, Melissa taught at Stanford University, Santa Clara University, and Foothill College. These engagements have included courses within and outside the major, aimed at undergraduates at all years, high school students, and working adults. Melissa is now the Science and Engineering Education Fellow (SEEF) for the Bioengineering department, where she works on broader educational research projects and curricular change. Her work includes trying to better understand and support student development as ethical and quantitative thinkers. Through work with Stanford’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Melissa has also developed diversity and inclusion content for instruc