importance of mitigating designer biases. Objective 1 was achieved by anchoring thecourse in the human centered design and universal design frameworks. Objective 2 was achievedthrough diverse perspectives in the guest speaker and prep materials chosen, frequent immersiveactivities on exclusion in design, and many opportunities for student-led course discussions.The topics presented in this course, as detailed in Table 1, were centered in mechanicalengineering design due to the nature of the elective. However, there was an intentional emphasisto discuss relevant social issues in the context of engineering. Module 9 was focused onalgorithmic bias. The responsibility to ethically and equitably designing human-machineinteractions [21], facial
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Division (EPPD); Engineering Ethics Division; Equity, Culture,and Social Justice in Education (ECSJ); Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division(LEES); Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND); and Women in Engineering Division(WIED)]. Participants received information detailing the purpose, informed consent form, andsurvey link. A total of 212 participants completed the survey. Fifty-eight incomplete responses(i.e., completed less than 75%) were removed, and the remaining 154 responses were analyzed.Closed-ended data were processed using SPSS, and open-ended responses were coded in Excel.Quantitative analysis included obtaining frequencies and the disaggregation of data based onrespondent demographic information. Open-ended responses
access by zip code – looking at which cities/states provided access to key gateway courses that are often required to enter engineering programs (high school physics, calculus, AP courses, etc.) • The use of AI in police surveillance, with a heated discussion on the interest in campus police pursuing this on our own campusIn all of these examples, students then had to take the further step of looking at methods forengineers to do better. They had to propose methods to increase STEM access in schools, how theASEE code of ethics requires us to challenge the NIMBY arguments (Not In My Back Yard) thatprivilege rich white neighborhoods, and what should be done to improve technology in policesurveillance. These examples were
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understanding that our work could provide a framework fornational-level data efforts.Establishing values a prioriEstablishing the values guiding data work a priori ensures that data practices are ethical,responsible, and aligned with the goals and values of the group [25], [26]. ECEP centers equityin all BPC work across the Alliance. This is also an explicit goal of the CMP project, intended toensure that data is not collected for the sake of gathering numbers but for the purpose ofdiscovering which students do not have access to, or are engaging in, high quality computing.State teams are asked to establish their state’s BPC goals as a condition of membership in theECEP alliance; however, the CMP encourages teams to bring new people to the team
: • People come first, are treated with dignity and respect, and are encouraged to achieve their full potential • Relationships are built on honesty, integrity, and trust • Diversity of people and thought is respected • Excellence is achieved through teamwork, leadership, creativity, and a strong work ethic • Efficiency is achieved through wise use of human and financial resources and • Commitment to intellectual achievement is embraced.This section of our paper will discuss the planning process and key highlights of the student trackday from the conference proceedings. The process of the planning and executing a three-day event can be arduous. While there areothers whom one can reach out to for planning, acumen, and
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student at Purdue University looking to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. He is a part of the First Time Researcher program at Purdue, currently completing research in the School of Engineering Education and Science and Ethics of Educational Data lab under Dr. Kerrie Douglas. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work In Progress: Evaluating the Cultural Context of Engineering and Engineering-Related Concept Inventory Assessment ItemsThere is very little understood about how the context of engineering assessment questions canserve to unnecessarily confuse, distract, or indirectly communicate who belongs (and who doesnot) in engineering classrooms. Globally concept
accreditation and first-year course design.Dr. Karl Brakora, Grand Valley State University Karl Brakora is an Assistant Professor in the area of electrical engineering at Grand Valley State Uni- versity. He previously worked for small companies and as an independent defense contractor to develop advanced ceramic materials, radar, and novel electronic fabrication methods applied to the development of guided munitions, electro-optic imaging systems, and medical devices. At GVSU he maintains electronic prototyping courses and co-created the School of Engineering’s professional ethics curriculum, which has become his primary academic focus. Karl received his Ph.D. in Applied Electromagnetics from the University of Michigan
inundergraduate engineering programs in North America. In Canada, the Canadian EngineeringAccreditation Board has been emphasizing that equity and ethics be embedded in the curriculumthrough their accreditation visits. This required several programs within our institution to work onmethods that can be included to make students more aware of equity issues and assess theirunderstanding on the above subjects.This paper discusses how courses were changed to include equity as part of the curriculum. Equitydiscussions were focused through the introduction of universal design as applied in buildingdesign- making students experience first-hand what the implications of design choices are on adiverse (age, physical / cognitive ability, race, gender) user group
complexity of navigating racialidentity and how societal perceptions can impact individuals both positively and negatively.Our study of environmental nonprofit websites in Buffalo seeks to explore how the intricatelayers of racial and ethnic identification manifest within organizations’ public representations ofthemselves. Utilizing the Fitzpatrick skin type scale in this [25] study, we classified individualsas people of color (darker than olive) or not. However, we recognize individuals may bemiscategorized due to the inability to self-identify as people of color in our study. Self-identification is the most accurate and ethical method of racial and ethnic classification [24]. Asan equity-focused and racially diverse research team committed to
combining them into brand marketing, developing them into fineboutique products. This idea-to-3D print project tasks the student designer with leaning into theirown culture to design home décor items inspired by their personal background. Students areencouraged to embrace cultural traits in their design, such as nationality, family structures,community, aesthetics (art, architecture, music, dance), cuisine, mythology, ethics, manners,festivals and holidays, and fashion. Cultural aspects should be meticulously used to influence thedesign, usage, and purpose of the product from the conceptual stage of design, rather than assuperficial or last-minute additions. This individual project consists of three parts (creativeideation and sketching, 3D CAD
Knowledge creation and synthesis are the core of research. How we engage in research orknowledge creation is deeply intertwined with our experiences and the language we use to makesense of the world around us. For us, the co-authors of this paper, the triad concept of Kaya(Body), Vacha (Speech), and Manas (Mind) in the Indian philosophy of ethics and spiritualitypoints to the interdependence of experience, language, and knowledge. Lakoff and Johnson [1]present the same idea as the core motivation for their germinal book Metaphors We Live By; theysuggest that dominant views on meaning-making in Western philosophy and linguistics areinadequate for the way we understand our world and ourselves. They propose that our languageshapes the way we think
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women students’ sense of belonging in engineering. In addition to hiringmore women faculty, Ethiopian universities may want to infuse professional development effortsthat enhance ethics, professionalism, and democratic culture (especially for men students andmen faculty), this implies creating a harassment-free culture. Thus, the engineering college, theuniversity, and the government of Ethiopia may listen to the women students’ advice andrecommendations to improve women students’ sense of belonging to make engineering a saferand more inclusive space for all students.AcknowledgmentsMany thanks to the faculty: Drs. Brooke Coley, Debalina Maitra, and a graduate student, BalaVignesh Sundaram for insightful feedback that helps us to improve the
, Dr. Hughes Miller works to improve diversity in STEM, analyzes the problem of gendered violence, and deconstructs policy representations of bad mothers. She has pub- lished three co-edited books: Addressing Violence Against Women on College Campuses (Temple, 2017), Bad Mothers: Representations, Regulations and Resistance (Demeter, 2017), and Alliances for Advanc- ing Academic Women: Guidelines for Collaborating in STEM (Sense, 2014). Her current collaborative project is to learn more about the development of STEM students’ ethical identities (NSF, PI=Centeno and Reeves). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
process named life-cycle assessment. Sylvia Wynter’s articulation and historicaltracing of Man as homo oeconomicus, the overrepresented white Western Bourgeois man fixated onmaterial accumulation, as the present dominant and referent construction (genus) of human being inGlobal Racial Empire gives insight into these death-making distortions [3, 4]. LCAs are highly valued inhomo oeconomicus social infrastructures owing to symbolic life being understood as materialaccumulation. This representation is legitimized through quantification of energy and material flows in LCA.Quantification is used as a data interpretation strategy to remove an emphasis on ethical thinking andfocus on the correctness of a measurement, see Figure 1a. Figure 1a
focused on developing higher reliability Technical Language Models (TLMs) which are essentially knowledge-graph backed LLMs that can pinpoint where information was drawn from within a complex information environment. He also works toward improving CS education, broadening participation in computing, and incorporating ethics into CS education.Christopher Isaac Fulton ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 An Experience Report on Reducing Barriers by Removing Prerequisites for a CS 1 Introductory Programming Course Udayan Das† Chris Fulton Mathematics and Computer Science School of Continuing and Professional
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