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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon D. Barker, University of Virginia; Kenya Crosson, University of Dayton; Victoria E Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Jordan Jarrett, P.E., Colorado State University

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; f) healthand biomedical workforce disparities; g) differences in patient perspectives on health care; and h)cultural norms and their effects on health care [4].Several academic programs have attempted to incorporate healthcare disparities content into theirundergraduate coursework, particularly at minority-serving institutions. For example, at CityCollege of New York, a Hispanic-serving institution, undergraduate biomedical engineeringstudents engage in healthcare disparities challenges through curricular modules, researchinitiatives and design projects [6] – [7]. Additionally, the HBCU University of D.C. uses a seminarseries to integrate the physiological determinants of health and social determinants of health. Atthe University of

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Scanlon, University of Connecticut; Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut; Arash Esmaili Zaghi, P.E., University of Connecticut; Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut; Rachael Gabriel, University of Connecticut

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beach.Ms. Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut Constance M. Syharat is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation” and In- novations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the Creativity of the Professional Workforce”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also has served as Program Assistant for an summer pro- gram in engineering for middle school students with ADHD. Previously, she spent

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Innovating Inclusivity: Rethinking Access and Empowerment in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Udayan Das, Saint Mary's College of California; Christopher Isaac Fulton

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that most students are prepared to study programming at a CS 1 levelright away provided there are appropriate teaching and learning methodologies applied. At Loyolaand Saint Mary’s College the change to the prerequisite is coupled with peer tutoring; activelearning; project-based learning; and strong student support through academic advising, coursetouchpoints, and student success coaches. Evolution. There is an evolution in progress as far as what prerequisites are required tobegin a CS 1 programming course. As In a survey scan, we found that 30% of institutions havelimited or no prerequisites 1 required for students starting a CS 1. This no prerequisite approach isconsistent with our experience and the purpose of this experience report

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Choi Ausman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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ResearchIn order to get a baseline and rough draft of developing a research design for a larger project, thegraduate student, first author, developed a pilot study. Pilot studies have been useful forqualitative researchers to develop and refine a study’s research design, conceptualize theresearch topic, and interpret the findings and results [2,9]. Researchers have discussed theunderutilized nature of pilot studies and how they can help foreshadow research gaps andproblems [2]. Creswell and Creswell suggest utilizing pilot testing to refine questions andprocedures during the interview process [10]. Ismail et al. identify two major reasons as to whyquantitative research utilizes pilot studies more than qualitative research [11]. First, pilot

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 7

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenya Z Mejia, University of Washington; Hailee Kenney, University of Washington; Tiffany Dewitt, University of Washington; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

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how to behave, succeed, and interact. Inengineering specifically, this can be seen in how traditionally, there have been lecture stylecourses where students are listening to learn, whereas in other disciplinary domains, like thehumanities, discussions are a part of how the learning is done. Other discipline specific rulesinclude how learning is measured, such as exams, projects, like in engineering or even aperformance piece, such as in an art discipline.StructuralIn the structural domain, institutions have policies and procedures that benefit some and notothers. In higher education, these policies and procedures include admissions processes andrequirements, defined by the institution itself.The structural domain of power is relevant as the

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Empowering Change: Cultivating Inclusive and Sustainable Futures in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Lynn Miles, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Alexandra Schindel, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Kate Haq, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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these five features by conceptually grounding our ownpractices in alignment with the EJ principles and movement.Our conceptualization of EJE prioritizes: Commitment to Social Justice: Engineering educators can demonstrate their commitment to social justice by integrating discussions on principles such as equity, diversity, and inclusion into engineering ethics courses and professional development workshops. They can also design engineering projects that specifically address social disparities in access to technology and infrastructure, focusing on solutions that benefit underserved communities. Moreover, advocating for diversity and inclusion within the engineering profession is essential, requiring

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Charting Inclusivity: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Technology in Engineering and Computing Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Halpern, University of New Hampshire; Mariah Arral, Carnegie Mellon University; Cassandra Michelle Lafleur, University of New Hampshire; Sarah Young; Elise Baribault, University of New Hampshire; Julianna Gesun, University of New Hampshire

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had agreater reported percentage (90%) of strongly agreed or agreed that “the amount of time I spenddoing research is meaningful” compared to NT participants (72%) (Figure 3F). More surveydata is available in Appendix A and included questions that did not see differences like “Mymentor explains clear goals and direction for my research/project,” and “I have a lot of personalinfluence in my research” (Appendix A, Figure 7).Overall, the students surveyed had a relatively positive experience. The largest amount ofdisagreement came from the question “I have a lot of personal influence in my research,” whichwas ~15% of undergraduate researchers (Appendix A, Figure 7). This fits with the commonmode of providing project-oriented goals to

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Reimagining Pathways: Nurturing Diversity and Identity in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dylan Oliver Scheller, Colorado State University; Julia Schimmels, Colorado State University; Jordan Jarrett, Colorado State University

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staffed with volunteers and eventleaders and correspond regularly with the Volunteer Coordinator to ensure all participants havecompleted the background check process.The Financial Officer will maintain all accounts related to STEM 4 Kids’ activity and ensure allmoney is accounted for in and out of accounts. They are responsible for keeping and maintainingan excel spreadsheet of all event expenses, discovering new ways to access money or seeksponsorship, creating budgets for potential projects and ensuring all money needed for said eventis available, and filing away all receipts and invoices for expenditures in a centralized location.The Secretary is responsible for organizing and retaining club information and for facilitatingclub-to-student

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Redefining Inclusivity: Embracing Neurodiversity in Engineering and Computing Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Delanie Robertson, Clemson University; Leila Elizabeth Williams; Kylie Nicole Avitabile, Clemson University; D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University

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accessibility to assistive resources [2].This recognition sparked the interest of an undergraduate student club at a Land Grant, CarnegieR1 institution focused on connecting and supporting neurodivergent learners at the school. Fromthis club, a longer-term collaborative research project has developed in a course-basedundergraduate research experience [3]. Through our ongoing investigation into neurodiversity,student researchers pursue individual topics of interest related to the central theme ofneurodivergent learners.Before the start of the study, the authors of this paper explored the subject during a summerpre-freshman research experience, preparing for the course-based experience in the Fall 2023semester. During the first semester of this study

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Engineering a Just Future: Cultivating Equity, Voice, and Community in Technical Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelyn Rola, Southern Methodist University; Hannah Louis, Southern Methodist University; Alain Mota, Southern Methodist University; Kathy Michelle Hubbard, Southern Methodist University

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emphasis on Higher Education. Dr. Rola’s professional efforts focus on promoting equity, inclusion, and student success in higher education. Her research projects center on supporting traditionally underrepresented students in engineering, inclusive teaching practices in engineering, social justice education in predominantly White contexts, student well-being and thriving, and navigating the hidden curriculum as a first-generation student.Hannah Louis, Southern Methodist UniversityMr. Alain Mota, Southern Methodist University Alain Mota is the Program Manager at the Caruth Institute for Engineering Education. In this role, he works across projects supporting the research and implementation goals of several efforts at the

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tomeka Carroll, University of Virginia; Diana Marcela Franco Duran, University of Virginia; Lindsay Ivey Burden

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, experience and imagine. Their decisions havean impact beyond the end users of their creations, which gives their work broader socialimplications. The breath of one’s knowledge, stemming from individual or group experiences,encompass a multitude of factors such as ability, socioeconomic status, gender and race – isoften overlooked in the decision-making process. If there is failure to consider the experiences ofall stakeholders when considering the design, implementation, and execution of projects, thereare lasting negative effects. A good example of this phenomenon was the construction of theCross Bronx Expressway [6] which was built between 1948 and 1972. When Robert Mosesenvisioned it, he had no regard for the fact that the proposed location of

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 5

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joey Valle, Purdue University; Nafissa Aïda Maïga; Roshan Krishnan; Jessica Ng; John Mulrow

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transportation systems is driving a significantly increasing demand forminerals critical to the construction of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) like lithium and cobalt. As thepredominant electrochemical energy storage technology for EVs, the demand for LIBs has tripled from2015 to 2020, and it is expected to grow to “2.2 million tons by 2030” [10]. One means of projecting andlegitimizing the notion that transitioning to electrified transportation systems improves quality of life andis sustainable is through the use of life-cycle assessment (LCA). Yet there are a plethora of crucial factorsLCA either has not or cannot consider [11, 12]. In this paper, we leverage an interwoven framework ofabolition, degrowth, and environmental justice to elucidate nominally

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Inclusive Dialogues and Adaptations in Engineering Education: Navigating Uncertainty and Leveraging AI for Student Success

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sourojit Ghosh, University of Washington

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engineering classesbased on an interview with an instructor of an engineering course at my University, as well as myown experiences in the same role. I present experiences over five courses, four throughself-reflection and one from an interview, adapting an approach from Coppola and Turns [11]. Course C1 was an undergraduate class on Introduction to User Centered Design, a32-student course for which I was the instructor in Fall 2022. This project-based course walkedstudents through the user centered design process [40] starting from project ideation through userresearch all the way until prototyping and user testing, and was typically taken by sophomoresand juniors having just been admitted into the major. Course C2 was an undergraduate course

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sara Jordan-Bloch, Stanford University

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location—specifically, moving closer to senior leaders or farther away from them—are related to getting apromotion and/or getting assigned to a new manager (i.e., getting “re-org’ed”). We ask whetherthese relationships differ by gender and race, and consider how these relationships havesignificant consequence for gender and racial equality at this and similar companies. Ourfindings suggest that in our focal early-career cohort, White men have a reporting advantagerelative to all other race/gender groups over just a three-year span, especially in supportengineering and project management positions.As we consider our findings in context of sociological understandings of organizationalinequality, we look ahead to conversation with engineering faculty

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaping Li, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Mark Mills, University of Michigan

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becoming a focal point in research addressingequity and social justice in higher education [9], but not yet in most peer assessment work.In this project, we apply intersectionality as a critical theory and approach [10] to guide ourexamination to identify marginalized engineering students in college course teams, recognize theinequalities they potentially experience in teamwork and peer assessment, and improve theirlearning experiences and well-being. Following Else-Quest and Hyde’s three essential elementsfor intersectional research, our study simultaneously examines multiple social categories (e.g.,gender and race), delves into power dynamics and inequality rooted in interconnected socialcategories, and recognizes the fluidity of these

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Engineering Futures: Navigating the Pathways of Education, Inclusion, and Professional Growth

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sara Jordan-Bloch, Stanford University

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them to positive careeroutcomes.Building from synergistic resources we developed and presented at the ASEE annual meeting in2023, we seek to connect these findings to continued resource development for engineeringstudents and faculty. With tools and worksheets created on the basis of this and related research,our aim is to equip soon-to-be-professionals, and their mentors and teachers, with insights toadvocate for better and more equitable workplace practice.2.0 Background of the Study2.1 Stretch assignments: Definition and dimensionsIn a larger employment context where workers, especially technical knowledge workers, areexpected to manage their own ‘portfolio careers’ and are increasingly commodified as the sum oftheir projects, developmental

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 4

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Masta, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Janelle Grant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Darryl Dickerson, Florida International University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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awards, leadership awards, teaching and mentoring awards, and a PECASE in 2012. She is strongly involved in Purdue’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Her research group’s diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. Email: apawley@purdue.edu ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 On faculty responsibility for increasing students’ sense of support in the classroom: lessons from I-MATTER about Black and Brown studentsAbstractTeaching engineering students how to work in teams is necessary, important, and hard to do well.Minoritized students experience forms of marginalization from their

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ingrid Scheel, Oregon State University; Rachael E. Cate, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University

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Paper ID #37342Talking Tech: How Language Variety in Engineering Curriculum InstructionCan Ease Delivery and Engage StudentsIngrid Scheel, Oregon State University Ingrid Scheel is a Project Instructor at Oregon State University. She works to teach from an integrated sociotechnical perspective in engineering science and design courses. Her focus is systems engineering and program management. Scheel has experience in small business strategic planning and risk assessment, designing and deploying fiber optic sensors and sensing systems, prototype development, instrumentation, data acquisition and analysis, and reporting

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 4

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Selyna Perez Beverly, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Donald L. Gillian-Daniel

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Development in UW–Madison College of En- gineering’s Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in Engineering (IEDE) Office, and the Assistant Director of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). Don also serves as PI and co-PI of multiple NSF-funded projects, including: the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance, the NSF IUSE: Inclusive STEM Teaching Project, and the NSF LEAPS: EVOLVED project. He received his Ph.D. in Cell & Molecular Biology (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and B.S. in Biology (Bucknell University). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Creating Inclusivity in Engineering Teaching and Learning Contexts: Adapting the Aspire

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Bridging Cultures, Advancing Justice: Fostering Inclusion and Sustainability in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kian G. Alavy, The University of Arizona; Matthieu Bloch, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gregory L. Heileman, The University of Arizona; Benjamin Richmond, The University of Arizona; Ahmad Slim, The University of Arizona; Mitchell L R Walker II, Georgia Institute of Technology; David Ruiter, University of California, San Diego

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] • Endorsed by top academic administrators at each institution, this Form a powerful study has a coalition to guide it. guiding coalition • Utilize learning communities that include faculty at all participating institutions in each of the engineering disciplines. • While this study has formed an overarching vision to build a Develop a vision framework to improve equity in engineering, this project utilizes and strategy learning communities to allow faculty to be the catalyst in developing a vision and strategy for change using the data we collect Communicate the • The overarching vision and plan were communicated to faculty by

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Bridging Cultures, Advancing Justice: Fostering Inclusion and Sustainability in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Andrés Cristancho, Purdue Engineering Education; Leonardo Pollettini Marcos, Purdue University; eugene leo draine mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio Community College and Purdue University

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dialogue to incorporate other ways of knowing and being, and finally applying whatthey have learned to their engineering work.ModulesDevelopment of the modulesThis work is meant to help instructors promote questions, activities, and conversations aroundsocial and environmental justice. We intend to provide instructors with tools to raise awarenessof the social and environmental implications of our engineering work, promote dialogue to shareideas and understandings of critical thinking around the engineering work, and find ways toapply the discoveries to team classroom activities and projects. At the individual or self-level, theinstructor is whom initially uses the framework to adapt their own beliefs to their class activities.Then, the instructor

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 5

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Desen Sevi Ozkan, Tufts University; Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech

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students read, reflect, and discuss various equity and justice-themedarticles. The second is four weeklong projects over the semester that require a sociotechnicalperspective to complete. Lastly, students complete an open-ended final project that requiresattention to equity dimensions in each project step. This paper will examine the students’responses to the weekly discussion reading on environmental racism.In this study, we focus on one week in which students read and reflected on two articles. Onewas an article from The Atlantic, titled “A New EPA Report Shows that Environmental Racismis Real” (Newkirk II, 2018). The other was an article from Vox titled, “There’s a clear fix tohelping Black communities fight pollution” (Ramirez, 2021). The

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 5

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nivedita Kumar, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University

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consideration of thestories we tell as scholars and helps move us towards more critical and nuanced modes ofrepresenting our participants.The Danger of a Single StoryIn her TED talk, Adichie describes how western media project the narrative of African countries.As a child, Adichie read many American and British books where the characters drank gingerbeers, talked about the weather, and had snow, which wasn’t typical in a country like Nigeria.These books opened new worlds for Adichie as a kid and her imagination of how these countrieslooked like. But as she grew up and discovered African books, she related more to them andrecognized herself in them. When she came to the US to attend university, her roommate wasshocked by Adichie’s English-speaking

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 6

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida; Homero Murzi, Virginia Tech; Marisela Martinez-Cola

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about therole that these faculty can play in advocating for themselves towards work justice while beingsupported structurally in doing so. The purpose of this paper is to share how a structural mentoring hub for BIPOCxcontingent faculty in engineering was conceived and designed. While the mentoring hub is yet tobegin, the authors believe that sharing their conception process, that led to an NSF-funded project,can better support others to create similar types of initiatives at their home institutions. The 1mentoring hub, called Raíces (or roots in Spanish) Institute for Transformative Advocacy (RITA;Figure 1) is anticipated to start later

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Breaking barriers, building futures: Narratives of equity and inclusion in STEM education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Stewart Thomas, Bucknell University; Rebecca Thomas, Bucknell University

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practices that impact design decisions and processes. Studentsuse system maps to identify ways design projects can impact on society in ways that have bothpositive and potentially negative consequences. Qualitative analysis of student artifacts over fivecourse iterations was used in an action research approach to refine how to effectively integratesystem map representations that capture societal issues and address issues of justice. Actionresearch is an iterative methodology that utilizes evidence to improve practice, in this case theimproving students’ facility with, and conceptions of, the societal impact of engineering work.This practice-focused paper reports on how system maps can be used in engineering and whatsupporting practices, e.g

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Engineering a Just Future: Cultivating Equity, Voice, and Community in Technical Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University; Theo Sorg, Purdue University; Hector Enrique Rodríguez-Simmonds, Boston College; Sage Maul, Purdue University; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University; Taylor V. Williams, Harding University

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Professor in Human-Centered Engineering at Boston College. Before receiving his Ph.D. in Engineering Education, he earned his master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering. H´ector’s research primarily investigates how students negotiate their visible and less visible identities as they form their professional identity, specifically at the intersection of their racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and engineering identities. H´ector’s research projects range from autoethnographic inquiries that investigate culturally informed collaborative qualitative research spaces, neurodivergence and disability in engineering, and examining the structural factors that impact student experiences in computer engineering

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Charting Inclusivity: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Technology in Engineering and Computing Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tyrine Jamella Pangan, Tufts University; Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University

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class.Background and Literature ReviewUndergraduate engineering students are often assigned classwork, homework, and projects thatrequire them to work in teams or small groups with other students. In engineering designcourses, team projects are particularly ubiquitous, in part because collaboration is consideredcentral to professional engineering design practice and an essential skill for future designengineers to learn (Lingard & Barkataki, 2011). However, a substantial body of literature onundergraduate student teams in engineering design classes shows that effective collaborativepractices are not automatic for students, and there is a wide range in student competencies atestablishing effective communication processes, psychological safety, and

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 6

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meaghan Pearson, University of Michigan; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jacqueline Handley, University of Michigan; Joi-Lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan

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Choosing Self Care and Preservation: Examining Black Women STEM Faculty’s Decision to Pursue Entrepreneurship Education ProgrammingAbstractDespite recent STEM diversity initiatives, there still exists structural barriers on who can pursuetheir STEM aspirations. The lack of diversity in STEM fields hinders individual self-actualization and economic advancement as well as STEM innovation efforts. Notably, Blackwomen remain underrepresented in STEM higher education and academic entrepreneurship. Thegoal of this project is to increase the understanding of the entrepreneurship-related experiencesof Black women in STEM higher education. Specifically, we examine how the erasure andmarginalization of Black women in STEM academic entrepreneurship

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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YaXuan Wen, Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yanru Xu; Ji’an Liu

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effort in this regard.2.2 the OIPI initiative’s practice detailThe OIPI stands for Open platform, Individualized pathways, Project-based learning, andInductive tutoring. The OIPI initiative was launched by one of China’s elite universities(S University afterwards) in 2019, seeking to broaden the participation of higherengineering education in China, especially in the field of electronic design[13]. Toachieve this, it aims to, on the one hand, widen the accessibility of students enrolled innon-elite universities to high-quality educational opportunities; on the other hand, supportthese students’ self-forming agency to acquire desired academic success, which means totape out in this initiative.1Open platform consists of ‘open in’, ‘open resources

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Bridging Cultures, Advancing Justice: Fostering Inclusion and Sustainability in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raul Mishael Sedas, Caltech; LIGO

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everyday ingenuity. This project positioned bothparticipants and the author as co-designers of a workshop prototype, targeting younger MexicanAmerican youth as our future users.BackgroundGrowing up as a quiet kid in Mexico, I loved spending my free time assembling and paintingmodel airplanes and one day, I decided to make my own. I built the cylindrical body of the planeby experimenting with a discarded soda bottle and papier-mâché, a crafting technique I hadlearned in school to make piñatas. I used a few leftover materials and a couple of common tools.I made the wings from cardboard and used some leftover paint to match the design of a Mexicanairline. When it was finished days later, I beamed with pride at my creation and my parentspraised my