Conference Session

Transformative and Just Futures in Engineering (Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division ECSJ Technical Session 11)

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

disrupt inequities. Manywidely used AI tools, such as ChatGPT, are trained on massive proprietary datasets controlled byprivate corporations, raising questions about data security, bias, and accessibility. These concernsare particularly pressing in education, where AI’s role in student and faculty interactions must becritically examined. Without transparent and equitable governance, AI risks reinforcing existingpower imbalances rather than dismantling them.By centering only on the technical aspects of AI, we risk unintended consequences that reinforcesystemic inequities, creating outcomes that disproportionately harm marginalized groups. Someresearchers are exploring ethics, bias, and social responsibility regarding AI [5]. In this practicepaper

Conference Session

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clay Walker, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

technology, but also reported theoutputs generated by the algorithm were not sophisticated enough to be useful for completingcoursework. The question of sophistication is difficult to pin down due to the rapid developmentof the technology, for within the first year of public access, the power of widely availablecommercial platforms like ChatGPT have continued to develop in power and sophistication withthe problems of hallucination and accuracy diminishing as many of the algorithms now haveaccess to the internet, thus further edifying the outputs generated by the AI.Despite these nascent discussions of student impacts, one issue missing from conversationsaround GenAI are the impacts they are likely going to have on how students develop

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mariana A. Alvidrez; Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El Paso; Elaine Hampton; Mary K. Roy; Tomas Sandoval; Andrea Villagomez

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

become whistleblowers be taken seriously, or not [7]; • Is the Amazon machine-learning algorithm used for recruiting discriminatory against women, or not [8]; • Should controversial public people be banned from Twitter and other social media platforms, or should the First Amendment protect them [9]; and • Should ChatGPT be embraced in school settings, or should it be banned [10], [11]. Acknowledging the relevance of ethics in CS education is not a novelty. In 1972, ACMreleased and adopted the first Code of Professional Conduct [12], with its last revision releasedin 2018 [13]. Discussions of professional and social responsibility in CS education have beenpart of professional forums for decades [14]. The 2017-2018