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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanru Xu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ji’an Liu; YaXuan Wen; Lufan Wang, Florida International University; Yan Wei, Southern University of Science and Technology; Yiming Rong, Southern University of Science and Technology

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engineering education; Higher engineering education; China; Policyshift; Path evolutionIntroductionEngineering is about using technology to solve problems for society [1 , and aboutapplying changing technologies to meet the demands of the increasingly knowledgeable,interconnected, and interdependent human enterprise. Today, human society is facingenormous challenges in terms of climate change, cybersecurity and safety, carbonemission and wars. These, alongside the sci-tech revolution and industrial globaltransformations, have rapidly changed the global landscape of higher engineeringeducation (HEE) [2-3 . Echoing such trends, China is transforming its HEE throughnew engineering education (NEE) initiatives [4 . China has contributed to the

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lianne Cartee, North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Clifford E. Griffin, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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meaningful policyprograms and outcomes. In the process, our broader goal is to introduce and encourage studentsto begin to think in systems, because our traditional mode of problem solving doesn’t allow us tounderstand and engage with the modern world’s complexity, given that our policy interventionsare often ineffective, inefficient, or have an array of unintended, perverse outcomes. [1] A keygoal of this course was to get students to begin thinking in systems to better understand thiscomplexity and to develop meaningful, strategic, and lasting solutions.Our ApproachIn the spring of 2019, we offered the course, Interactions of Science, Engineering and PublicPolicy, to students in the University Honors Program at North Carolina State University with

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Guangpei Chen, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University and Institute of China’s Science, Technology and Education Policy, Zhejiang University; Yingying Qiao, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University and Institute of China’s Science, Technology and Education Policy, Zhejiang University; Yiang Yang

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andEngineering Education” published in the United States in the 1990s[1], STEMeducation has been formally proposed and gradually known to the public as anemerging mode of training innovative talents. As a new wave of the S&T revolutioncharacterized by digitalization, intelligence, and green innovation surges, STEMeducation plays an increasingly important role in the supply of innovative talents.STEM education focuses on real issues, adopts interdisciplinary content arrangement,and emphasizes improving students’ ability to apply multidisciplinary knowledge andstimulating creative thinking. Since STEM education is in line with the practicalneeds of societal development for talent training, it has soon attracted the attention ofgovernments worldwide

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ming Li, Beijing Foreign Studies University; Min Zhao, Graduate School of Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China.

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commonexperience of many countries, and promoted the formation of the Washington Accordand the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education. As arelatively mature means, the program accreditation system of engineering educationhas become the basic mechanism for many countries to ensure the quality ofengineering education. Currently, the global engineering education accreditationembodies diversified development trend, i.e., outcome-orientation, internationalconnection, continuous improvement, industry-university cooperation [1].Undoubtedly, there are differences amongst the engineering education accreditationsystem of different countries. Especially, the Anglo-Saxon program accreditationsystem represented by the U.S. and U.K. is rooted in

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Diversity

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” to the carepenalty is not the exclusion of caring from engineering. Rather the solution must includethe innovation of properly pricing and incorporating “caring” as a “quality factor” ofengineering work. This solution should include compensation with an appropriatefinancial wage (or alternative employment benefit for caring service provided).BackgroundFrom before 2002 through after 2013, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) ofthe United States of American undertook an intentional effort to “rebrand” theengineering profession [1, 2, 3]. The result, the “Changing the Conversation Campaign”,was intended to raise public awareness of engineering, to increase the total number ofengineers, and to recruit historically underrepresented groups to

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard J. Puerzer, Hofstra University; David M. Rooney, Hofstra University

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is that faculty willbe most active as teachers, not as forefront researchers. The latter is seen as a bonus, and thepossibility of working with a faculty member on research projects is particularly attractive tohighly motivated students, but the nature of these projects is also different from what a doctoralstudent can be expected to execute, and the likelihood of the work attracting funding iscorrespondingly diminished. As Hardin and Hodges (2006) observe, while Tier 1 engineeringprograms view research as a multi-year continuously funded enterprise, smaller schools view itas a largely summer-bounded effort.Because of these and other academic environmental factors, administrators and tenurecommittees evaluating the progress of a tenure track

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Syed Ali Kamal, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Matilde Luz Sánchez-Peña, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Ahmed Ashraf Butt, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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worked as a lecturer for two years at the University of Lahore, Pakistan. Additionally, he has been associated with the software industry in various capacities, from developer to consultant. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Native and Immigrant students: An Analysis of Wellbeing using PISA 2018IntroductionThe United States of America currently hosts the largest immigrant population in the world withalmost 46.6 million people who were not born in the country [1]. Moreover, the immigrantpopulation in the USA is also very diverse with people belonging to almost all countries of theworld. In recent years due to the global political climate and regional conflicts in many parts ofthe world

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel A. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE); Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

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increase engagement in science, technology, engineering, and math(STEM). Recent studies have made significant advances in unveiling LGBTQ+ inequities andmarginalization in STEM, such as disparate retention rates in STEM educational programs [1] andprofessional devaluation [2]. These emerging studies suggest that the LGBTQ+ community ismarginalized and that the LGBTQ+ community should be included in efforts to broaden participation inSTEM.Suitably, the number of grants awarded to study and support the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,and queer (LGBTQ+) community in STEM fields has grown over the past few decades. For example, in2020, the NSF awarded the first-ever CAREER grant that explicitly included the acronym “LGBTQ” in theproposal title

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kacey Beddoes, San Jose State University; Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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asked based onresponses given. The structured prompts for all participants included: 1) Please tell me about thechallenges you have experienced accessing or utilizing mental health related services through youruniversity counseling center?; 2) Please tell me about the challenges you have experienced whentrying to access or use mental health related accommodations through your university disabilityservices center?; 3) Please tell me about the challenges you have experienced when trying torequest informal accommodations from an instructor for mental health related issues?; 4) Can youtell me about the stigma you have experienced as an engineering student related to a mental healthissue?; and 5) Is there anything else you think I should know about