Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aubrey Wigner, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines; Catherine Chase Corry, Colorado School of Mines; Julianne Stevens, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

recognize ourwork will not be complete before making our initial recommendations to the director and studentworkers in the makerspace, we feel the right time to engage in inclusive community building andnorm setting is when a makerspace is first opening. Thus, our initial findings and early-stagerecommendations will be shared midway through this study. In year two, we plan to conductfollow up interviews to track the results of our suggested interventions on the makerspace’sculture in terms of inclusion and exclusion. We imagine the second round of interviews may alsoreveal new areas of importance that we may have missed in our initial round of interviewcollection. Further literature grounding will also occur in year two.To better understand how to

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Figard, Arizona State University; Abimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University; Marcus Melo de Lyra, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

participation in equitable design interventions. Our ScLR revealed that engineering faculty may have challenges when planning andimplementing equitable design teaching interventions. As higher education institutions seek todiversify their population and graduate professionals able to address the changing landscape ofglobal issues, they must equip their faculty with the tools to continually integrate critical socialreflection into their teaching. Faculty must also be supported in the process of implementingthose innovations in their courses and curricula. Since students may not be used to integratingsocial reflection in the design process, course evaluations can be impacted negatively. Furtherinvestigation into ways to reduce potential students