beenpreviously documented in ASEE Prism [1], which is quoted below. “ASEE President Sheryl Sorby’s speech at the 2020 Annual Conference outlined a vision for both the organization and engineering education that reflects more diversity and equity. In light of this vision, as well as the societal momentum toward dismantling White supremacy and racism, ASEE has launched a Year of Impact on Racial Equity. Many aspects of engineering culture have origins and practices that center Whiteness and exclusivity. However, we are all caretakers of this culture and can either protect exclusionary traditions or strategically design models that better meet the diverse challenges and needs of our society. In order to
by white men [5]. Given that white males have maintained a position ofdominance in STEM, they can use this privilege and power in addressing the concerns statedabove. In particular, white men can recognize, and act against inequity both in their classes, aswell as overall systemic inequity in STEM departments [4]. However, disruption of privilegecannot occur without continuous reflection on their whiteness, and significant engagement withpeers and students of color [17], [18]. There is a paucity of research reporting on the structuralinequity in STEM fields [5]. The goal of this paper is to explore how collaboration between aBlack and white scholar on an equity-focused research project can inform racial allyship in whitemen within the
learner-centered pedagogies [4]. Through interactions, self-reflection, andcritical introspection, the participants contribute to the collective creation of knowledge [4].Research suggests that the resources movement actors gain access to might be closely related tothe structure of learning itself. For example, Cornfield and colleagues [5] find that activists of theNashville nonviolent civil rights movement relied on nonlinear and iterative processes ofcollective learning to design and implement action. Leaders of the Highlander Folk School, acritical center that trained and empowered many activists during the Civil Rights movement [11],relied on experts and guest speakers to deliver content to the participants, but they also usedtechniques such
andtransdisciplinary course focused on engineering health equity. Using equity pedagogy, theinstructors aim to create a learning environment and learning objectives that will support studentsto become reflective and critical citizens that can help build a just society (McGee Banks andBanks, 1995). Moreover, a transdisciplinary framework with student-centered strategies toaddress social and structural determinants that influence health structures, systems, andtechnologies at an undergraduate level offers a holistic opportunity to explore complex globalproblems (Velez et al., 2022).Related WorkHealth equity courses have been implemented at the graduate level at the University of TexasAustin (Lanier et al., 2022), senior undergraduates and early graduate
colonnades of oppression.Critical consciousness seeks to share power with those who are socially, historically, andpolitically oppressed in ways that they not only recognize but challenge unjust systems. Developing critical consciousness cannot be based solely on training or competence [5].As Freire argues, “to affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, andyet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation as reality, is a farce” [15, p. 50]. Thus,altering the conditions students of Color find in STEM requires reflection, engagement, andaction toward social justice goals from those with power. By establishing a criticalconsciousness as the foundation, allies can effectively work toward multicultural competency.These
-basedbystander training; self reflections on microaggressions and implicit bias; and in-class teamexercises and discussions on the intersection of power dynamics, team interactions, anddiscrimination, as well as strengthening empathy though a recognition of societal privilege andeconomics factors. Throughout these trainings, activities, and discussions, an emphasis is placedon development of concrete actions that students can take within their current and future teams topromote an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe environment for all members.As implementation of these active learning techniques to DEI concepts within the seniorundergraduate aerospace capstones is a relatively new update to the curriculum, development ofmetrics to gauge
highlight a small fraction of this new body ofwork, where students begin to engage in discussion of ARDEI concepts and ARDEI context istaught explicitly in engineering courses or is included in engineering problem solving.Some educators have begun adding context to show the connections between engineering andsociety to engineering examples, homework, and textbook problems that have traditionallyfocused on the technical aspects of engineering problem solving. Hirschfield and Mayes capturestudent interest in a chemical engineering kinetics course by using tangible examples of baking,antifreeze, and flame retardants, and asking students to reflect on the ethical considerationspresent in the design and use of these chemicals [14]. Riley’s
international development often reinforce structures of marginalization, we are vigilant andcritical in implementing this curriculum and seek to minimize the imposition of hegemonicways of knowing, doing, and being. Our pedagogical framework of Localized Engineering inDisplacement is grounded in principles of social justice and critical pedagogy [8]. Theframework centers the local knowledge of the community and empowers displaced studentsto be learners, leaders, and citizens [8]. In DeBoer et al. [8], we describe this framework, itsoutcomes for students, and its impact on the community.In this paper, we explore the drivers of relevant curricular design and share how the LEDcurriculum has evolved over the past seven years through reflection and action
engineering and that engineering can only be done by specific peoplethat subscribe to masculinity. Therefore, making presents opportunities for them to challenge thedominant perspectives in engineering that are marginalizing. Making affords learnersopportunities to relate to and see themselves in engineering work.In this work in progress, we present the case of Sarah, an undergraduate student in mechanicalengineering, whose relationship with engineering was once impacted by the marginalizingnarratives. Yet, she (re)negotiated those relationships through a university course that providedher a space to reflect on her experiences in making and how those experiences contribute to herlearning in engineering. Through this case study, we hope to provide
limitations of the self-efficacy construct have been identified. Onesuch is a critique that the construct serves more as a reflection of motivation rather than adeterminant and therefore researchers should endeavor to understand the various sources of self-efficacy in greater depth in order to interpret its meaning [5]. These insights motivate a deeperinvestigation into the relevance of self-efficacy in this context.Our students’ transformation as they undergo design-build experiences is likely multi-faceted. Aseeming increase in confidence, ergo self-efficacy, stood out in the lead author’s initialobservations. Through reflection and discussion with colleagues at the university, two otherpossible experiences emerge for investigation. Students may be
[35], life sciences [36], engineering [37], and computer scienceteacher education [38]. Through the implementation of these pedagogies in the leadership course, the instructorssought to develop in CS students an awareness of the impact of technological advances insociety, an increase in confidence, and a sense of empowerment in their ability to handle conflictin a positive manner as they develop into future computing professionals. The pilot leadershipcourse integrated cooperative principles in all classroom activities, in particular, the purposefuland intentional development of skills for leadership. Komives et al. [3] argue the importance ofthese skills for leadership, especially perspective-taking, communication, reflection
the classroom and what beliefs they specifically draw upon to create instructional movesfor more equitable spaces. Fifty written reflections were analyzed from LAs from twoinstitutions who taught various STEM courses, including: chemical engineering, biologicalengineering, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, chemistry, and biology. Thesereflections detail their thoughts about a chapter in Ilana Horn’s book [7], which discusses what itmeans to be “smart” in a mathematics classroom and ways to create instructional moves thatpromote more equitable learning environments and mitigate status differences. The concept ofsocial status was originally defined by Max Weber as cultural capital or otherwise described associetal values [8
electronic displays in student common areas. In thiscourse, interdisciplinary engineering students will work with non-engineering students inmultidisciplinary teams on case studies and projects to learn to identify and apply underst andingof social attributes to engineering problems. Course activities will include lecture to introducesocial and emotional competencies and the principles of user-centered design, case studies tofacilitate discussion of the impact of social attributes on engineering projects in a multicultural andglobal context, and projects using multidisciplinary teams to work with small scale engineerprojects, applying a user-centered design framework. Students will journal to support reflection onsocial and emotional competencies
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
courses (Authors 1 and 2) met every other week to discuss the students’ progress andmake instructional adjustments whenever necessary. By meeting to reflect on the students’progress, professors shared the underlying beliefs that graduate students overwhelmingly held.So, a closer look at the survey data and reflections merited further analysis. The data in theseresults point to some of these deficit ideologies in greater detail.Study LimitationsDue to the nature of the case study design [43] (rather than a case-control design), an appropriatecontrol or comparison group that included funded teaching assistants across the engineeringdisciplines that was not required to take the engineering education course was not identified.This study does not aim
receiving social and cultural capital 3. To engage with extant campus programming that allows participants to reflect, and meaningfully address, factors that contribute to STEM persistence across STEM disciplines. a. Participating faculty have opportunities to participate in campus-wide programming, based on their individual interest, to gain a stronger understanding about the experience of students from minoritized populations to enhance their understanding, and utility, of the content they learn in the professional development experience, and to satisfy their elective requirement. b. To create a sustainable
both chromebooks and Ipads that wereprovided by the research team. The group were split in half to ensure less issues with internetconnectivity, where one group worked on the name tag activity while the other world onanswering the engineering question. Week three consisted of a set of reflection questions intended to help youth identifyproblems they may want to solve by the end of the project workshop. We did this using anotherset of poster boards ideation prompts. The first board prompted youth to walk through their dailyroutine and categorize into six different time periods: waking up, morning, noon, late afternoon,night, and bedtime. Youth were encouraged to add in any parts of their routine for every part ofthe day. Research team
teammembers’ expertise as well as their high level of social perceptiveness, resulting in an increase ofparticipation and a decrease in biases amongst team members [4]. Women working in teams alsodemonstrate higher interactive and co-operative work styles that improve a team’s overallprocesses and management skills. Garcia et al. [5]and Ostergaard et al. [6] found an increase indiverse knowledge and perspectives that originated from different career paths due to thecomposition of gender-diverse teams.Some studies also consider that diversity could create discomfort in teams because social identitypredicts that the difference in knowledge, and experience can make communication difficult andincrease competitiveness [6]. This may be reflected in
development can be developed to supportmore inclusive practices in engineering. According to Grayson [34], engineering education in the United States was founded inthe military to address a pressing need for surveying and construction skills. By World War II,engineering schools in the US enrolled a large number of men and trained them in technicalskills needed for the war. There were very few women or people of color enrolled in engineeringschools, particularly since the military was only composed of White men during this time period.These historical exclusionary roots contributed to the formation of an engineering culture thatwas reflected in its disciplinary norms. Tonso’s [35] work in engineering classrooms in the1990s revealed how
qualitativecomments about each other at 4 points during the term. We tracked patterns of coded languageuse [27] amongst selected teams, and did a deep analysis of how coded language increased inintensity across the term. We also assessed how minoritized teammates indicated warnings oftheir marginalization. We have reported some analysis from these data elsewhere [27], [28], [31].Finally, we conducted a diary study during spring 2022, much delayed from our originaltimeline. We conducted in-person initial interviews with diary participants who were recruitedbased on their self-indicated identities as someone from a historically excluded group inengineering, using the device of a career journey map to structure the conversation. We thenasked them to reflect on
University of Washington. Engineering education is her primary area of scholarship, and has been throughout her career. In her work, she currently focuses on the role of reflection in engineering student learning and the relationship of research and practice in engineering education. In recent years, she has been the co-director of the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE, funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust), a member of the governing board for the International Research in Engineering Education Network, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. Dr. Turns has published over 175 journal and conference papers on topics related to engineering education
Abstract In order to inform a discussion of silenced communities within systemic processes, we examine the ASEE Diversity Recognition Program (ADRP) as a step towards amplifying re- flexive and critical activities already occurring within ASEE. In light of recent concern over the ADRP as a means of disrupting minority marginalization in Engineering Education1 , we reflect on the origins of the program as well as how to proactively shift the program’s cultural context to one of greater criticality about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in engineering, broadly. To investigate this more deeply, our research questions for this study were: What have other organizations used to anoint2 member
questions measure the constructs as intended by the authors. However, themajority of validation studies in engineering education do not look at how items function forsubgroups of learners, particularly different racial, ethnic, and cultural groups [1]. Evenframeworks designed to improve the validity evidence provided regarding an assessment’s score,still leave out evaluations of fairness [2]–[4]. To gain a better understanding of how wellengineering assessment contexts are reflective of the diverse experiences of engineering studentsin the U.S., this work-in-progress paper explores the contexts of concept inventories from asociocultural perspective. The purpose of this WIP paper is to identify contexts that are used in three
influence transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) students’interests in and intentions to pursue engineering? This paper aims to provide preliminary insightsinto TGNC students participating in this course by exploring their unique perspectives. Anunderstanding of TGNC student experiences in the e4usa course will help to improve the course,while also exposing the policies and practices in the field of engineering that continue tomarginalize these students.Limitations We acknowledge our small sample size as a major limitation of this quantitativeexploration of TGNC student experiences in a pre-college engineering course. Our sample size issmall, but it is also unfortunately reflective of the overall TGNC representation in engineering.The
hierarchy, which in turn is responsible for supervising and coordinating the work of subordinates. Employment in a bureaucratic organization is expected to be full time and long term, with opportunities for advancement—in short, a career. (p. 3)In many organizations today, such bureaucratic arrangement has morphed into more flexible and“flat” structures (see [3])—but even within those structures, with smaller manager ranks andfewer hierarchical levels, people report to people, i.e., accountability and decision-makingauthority rolls up from contributor to leader.Overall, these relationships reflect an organization’s reporting structure. A reporting structurecaptures three key features of work: chain of command, span of control, and
a better world. The purpose of this work-in-progress (WIP)paper is to explore the experiences of dis/abled, queer, AFAB1 STEM graduate studentsnavigating a culture of productivity in their educational journey. This WIP paper offers a narrowpreview of the findings in a larger exploratory study. This paper begins to untangle some of theintricacies in a short narrative excerpt through a neoliberal-critical, ableism-critical, and queerlens. This paper offers an invitation to the STEM community to collectively reflect on andengage in conversation regarding our cultural norms and assumptions.IntroductionAcademia has been shaped by a culture of productivity. Responding to the scarcity of resources,postsecondary institutions have embraced
students across both iterations, along with students’ final projects andwritten reflections on the awareness events [8].There was some shift in students’ perceptions of the issue of homelessness. Pre- and post-responses revealed that the deficit perspective that homelessness is the result of inherentindividual characteristics was mostly present in pre-surveys and decreased but did not disappearafter the project [8]. Students' written reflections demonstrated their surprise that their previousnotions of the causes of homelessness and the demographics of individuals experiencinghomelessness were inaccurate or incomplete [31]. However, several students did present acritical and systemic view of social injustices, mostly in their post-responses [8
the only person in a computing class who has my racial identity.3. *I am comfortable discussing topics related to race and racial discrimination with computing department faculty and/or staff who: a. *Have the same racial identity as me b. *Do not have the same racial identity as me4. *I feel like people assume my performance in class reflects my racial group.5. *I feel like I must suppress aspects of myself to be successful in my computing department.Construct 4: Perceptions of Race1. *I consider myself very knowledgeable about topics related to race.2. *Black, Native/Indigenous, and Latinx people are underrepresented in computing majors. Depending on who you ask, some people think it is because of one or more of the
all of our students across the four courses. In a social and political environment thatincreasingly pushed and continues to push for a “return to normal” and reverting to practices thatwere prevalent prior to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic [23], we intended to design aclassroom that would make participation accessible to all students while still meeting courseobjectives. In our assessment of these courses, our personal reflections and indications fromstudent performances and grades reflect that our version of the courses still met establishedlearning objectives and taught students the key skills they needed to get from these courses. Insuch a light, we evaluate the success or failure of our HyFlex modalities. The first and perhaps
, efforts made to diversity campuscannot be chalked up to individual accomplishments or failures, but rather demonstrate howinstitutional cultures determine which policies are adopted and acted upon [13]. We have selected these frameworks to reflect our commitment to better understanding howinstitutions, in conjunction with individual actors, can improve their diversity outcomes.Furthermore, our rationale is to look specifically at the institutional barriers that participantsmention that prevent them from being effective at carrying out diversity work, even if they arecommitted to that effort.Methods, Context and SampleThis paper developed from a larger project aimed at creating a sociotechnical framework toview, analyze and understand the