Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Kusbit Dunn, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

proposal and technical report. The technical report includes a component of each of theprevious assignments – graphics, a definition and a description are all required – and so studentscan learn how these individual pieces of technical writing can function together to form adifferent whole. In the 13th week of class, the content focuses on oral presentations, and studentspresent a five minute oral report on the topic of their technical report. The final week of class isspent reviewing material for the final project, which is a portfolio of the student‘s correctedwork. Throughout the semester, students receive their assignment back with fairly extensivefeedback from the instructor. For the final project, students have to make corrections to

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Disadvantages  Research contracts render  Inappropriate theses if not properly opportunities to render valuable supervised public service, particularly in  Certain types of sponsored research problems of national defense may be more suitable for industrial  Contracts for basic research are organizations with which the desirable as means of building up educational institution should not [the] research atmosphere of the compete institute  Steer project in direction of funding  Research contracts… make it agency interest

Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Isabel Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Kelly J. Cross, University of Nevada, Reno; Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

stresscompared to their peers [8, 9] and may also be less likely to seek out help due to higherperceived stigma [10, 11].Despite the influence of culture in the development of recruitment and retention programs inengineering, limited work has analyzed the effect of cultural differences between engineeringdisciplines on student mental health and the subsequent development of better mental healthprograms. In this project, we seek to bridge this research gap by identifying features ofdisciplinary subcultures in engineering that are correlated to mental health.The present work is part of a larger mixed methods study that seeks to understand the role ofmental health in engineering culture with the ultimate goal of informing proactive interventionsto support

Conference Session

Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bob Schaffer, Mission College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

community, (iii) to promote STEM to under-served communities close to SCU. In additionto the ELSJ learning objectives, this course was designed with the hope that students would also:• Develop educational materials and hands-on STEM activities as a service to the community• Develop project/time management, organizational, and leadership skills.• Develop effective listening/collaboration skills while working with community partners.• Recognize and understand ethical responsibilities of engineers.In the lecture component of the class, students are introduced to concepts that can help themwhen performing their outreach. Specifically, there is a nine-lecture sequence where thefollowing material is discussed:Lecture 1: Introductions, Course

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Catalano, Binghamton University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

developed.My thoughts about modifying the morally deep approach to design occurred concurrently with aservice project at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.5 It was during this period that Ilearned a great deal about the Lakota people and found inspiration in their wisdom tradition.From my perspective, the prayer (Four Directions) and visual metaphor ( Medicine Wheel) theLakota use in explaining life offer one approach to enriching the morally deep world designparadigm in the ways in which I was seeking.Pine Ridge Reservation, and the Wisdom of the Lakota Medicine WheelThe Pine Ridge Indian Reservation) is an Oglala Lakota Native American reservation located inthe U.S. state of South Dakota. Originally included within the territory of the

Conference Session

Innovation and Reflection

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Rieken, Stanford University; Mark Schar, Stanford University; Shauna Shapiro, Santa Clara University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II (CEI-II)which measures one’s “willingness to embrace the novel, uncertain and unpredictable nature ofeveryday life” (Kashdan et al., 2009, p. 995).2.2 Mindfulness and InnovationFor the purposes of this work, and the larger Engineering Majors Survey (EMS) project that thedata stem from, we define innovation as “encompassing skills, attributes, and actions relating tonew designs and solutions that fundamentally depart from, and change thinking about,conventional practice” (Gilmartin et al., 2017, p. 4). Based on the work by Dyer et. al., the EMSdraws on five behaviors to assess innovation: questioning, observing, experimenting, ideanetworking and associative thinking (Dyer, Gregersen, & Christensen, 2008

Conference Session

Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kenneth M. Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Boulder Derek Reamon is the Co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLP) and the En- gineering Plus (e+) degree program, and a Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engi- neering. As ITLP co-director, he coordinates 19-22 sections of First-year Engineering Projects, a course that has a proven benefit on retention within engineering and is also a nationally recognized model for freshman design courses. The e+ program has created a flexible engineering degree and a pathway to sec- ondary math and science teaching licensure, to increase the numbers of STEM teachers that have strong c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan; Heidi M Sherick, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

integrity of the discipline itself. Of course, nearlyhalf a century of science and technology studies scholarship has demonstrated that engineeringwork is always cultural and political: humans make decisions about what projects to pursue andwhat design factors to prioritize amid a complex set of social, political, and cultural demands[e.g., 15-17].Prior research has speculated a possible connection between the prevalence of this ideology andinequality in engineering. Specifically, depoliticization justifies an unequal status quo in theprofession by prescribing broad avoidance of engagement with concerns like inequality within“real” engineering work. This scholarship argues that depoliticization functions as a mechanismsof inequality reproduction at

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engi- neering education innovations. He also does research on the development of reuse strategies for waste materials.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design Center (DC) Colorado in CU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from Louisiana State University, an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

onlyinterest in the topic (and a passionate one), but an education in the humanities” (Kynell, p. 96).Harbarger played several leadership roles in the English Division of the Society for thePromotion of Engineering Education (SPEE) and published widely on the subject of technicalcommunication instruction for engineers. In an article titled “The Qualifications of a Teacher ofEnglish for Engineering Students” (1920) and summarized in a June 1929 report, Harbargerdelineated what might be described as a pyramid of qualifications for success as teacher ofEnglish to engineering students: 1. the personality of the teacher, which obviously affects, 2. the presentation of the material, or the project, and 3. the cooperation of the instructors of the

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott A. Morris, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #16303Don’t Look at Your Shoes! Getting Engineers and Scientists to Engage withAudiencesDr. Scott A. Morris, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Scott A. Morris received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering in1992 from Michigan State University and has worked in industry both directly and as a consultant on a wide range of projects. Based at the University of Illinois since 1992, Dr. Morris developed a nationally-recognized research and teaching program, and was one of the first faculty members to offer asynchronous computer-based online content. Dr. Morris teaches engineering courses both on the Urbana

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

disparate topics in higher education.Beyond the issues of language and business partnerships, additional examples of neoliberalism inhigher education include the lax regulation of for-profit colleges and the cost benefit analysisimplied when politicians like President Obama or Senator Marco Rubio respectively opine thatstudents should forego art history degrees in favor of manufacturing jobs26 or philosophy degreesin favor of welding.27 Regarding for-profit colleges, few things could be more consistent withneoliberalism than the notion of removing governments from the education realm in order toallow private corporations to experiment with their projects as with for-profit colleges. Thedownside arises, in standard fashion, when these institutions

Conference Session

Relationships Between Skills and Knowledge Domains

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zhen Zhao, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

.695 clearly describe their content Writing a memo to inform others about what .513 .526 occurred during a meeting Creating a written instruction of an activity that .486 .486 other people can follow Composing a report that contains at least a title, .453 .459 a table of contents, the main text, and references Speaking in public with calm and ease .951 .810 Using appropriate presentation techniques .764 .786 (e.g., making eye contact with the audience, projecting voice, etc.) Tailoring the tone and content of your message .565 .383 while

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

visits. During the visits to middle and high schools, the Engineering Ambassadors, who are relatable role models, generally provide two types of presentations. Six Ambassadors arrive at the school in the early morning and provide age and subject appropriate presentations and activities that are integrated with the science and math curriculum. Because the Ambassadors present in pairs, they present in up to three parallel classrooms at a time during the school day. The Ambassadors show how engineering is relevant to math and science by highlighting an engineering project such as developing a spinal implant. In addition, the Ambassadors start or conclude the day with a presentation about Engineering

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peggy Layne, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

for water, wastewater, and solid and hazardous waste policy issues. Ms. Layne has degrees in environmental and water resources engineering from Vanderbilt University and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. She spent 17 years as a consulting engineer with several firms, and was formerly a principal at Harding Lawson Associates in Tallahassee, FL, where she managed the office and directed hazardous waste site investigation and cleanup projects. Ms. Layne is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a registered professional engineer. She served as president of the Society of Women Engineers in 1996-97 and is FY11 Chair of SWE’s Government Relations and Public Policy

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Todd Holden, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Raul Armendariz Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Dimitrios S. Kokkinos Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Regina Sullivan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; George Tremberger Jr, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Paul J. Marchese, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; David H. Lieberman, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

. Lieberman, Queensborough Community College, CUNYProf. Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College, CUNY Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. Page 25.1267.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Technological literacy in required science courses for non-STEM students in acommunity college with extension to junior high school environmentAbstractTechnological literacy is an important outcome for a non-STEM student taking a requiredscience course to function effectively in our

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University; Anahita Pakzad, Michigan Technological University; Renee Oats, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

online classroom by way of using other’s opinions or theories, borrowing statisticsor illustrative material, and submitting projects using others’ material withoutacknowledgment8. To this end, it is the instructor’s responsibility to help studentsunderstand the importance of academic integrity8.This discourse provided a background to shape an understanding of the ethical andsocietal implications of internet-based engineering education as summarized throughcurrent literature. Moving forward, the authors summarize the thoughts and opinions ofcurrent undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty members in Mechanical,Civil, Electrical, Chemical, and Environmental Engineering. The opinions were collectedat a medium sized technological

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

AC 2011-2091: EXPLODING PIPELINES: MYTHOLOGICAL METAPHORSSTRUCTURING DIVERSITY-ORIENTED ENGINEERING EDUCATIONRESEARCH AGENDASAlice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Alice L. Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin A. Cech, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

inequality within science and engineering professions. Her current research projects focus on the recruitment and retention of women, Native Americans, and LGBT individuals, and the role of professional cultures in the inequality in STEM. Page 23.1243.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Veiling of Queerness: Depoliticization and the Experiences of LGBT EngineersAbstractThe ideology of depoliticization within the culture of engineering is the belief that “social” issuescan and should be bracketed from the more “technical” aspects of

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College; Victoria Henry, Smith College; Lucia C Leighton, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

project, as there are not existing surveys specific tothese research questions. Because the focus population was engineering thermodynamicsprofessors, it is unlikely that this survey is generalizable to any significant extent.Questions from the survey were organized into five cluster themes: 1) Attitude TowardsThermodynamics Textbooks, 2) Institutional Support of Innovation, 3) Innovation of teachingmethods, 4) Knowledge of Engineering Education, and 5) Institutional prioritization of teaching.Survey questions with directionally negative content were reverse coded and the clusters werethen measured for internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha. Cluster 5, “InstitutionalPrioritization of Teaching Methods” revealed a poor alpha score of .419 and

Conference Session

Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Paula Davis Lampley Esq., University of Cincinnati; Krizia Leonela Cabrera-Toro, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

mathematicsdisciplines (STEM). The number is even smaller for women of color who enter into STEMfields. Based on current projections, it is estimated that by the year 2044, underrepresentedminorities (Black, Hispanic, LatinX and American Indian) will comprise over 50% of the overallpopulation in the U.S. However, underrepresented minority (URM) youth lag significantlybehind their white and Asian American counterparts in their interest in STEM. Lowerrepresentation of URMs in STEM can be attributed to a variety of factors including, a lack ofinstitutional commitment, a lack of representation throughout students’ upbringing, ineffectivecultural recruitment/outreach efforts, educational discrepancies throughout PK-12, and socialexpectations, among others. A large

Conference Session

Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cijy Elizabeth Sunny, Baylor University; Kathleen Koenig, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

reliability on the attitude dimension was0.95 and the reliability on the persistence dimension was 0.89. Two items (item 19, I like tocome prepared to my mathematics and science classes, and item 29, I am not discouraged bycriticism while working on science or mathematics projects) were found to have some degree ofmisfit as determined by the p-value of signed chi-squared test statistic (S_X2) (p < 0.05). 14Post-secondary sample:The APT-STEM instrument items (language) were updated to suit post-secondary students. Also,6 items (5 five negatively worded items and one positively worded item) deleted after the firstvalidation were added back with all

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ekoniak, Virginia Tech; Molly Scanlon, Virginia Tech; M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in the eastern United States. Allfirst-year engineering students at the study site take a common course sequence preparing themto enter their chosen engineering discipline at the end of the freshman year, with studentsintending to major in electrical and computer engineering or computer science taking a second-semester course with an emphasis on computing and circuits. This course was the setting for thisstudy, with data collection occurring in the 2012-2013 academic year. Course content includedan introduction to ECE concepts including programming and analysis in MATLAB, and basiccircuits and sensors culminating in a half-semester team-based engineering design project andreport. In the first half of the semester, students engaged in a

Conference Session

Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, all competencies that comprise thisconceptual framework of engineering thriving were derived from existing narratives inengineering. Overall, this paper addresses the growing need for a clear definition of engineeringthriving relevant to undergraduate engineering students.While few would challenge the pursuit of thriving as a pertinent educational goal, discussions ofthriving remain largely missing in the engineering education literature. This paper was inspiredby a research project that examines the impact of non-cognitive factors on engineering studentsuccess (NSF #1626287). As part of this project, we developed a survey to measure several non-cognitive factors using existing validated instruments reported in the literature. Most non

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John A. Nestor, Lafayette College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, spatially-oriented abstractions [29] that madeintegrated circuit design accessible to a much wider range of researchers outside of thetraditional semiconductor industry. Students read Conway’s retrospective article [30] describinghow this came about along with many of the impacts of this work, including the widespreadcreation of university courses in VLSI design, the development of the foundry model pioneeredusing multi-project chips and leading to foundry companies and fabless semiconductorcompanies. It also describes how this “democratization” of integrated circuit design made itpossible for university researchers to develop new technologies such as RISC computerarchitectures.During this section students view the Silicon Run documentary [31

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

formy…project. I made it a goal to use as few words as possible and as many graphics aspossible. I think it is probably the best power point [sic] I have every put together.”Another cohort member, an electronics engineer for a United States government agencynoted that using these techniques …has caused me to change up a little how I usually prepare for my presentations. In these past presentations, I was more reliant on the slides to tell most of the story and I think that hurt some of my flow. I found using that by using visual cues in the slides my presentation flowed very well and was felt much more like story telling rather than just going though the information line by line.As well, a design engineer for

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado, Boulder; Bailey Renee Leppek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kara E. Gray, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

photography students, plus students from art history, film, and journalism. In contrast tomany other art/science courses, the artists do not contribute only art to their joint projects, nor do the engineerscontribute only technical assistance. Instead, the engineers are expected to be artists, with aesthetic control overtheir work, while both the art students and the engineers are expected to preserve the scientific utility of theirimages of fluid flow by providing accurate documentation of the flow and imaging process. There are severalother unusual aspects of this course. All assignments are open-ended: students are not given explicitrequirements or instructions to use specific flows or visualization techniques. Instead they are provided with

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineers would be tocommit a major transgression. The biggest reaction would likely be to the video’s overt sexuality,a violation of the ideal of disembodied hegemonic masculinity, even as displays of sexualizedheteronormative masculinity are routinely permitted.Sexualized heteronormative femininity is also permitted, and even used in the service ofpromoting women in engineering. The Nerd Girls trailer27 shows young female able-bodiedengineers donning pink capes and black glasses, heavy makeup and stiletto heels; these womenconform to hegemonic feminine beauty ideals and body types in much the same way as the sexynerds (though there is greater racial diversity). The Nerd Girls do a project involving a doggiedoor for a pet owner described in the

Conference Session

Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #32704Engineering Students Coping With COVID-19: Yoga, Meditation, and Men-talHealthDr. Kacey Beddoes, San Jose State University Kacey Beddoes is a Project Director in the College of Engineering Dean’s Office at San Jose State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech, along with graduate certificates in Women’s and Gender Studies, and Engineering Education. Dr. Beddoes serves as Associate Editor for the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education and Managing Edi- tor for Engineering Studies. She is also the past Chair of the Working Group on Gender and Diversity

Conference Session

'Diversity' and Inclusion? Pedagogy, Experiences, Language and Performative Action

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cole Hatfield Joslyn, University of Texas at El Paso; Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas at El Paso

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

hardest projects. I’ll hide my emotions and ignore mycreativity. I’ll only rely on my logic and I won’t fail,” She whispered back, a bit defeated butdetermined. And she did, she got her BS in engineering. But she didn’t stop. Already exhausted,she then completed her MS and PhD at a top-tier school completely outside the shield and faithbubble she’d grown up under. “But I hate the color pink,” she tells everyone, pulling the ribbonfrom her hair. Each of her interests and each of her degrees a new ribbon, some pulling her upcloser to her lofty goals. Others pulling her down and holding her back. All the while, she’strying to weave them together into a comprehensible story of who she is.She weaves.By now, she was actively pushing at the shield