Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Janice L. Hall, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

delivered by their strategic partners as a measure of theircontribution to education reform in Louisiana. 30 Grants awarded to primary and secondarycharter programs like TFA, KIPP Charter Schools, Firstline Schools, New Schools for NewOrleans, are used to create more seats for students to attend charter schools as well as developprograms like the First Line Blended Learning program which is aimed at closing achievementgaps among students.31 Entergy also partners with programs like New Orleans POSSE to providefunding for post-secondary education for high achieving but financially disadvantaged studentsmaking college access and youth leadership development hallmarks of their charitable efforts,they have also sponsored and supported the United Negro

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College; Jenna A. Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell, Boston College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

(albeit with considerable coordination of topics, as will bediscussed in section 6). For the second half of the semester, lectures transitioned into a series ofintegrated engineering case studies that engaged material from both disciplines as well as criticaltools from reflection. Lab activities were similarly organized with the first half-semesterhands-on applications of basic engineering principles and the second half an integrated,seven-week human-centered design project focused on issues of access and accessibility on theBC campus. Reflection utilized BC’s innovative small group Purposeful Ongoing Discussion(POD) model of near-peer mentors guiding students through various reflective practices tograpple with the ethical and moral dimensions of