Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

empathic design techniques with an open, user-centric mindset Service-Learning Working on real-world projects oriented towards helping others Communication Establishing and refining core communication skills, such as listening Collaboration Developing conflict resolution and team building skills Ethics Education Working through ethical issues by reasoning from stakeholder perspectivesIn the following sections, we provide an overview of key literature that has explored therespective contexts from Table 1, along with salient pedagogical strategies for inculcatingempathy with respect to each educational context.4.1 Design ThinkingTwo prominent leaders in empathy training for design thinking include the d.School fromStanford

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

and the existence of marketplaces while simultaneously ceding control of the marketplaceto private interests.2 The term traces its roots back to 1938 at the Colloque Walter Lippman inParis, France, though several decades passed before it gained significant political influence (p.31).3 David Harvey has offered a nuanced definition of neoliberalism: a theory of political economic practices proposing that human well-being can best be advanced by the maximization of entrepreneurial freedoms within an institutional framework characterized by private property rights, individual liberty, unencumbered markets, and free trade.” (p. 22)2Essentially, it is an amalgamation of neoclassical economic theory and liberal