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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice Huang; Nava Bozorgmehri; Alexander Broome; Peyton Elise Carter; Hayoung Cho; Jaxen Farrell; Jane Ginley; William Kaeul Gotanda; Margaret Hynes; Charles Patrick Neill; Owen Pett; Will Purnell; Eliana Jean Razzino; Olivia Lane Remcho; Vanessa Rigoglioso; Cyrus Rosen; Ellen Ryan; Mary Katherine Serpe; William Sweeney; Avneet Hira, Boston College; Gabriella Maria Bachiochi

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use in the world and equating knowledge of technology to knowledge of readingand writing from the past [1]. In contrasting appeals proponents have called to broaden the engineeringcurriculum to include more liberal arts, and in turn learn more engineering on the job or in graduateschool [2]. However, as we stand currently in 2023, we have not witnessed such extreme shifts in eitherdirection in a majority of programs across the United States. Instead and perhaps a more fortunatephenomenon that we have seen in undergraduate education is joint liberal arts and engineering programswhich have existed for a few decades now. For example, the Engineering Studies program at LafayetteCollege which was established in 1970 and brings together in its

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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; calls forrelevancy and public engagement; the environmental movement; and rallying calls for citizenscience and activism” (Pedretti & Nazir, 2015).STSE: The currents frameworkPedretti and Nazir (2011) reinforced the idea that there is no single, widely accepted view ofSTSE, and as a response to the complexity of STSE and its diverse approaches represented by 40years of discourse, mapped the field of STSE through the identification of six “Currents”. TheseCurrents serve as a heuristic, a way of examining STSE discourse and practices amongsteducators. The six Currents are not necessarily discrete; they sometimes intermingle or change,and include 1) Application/Design; 2) Historical; 3) Logical Reasoning; 4) Value Centered; 5)Sociocultural

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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University; Fatima Rahman, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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U.S. are finally heading the many calls to include sociotechnicalthinking–grappling with issues of power, history, and culture–throughout the undergraduateengineering curriculum. While non-purely-technical topics have historically been relegated toseparate courses, universities are now working to integrate sociotechnical content in coursespreviously considered to be purely technical. Researchers have varying motivations for thisfocus, including to better prepare students for engineering practice, which is inherentlysociotechnical [1]; to increase the sense of belonging of historically excluded students, who aremore likely to be interested in the social aspects [2]; and to create better societal outcomes [3-5].Attempts to disrupt the social

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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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calls as the NAE Grand Challenges and UN Sustainable Development Goals,engineering problems are fundamentally sociotechnical. These problems both shape and areshaped by social, cultural, political, environmental, and other contexts in vast and complex ways.They involve significant interaction between diverse systems and stakeholders and requireengineers to engage in sociotechnical thinking during design. By engage in sociotechnical thinkingin design, I mean three things: (1) recognize the range and role of social, cultural, political,environmental, and other factors in engineering design processes and solutions, (2) analyze theways design artifacts and processes reify, enable, and constrain sociotechnical design elements,and (3) evaluate and

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Sociotechnical Systems in Practice

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nandini Sharma, The University of Texas at Austin; Jeffrey W. Treem, University of Texas at Austin; Megan Kenny Feister, CSUCI

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/10.2307/j.ctv1220kbjDougherty, D. (1992). Interpretive barriers to successful product innovation in large firms. Organization Science, 3(2), 179–202. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2635258Engeström, Y. (1995). Objects, contradictions and collaboration in medical cognition: An activity-theoretical perspective. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 7(5), 395–412. https://doi.org/10.1016/0933-3657(95)00012-uEngeström, Y. (1999). Expansive visibilization of work: An activity-theoretical perspective. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 8(1), 63–93. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008648532192Engeström, Y., & Blackler, F. (2005). On the life of the object. Organization, 12(3), 307–330. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508405051268

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Carrell, Texas Tech University; Joshua M. Cruz; Andrew Mark Herbert; Iris V. Rivero; Emily Lazarus; Erika Nuñez, Texas Tech University; Nafisha Tabassum; Xueni Fan, Texas Tech University

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has been used in practice to develop perspectives and values of writersand how it has been used in the analysis of written work from this course to cultivate empatheticdispositions in problem-solving.BackgroundTheory of Discourse. While our methodological approach is discourse analysis, the idea of“discourse” itself requires some orientation. We are immediately challenged by the fact that thereis no one definition of a discourse and, subsequently, no one approach to discourse analysis (e.g.,[1-5]. For Foucault [6], arguably one of the first theorists to tackle the notion of discourse, it iscomposed of “practices that systematically form the objects of which they speak” (p. 49). Heargues that discourses are imprecise and historically

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James T. McLeskey Jr., Randolph-Macon College; Deonna Woolard

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the field of Nondestructive Testing examining metallic and composite structures for such things as cracks, delaminations, and stress concentrations. Dr. Woolard has been on the faculty at Randolph-Macon College since 1999 and has been department chair for the past 13 years. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Engineering Physics at a Small Liberal Arts College: Accomplishments and ChallengesIntroductionThe idea of adding engineering to the list of majors at liberal arts colleges is not entirely new.For instance, engineering at Swarthmore College dates to the 1870’s [1-2]. A century later, therewas a renewed recognition in the value of introducing

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Sociotechnical Systems in Practice

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Aubrey Wigner, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines; Chelsea Salinas, Colorado School of Mines

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Head of Engineering, Design, and Society at Colorado School of Mines.Dr. Chelsea Salinas, Colorado School of Mines Chelsea Salinas is a Teaching Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines where she focuses on teaching design thinking strategies at both the freshman and senior level. She has a great excitement in improving the lives of those individuals with b ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Addressing Engineering Reductionism by Reimagining ABET OutcomesIntroductionEngineering students often identify being effective “problem solvers” as core to their identity asengineers [1], which engineering educators amplify by placing “problem solving” as a corecomponent of students

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey T Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Courtney Burris

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Paper ID #39654Addressing Engineers and Stakeholders Social and Institutional Power inan Human-Centered Design Capstone CourseDr. Corey T Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Corey Schimpf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His lab focuses on engineering design, advancing research methods, and technology innovations to support learning in complex domains. Major research strands include: (1) analyzing how expertise develops in engineering design across the continuum from novice pre-college students to prac- ticing engineers, (2

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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer C. Mallette, Boise State University; Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University

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teamwork skills alongside the technicalproficiencies needed to be successful in engineering [1]. Ideally, engineering graduates are ableto transition into industry or graduate school with the skills, dispositions, and knowledge tonavigate communication and collaboration effectively [2]. In addition to the technical skillsneeded to solve engineering problems, employers seek candidates who can communicateeffectively, who are able to manage projects, and who can generate innovation solutions [3].However, employers have indicated that gaps exist in engineering training, with entry-levelengineers often unable to communicate in the ways employers expect, especially on diverseteams [4]. This gap in training means that individuals struggle to transition

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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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recent critical edition ofthe novel published in celebration of its bicentennial highlights its relevance for fostering ethicalformation among scientists and engineers [1]. Likewise, recent scholarship draws attention toFrankenstein’s role in engendering critical reflection among scientists about social and ethicalaspects of their work [2]. Despite, however, the novel’s potential to speak to ethical dimensionsof scientific and engineering practice, some instructors have encountered difficulties successfullyintegrating Frankenstein into an undergraduate engineering curriculum; and students havestruggled to appreciate the novel’s value to their professional development as engineers [3].Nevertheless, the novel’s capacity to address ethical aspects

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Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lichao Ma, Tsinghua University; Xiaofeng Tang, Tsinghua University

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challengesbrought about by the paradigm shift toward advanced manufacturing. The literature in Chineseindicates that engineering education researchers in China have noted the importance of resiliencein the training of engineers. Nonetheless, the literature in Chinese has not examined the processthrough which young engineers develop resilience at work. This study investigates the process ofresilience development.3. Method3.1 SamplingWe used homogeneous sampling method, which is a purposive sampling technique that aims torecruit research samples similar in characteristics relevant for the study. Based on Kovalchuk’(2017) study and the actual working situation of Chinese engineers, we created three inclusioncriteria for participant recruitment: (1) the

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Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fatima Naeem Abdurrahman, University of Maryland, College Park; Sona Chudamani, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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particularly important tofoster more “holistic engineers” with systems-thinking skills and an understanding of themacro-ethical impacts of their work [1] (macro-ethics here referring to the collective socialresponsibility of engineers as a profession, as opposed to micro-ethics, which concern activitieswithin the profession [2]). However, college students studying engineering in the United Statesexhibit a decline in concern for public welfare over the course of their education [3] as well as atendency to orient to micro-ethical issues over macro-ethical issues [4]. Scholars attribute thesetrends to ideologies pervasive in engineering spaces, such as depoliticization of engineeringpractice, technocracy, and meritocracy [3], [5]. While Cech [3] argues

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Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cherie D. Edwards, Virginia Commonwealth University; Bryanne Peterson; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, ThatStatsGirl; Cassandra J. McCall, Utah State University; Desen Sevi Özkan, Tufts University

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lens through which both learner and educator can engage thecomplexities of culture, society, and self in educational settings.Three Examples of Visual Methods Embedded into STEM Education AssessmentFigure 1: Illustration of case studies highlighted, plotted against increasing opportunity forstudent autonomy and creativity vs. increasing opportunity for students to highlight their identity.In this paper we introduce three examples of visual assessments that have been implemented in ascience festival and two engineering courses. We posit that increasing opportunities for studentautonomy and consequently, creativity can encourage students to integrate their sense of self intothinking, knowing, and doing STEM. With the infusion of pedagogy

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Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; Amol Agrawal; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

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difficult tostudy, few studies provide a thick description of these alternative cultural practices and theirimpacts. Our study offers a rare glimpse of student uptake of these practices in a multi-yearScience, Technology, and Society (STS) living-learning program.Specifically, our study explores whether and how cultural practices within an STS program helpstudents develop and sustain a socio-technical systems thinking approach to engineering practice.We ground our work in a cultural practices framework from Nasir and Kirshner [1] which,roughly speaking, understands practice to be “a patterned set of actions performed by membersof a group based on common purposes and expectations, with shared cultural values, tools, andmeanings” ([2, p. 99] as cited

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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ariana Turner, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hye Yeon Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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1 Story-driven Learning in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review Abstract Stories have been a pervasive, ubiquitous feature of our lives throughout humanhistory—indeed, storytelling itself is robustly associated with a host of positive benefits,including better mental health (Robertson et al., 2019), increased empathy (Cummings et al.,2022), and a greater sense of belonging (Ritter et al., 2019). As such, storytelling has thepotential to be a powerful tool in a range of settings, including higher education (i.e., story-driven learning). To uncover how story-driven learning has been used in higher education sofar—as well as to discover patterns in pedagogical methods and

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rich Dionne, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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aremany positive outcomes associated with the development of truly interdisciplinary(multidisciplinary) courses for students, making connections to what they referred to as“integrative studies” (p.1). Their work suggested that bringing together students from distantdisciplinary homes of practice offers the potential to create “more sensitivity to ethicalissues…ability to synthesize or integrate…enlarged perspectives or horizons,…more creative,original, or unconventional thinking,…more humility or listening skills” (p.70-71), andmore. Likewise, Hotaling, Fasse, Bost, et. al. (2012) provide favorable empirical evidence,suggesting that students that work on multidisciplinary capstone teams not only produceimproved solutions they increase their

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Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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system) categorizes Mann as “highly influential,” yet itappears that the most extensive account of his life is a brief biographical sketch in the 1922-1923edition of Who’s Who in America [Marquis, 1922]. That sketch forms the outline of thechronology presented here. Mann was born in Orange, New Jersey on July 12, 1869, shortlyafter the passage of the Morrill Act of 1862 and the creation of “the land-grant institutions thatgave basic shape to the U.S. approach to engineering education” [Akera, 2017, p. 1].His career followed a typical path for the first 25 years. He earned an A.B. from Columbia in1890 and an A.M. in 1891. In 1896, he received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Berlin.He married in June of that same year and took a position

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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Naqaa Abbas, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Reza Tafreshi, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Patrick Linke; Mary Queen, Texas A&M University, Qatar

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as they learn effective and relevantprofessional communication skills in the field of engineering. We also discuss the steps forwardto make this collaboration a model for other courses in our curriculum at our institution.IntroductionStrong writing skills are crucial for competitiveness in STEM fields. Clear and cogent writingand communication skills are critical competencies as identified by ABET (Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology) [1], and the National Academy of Engineering [2]. Today’ssuccessful engineer must master more than one competency (see figure 1), includingcommunication and writing skills, which comprise between 20%-40% of an engineer’s workday:writing project proposals, memoranda, business letters, and e-mails

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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, California State University, Channel Islands; Andrew Li; Rebecca Jun, University of Virginia

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©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Convergence and Divergence in Engineering Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Management, and PolicyAbstract A little over half (28 of 54) of the divisions of ASEE focus on the intersections betweenSTEM disciplines and different contexts of engineering education and practice. These 28divisions emphasize three broad areas: (1) humanistic content and goals; (2) particular groups ofstudents, faculty, practitioners, or other stakeholders; and (3) specific arenas of activity andorganizational contexts. Four of these “Engineering and. . .” divisions include engineeringleadership, entrepreneurship, management, and policy. The divisions share goals such asconnecting the technical

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Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Royce A. Francis, The George Washington University; LaKeisha McClary, The George Washington University

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Paper ID #37415”Studies in the Strategies of Overcomers”: Literature Review of theExperiences of High-achieving Black Male Undergraduate EngineeringStudentsDr. Royce A. Francis, The George Washington University Dr. Royce Francis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Sys- tems Engineering. His overall research vision is to conduct research, teaching, and service that facilitates sustainable habitation of the built environment. This vision involves three thrusts: 1.) infrastructure management, including sustainability, resilience, and risk analysis; 2.) regulatory risk assessment and

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Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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, EA runs directly against most cases for “Engineering as an altruistic STEM career” [1].EA doesn’t pose a higher good of civic involvement or service against the temptation tomaximize elevated personal earnings. Most surprisingly, EA advocates often treat empathy, acentral focus of much current engineering education research, as a mere shortcoming in decision-making, misdirecting altruistic impulses to causes that are emotionally engaging but logicallysubordinate to causes with more proven need or measurable benefit to be discovered by “runningthe numbers.” This paper looks at the prominence of effective altruism among STEMprofessionals, considers its tensions with practices in empathic and socially engaged engineeringeducation, and treats

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Equity and Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaitlyn Anne Thomas, University of Nevada, Reno; Kelly J Cross, Georgia Institute of Technology; Isabel Anne Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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. Women of color (WOC) are anunderrepresented and underserved community [1] in engineering who can offer underutilizedintellectual capital. Despite efforts in engineering education, however, WOC remain repressed inengineering as well as most university-level engineering programs in the US [2]. A possiblereason for the repression of WOC in engineering may be from the underlying epistemologies ofthe field itself.The foundational epistemologies of engineering in the US were established in the mid-19thcentury through engineering societies in various universities [3]–[7]. Not surprisingly, due to thesociopolitical climate in the US at the time, the only individuals with access to these societies(who therefore shaped their values and cultures) were

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Writing and Technical Communications

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn Hall, The Ohio State University; Bob Rhoads P.E., The Ohio State University; Tyler James Stump, The Ohio State University

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student experiences, computing education, fostering mastery-based learning mindsets, and assessments. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 (Re)visions: Approaches to Teaching Technical Communications and Professional Development in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone Course1. IntroductionIntegrating writing pedagogy-based practices and instruction into capstone curriculumdemonstrates the interconnectedness of the disciplines. While engineering programs and alumniof those programs report a need for technical and professional communication skills as part oftheir career success [1]. Success in their careers will depend on their ability to

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Accountability and Stewardship

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helen Newton; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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Undergraduate Engineering Student PopulationIntroductionIt has been previously documented that severe weather events cause a wide range of directmental health concerns, including depression, PTSD and anxiety in individuals living in theaffected community [1]. However, as the urgency around broader climate change has increased,and countries race to meet the 2050 goal of net zero emissions to limit global warming [2], a newphenomenon known as “Climate Anxiety” has emerged [3]. Climate anxiety is a form of anxietyinduced by the existence of climate change and concerns about this change, rather than discreteweather events. Simply being aware of climate change and its negative impacts on our naturaland social systems can cause a severe anxiety response. The

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Felicity Bilow, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lucas Adams, Clarkson University; Mohammad Meysami, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University

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structure previously determined through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysisrevealed five latent variables that align with a framework proposed by Fila et al. [1] for teachingengineering within a humanistic lens to help students develop a sense of belonging and theirengineering identity. Our SEM analysis showed that for all students, academic self-confidenceand self-efficacy and a broad understanding of engineering both have a significant positiveinfluence on their sense of belonging, which in turn has a significant influence on their attitudestoward persisting and succeeding in engineering. Appreciating the importance of non-technicalskills in engineering had no significant influence on most students’ sense of belonging with theexception

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Equity and Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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

language and rhetorical strategies could produce a deterrent effect.Specifically, I use rhetorical theory and the concept of analogical imagination to illuminate thenature and power of implied messages and suggest conversation as a promising rhetorical modefor engaging a broader range of participants in the discourse on diversity. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 1 2024 ASEE Annual ConferenceThe discourse on diversity is organized around values that are cherished in the LiberalEducation/Engineering & Society Division of ASEE (LEES) and in the broader community ofpeople engaged in humanistic education for engineers. I want to emphasize that the

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Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; David A. Butler, National Academy of Engineering

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stories of engineers and programs that have had exemplarysocietal impacts. A particular emphasis is placed on individuals historically underrepresented inthe engineering profession, including people of color, women, and people with disabilities,bringing their experiences and achievements to the forefront. Slated to be released in mid-2024,the report’s findings, conclusions, and recommendations are not yet available. However, thisarticle aims to shed light on the various ways that the NSF and NAE have conceptualizedengineering’s impacts on society by 1) exploring the history of engineering at NSF, 2) analyzingfoundational material from the NSF/NAE that informed the work of the committee such asNSF’s Broader Impacts and NAE’s Grand Challenges in

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AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tammy Mackenzie, The Aula Fellowship; Leslie Salgado, University of Calgary; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, ThatStatsGirl; Victoria Kuketz, Catalyst ; Solenne Savoia, Mila-Quebec AI Institute; Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida

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individuals, whowere either organizers or participants, augmented with end-of-program feedback, we provide a rich description ofthe program's planning, activities, and impact. Specifically, our study draws from engineering education research,bridging the gap between research and practice to answer three research questions related to the program: (1) Howdid the program design enable a more effective understanding of interdisciplinary problem-sets? (2) How didparticipants experience the interdisciplinary work of the program? (3) Did the program affect participants' impact oninterdisciplinary problem-sets after the program? Our findings highlight the benefits of interdisciplinary, holistic,and hands-on approaches to AI education and provide insights for

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Nicole Fitzpatrick, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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that is inclusive and nurtures well-being.IntroductionThe high prevalence of mental health issues among U.S. college students continues to posesignificant challenges for higher education [1]. In the last decade, rates of depression and anxietyhave risen dramatically among students [2], which raises concerns about students’ overall well-being and persistence [3]. Notably, research has shown that engineering undergraduates facehigher rates of mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety compared to their peers[4], [5]. Furthermore, mental health disparities exist for underrepresented college students.Students with minoritized identities (e.g., students of color, gender and sexual minorities, first-generation college students) experience