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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarvnaz Lotfi, Loyola University, Maryland; Raenita A. Fenner, Loyola University, Maryland

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intention to major, which reinforces theimportance of curricular structures that enable students to experience a sense of community andconnection.” While the National Academy of Engineering in [14] states the system to educateengineers should include several elements including “the economic, political, ethical, and socialconstraints as boundary conditions that define the possible range of solutions for engineeringproblems and demand the interaction of engineers with the public.[14, p. 18]” The NationalAcademy also stated that surveys of pre-college students consistently demonstrate an interest incareers where “helping-others” is a key aspect and that it would be “particularly helpful if theengineering community could successfully communicate the

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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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Stephen Fernandez, UMass Amherst; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Ankita Kumar; Bailey Bond-Trittipo, Florida International University; Zoii Arrianna Henry; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles

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promote a movement toward Solidarity Engineering that contributes to an ethic of care,love, equity, and justice among people and planet.Keywords: Solidarity Engineering, Ethics of Care, Love, Social Justice, Equity, Sustainability,Capitalism, Militarism, Collaborative Inquiry, Engineering PathwaysIntroduction “We live in a world in which a tree is worth more, financially, dead than alive, in a world in which a whale is worth more dead than alive. For so long as our economy works in that way and corporations go unregulated, they're going to continue to destroy trees, to kill whales, to mine the earth, and to continue to pull oil out of the ground, even though we know it is destroying the planet and we know that

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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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Kari Zacharias, University of Manitoba; Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Chantal Rodier; Laura M. Patterson, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus; Renato B. Rodrigues, University of Manitoba; Ken Tallman, University of Toronto

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Engineering, English,Communication, Rhetoric, Theatre, Visual Art and Design, Science and Technology Studies, andEngineering Education. Our teaching responsibilities run the gamut of transdisciplinaryinstruction, including communication, science and society, professionalism, team skills,leadership and ethics, and responsibilities as an artist-in-residence, with instruction andsupervision at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our research interests reflect theseactivities and our career stages span from graduate school to near retirement. We are united by acommon interest in how engineering students develop mindsets that enable effective humanisticpractice, and we share common values in supporting our students’ development of

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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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the FTX collapse as a case study through which students can deliberate onthese issues.IntroductionWhen I started following the rapid collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange in November2022, I was already considering the possibility of a case study for my engineering students.Students at my institution (and, I suspect, elsewhere) had been enthusiastic about investments incryptocurrency, even forming an official school club. I thought that studying a spectacular failurein crypto might leverage students’ interests in the manner of other case studies in engineeringethics and communication, such as the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle tragedies. I oftendevelop lessons out of such news stories when they lead with an obvious ethical lapse

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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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, invokes a context inwhich “societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view onthe (ethical) acceptability, sustainability, and societal desirability of the innovation process andits marketable products” (Von Schomberg quoted by Schwartz-Plaschg, p. 149). In other words,the language of RRI assumes a very different kind of relationship between actors than does thelanguage of regulation. An awareness of the power of analogies can heighten our sensibilitiesregarding the linguistic choices we habitually make.Where analogical imagination refers to the context evoked by a particular choice of words,analogical reasoning is a form of critical thinking in which we make an implicit comparisonexplicit and explore how the

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Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Duane Reedy, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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Paper ID #42156The Power of Place: A Critical Examination of Engineering Enculturation &Identity FormationDr. Timothy Duane Reedy, University of Maryland, College ParkDr. David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park David is the director of the Science, Technology and Society program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He works with STEM majors on the ethical and social dimensions of science and technology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Power of Place: A Critical Examination of Engineering Enculturation and Identity FormationAbstract

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Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kylee Shiekh, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines

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contradictions that arise in students’education surrounding ethics, including how engineering instructors often allude to theimportance of ethics in engineering practice but then avoid explicit discussion of ethical mattersthat arise in the context of students’ coursework. This type of contradiction served as a catalystfor our thinking about some of the other ways in which engineering students receive and copewith conflicting messaging across their educational experience, especially where implicitpractices regularly contravene explicit messages. As with the hidden curriculum scholarship inengineering education generally, we are interested in how implicit messaging undermines effortsto create more inclusive, more authentic educational experiences

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Accountability and Stewardship

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kari Zacharias, University of Manitoba; Renato B. Rodrigues, University of Manitoba; Paula Rodrigues Affonso Alves, University of Manitoba; Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba

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contexts from both literature and practice, the word stewardshiprefers to the generational knowledge of taking care of the land and community. Thisknowledge is expressed through practical skills such as hunting, trapping, and gathering, andthrough the values of responsibility and reciprocity. Stewardship in this context means to giveback to nature all that nature gives to us and to take only what we need [29].H. R. Anderson, one of the founding directors of the Native American TheologicalAssociation, noted that the communities he engaged with had an ethic of generosity thatdiffered from the dominant culture. In the dominant culture, the status in community wasacquired by having; in Indigenous communities, status was acquired by giving and sharing

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Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd E. Nicewonger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Stacey Anne Fritz; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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differences draws attention to how engineered systems become part of moraleconomies in various contexts. As Arctic scholar Frank Sejersen writes, the introduction of neweconomies of practice will not only generate “new moral expectations between people but [...]also create new agencies, resource conceptualizations, imagined communities, conflicts andproblems” (2022: 164). Consequently, describing the design of integrated trusses as beingembedded in wider moral debates allows researchers to attend to the plasticity through whichknowledge on home construction in this region is currently emerging in response to wider socio-economic and environmental factors (Biehl and Locke 2017).Returning to the larger question about ethics in engineering, particularly

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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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Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Matt Parsons, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines

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attention to diverse stakeholders, • creating more reflexive and ethical engineers, and • preparing engineers to collaborate better across disciplinary and cultural differences.Interest in these promises often derives from sociopolitical critiques of engineering, whichrespond to engineering’s close alignment with contemporary configurations of capital andmilitarism [10, 11, 12], interrogate the distribution of agency and responsibility withinengineering [13, 14], and produce engineering educational spaces that can reproduce inequitieswhile purportedly operating as “unbiased,” “apolitical,” and “rigorous” [15]—all while animatedby particular environmental, social, and technical conditions constraining the world in whichengineers hope to

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Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University; Sepehr Vakil, Northwestern University

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crucialmechanism by which U.S. engineering education settings have grappled with unwanted politicalsensibilities is through silencing. There is an enduring sense that rigorous, respectableengineering training, as well as engineering in action, from the technical classroom, at the labbench, or on the factory floor must exclude the subjectivities we know as “politics.” This isdespite the concession by some that value systems known as “ethics” or “rigor” may (must) bebolstered [26], [27]. Across many technical subdisciplines, so-named ethics and other liabilitysystems are today seen to represent the universe of Engineers’ moral responsibilities in itsentirety. We are prompted to ask, then: How precisely does such apparent depoliticization ofEngineering

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Wellness, Readiness, and Thriving

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Choi, University of California, Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine

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pm. The data collection and analysis for this research was consideredexempt by the school’s institutional review board, and all necessary protocols were followed forstudent data protections.Theoretical Framework: This activity is inspired by Nel Nodding’s theory of Ethics of Carewhere it is suggested that caring is a universal human attribute and caring is ethically basic tohumans [14]. This theory supports the message that educators are responsible for caring for theirstudents and believing in their success outside of the classroom [15]. The theory can beextended to say that the goal of an engineering educator is to ensure that engineering students areable to leave the degree program as not only successful engineers but also as successful

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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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Proceedings of the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.[7] Gupta, A. (2017, June). A practitioner account of integrating macro-ethics discussion in an engineering design class. In 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.[8] Hess, J. L., & Fore, G. (2018). A systematic literature review of US engineering ethics interventions. Science and engineering ethics, 24, 551-583.[9] Winiecki, D., & Salzman, N. (2019, January). Analyzing and Working-Out Ways of Addressing Problems of Social-Justice in an Engineering or Computer-Science Context. In 2019 NSF REDCON (Revolutionizing Engineering & Computer Science Department CONference), Arlington, VA.[10] Gupta, A., Turpen, C., Philip, T., & Elby, A

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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 we each brought our own disciplinarybiases and (mis)understanding/(mis)perception of writing and thinking. These disciplinary andconceptual differences were also reflected in our assessment expectations and rubric design. 4However, despite the challenges encountered, our meetings did serve as a space in which weentered critical dialogue with one another about what writing means, what thinking entails, themulti-dimensions of engineering problems, ethical decisions in problem solving, and anawareness of student limitations as well as our own limitations. We asked each other questionssuch as: is it ethical to expect our students to find solutions in a “writing,” non-technical, non

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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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University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ’4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM education with col- leagues from Notre Dame, Xavier University and St. Mary’s College. His research focuses on wicked problems that arise at the intersection of society and technology. Rider holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability from Arizona State University, and a Master’s degree in Environmental Management from Harvard Uni- versity and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from University of New Hampshire. Before earning his doctorate, he has worked for a decade in consulting and emergency response for Triumvirate Environmental Inc.Andrew LiRebecca Jun, University of Virginia

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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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learning outcomes associated with ABET 2021-2022 (Seshagiri &Goteti, 2014). Being attentive to the guidance (and oversight) related to ABET accreditationoffers students, parents, employers, and society the assurance that a college or universityprogram is meeting a standard of quality that is required in the professional engineering domain.A purposeful trajectory toward a rigorous engineering education is critical, in a race to safely,methodically, and ethically address complex technological systems meeting the speed andfinancial pressures of creative design (Dekker, 2011).Capstone design as professional preparation/readinessThe concept of creating multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary capstone design courses at the post-secondary education

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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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HurricaneKatrina. Two readings covered: 1) the culmination of many decisions that led to segregation andinequity in New Orleans, and 2) the engineering failures of the levy system which lefthistorically black neighborhoods at risk. Class discussion began by acknowledging the sensitivityof these topics. The discussion focused on the convergence of the articles. This topic relates topower imbalances in both political institutions and engineering decision-making.Third, we asked students to select a scenario either local to the community the university is in ortheir hometowns that centered on public health, environmental, or ethical concerns related toinfrastructure or industry. Scenarios selected included historical sites, such as the Love Canal, tomodern

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Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexis Suzanne Capitano, Colorado School of Mines; Ryan Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines

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followed human subjects research ethics guidance from theuniversity at which the interviews were conducted and the authors’ university.ContextSeveral contextual factors undoubtedly shaped the interviews that were analyzed for this paper.First, a COVID-19 resurgence drove many campus activities back to the virtual realm. Second,Canada’s Indigenous people were frequently in the news. The nation’s Truth and ReconciliationCommission ,which was formed as a result of growing awareness the horrific situation withResidential Schools, was frequently in the news [25]. Canada recognized Sep. 30 as the NationalDay for Truth and Reconciliation with a number of educational and recognition activities.Perhaps related to all of the news and events, it is not

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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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,pedagogical and student experiences. Similarly, with a focus on an engineering thermodynamics course,Riley [5] motivates the use of liberative pedagogies in engineering education by relating pedagogy tostudents’ prior experiences, student responsibility and authority, including ethics and policy, decenteringwestern knowledge systems.Institutional and Data Collection ContextThe student co-authors of this paper, who are currently in their sophomore year, are enrolled in anundergraduate engineering program developed around the intellectual theme of “human-centered”engineering. The program integrates the university’s liberal arts curriculum with an experientialengineering curriculum emphasizing societal responsibility.For the liberal arts requirement of

Conference Session

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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the participants’ likelihood of success byfostering development of personal or individual adaptive strengths. Building on this, Burt et al.(2021) propose a new model of wholeness in graduate advising based on an ethic of care. Thefocus on wholeness directs attention to the need to recognize black male students as wholepersons, including the influence of family (Brooms & Davis, 2017; Tolbert Smith, 2022). Forexample, Tolbert Smith (2022) shows that black families and extended family members providedblack men’s primary sources of support, although black men also benefited from bi-directionalexchange of cultural capital when navigating non-inclusive environments. In the same vein,Burrell et al. (2015) suggest that while teacher expectations

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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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. [13] discusses pedagogical approaches in designthinking, service-learning, communication, collaboration, and ethics education whereengineering educators can introduce and cultivate the concept and skill of empathy. Thisempathy learning can happen within engineering but can include other disciplines so thatengineers can think like or empathize with non-engineers [13]. Jaycox, et al. [14] explicitlydiscusses the implementation of this pedagogy for empathy integration within courses for ethicalreasoning and engineering design. Alsager Alzayed, et al. [15] discusses empathetic creativityand the institution of empathy within design generation. Huerta, et al. [16] discusses amindfulness training program for first-year engineering students for the

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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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the Social Responsibility Attitudes of Engineering Students Over Time,” Sci Eng Ethics, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 1535–1551, Oct. 2016, doi: 10.1007/s11948-015-9706-5.[13] J. Huff, B. K. Jesiek, C. B. Zoltowski, K. D. Ramane, and W. C. Oakes, “Social and Technical Dimensions of Engineering Identity,” presented at the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2016. Accessed: Jan. 18, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/social-and-technical-dimensions-of- engineering-identity[14] M. H. Hwang, E. Trueblood, and S. A. Claussen, “Engineering Identity, Perceptions of Sociotechnical Education, and Views of Engineering Practice in Undergraduate Students,” in 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education

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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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Paper ID #43452Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society: Over Seven Decades of Contributionsfrom the National Science Foundation: A U.S. National Academy of EngineeringStudyMs. Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering Casey Gibson, M.S., is an Associate Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine where she contributes to the Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering (CESER) program. Gibson holds an M.S. from the Colorado School of Mines in Humanitarian Engineering and Science with a specialization

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Writing and Technical Communications

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan M Adams, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Brian Roth, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Katrina Marie Robertson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Trey Thomas Talko, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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knowing are valid, and whoseapproach to communication can be valued” (p.20). The predicament and challenge ofcommunication across difference also presents opportunities and ethical imperatives, contendscholars working on social justice in technical communication [22], [23]. These scholars, amongmany others, highlight a social justice imperative and work to foreground the influence ofidentity and culture on technical communication.Problems of access, representation, and equity are not unique to STEM contexts. Social justiceresearch takes up the problem of injustice and discrimination in TPC research and workplaces,illuminating both problems of inequity and possibilities for change [20]. Issues of power,privilege, and positionality circulate

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Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joey Valle, Purdue University; Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University; Polly Parkinson, Utah State University; Fawn Groves, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University

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Purdue University. His current research interests focus on engineering ethics, the connections between personal morals and professional ethics, and how students ethically develop as engineers. He earned a B.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO) in 2020.Polly Parkinson, Utah State UniversityFawn Groves, Utah State UniversityDr. Angela Minichiello, Utah State University Angela (Angie) Minichiello is a military veteran, licensed mechanical engineer, and associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. Her research examines issues of access, equity, and identity in the formation of engineers and a diverse, transdisciplinary 21st century

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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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Paper ID #37619The Development of Career Resilience for Early Career Engineers inChina: A Grounded Theory StudyMr. Lichao Ma, Tsinghua University Lichao MA, male, PhD. student, Division of Engineering Education Research Tsinghua University. His scholarship focuses on higher education policy and management, engineering education. He is devoted to understanding and facilitating Chinese higher engineering education reform, through which he expects to cultivate engineers who can demonstrate innovation, resilience, social competency, responsibility and ethics. His research is published with journals like The Asia-Pacific

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Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lara K. Schubert, UCLA; Cal State Los Angeles; Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

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working full time for four years, earning my PE during that time, I left to entergraduate school, studying ethics, religion, and focusing ultimately on women’s, gender, andqueer studies. I continued to work in engineering part time remotely as a I completed mymaster’s and PhD. My academic training is in humanities, but religion is an interdisciplinaryfield that allows for many methods, including ethnographic methods. For my dissertation, Iundertook a qualitative study of Cambodian women who were leaders in their Buddhist andChristian religious communities, my work funded by a Fulbright award. My work always looksfor the underlying, unspoken values and the effects of these, my academic lens influencedespecially by the work of queer theorists (e.g

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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; Sean M. Eddington, Kansas State University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Past President and Wise Woman of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. She has received career achievement awards from ICA, NCA, the Central States Communication Association, and Purdue University where she was a Distinguished University Professor in communication and engineer- ing education (by courtesy) and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Her primary research areas are organizational communication, career, work-life, resilience, feminist/gender, and design. Her grants have focused on ethics, institutional transformation, and diversity-equity-inclusion-belongingness in the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Sean M

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Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Mateo F. Rojas, Colorado School of Mines; Sofia Lara Schlezak, Colorado School of Mines; Emma Chapman, Colorado School of Mines

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demonstrate the relevance of content,provide a celebratory effect of technology on society often enacting the “ethics of materialprovisioning” in the classroom (e.g., without large-scale mineral extraction there would be noprogress) [6] . When ECD topics or projects make their way into engineering curricula, or intostudent life in the form of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) projects, they are not exempt ofthe encroachments of depoliticization. Motivated by a desire to help and seldom accompaniedby critical thinking, engineering students in these student-led projects often continue to dividethe world between the technical and social, value the former over the latter in problematicways, as when methods and assumptions made in design for industry are

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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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&Laiduc, 2022; Eskandari et al., 2015). Storytelling allows individuals to “discover their values, ethics, and underlyingassumptions” (Chandler, 2002) and to challenge “our interpretations” of obstacles (Covarrubias& Laiduc, 2022). In this way, stories build on identity insight and clarification and move into therealm of discovery and change. Stories are powerful vehicles for change, with narratives often—across countries, disciplines, and mediums—acting as the compelling drivers behind social andstructural change. Adams and colleagues (2007) highlighted the ways in which stories can beused for change and innovation, by “eliciting insider knowledge, engaging communities oflearners around shared practices, and building new