Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Figard, Arizona State University; Abimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University; Marcus Melo de Lyra, The Ohio State University

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

literature review (ScLR) conducted toelucidate the current landscape, trends, methods, and potential gaps in the literature surroundingequitable design pedagogy in engineering education. The ScLR follows the methodologypresented by Arksey and O’Malley (2005), which breaks the process into five stages: (1)identifying the research questions, (2) identifying the relevant studies, (3) study selection, (4)charting the data, and (5) collating, summarizing, and reporting the results. These stages wereperformed iteratively, which allowed for reflection and study team collaboration along eachstage. The study was grounded in four central inclusion criteria: (1) equitable design, (2)engineering education, (3) engineering course, and (4) secondary education

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

explanations and understanding of howmajority and underrepresented group members in a College of Engineering felt exclusion andinclusion and what visions they could produce from their collective sensemaking. Qualitativecausal mapping provides DT facilitators with a tool to listen for, plan, and mark passages to drawout explicit and implicit linkages that might not be conscious or intentional. In the case of the DTfacilitator in our study, he displayed strategies to encourage causal expressions such as pullingdata from past sessions and encouraging reflection, digging below the surface meanings of talkto underlying feeling (longing for inclusion, confusion with why people do not act in particularways), and expressions of curiosity). The DT session

Conference Session

Accountability and Stewardship

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamecia R. Jones, North Carolina State University; Chrystal S Johnson; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. Engineering Design Process.PATHWAYS are thematically based curricular units reflecting categories of injustices that havegreat impact at the individual and community level which can also be connected to each other tohighlight systemic consequences. There are five PATHWAYS: Health, Traffic & Transportation,Economics, Gentrification, and Environment. The PATHWAYS have historical roots and policydecisions intended to sustain inequities which led to engineering artifacts that continue to haveimpact on students and communities today. One such example is the evolution of transportationsystems across the nation. The gentrification PATHWAY highlights a phenomenon that is a rippleeffect of redlining, which has connections to housing, schools, pollution

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna G Burchfield, University of South Florida; April A. Kedrowicz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

members together provideleadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives” (ABET, 2021, p. 9), to “demonstrate knowledge and understanding of engineeringmanagement principles and economic decision making and apply these [...] as a member andleader in a team [...] in multidisciplinary environments” (FEIAP, 2019, p. 27), and to “gather andinterpret relevant data and handle complexity within their field of study, to inform judgementsthat include reflection on relevant social and ethical issues” in teamwork contexts (ENAEE,2021, p. 12). The communication-based competencies outlined by ABET, ENAEE, and FEIAPabove are so important to engineering practice that 63% of employers are willing to

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert P. Dalka, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Devyn Shafer; Brianne Gutmann, San José State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

students develop a sense of agency,deeper relationality, and inclusive leadership practices. We present how these outcomes arehighly important for effecting change both as a part of Access and in other spaces studentsoccupy.In this paper, we begin by introducing background information on both Access and put the workof the NF team in conversation with other educational change initiatives. We then describe themethods we have used in this work. Next, we present the results of our analysis and reflect onthese results in the discussion section. Finally, we use the conclusion section of this paper todiscuss implications for other practitioners and motivate future research possibilities.II. BackgroundIn this section, we first describe how Access is

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

marginalized local knowledges. It attends to the way power is reflected in socio-technical systems and whether power sharing exists and/or power is being exerted and treated as a limited resource [36]. 2) Politics of artifacts [37] asserts that science and technology aren’t neutral. Many of the values and politics of artifacts remain invisible, by design. In order to build socially just socio-technical systems, we must reveal these values in existing artifacts and attend to what values are shaping the design of new artifacts. Otherwise knowledge production and technological development will continue to reproduce social inequalities. 3) Feminist standpoint epistemologies (e.g., [38]) help us empathetically orient “Self

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Salinas, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

the paper, we offer some reflections onlimitations of our analysis based on our positionality.Sociotechnical Integration LiteratureEngineering students are routinely exposed to framings of engineering that privilege thetechnical aspects of their work while presenting social issues as less important or ignoring themaltogether [1], [2], [3], [4]. Sociologist Erin Cech has famously shown how engineeringeducation’s privileging of technical content and bounding of students’ aspirations surroundingsocial impact produces a “culture of disengagement” among engineering students [5]. Othercritics have explored various sociopolitical forces shaping engineering education—even as therole of those forces has been stripped from most observers’ imagination

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Dimpho Radebe, University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto; Andrea Chan, University of Toronto; Emily Macdonald-Roach, University of Toronto; Saskia van Beers, University of Toronto; Sasha-Ann Eleanor Nixon, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Emily Macdonald-Roach is an MASc student in Engineering Education at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include engineering identity formation, engineering culture, and equity, diversity, and inclusion in engineering career paths.Ms. Saskia van Beers, University of Toronto Saskia van Beers (she/her) is a MASc. student in Engineering Education at the University of Toronto. She holds a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on understanding how Canadian engineers reflect on the impact that their social location has had on their career.Sasha-Ann Eleanor Nixon, University of Toronto ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Why would

Conference Session

Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Robert, University of Denver; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

4Dignity and well-being: Narratives of modifying the culture of engineering education to improve mental health among underrepresented STEM studentsown individual findings and how they were interpreted to form the study’s overall findings, but they alsoreviewed and approved this conference paper. The framework also required deep ongoing self-reflectivity by the primary investigator about how her own myriad identities, including being an adjunctfaculty member, affected her perception and interpretation of the participants’ own emerging newknowledge about their experiences in engineering education (Nodelman, 2013). Arts-based research(ABR) methods (Leavy, 2017) use creative practices in social research because of their

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Committee on Personnel Methods (Eds. C.R. Mann, D.A. Robertson, M.E. Haggerty, J. B. Johnson; American Council on Education) (1930) Federal Relations to Education (American Council on Education) (1930) Manual for Teachers of Classes of Illiterate Adults: Tentative Suggestions (with National Advisory Committee on Illiteracy; American Council on Education) (1938) Living and Learning (American Council on Education)This list of publications and the range of subjects on which Mann published present aformidable challenge to any researcher who seeks to understand Mann’s career, but theyalso reflect the breadth of perspective that equipped Mann to be a systems thinker whograsps the intricacies of what

Conference Session

Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Delta emergedseveral years after the Crooked Creek flood. The primary idea for this project was to utilize localtimber resources and set up a plant for prefabricating trusses which could then be used insurrounding communities to facilitate building and address severe housing shortages.One participant in the project whose background is in economics and is not a builder or designer,reflected on the promising outlook. So, we did the feasibility, we worked on the business plan with the [name of organization]. Everything was going forward and they [had several] groups doing the retrofit design for building in Bethel [where the integrated truss plant was to be set up]. That would become the truss plant. They were also in talks

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

National Science Foundation projects in the engineering education realm, researching engineering career trajectories, student motivation, and learning. Sreyoshi has been recognized as a Fellow at the Academy for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech (VTGrATE) and a Fellow at the Global Perspectives Program (GPP) and was inducted to the Yale Bouchet Honor Society during her time at Virginia Tech. She has also been honored as an Engaged Ad- vocate in 2022 and an Emerging Leader in Technology (New ELiTE) in 2021 by the Society of Women Engineers. Views expressed in this paper are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those of organizations she is associated with. Learn more about Sreyoshi’s impact

Conference Session

Wellness, Readiness, and Thriving

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

healthcare spaces, our project aims to sharethe perspectives of engineering students engaged in an authentic activity and reflection. Theexercise allows for students to pursue any activities that they may associate with mental wellnessand their reactions highlight the impact that the activity had on them. This activity aims toimprove students’ wellness not only in the hour required but for the lessons to be carried onthroughout their educational and professional career. To better understand the goals and impactsof our intervention, we examine existing literature on mental wellness and how to share it as aresource.Literature ReviewAwareness towards mental wellness has an increasing importance placed on it for studentsstudying in higher education

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

together to solveimportant societal problems.” Another interviewee reflected on the range of perspectives thatneed to be integrated, putting it this way: If we’re going to have engineers who are trying to make a positive impact on the world, and understand sociotechnical problems and the context in which they’re trying to work, they need to understand society and power and history and beauty and art and what really matters to people. All sorts of things like that. And they won’t get that with a narrow disciplinary perspective.Interviewees not only indicated that sociotechnical integration could develop students’ skillsetsand impact on the world, but also could transform their very ways of being. For example, oneinterviewee

Conference Session

Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University, Bozeman; Sidrah MGWatson, Montana State University, Bozeman

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

strategies as either necessary to succeed or even as desirable depending on theextent to which they have internalized dominant narratives about the irrelevance of sexual andgender identity to STEM, a reflection of the ways LGBTQ people are prone to minimize harmfulexperiences pertaining to sexual and gender identity [21]. However, each of these strategiesintroduces additional psychological and emotional burden that can interfere with the cognitiveresources needed to maintain motivation and succeed in a STEM major.The most immediate of these consequences is that LGBTQ people are much more likely toconsider leaving, and to leave, STEM than their cisgender, heterosexual counterparts [1-3]. Inaddition to this attrition, regardless of whether they leave

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Systems in Practice

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

generated from lab members’ responses to questions that directly and/orindirectly reflect on their collaborative work. The interviews transcripts, in-person field notes,and field notes taken over Zoom, were consulted to ensure that the patterns and themes identifiedduring the in-person interviewing and observations repeated and recurred with force (Owen,1984) across the three labs. The researchers discussed the emergent themes and compared thethemes with their own experiences in the field along with the memos they took duringinterviews, and meeting and field observations. This data analysis was also accompanied by themanuscript writing process which informed the interpretive processing of interview andobservation data. For example, writing the

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johanna Bodenhamer, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis ; Robert Weissbach, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Ruth Camille Pflueger, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Corinne C. Renguette, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Brandon Sorge, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Annwesa Dasgupta; Immanuel Edinbarough P.E., The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

circle modeldemonstrated that peer-to-peer tutoring resulted in improved written communication thatdemonstrated higher-level critical thinking outcomes from students further along in theirprogram of study written communication [7]. However, the writing circle approach requires ahigh level of commitment, time, and money for the training and its continued use. Eachapproach, regardless of the academic year of the students, had a positive result, with some of theparticipating students reflecting that the process helped them to become better writers by seeingthe work of others [6] [7].Collaborative ApproachesA collaborative approach that comes from forming a collaborative relationship between STEMinstructors and writing center staff can result in

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

, 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

Conference Session

AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

: Encourage students to think creatively by expressing engineering concepts, principles, or experiences through poetic language and imagery. 2. Exploring Metaphorical Thinking: Introduce students to the use of metaphor, simile, and other figurative language techniques to convey complex engineering ideas in a vivid and imaginative manner. 3. Developing Communication Skills: Improve students' ability to communicate technical information effectively by practicing concise and expressive language, which can be valuable in writing reports, proposals, and presentations. 4. Encouraging Reflective Practice: Promote self-reflection and deeper understanding of engineering concepts by encouraging students to explore

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

intentionalacts in how students understand empathy and the “meaning context” for which the relationshipbetween students and their subjects are made. The interdisciplinary or even transdisciplinaryapproach for developing and analyzing empathy embedded in engineering education provides alink to expand into other analysis techniques, such as discourse analysis.Others have certainly seen the benefits of discourse to think through empathy in education.Warren [20], for instance, reflects on the ways that adopting different, critical classroomdiscourses is important for creating and expressing a culturally sensitive and empatheticdisposition. Nolan [21] understands teacher discourses and dispositions as almost synonymous,explaining that teachers’ dispositions

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

learned”. The reflective component is critical for students toconsider how elements of their design worked or failed to meet their design expectations.Likewise, as a pedagogical instrument, the reflective component of the presentation offers thestudent a formative opportunity to “rethink” how any future instance of similar design practicemight be enhanced.PedagogyCorrect content with fitting assessments can only have the greatest impact if aligned withstrategic and purposeful pedagogical approaches. The THTR59700 course is at the core activelearning-oriented and engages technical knowledge across students' academic advancement,keeping the developmental growth of students in mind. In particular, the pedagogicalframeworks that most clearly relay

Conference Session

Writing and Technical Communications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

engineering programs [3], but reflections and critical events werefocused on experience in the first-year engineering course at the institution. The first-yearengineering course is a design, build, test course that enables and encourages communicationbetween students on teams. The teams are broken up into small groups of four or five and taskedwith designing, building, and testing an engineering solution to a pre-conceived problem. Thisclassroom serves as an ideal setting for intervention, as the students are early in theircoursework. This chronological positioning yields students who are more focused oncommunication than mathematical analysis, which they may be less certain of, and makes anychanges more impactful, as they have three more years to

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

their interconnectednessmay be invisible to those in power. Tara noted that people who hold individualistic mindsetsmight be less receptive to seeing problems related to social justice and macroethics. “sometimes the attitude of the people in [this city] is a lot more individualistic, but they don’t understand the impact of the society on their life. So the privilege of living in a developed country, having your roads always working, your police not taking bribes, your systems always being in place, your infrastructure always being there, has made you not understand the impact of having people who can actually do these things in the future.” (p. 8)Individualism is also reflected in the culture Tara observed at the

Conference Session

Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

class consciousness. This hegemonic adherence to businessprofessionalism is reflected in how Pawley has described the continual reproduction of anengineering education and workforce development that serves to “indoctrinate students into neoliberalism as the only possible mode of economic development. Their job will be to work in an industrial machine; we do not articulate alternative modes of thought or help students develop cognitive lenses to conceive of a way of being outside this neoliberal worldview” [13, p. 449].An imperative task in the (re)development of the US engineering workforce is to transform theconsciousness of those who take on the title of engineer to break away from the continuedideological imposition

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

questions to establish the context from which the students were speaking. I approachedthese conversations with humility as I sought to learn with the participants as they are experts intheir own experience.LimitationsThe findings are reflective of the students who chose to participate in the study and thus self-selected to engage in an interview on ethics and responsibility that was conducted in English.The university at which the interviews took place is Dutch and English speaking, but mostBachelor’s programs are taught in Dutch, which was the native language of all of theparticipants.There is ongoing conversation around the inclusion of demographic questions in interviews [28],including where they should be placed and what effect they might have

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jingshu Meng; Hannah Norton; Chelsea Andrews, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

student looking to take this course, and would it bedifferent if it was a student of color?” When answering this question, Ebo said that he does notthink that his advice would be different to a white student or student of color, but rather it wouldbe different for an international student. He said that his international student identity is what heunderstands, so he would only speak through that context.2: moving towards racial-ethnic identity examination in the U.S. context. After some periodof time, international students tend to start evolving their identities to fit into the U.S. context. Inthe interviews, students often reflected on a catalyst that required them to consider how theiridentity fits in the U.S. context.Positioning themselves

Conference Session

Writing and Technical Communications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lance R Curtis, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

result reflecting the observation of Maharaj and Banta [11]. Despite thatacceptance, the bulk of the students displayed the typical attitude that writing has little ifanything to do with learning engineering statics, although a significant minority embraced theidea of writing being a part of engineering career practice. Because of their expected attitudetowards writing, students saw little if any benefit from requiring more writing in an engineeringstatics class. Again, those results conformed to expectations. However, three aspects of the resultsfrom the present work were unexpected. First, considering the substantial practical differencebetween mean exam grades shown in the inset table in Figure 2, a statistically significantdifference

Conference Session

Writing and Technical Communications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John William Lynch, University of Cincinnati; Sheryl A. Sorby, University of Cincinnati; Teri J Murphy, University of Cincinnati; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

academia and industry to better understand industry’s specificcommunication needs and priorities [19]. There have been many attempts to alleviate theseconcerns, which include requiring technical writing courses, modifying assignment structure toimprove the iterative writing process, introducing engineers to interdisciplinary writing contexts,and teaching writing via self-reflection for experimental lab report writing [20]-[22]. Theseefforts are a useful start to address these issues, but there is a dearth of studies that demonstratethe long-term effectiveness of these interventions.Spatial and Verbal Skills for Engineering StudentsPrior work by Project Talent, which conducted a longitudinal study following 400,000 highschool students 11+ years

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Systems in Practice

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

the various focus areacourses are not degree requirements, the program development team has decided to restrict allABET accreditation program assessment to the design spine courses: The campus-wideCornerstone Design course, the IDS 5-course sequence, and the 2-course Capstone Designsequence. Because EDS offers the bookend design experiences to the campus community, we donot have full independent control over those courses within the design spine, but we havesufficient control to specify ABET assessments and associated student learning outcomes.Innovating with ABETEngineering program builders typically have much to say about ABET program accreditation,and wide-ranging scholarship provides guidance, critique, and reflections in response to

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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

imaginative context invoked by the comparison may influenceaudience response. Implied comparisons are powerful modes of representation andcommunication but notoriously imprecise, in part because what is evoked depends a great deal onthe knowledge and prior experience of the audience. Analogical reasoning puts us in a position tobe more deliberate in our choice of analogies and more creative with respect to the rhetoricalstrategies we use. As the next section explains, our choice of rhetorical strategy should reflect thekind of relationship we wish to establish with the intended audience.III. A New Metaphor for the Discourse on Diversity: FromOration to ConversationBoth classical rhetoric and modern social psychology suggest that conversation is a