Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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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)

literature on the topic. Abetter understanding of engineering problem-solving mindsets – and possible alternatives from adifferent field – could shed light on engineering teaching, learning, research, and practice.MethodsThe paper is based on analysis of interview data that was collected in 2021 at a public universityin Western Canada. As part of a larger project, this paper’s third author conducted semi-structuredinterviews with faculty and postdoctoral researchers from both the School of Engineering andSchool of Education. As can be seen in the Appendix, interviewees were asked about theirperceptions of macroethics and social justice, their research, and local contexts in sessions thatranged in duration from 30-90 minutes. Seventeen faculty and

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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society or group. To say that two people belong to the same culture is to say that they interpret the world in roughly the same ways and can express themselves, their thoughts, and feelings about the world, in ways which would be understood by each other. Thus, culture depends on its participants interpreting meaningfully what is happening around them, and “making sense” of the world, in broadly similar ways. (p.2)7For Hall, this communal sense making project is deeply contextualized, and has the “tendency to take onthe intellectual coloration of the place where it is operating.” (p.24)8 He characterizes culture asindivisible from power and underlines the “historic

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Engineers, India, M.E. (Production Engineering) degree from PSG College of Te ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Using Tutor-led Support to Enhance Engineering Student Writing for AllAbstractWriting Assignment Tutor Training in STEM (WATTS) is part of a three-year NSF IUSE grantwith participants at three institutions. This research project seeks to determine to what extentstudents in the WATTS project show greater writing improvement than students using writingtutors not trained in WATTS. The team collected baseline, control, and experimental data.Baseline data included reports written by engineering and engineering technology students withno intervention to determine if there were variations in

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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)

single conceptin a one-time course. It is embedded in engineers' professional life and is reflected in multipleaspects of engineers' social roles. Moreover, equity and social justice engineering curricula mayfoment a culture that welcomes differences, as Rossmann et al. (2020) reported. The authorsidentified that their program, designed to develop engineering socio-technical skills, had moregender and ethnic diversity in the student population than other engineering programs in thesame institution. The third intervention category was external, which encompasses papers that describe theimplementation of workshops, external project grants, and external professional development tohelp students, faculty, or staff apply equitable design

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jingshu Meng; Hannah Norton; Chelsea Andrews, Tufts University

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result, universities are working to include more sociotechnical content informerly purely-technical courses, with the goal of engaging students in recognizing andanalyzing the economic, political, and social aspects of technology. In the U.S., many of thefocus topics for this sociotechnical content are grounded in a U.S. context, requiring anunderstanding of the history and current state of racial and economic power structures. WhileU.S. residents are likely familiar with these structures, it is important to consider how thesetopics are encountered by international students.This work-in-progress study on international student experiences is part of a larger NSF-fundedresearch project exploring integrating sociotechnical topics in a first-year

Conference Session

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

, while my students work through the later stages of a community-based service-learning project for a local nonprofit, they have also been reading excerpts from Lewis’s GoingInfinite and evaluating effective altruism through Bankman-Fried’s story. We have confronted thequestion of whether EA would treat their design project as a suboptimal use of their time on acause of merely local significance. We have also, ironically enough, read Bankman-Fried’sexpressions of loathing for books as an object of study. Lewis quotes a blog written during hissophomore year at MIT: I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespeare…but really I shouldn’t need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning... When Shakespeare wrote almost all Europeans

Conference Session

Wellness, Readiness, and Thriving

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vanessa Tran, Utah State University; Cassandra McCall, Utah State University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University

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Paper ID #42821From Mind Full to Mindful: Proposing Mindfulness as a Proactive Strategyfor Safeguarding Mental Health in Engineering Education.Vanessa Tran, Utah State University Vanessa Tran is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education at Utah State University (USU). She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Architecture (UAH) and a Master’s in Global Production Engineering and Management from the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam. Her research interest lies in enhancing the well-being of engineering students and educators. She is currently working on an NSF-funded project

Conference Session

Writing and Technical Communications

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of California, Santa Cruz; William Charles Sobolewski, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

complex, technical information. 3) Revise documents for content, organization, and writing style. 4) Using library research skills and knowledge of citation practices, conduct self-directed inquiry to identify, critically evaluate, and cite relevant literature. 5) Provide feedback to others on their writing, speaking, and teamwork abilities. 6) Demonstrate ability to work in teams and manage team projects. 7) Design and deliver effective oral presentations. 8) Understand ethics and sustainability in engineering.The students completed four major assignments where they used our scaffolded approach torevision: Job Documents, Research Poster, Lab Protocol, and Technical Report. (Detaileddescriptions of all major assignments are

Conference Session

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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. Her research draws from perspectives in anthropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences to focus on the role of culture and ideology in science learning and educational change. Her research interests include how to: (a) disrupt problematic cultural narratives in STEM (e.g. brilliance narratives, meritocracy, and individualistic competition); (b) cultivate equity-minded approaches in ed- ucational spheres, where educators take responsibility for racialized inequities in student success; and (c) cultivate more ethical future scientists and engineers by blending social, political and technological spheres. She prioritizes working on projects that seek to share power with students and orient to stu- dents

Conference Session

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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educational structures and practices, to recognize,confront, and address the harms of settler colonialism and anti-Indigeneity (e.g. [7]).Our focus on four distinct transdisciplinary approaches reflected the conference’s theme, but alsospoke to the sometimes amorphous identity of the SIG itself. The SIG is made up of membersworking in non-traditional engineering education spaces, including projects and initiativesfocusing on sociotechnical knowledge and humanistic engineering, arts and humanitiesintegration within core engineering curricula, communication and teamwork instruction,transdisciplinary integration of leadership, and decolonizing engineering education. Itsmembership includes engineers who have developed transdisciplinary research and

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; Christin J. Salley, University of Michigan

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

discussions and projects. We ask students to question the traditional classroom formatand infrastructure, including how STS instructors administer classes. Practicing in thecommunity are instances of student agency related to community-based course activities andoutside of courses, such as desires to change something about communities, the campus,engineering classes, and their lives in general. Agency to change communities involves skillsand aspirations to disrupt the status quo and ask critical questions of science and technology.Navigating constraints refers to performing agency in the real world and is the most theoreticaldimension of the model. This study only follows students in the two-year STS program, so wedon’t have extensive data about how

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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practices that work to downplay, obfuscate, or dismiss entirely the influence of socialand structural factors that reproduce educational disparities among historically marginalizedgroups in engineering and further drive them away from the field [4], [5], [13]. The broadersocietal implication of this problem is that it limits the diversity of perspectives that practiceengineering, which perpetuates the development of the unjust and inequitable distribution oftechnological consequences. We see this, for example, in the pervasiveness of algorithmic bias,infrastructure projects that harm minority communities, and a lack of (or undone) technologiesthat could benefit women and people of color [14], [15]. The recognition that we need to designculturally

Conference Session

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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]. Developed within theapplied disciplines of organizational theory and project management, engaged scholarshiprequires researchers to cooperatively interact with practitioner-stakeholders to identify,understand, and improve upon “complex social problems that often exceed our limitedcapabilities [as researchers] to study on our own” [18, p. 37]. Organizational engaged scholarshiphas been likened to design-based research in education, wherein education researchers team upwith a variety of education practitioner-stakeholders to iteratively advance the theory and designof an intervention to a complex educational problem, and is considered useful for researchersseeking to advance both scientific and practical knowledge together [17]; [20].Participants

Conference Session

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

within engineering [6]. However, the theoretical grounding ofthe concept, and its relationship to other ways of teaching and practicing engineering ethicsor design, is not discussed within the TSPP itself, nor in its related materials.The authors of this paper are members of a cross-institutional research team studying theeffects of the TSPP on students’ understandings of engineering responsibility [1]. As webegan our project in January 2023, the multiple meanings of “tech stewardship” – and of“stewardship” itself – became apparent. We noticed the word “stewardship” in diversecontexts, including in scholarly literature, on the news, and on our garbage and recyclingbins. We spent team meetings discussing the relationship between the “tech

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

fromTable 1, in order to make ABET-accreditation a reality, the number of required Engineeringcourses needed to be increased (ABET requires Engineering = 45 credits, Basic Science andMath = 30 credits). The new major includes the same core of engineering mechanics plus hands-on project-based design and analysis courses as well as several electives (Table 3). SixEngineering majors are scheduled to graduate in 2023, eleven in 2024, and thirteen in 2025.Table 3. Engineering Curriculum at Randolph-Macon College. Credit hours in parentheses Engineering Courses Math and Science Courses General Education Courses* Intro to Engineering (3) Introductory Physics (8) Writing and Composition (4) Statics (3) Digital

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AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

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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)

personal insights, emotions, and experiences through poetry writing. 5. Fostering Interdisciplinary Connections: Explore the intersection of engineering and other disciplines, such as literature and art, to foster interdisciplinary thinking and broaden students' perspectives on their field of study. 6. Stimulating Critical Thinking: Challenge students to analyze and interpret poetry written by others, including poems related to engineering themes, to develop critical thinking skills and appreciate diverse perspectives. 7. Promoting Empathy and Ethical Awareness: Encourage students to consider the societal, environmental, and ethical implications of engineering projects through poetry that explores

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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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

change most strongly if projections come to fruition [4,16-17].Climate anxiety can be maladaptive or adaptive. It’s been demonstrated that people whoexperience an adaptive response are more likely to respond through behavioral engagement (pro-environmental action). When the anxiety response becomes maladaptive, resulting in challengeswith excessive worry and trouble with concentration, it has been observed that this behavioralengagement link weakens. In the context of climate anxiety, this is sometimes referred to as eco-paralysis [3, 18].Climate Change Anxiety ScaleAlthough there is an increasing interest in emotional responses to climate change, the method ofmeasuring this response has differed substantially [14, 19]. In 2020, Susan Clayton

Conference Session

Wellness, Readiness, and Thriving

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julianna Gesun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Rachel Eve Gail Swan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Bryan Watson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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. Her prior work experiences include product management, consulting, tutoring, marketing, and information technology.Rachel Eve Gail Swan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Rachel Swan is an undergraduate student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Since 2022 she has been an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the ERAU Wireless Devices and Electromagnetics Laboratory (WiDE Lab). She has also been an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the ERAU Biologically Inspired Design-for-Resilience (BID4R) Lab since 2023. Her research projects and interests include hardware security for RF applications and machine learning. She is a recipient of the ERAU’s 2023 Outstanding Electrical Engineering Undergraduate

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Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Kacey Beddoes, San Jose State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Paper ID #37171A Longitudinal Study of Student Mental Health during the Course of theCOVID-19 PandemicDr. Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Andrew Danowitz received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2014, and is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. His research interests involve student mental health and accessibility in engineering education.Dr. Kacey Beddoes, San Jose State University Kacey Beddoes is a Project Director in the College of Engineering Dean’s Office at San

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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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

engineering educators? This paper presents a selective literature review guided by thesequestions, and concludes with a brief discussion of potential implications for engineeringeducators.IntroductionThe objective of this paper is to explore the ways literature describes the strategies high-achieving black men in engineering use to navigate the social, institutional, and cultural contextof their undergraduate engineering programs. We take a particular interest in the experiences ofthese men on undergraduate engineering project teams. Not only is successful performance onstudent teams indispensable to the undergraduate experience, but demonstration of the ability towork effectively in teams is essential to entering the engineering

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Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Jamaal Downey, University of Florida; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida

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respectively), white women are10% less likely to identify HC as active compared to white men (19 vs to 29 respectively). POCare 14% more likely to identify HC as active compared to their white counterparts (40 vs to 26respectively). The identity of race seems to be more salient than that of gender. While the authorscould postulate that these anomalies could be explained through the theory of critical whitenessstudies, that line of inquiry is outside the scope of this project. Looking forward, it would seem that the more marginalized identities one holds, the morelikely that person would deem HC to be active, and the higher likelihood that person would wantothers that look like them in engineering, be it by gender, race, or their intersection

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Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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, and L. Yu, "“That's so gay!”: Examining the covariates of hearing this expression among gay, lesbian, and bisexual college students," Journal of American College Health, vol. 60, no. 6, p. 429, 2012/09/08/Aug/ undefined 2012, doi: 10.1080/07448481.2012.673519.[24] K. Kindy, "GOP lawmakers push historic wave of bills targeting rights of LGBTQ teens, children and their families," in The Washington Post, ed, 2022, p. NA.[25] J. Weaver, "New poll illustrates the impacts of social & political issues on LGBTQ youth," ed. West Hollywood, CA: The Trevor Project, 2022.[26] E. A. Cech and H. M. Sherick, "Depoliticization and the structure of engineering education," in International Perspectives on

Conference Session

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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Engineering Network (KEEN) activities [38], VentureWell [39], NSF I-Corps [40], and the celebration and glorification of capitalists such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Saviorism in the Global South frequently manifests as white saviorism, as exemplified by the work of Engineers Without Borders [41], missionary work, and many university service-learning projects. SE recognizes that there are no saviors. We each bring value to the community as we act together in kinship for transformational change.Critique of Mainstream Approaches to Systemic ChangeThere are several existing models aimed at addressing inequalities in the field, but they typicallyfail to address the neoliberal roots in which the structure and culture of engineering

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Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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disclose any of thesetraits to the school nor did she seek accommodations as she perceived accommodations would not behelpful for her and were reserved for students with greater needs than hers. As a result of herparticipation in this research project, Esperanza later sought a diagnosis for what she suspected wasneurodivergence in the form of autism. Esperanza identifies as a first-generation student despite herparents having attended college for the performing arts. Her parents were children of immigrants fromEurope and the Caribbean and as minority and first-generation students, they received an abundance ofguidance and assistance through their college experiences and did not come away fully understandingthe higher education systems and