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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 1: Critical Reflections on Teaching and Learning

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenna Tonn, Boston College; Brit Shields, University of Pennsylvania; Ryan Hearty, The Johns Hopkins University; Adelheid Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania

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electrical engineering and PhD in History of Science and Technology from Johns Hopkins University. As an engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Hearty built radio communications hardware for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. As a historian, he has studied collaborations across disciplines of engineering and applied science since the 1930s. His doctoral dissertation analyzed the rise and development of water quality management, a multidisciplinary field of applied science, from the New Deal to the Clean Water Act.Adelheid Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Pedagogical Choices for Navigating and Teaching Sociotechnical

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 1: Critical Reflections on Teaching and Learning

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Kent A. Wayland, University of Virginia; Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia

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the laboratory, N. Doorn, D. Schuurbiers, I. van de Poel, and M. E. Gorman, Eds., in Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, no. 16. , Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, pp. 37–53.[14]​ J. Calvert, A place for science and technology studies: observation, intervention, and collaboration. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023.[15]​ N. G. Lederman, F. Abd-El-Khalick, R. L. Bell, and R. S. Schwartz, “Views of nature of science questionnaire: Toward valid and meaningful assessment of learners’ conceptions of nature of science,” J. Res. Sci. Teach., vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 497–521, Aug. 2002, doi: 10.1002/tea.10034.[16]​ S. Delamont and P. Atkinson, “Doctoring Uncertainty: Mastering Craft Knowledge,” Soc. Stud. Sci., vol. 31, no. 1

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 9: Collaboration and Community

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Ahreum Lim, Arizona State University; Emma Frow, Arizona State University

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. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Making Space to Care: A Community Garden for Bioengineering LabsAbstractAs qualitative researchers embedded in a biomedical engineering department, we are currentlyattempting to create a space for conversation and action among a self-selecting group of faculty.Framed as a Community Garden, this initiative is focused on supporting discussions and activitiesaround “cultivating care” within labs in the department.In this paper, we focus on outlining the empirical and theoretical context for this initiative. TheCommunity Garden is part of a larger research project exploring the relationship between controland care in biological engineering. The laboratory

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 2: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging I

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Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PWL) (COE); Amanda Katz, Utah State University

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motivated the passing of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862. TheMorrill Act states that land will be given to the states to develop or sell to create colleges for thespecific purpose of teaching agriculture and the mechanic arts [5], or, in other words, to teachengineering. As a result, the number of engineering schools increased from 21 in 1862 to 70 in1872 [5].Accompanying the boom in engineering colleges was a need to create standards and continuityacross the colleges, which led to the creation of The Society for the Promotion of EngineeringEducation (SPEE) in 1893 [6]. After several decades of research into various approaches toengineering education, creating documents such as the Mann Report in 1918 and WickendenInvestigations from 1923-1929

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 6: LEES Works in Progress

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Ymbar Isaias Polanco Pino, Tufts University; Luis Federico Suarez, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Greses Perez P.E., Tufts University; Koral Melissa Nuñez Javeir; L. Clara Mabour, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Taisha Pierre, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Mia Jimenez, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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examining STEM culture’s influence on racially and ethnically minoritized students with Dr. Terrell R. Morton and the Justice and Joy Research Team. Currently, Ymbar is conducting research for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Department of Energy (DOE), alongside Andrew Parker and Dr. Greses P´erez, to enable equity considerations in commercial building energy efficiency programs through data analysis and community engagement. He hopes to continue doing research that supports and creatively engages historically excluded communities within the renewable energy transition. Ymbar is interested in using media and the arts as community-preferred learning approaches to demystify complex scientific

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 5: Decoloniality and Indigenous Knowledges

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Amani A AL-Mqadma, Islamic University of Gaza; Bill Guariento, University of Northumbria; Caroline Burns, Northumbria University; Rachid Khoumikham, Northumbria University Newcastle/ and The University of Essex ; Hatem A Elaydi, Islamic University of Gaza

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, involving for example site-visits,are often culturally inappropriate, a factor which further enhances the attraction of onlinework.There are six universities in Gaza, five of which offer courses in Engineering. Three of thesecourses take place in mixed-gender classrooms, though at IUG, students are taught in single-sex classes, with separate classrooms in separate buildings; laboratories are shared, but withdifferent time-slots. Female students are taught by both males and females, but femaleteachers can only teach female students (which therefore creates significant workloadproblems for female lecturers, who are required to teach more courses per semester than theirmale counterparts). This study does not present any viewpoint on the respective

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 9: Collaboration and Community

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Jacqueline Rose Tawney, California Institute of Technology; Morgan L Hooper, University of Toronto; Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California; Maria Jose Azcona Baez, California Institute of Technology; Meredith Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Matthew Alexander Langley; Nina Mohebbi, California Institute of Technology; Micah Kalaihi Kushi Nishimoto, California Institute of Technology; Kay T Xia, California Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #47379Fostering Effective & Enduring Advocacy in STEM: Exploring the Role ofCommunity Through a Collaborative AutoethnographyDr. Jacqueline Rose Tawney, California Institute of TechnologyDr. Morgan L Hooper, University of Toronto After completing her PhD at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), Morgan Hooper is now an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto. There, her teaching focuses on building community within hands-on Engineering Design courses and beyond. She encourages students to engage with multi-faceted, trans-disciplinary

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 8: Communication and Liberal Education

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Catherine Woodworth Wong, University of New Hampshire; Cynthia Helen Carlson PE, PhD, Merrimack College

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across the U.S., the Middle East, and Singapore. She has been teaching for over a decade and is now an associate professor and chair of civil engineering at Merrimack College. Dr. Carlson is passionate about water resources, reduction of environmental impact, spatial analysis, and student engagement. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Cultivating Plain Language Skills for Engineering StudentsAbstractWhile engineers are learning the vocabulary of the profession, understandably, they want topractice, and perhaps show their professors that they are proficient. This leads to student writingthat is overly complicated and full of jargon. The resulting document is often one that would

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 4: Sociotechnical Integration

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Mark J. Povinelli, Syracuse University

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implementation and effects.Despite its potential, the teaching of love and its attributes remains largely absent from U.S.engineering curricula. The dominant emphasis on technical mastery often sidelines students'emotional and relational development, as well as their deeper understanding and engagementwith the social, historical, and ethical contexts of technological development—limiting theircapacity for ethical reasoning and critical reflection on technological impacts [10], [11].This absence raises a central question: can the compassionate and caring dimensions of love betaught and conceptualized through a transdisciplinary and holistic design thinking methodology,and serve as a foundation for engineering education? Addressing this question involves