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From Journal to General: Teaching Engineers to Write for All Audiences

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 8: Communication and Liberal Education
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Amanda Dawn Hilliard, The Johns Hopkins University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Journal to General: Teaching Graduate Engineering Students to Write for All AudiencesAbstract - The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) identifies “anability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences” as a critical learning outcome forengineering programs. This underscores the importance of engineers learning to articulate theirideas clearly, not only to peers within their field but also to non-specialist audiences. Whilerecently developed generative AI tools offer support for crafting written documents, they are nota substitute for mastering the foundational skills necessary for clear and effective technicalcommunication. Moreover, students frequently find themselves unprepared for the

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Small Shifts: New Methods for Improving Communication Experiences for Women in Early Engineering Courses

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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Paper ID #42974Small Shifts: New Methods for Improving Communication Experiences forWomen in Early Engineering CoursesDr. Jonathan M Adams, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Jonathan Adams is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition and the writing program administrator at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ. His research on rhetorical theory, infrastructure, and communication pedagogy informs his teaching of courses in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication in engineering.Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, PrescottBrian Roth, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

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Poetry, Creativity, and ChatGPT

Conference Session: AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work
Collection: 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

human experiences, values, and emotions. 8. Building Confidence and Resilience: Provide a supportive environment for students to experiment with creative expression, take risks, and overcome challenges, thereby building confidence and resilience in their academic and professional endeavors. 9. Cultivating Aesthetic Sensibility: Cultivate an appreciation for the aesthetic aspects of engineering design and innovation by exploring the beauty and elegance inherent in both poetry and technological solutions. 10. Facilitating Collaborative Learning: Promote collaboration and peer feedback by engaging students in group discussions, workshops, and constructive critique sessions to refine their poetry writing

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Fostering Effective & Enduring Advocacy in STEM: Exploring the Role of Community Through a Collaborative Autoethnography

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 9: Collaboration and Community
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: 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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

concerns.” He writes that he managed to emerge from this period and started to find “away back into hope and action” by engaging with solarpunk literature and art, which “provides apositive vision for a better future”. With this newfound purpose and energy, Matthew involvedhimself more with causes and groups that he cares about; however, he had not yet talked openlyabout his emergent authentic self with his peers or fellow organizers before the Pilot Course. Heworried that other folks at Caltech wouldn’t share his concerns, might find solarpunk unappealingor unrealizable, or would judge him for being too na¨ıve, impractical, or radical. Overall, he fearedthat this more authentic version of himself would not fit who a Caltech biology grad

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Work in progress: Coloring Outside the Lines - Exploring the Potential for Integrating Creative Evaluation in Engineering Education

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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

lab activities in this course, students were tasked with a visual depiction to showdifferent types of bias. The details of this activity and resultant student visual depictions will bediscussed in this section. The lab for this week consisted of a 75 minute course block with areading and question prompts assigned for after the lab period. In the lab, the first activity forstudents was to discuss and define the word bias with their peers. At this point in the semester,students have not encountered a formal statistical definition of bias in data. In the next step,students were tasked to read a comic inspired by Dr. Joy Buolamwini’s work on gender shades(Buolamwini & Gebru, 2018). This comic was drawn by Vreni Stollberger and published in

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Divergence and Convergence in Engineering Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Management, and Policy

Conference Session: Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education
Collection: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, California State University, Channel Islands; Andrew Li; Rebecca Jun, University of Virginia
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

7. Select exemplar text for each theme to include in write-up of analysisFigure 1. High-Level Depiction of Research Method. The steps in the blue boxes primarilyinvolve quantitative analysis, and the ones in green primarily involve qualitative analysis. 8 Although the method we developed mixes quantitative and qualitative researchmethods, the descriptions below separate its quantitative and qualitative aspects to makethe underlying logic clearer.3.1 Quantitative Methods: Frequency Analysis and Topic Modeling3.1.1 Extended Frequency Analysis Using the Search Functions of PEER The purpose of the

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Decolonizing engineering curriculum on stolen land: Settler amnesia within engineering education

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 5: Decoloniality and Indigenous Knowledges
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jessica N. Tran, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Jessica Wolf, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

colonialism” [3, p. 19]? As settler engineeringeducation researchers based in the setter colonial nation now called Canada, we write this paperas a process of ‘pausing’ [9] to discuss the tensions we have experienced in ‘Indigenizing’ or‘decolonizing’ efforts in engineering education in our Canadian and American universityinstitutional experiences.We structure this paper as a dialogue between the first two authors, Jess Tran and Jessica Wolf, toreflect on our engineering education experiences, as recent Canadian and Americanundergraduate and current Canadian graduate students. This written dialogue is an artifact of themany dialogues we have engaged in wrestling with these tensions, including severalconversations we had as an author team. We reflect

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Experiences from the First Cohort of Engineering Students at a Liberal Arts University

Conference Session: Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level
Collection: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: 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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

the university, the students take 15 courses including courses in art,cultural diversity, history, literature, mathematics, natural science, philosophy, social sciences, theology,and writing. The students also complete courses to graduate with a B.S. in General Engineering. Inaddition to the liberal arts core courses and engineering courses, all students also participate in a weeklyone-hour reflection seminar that they are enrolled in along with their peers in the same cohort. An aim forthe pedagogy and curriculum in the courses coded as engineering and the reflection seminars is to utilizethe affordances of a liberal arts framing to engineering to provide students opportunities to experience aliberal engineering education more

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Considering the Whole Learner: A Theoretical Examination of Learning and Individual Identity using Cognitive Load Theory

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 3: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging II
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University; Cassandra J McCall, Utah State University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Vanessa Tran, Utah State University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Learning and Individual Identity using Cognitive Load TheoryAbstractCognitive Load Theory (CLT) is a foundational framework in educational psychology thatexplains how learners process and manage information. As engineering programs face growingchallenges in student retention and engagement, CLT offers an evidence-based approach toenhance learning efficiency. This paper introduces key concepts essential to applying CLTeffectively and proposes a promising research direction for extending its use to also supportgreater inclusion in engineering education. Research shows that students from minoritizedpopulations in engineering experience more stress and anxiety than their peers from dominantgroups. To date, most studies have approached this issue from

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Minoritization Processes in Structural Engineering Diversity Work

Conference Session: Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education
Collection: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Lara K. Schubert, UCLA; Cal State Los Angeles; Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

methods in this inquiry. The Administrator of the SouthGeneral IRB from the UCLA Office of the Human Research Protection Program informed mevia email on March 23, 2022 that formal review for this proposed work was not necessary.As mentioned above, this work was meant to be an exploration and a spotlight; it was not led byspecific research questions. The main purpose was to highlight the history and evolution of SE3through review of materials and conversations with SE3 leaders. Because of this, codes were notdeveloped prior to review of the data but were emergent and intuitive. Internal validity orcredibility [2] was achieved not through triangulation in terms of peer examination, but throughmember checks. I shared a draft write-up with

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Celebrating the Skeptics: Funds of Knowledge as a Critique of Engineering Epistemologies

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 2: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging I
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Jeffrey C Shragge, Colorado School of Mines; Jonah Klemm-Toole, Colorado School of Mines
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

along with. I like to think that I can work for anyone and with anyone after my time playing football at Mines.Students also identified ways that their peers’ FOK contributed to the success of the capstoneproject. One of the welding students both appreciated the potential for the robotic welder to maketheir work more efficient and came to see that “everyone sees things differently and everyonecan bring a good idea to the table.” An MME student emphasized commonality, writing,“Communication between engineers and technicians can be challenging but shouldn’t. We seemto have more in common with each other than not and are working towards common goals justfrom different points of view/contributions.” Another student similarly emphasized

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Female engineering academics in the Global South and North: An exploration of language of instruction, using Story Circles and Focus Groups

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 5: Decoloniality and Indigenous Knowledges
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: 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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

], looked at engineering project-work aimed at improving language skills,combining engineering students in the UK with peers in Gaza, an area which is facingdaunting politico-humanitarian challenges. This research looks again at issues relating to thelanguage of learning and teaching in the UK and Gaza, but this time focuses specifically onthe experiences of female engineering faculty. A ‘Story Circles’ methodology [2] wasadopted, in combination with follow-up focus groups. In these safe spaces, practicessurrounding the use of English in engineering were explored, allowing academics to compareapproaches and experiences. Though the study has been interrupted by the current war,results to date suggest that there are many more similarities than

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Further Investigations into the Link Between Spatial and Technical Communication

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 8: Communication and Liberal Education
Collection: 2025 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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

traditional and ESL. It may be argued that a stronger focus on semantic andphonemic fluency could support the more typical research and teaching on written and oralcommunication.Potential intersections between spatial and communication skillsSpatial abilities are typically strong in engineering students who succeed, in other words recentengineering graduates are more likely to have strong or excellent spatial skill abilities comparedto their non-engineering peers. One potential reason for the perceived lack of communicationability among engineering students may be related to their strong spatial ability, where studentsmay have a great depth of knowledge about a particular “product,” but find it difficult totransform this knowledge into writing that

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Learning the Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Modules in an Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Classroom

Conference Session: Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level
Collection: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas, Austin; Ramakrishna Sai Annaluru, University of Texas, Austin; Christine Julien, University of Texas, Austin; Pedro Enrique Santacruz, University of Texas, Austin
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

with a peer or community member using a list ofsuggested questions about the module’s contents. Afterwards, we required students tocommunicate what they learned through completing and submitting a graded final deliverable.This deliverable could be a video, slide presentation, a written op-ed piece, or a piece of art aboutthe work they completed in the module. We evaluated the content of the modules through asurvey that assessed the students’ interest in the modules and determined the utility of themodules in the context of the study of computing. Based on the feedback of these surveys alongwith feedback from the instructors of the courses, we will further develop and improve thestructure and content of these modules and expand their reach to

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Introducing Engineering through the Sociotechnical Histories of Everyday Technologies

Conference Session: Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level
Collection: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Sarvnaz Lotfi, Loyola University, Maryland; Raenita A. Fenner, Loyola University, Maryland
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

’ institution as it has with manyother institutions across the US.As a Jesuit Catholic university committed to “the ideals of liberal education and the developmentof the whole person,”[11] LUM operates primarily as an undergraduate institution withconsiderable liberal arts requirements. Students who pursue LUM’s ABET-accredited bachelor’sof science in engineering must select one of four concentrations in electrical, computer,mechanical, or materials engineering. At the same time, all students are required to completecourses in the natural sciences and mathematics, as well as in the humanities and social scienceswherein reading, writing, and critical thinking skills are heavily emphasized [12]. The LUMCore Values Statement “calls upon the curriculum to

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The Historical Marker Project : A Collaboration between History, Math, and Engineering

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 7: Interdisciplinarity
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Anna Fay Booker, Whatcom Community College; Tyler L Honeycutt, Whatcom Community College; Pat Burnett, Whatcom Community College; Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Anna Wolff, Whatcom Community College
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Bay. The mapping component is parttwo of a five-part scaffolded research project that embeds reading, research, and writing skills.During the next several weeks, the history portion of the HMP is dedicated to locating primaryand secondary sources and workshopping those sources. The history instructor works one-on-onewith students to vet sources online, annotating the sources with notes on why, when, and forwhom the source was created. The goal of the research component is for students to practicelocating sources that situate regional topics in their historical context. Sifting through sourcesalso helps students to narrow things down and revise their questions. The practice of knowinghow to ask a good historical question is the first part of

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Three-Year Capstone Design: An Innovative Interdisciplinary Preparation for Authentic Engineering Practice

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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

level is not, in and of itself novel. A simple Google Scholar search willgenerate over 24,000 citations elaborating upon such efforts. Peer-reviewed research on thistopic can be summarized into categories of innovation and specialized project development -including industry involvement (Goldberg, Cariapa, Corliss, et. al., 2014); professionalpreparation, and attribute/competency development (Hotaling, Fasse, Bost, et. al., 2012); andcapstone best-practices, pedagogy and assessment approaches (Newell, Doty, & Klein, 1990;Behdinan, Pop-Iliev, & Foster, 2014). Noticeably, however, the presence of recent innovativescholarship in this area appears scant.Looking back however to 1990, Newell, Doty, and Klein suggested that anecdotally, there

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Cultivating “global competency” in a divided world: A collaborative autoethnography of the cross-border curriculum design

Conference Session: Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers
Collection: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: YiXiang Shawn Sun, National Taiwan University; Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku, University of Virginia; Jongmin Lee, University of Science and Technology; Sean Michael Ferguson, CSUCI
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

this study was obtained from a classroom fieldwork that took place fromAugust 2022 to February 2023. The study utilized a variety of methods to gather data. First,the instructors were asked to write reflective notes about their teaching experiences, whichwere used as autoethnographic accounts for analysis. Second, a research assistant attendedweekly instructor meetings and in-person classes at NYCU to observe the classroomdynamics between the instructors and the students. We are thus able to track how this courseevolved during the semester. Third, the research assistant conducted qualitative interviewswith the students after the semester ended to gain insight into their motivation for enrolling inthe course and their thoughts on the most

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Pedagogical Choices for Navigating and Teaching Sociotechnical Landscapes in Engineering Education

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 1: Critical Reflections on Teaching and Learning
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jenna Tonn, Boston College; Brit Shields, University of Pennsylvania; Ryan Hearty, The Johns Hopkins University; Adelheid Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

they encounter our choices and those of their peers; and that through thisprocess we hope to inform students how to make their own choices regarding social andtechnological change.IntroductionWe, four engineering educators trained in science and technology studies (STS) and employed atengineering and engineering-adjacent programs, offer in this paper a multi-institutional survey ofpedagogical choices that we have made in the service of sociotechnical integration. Bypedagogical choices we mean an array of decisions in the context of our institutional homes,courses we teach, and student bodies enrolled. We reflect on the commonalities and differencesof introducing sociotechnical material in our disparate contexts, ranging from humanities

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STEM students leading cultural change: How agency and capacity for collective action are cultivated within a distributed network

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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

this type of mentorship (Leydens 2014, Nieusma 2011). One such initiative, theAccess Network, aims to do just that. The Access Network is a collection of programs (sites) thatare situated in U.S. universities that work towards a more equitable, diverse, inclusive, andaccessible version of the STEM community (Quan 2019). Access prioritizes student leaders, bothat the network-level and in their local sites, by empowering them to take the lead on actions andby providing support for this work. Access sites engage in activities that build inclusive learningcommunities, provide guidance through peer mentorship, and support growth in students’leadership around social justice.One major function of the Access Network is to connect students across these

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Implications of Engineering and Education Professor's Problem-Solving Mindsets on Their Teaching and Research

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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

of a scientist. Scientists aim to observe, infer,classify, predict, and hypothesize [14], [15]. In this sense the scientific method is based uponconsidering all of the different factors and data to form a conclusion. Another important aspect ofscience is that the “Scientific method does not insure the satisfactory solution of the problem...anymore than it insures the construction of an adequate hypothesis for the research problem” (p. 238)[16]. This statement suggests that a scientist’s mindset is primarily focused on the problemdefinition stage of problem solving.The problem-solving mindset is also evidenced in an expansive range of disciplines through theiracademic writing. It is apparent in social sciences, such as psychology, through

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Modeled Professionalism, Identity Concealment, and Silence: The Role of Heteronormativity in Shaping Climate for LGBTQ+ Engineering Undergraduates

Conference Session: Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education
Collection: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Brandon Bakka, University of Texas at Austin; Travis Bouchard, The University of Texas at Austin; Vivian Xian-wei Chou, University of Texas at Austin; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

a keyaspect of professionalism in STEM. However, our findings also show that dominant figures havethe ability to drastically change LGBTQ+ students’ perspective of professionalism. We alsoexplore how LGBTQ+ students face a culture of silence in STEM environments, unable orunwilling to give voice to their discomfort. LGBTQ+ students experience a lack of solidarityfrom their peers, contributing to a silent, chilly experience in STEM classrooms and labenvironments. Our third theme, identity concealment, investigates how students conceal theirLGBTQ+ identities as a mechanism for survival in STEM. A lack of LGBTQ+ dominant figuresin STEM, a culture of silence, and reinforcement that straightness is a professional requirementin STEM has

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The impact of alternative rhetoric and AI on inclusivity in STEM education

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 6: LEES Works in Progress
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University; Lori Scarlatos, Stony Brook University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

conferences ASEE citations proceedings7. Co-PIs will: use Assessment Participant Exit survey Analysis andan exit survey and of the feedback and interview discussion ofinterview a sampling response to section in the summaries results (amongof participants about be included project report PIs and inprogram in the and in writing)effectiveness program resources for report (and future for future training iteration of the training)III. Results:In all, 38 new participants completed the

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The Intersection of Mindfulness and Hand Sketching: Developing Problem-Solving Skills in Engineering Students

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 7: Interdisciplinarity
Collection: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Vanessa Tran, Utah State University; Cassandra J McCall, Utah State University; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

refine ideas through observation. Their drawings reveal a cognitive process thatmerged visual thinking with tactile engagement. Later artists, such as Vincent van Gogh andEdvard Munch, engaged in repetitive and expressive mark-making that mirrored their emotionalstates. For them, sketching became a means of reflection and emotional processing. In bothtraditions, the act of drawing or writing by hand created a bridge between physical action andmental focus. This integration of hand movement, attention, and emotion represents an embodiedform of cognition—one that supports clarity, emotional regulation, and creative insight.MethodsTo address our research questions, we identified three sets of keywords and conducted searchesusing IEEE Xplore, SCOPUS

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Dignity and well-being: Narratives of modifying the culture of engineering education to improve mental health among underrepresented STEM students

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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

short profiles ofeach participant to elevate their unique stories and identities; the profiles were approved by theparticipants. Each chose a pseudonym for the study and some details about them are excludedintentionally to protect their privacy.Student ProfilesEsperanzaEsperanza was a sophomore student in the winter of 2022. She identifies as Christian, cis-gendered,female, heterosexual, and as multiracial and Hispanic but does not speak Spanish. Esperanza wasdiagnosed with a physical disability that causes nerve pain that impacts her hands and feet, whichaffects her ability to walk, write, and do lab work and results in physical exhaustion that requires her torest to recuperate. She also is affected by asthma and anxiety. She chose not to

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Examining Gender-Based Disparities in Students’ Attitudes toward Engineering and Sociotechnical Understanding: A Structural Equation Modeling Study

Conference Session: Equity and Belonging
Collection: 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Felicity Bilow, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lucas Adams, Clarkson University; Mohammad Meysami, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

coursework, suggesting that as they become more aware of theimportance of non-technical skills (i.e. professional skills such as communication, writing,creativity) they may feel less like they belong in the engineering profession.Previous findings have indicated that coursework highlighting the broader social aspects ofengineering can help attract and retain women, who view the social aspects of engineering asmore important than do their male peers. While we found strong positive relationships amongself-confidence, understanding the broad nature of engineering, sense of belonging inengineering, and attitudes toward persisting and succeeding in engineering for all studentsregardless of their exposure to sociotechnical coursework, our findings suggest