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AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd Nicewonger, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Engineering Education, 2024 Meta-Activity Theory as a Conceptual Toolfor Supporting Transdisciplinary Curricular Experimentation in Undergraduate Learning ContextsWhen it comes to carrying out external evaluations of academic plans in higher education, LisaR. Lattuca and Joan S. Stark’s text, Shaping the College Curriculum: Academic Plans inContext, has provided a critical resource (Lattuca and Stark, 2011). The text lays out aframework for analyzing the social aspects of curricular plans, which often involves examininghow the intended curricular design of an academic program compares to the actual livedexperiences of students and faculty who are involved in the curriculum. By drawing on Lattucaand Stark’s framework, external

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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commonfirst-year educational pathway that every beginning engineering student must go through beforedeclaring their engineering professional program (i.e. Civil engineering, mechanical engineering,multidisciplinary engineering, etc.). Students are selected in the late spring term of the first yearbased on self-selected interest, achieving a minimum 2.5 GPA in FYE coursework, and passing aformal portfolio screening process conducted by the theatre department within the College ofLiberal Arts. Once accepted into the MDE program theatre engineering cohort, all studentsfollow an established plan of study (Appendix 1.) designed specifically to incorporate the 3-yearcapstone design pedagogy, and culminating in a senior capstone design experience.Three

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Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacey Sexton; Amanda Menier, SageFox Consulting Group; Rebecca Zarch, SageFox Consulting Group

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. When we formulated the structure of the workshop, wetherefore built the topic of intersectionality into our plans, and attempted to live out thoseprinciples in our design.Workshop GoalsWith this in mind, we sought to bring together experts across a range of computing, engineering,and related technical and data-based disciplines as well as experts from other fields in the socialsciences, including education and the learning sciences, to build an agenda for inclusive policy,practices, and research for TNB computing students. Our specific goals were to: ● Define near- and long-term agenda items for intersectional research about the inclusion of TNB learners in computing for the Computing Education Research (CER) community ● Advance

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

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University; Lori Scarlatos, Stony Brook University

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from across the SUNY system and integrating inclusive use ofAI as well as OER distribution plans into the framework. Workshops wereconducted online, with past participants serving as mentors to 38 new participantswho completed modules and collaborated across institutions. Feedback from theparticipants shows the value of the project and the ways in which STEM courseshave been made more inclusive. This project will help to grow a community ofSUNY STEM instructors who can foster among future STEM professionalsdiverse perspectives, inclusive approaches, and equitable applications of sciencein society.I. Background: A. Impact of alternative forms of rhetoric on STEM educationAcross higher education, and especially in STEM fields, educators are

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Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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asmentoring partnerships and scholarships—while others may focus more on providing communitysupport, such as diversity workshops and social activities. These differences are products of eachsite’s context and driven by local students’ needs and goals.One component of the leadership structure of Access is the Core Organizer (CO) Team. The COteam is responsible for supporting communication, mentorship, and self-reflection in thenetwork. The CO team meets on a regular basis to coordinate mentorship of student leaders,grant and funding applications, and future plans for the network. The team originated from thevarious site leaders that came together initially to write the grant that funded the creation ofAccess. This team has changed and expanded as

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Rose Tawney, California Institute of Technology; Meredith Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California; Morgan Hooper, University of Toronto

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topics course within our university’s engineering department, indicating a weekly averageof 2 hours of in-class time and 4 hours of homework. Through the course activities, students willdevelop a concrete plan for their (new or ongoing) advocacy work, and begin to enact this planwith support from both peers and instructors.Learning ObjectivesWe have developed the following Learning Objectives for the initial offering of the course.By participating, students will: • Identify their individual interests and strengths to integrate advocacy into their practice. • Articulate their scientific and/or engineering identity and how it relates to critical consciousness and their unique potential to shape the world. • Develop critical

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

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd Nicewonger, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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practices can contrast in settings of extreme climate conditions. As engineering studentsprepare for complex challenges like those faced in Alaska, they must learn ways of adapting toand developing alternative design frameworks. Drawing on Escobar’s frame of “sociability,” wehave developed a series of design learning activities that guide students in alternative designprojects while learning about the Alaskan context using situated examples from ouranthropological fieldwork and research. In learning contexts ranging from design courses tocommunity co-design and engineering workshops that we are currently planning, we areintegrating active learning activities that bring our experiences to the classroom and offeropportunities for learners to imagine

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 10: Institutions and Structures

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Slaton, Drexel University

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women’s participation in STEM, and related topics grew steadily from the 1970s onward [1],[2]. In the last two decades or so, an investment in programs that support broadeningparticipation with a lens of diversity, equity and inclusion has been prioritized in these and otheragencies. The 2024–2026 vision for NSF (produced in 2022) explicitly calls for “A nation thatleads the world in science and engineering research and innovation, to the benefit of all, withoutbarriers to participation” [3]. The NSF strategic plan further articulates core values which arethen specified within the agency’s individual programs: 1) Scientific leadership 2) Diversity andinclusion 3) Integrity and excellence 4) Public service and 5) Innovation and collaboration [3

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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prepare students to dedicate themselves todiversity that values the richness of human society as a divine gift and to pursue justice bymaking an action-oriented response to the needs of the world.[12]” Given the uniquely holisticaims of the LUM community, the practice of reflection laying at the core of the Jesuit traditioninvigorates all corners of the university to respond to nationwide calls for social, political, andeconomic justice.At present, LUM’s strategic plan places a strong emphasis on DEI through the recruitment ofstudents and faculty from underrepresented groups and the creation of more inclusive classroomsand curricula. The university’s stated diversity aims include “awareness of the structural sources,consequences, and

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey T Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Courtney Burris

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research involves examining different types of homework problems in undergraduate engineering science courses, the intersection of affect and engineering identity, and improving the teaching of engineering courses.Courtney Burris ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Addressing Engineers and Stakeholders Social and Institutional Power in a Human-Centered Design Capstone CourseIntroductionAs trained professionals, engineers have well recognized areas of expertise. Such expertise oftentranslates into expert power in their professional practice. Expert power can be defined as theability to influence other people, decision-making, and project planning and/or project outcomesbased on the

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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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suggest between thestudents that we as scholars in engineering education teach and work with, and the pre-medstudent population that scholars in the medical humanities teach and work with. My experiencecoincides with Bucciarelli and Drew’s description of the constituency of their proposedundergraduate degree in the sentence above: it captures pre-med students’ needs, interests,ambitions, and plans for the future as well. [6]My department offers survey lecture courses as well as advanced undergraduate seminars in thehistory of science, technology, and medicine, broadly conceived, and, to varying degrees, thosecount as requirements for my university’s School of Engineering. Engineering students who takea class in our department typically “leave

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

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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. Rather than rigidly adhering to pre-planned lessons, instructors modifiedand co-created activities with input from students and community members. This flexibility builttrust and affirmed local knowledge, especially when students recognized their languages,Spanish and Creole, as valid and central in the classroom. Language became a medium for bothcommunication and connection, as multilingual teaching allowed students to engage more fullyand feel seen in their identities.Ultimately, reflective practice served not only as a pedagogical strategy but also as a researchtool. It allowed instructors to interrogate their own biases, respond meaningfully to studentneeds, and engage in continuous learning. By centering reflection and positional awareness

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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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expressed explicit disinterest in the topics that centeredaround U.S. issues and recommended adding international topics to the course. For all of thestudents, even the one who had been in the U.S. the longest, their international identity wasstronger than their racial identity. This seems to be at odds with how the other students in theclass positioned these international students of color–as experts in racial issues. These findingshave implications for the design and facilitation of sociotechnical content in engineeringcoursework, both in terms of creating scaffolds for students new to the U.S. and motivation tocreate content focusing on international contexts. In future work, we plan to focus on howinternational students of color are positioned

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Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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YiXiang Shawn Sun, National Taiwan University; Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku, University of Virginia; Jongmin Lee, University of Science and Technology; Sean Michael Ferguson, CSUCI

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Taiwan there are notsufficient instructors who are trained and motivated. These inadequate course designs andsystematic limitations lead to a lack of understanding of the relationship between technologyand society and a lack of systematic thinking among science and engineering students. Thissituation limits students’ ability to think about their professional skills, future employment,ethical responsibilities, and other issues in a global context.1Cultivating “global competency” in a divided worldWe also witnessed an educational reform in engineering education curriculum worldwide. In2018, China began the New Engineering Education and Excellent Engineer Education andTraining Plan as the cornerstone of its national engineering program. In May 2021

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 10: Institutions and Structures

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; David A. Butler, National Academy of Engineering; Davis Chacon-Hurtado, University of Connecticut

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of forced displacement. The pilot courses were co-developedby experts in the fields of engineering, pedagogy, demography, migration, forced displacement, andhuman rights and have thus far been offered in engineering departments at four universities across thecountry [35], [36].IV. Symposium “Issues at the Intersection of Engineering and Human Rights”PlanningThis collaboration between NAE’s CESER Program and the CHR stemmed from a shared interest inexploring the intersection of engineering and human rights, was supported by a gift from an electedmember of the NAE and was guided by a planning committee.A total of 26 panelists participated, primarily representing academia, alongside speakers from privateindustry, NGOs, and nonprofits. Their

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 3: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging II

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Appelhans, Lafayette College; Rebecca Thomas, Bucknell University; Jenny Tilsen, Bucknell University; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

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interested in being a manager express interest in continuing their educationthrough their employers. Blake spoke about acquiring a master’s degree to become a manager. “Idefinitely want to become a manager one day or kind of work my way up in a company. So that's kind ofwhy I also plan to get my Master's at some point. I'm not sure what I would want that in yet.”Entrepreneurship Other students view engineering as a pathway to entrepreneurship. These students are generallymore interested in taking risks, pursuing opportunities that align with their values, and having autonomy.When we asked Lee about what he was interested in pursuing, he admitted, “I don't see myself working asan engineer forever. I want to maybe open a business, and become

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Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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ability to gain the perspective of thetarget audience. By gathering feedback from a broader range of participants, event organizerscan gain more accurate insights into visitor experiences and perceptions, which can inform futureevent planning and development that aligns with the target audience perspective. Thepreliminary results of the meme analysis show that meme creation has great potential as a way toexplore participants thinking, particularly for demographic groups that have a history of non-participation (teenagers and historically marginalized populations).Figure 2: Examples of memes created.In summary, the visual method used in this case study is the creation of memes by participants asa form of data collection and evaluation. The

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

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yume Menghe Xu, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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. Tosupport people to learn how to garden, the students created an informational pamphlet aboutplant care, and planned to create signs with information and fun facts to be installed in thegarden. Through the process, the students acquired knowledge and developed skills such as howto create sturdier wood structures and how to design and create a pamphlet digitally.As a leader of the gardening club, David aspired to continue improving the design of the gardenafter the summer so people affiliated with the school could keep coming back to spend time inthe garden: “In three years, I think the community will like, like it (the garden) a lot, lot. (...) I think a lot of future students and their parents or like people that live around it will like keep

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

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Johanna Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT; Susanna Maria Bairoh, Academic Engineers & Architects in Finland TEK

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value through technological innovation. It focuses on radicalinnovation and creation of state-of-the-art artifacts with competencies such as innovation,vision, persuasiveness, perseverance, initiative, creativity, and client focus, consideredparticularly important in the role of Product Leadership [8]. The role of OperationalExcellence emphasizes design and implementation of operational processes, which requirecompetencies such as a positive critical attitude, planning and organization capabilities, aholistic view, teamwork skills, and stress resistance [8]. In the professional role ofOperational Excellence, engineering work creates value through incremental improvementsin efficiency, reduction of technical uncertainties, quality assurance, and

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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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prevention, employee engagement, strategic planning, andteam relationships [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Kolko [9] argues that “There’s a shift under way in largeorganizations, one that puts design much closer to the center of the enterprise. But the shift isn’tabout aesthetics. It’s about applying the principles of design to the way people work” (p. 1). DTand human-centered design work because of empathy, learning to embrace failure whileprototyping many different ideas, and sharing and co-designing with clients, project partners, andco-workers [10, 11].Although much as been written about the phases and exercises involved in DT [12] and relatedhuman-, empathic-, and culture-centered design models [13], less is known about how thesesessions are facilitated

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

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark J. Povinelli, Syracuse University

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extraction, contributing to ecological imbalance. Figure 2 illustrates aconceptual knowledge chain linking love and its attributes to design through experience.Figure 2. Conceptual knowledge chain between love’s attributes and designThis conceptual framework offers valuable insight for engineering students by illustrating howlove, empathy, compassion, and care might have manifested in action, influencing humandevelopment and technological practices across time. It also aids students in recognizing howthese dynamics have evolved through various historical and cultural contexts.These early human activities engaged psychological processes such as planning, motor control,and observation, illustrating how cognitive and emotional capacities jointly shaped

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

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cathryn Carson, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Yan, University of California, Berkeley; Ari Edmundson, University of California, Berkeley; Alexander Strang, University of California, Berkeley

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discussion section. While the initial course development processresembled the traditional “import” of social contexts in technical coursework (e.g., asexemplified by case studies in engineering ethics courses [7]), our final product reflected theiterative, collaborative, continuing conversation around sociotechnical integration, which wasconducted across multiple semesters and Data 100 instructors.We have worked together with multiple Data 100 instructional teams to implement a two-partproject centered on the politics of property appraisal in Cook County, Illinois. The projectconsists of two Jupyter notebooks, an 80-minute lecture, and a lesson plan for a 20-minutesmall-group discussion. Across each of its components, the project teaches students to

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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application of the collaborative inquiry process was in alignment with the liberatorypedagogy of the Highlander Research and Education Center (the popular education centerfounded by Horton) detailed in their “Methodologies en Color” brochure [22]: “Start withparticipant experiences, look for patterns between those experiences that can highlight sharedstruggle, add new information/theory, practice skills, strategize and plan, take action to changethe world, reflect, and return to the beginning of the spiral!” [p. 1].To help facilitate this process, we borrowed from the “Deepen” experience utilized in theRemaking Education event hosted by Olin College of Engineering and Emerson College whichSarah had attended in Boston in 2018 [45]. We shared stories

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

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brainerd Prince, Plaksha University; Mhonbeni E Humtsoe; Satya Swaroop Nune, Plaksha University; Ananya Singla; Tanu Adhikari; Nandini Goyal; Yuven Blowria, Plaksha University; Pehar Jhamb, Plaksha University

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integrated curriculum. The National Mission for Manuscripts (NAMAMI), setup in 2003, has listed 3.5 million manuscripts out of the estimated 40 million in India. Two-thirds of these are in Sanskrit and 95% are yet to be translated [10]. As a result, India is still atthe tip of its ancient knowledge iceberg as a large part of its ancient literature is in Sanskrit[9]. According to Kaul and Bharadwaj, ‘India needs a strategic plan with focusedinterventions to establish science and technology as a continuation of the legacy of the past,instead of an import from the West’, and they acknowledge that ‘the establishment of theIndian Traditional Knowledge Systems Division in the Ministry of Education at All IndiaCouncil for Technical Education in October

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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, California State University, Channel Islands; Andrew Li; Rebecca Jun, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 7: Interdisciplinarity

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vanessa Tran, Utah State University; Cassandra J McCall, Utah State University; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University

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knowledge. Breaking downcomplex ideas into simple visual representations and sketches ensures that everyone involved ina project can understand and contribute to the discussion. The informal nature of hand sketchingmakes it especially useful when quick adjustments and real-time feedback are needed. These on-the-spot sketches enable efficient decision-making and help prevent misunderstandings or errors.For example, a simple sketch on construction sites can clarify complex plans, prevent costlymistakes, and streamline project execution.Fostering Creativity and InnovationCreativity is key to effective problem-solving, helping students think beyond traditional solutionsand develop new ideas. Creative problem-solving involves exploring multiple

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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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terms with the loss and process his grief. Although Victor speaksof the “despair that is exhibited on the countenance” in the wake of a loved one’s death and the“bitterness of grief,” he concludes somewhat abruptly that “[t]he time at length arrives whengrief is rather an indulgence than a necessity” [5]. And he speaks with admiration of his adoptedsister and fiancée Elizabeth, who “veiled her grief” and “forgot even her own regret in herendeavours to make us forget” [5]. After a relatively short time of mourning, then, Victor resignshimself to proceed with his plans to attend university: “My mother was dead, but we had stillduties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest” [5].Once in Ingolstadt at university, is it

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Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College

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about gender and thegender binary (per Caroline Perez and Cordelia Fine). Assignments in Race & Technologyinclude an “infrastructure exploration” [25] in which students plan and execute a local journeyinformed by readings from Langdon Winner, Rayvon Fouché, Simone Browne, and others, thenpresent their observations to their classmates in ways that facilitate further discussion. For thecapstone project in Race & Technology, students may choose to propose a redesign of either aspecific technology or a STEM curriculum, drawing on the course readings and discussions. Thereadings lists for both classes are included as Appendices A and B.The Gender & STEM course was developed and taught by Mary Armstrong, a scholar ofliterature and gender

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Writing and Technical Communications

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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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dedicate a full class to the issue.This dedication showed great support for our project, but it limited any interventions to 2 hoursin length. The intervention team would need to focus on activities that could be accomplished in2 hours, but that might still have a meaningful effect on this critical issue. This focus set theparameters of our malleability assessment.3.5 Interventional Study DesignAfter discerning the need and scope for intervention through our initial research methods, theeducational intervention was planned with the following guidelines: 1. The intervention should target the first-year engineering classroom to ensure a similar rhetorical infrastructure to the previous research. 2. The intervention should focus on

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Equity and Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aubrey Wigner, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines; Catherine Chase Corry, Colorado School of Mines; Julianne Stevens, Colorado School of Mines

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recognize ourwork will not be complete before making our initial recommendations to the director and studentworkers in the makerspace, we feel the right time to engage in inclusive community building andnorm setting is when a makerspace is first opening. Thus, our initial findings and early-stagerecommendations will be shared midway through this study. In year two, we plan to conductfollow up interviews to track the results of our suggested interventions on the makerspace’sculture in terms of inclusion and exclusion. We imagine the second round of interviews may alsoreveal new areas of importance that we may have missed in our initial round of interviewcollection. Further literature grounding will also occur in year two.To better understand how to