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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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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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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 (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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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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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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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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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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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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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

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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

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Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natalie Ban; Lordina Odeibea Mensah; Matthew Whitwer; Lucy Elizabeth Hargis; Courtney Janaye Wright, University of Kentucky; Joseph H Hammer; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky

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. Montano and D. Kasprzyk, "Theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, and the integrated behavioral model," Health behavior: Theory, research and practice, vol. 70, no. 4, p. 231, 2015.[15] V. P. Richmond, J. C. McCroskey, and T. Mottet, Handbook of instructional communication: Rhetorical and relational perspectives. Routledge, 2015.[16] E. E. Schussler, M. Weatherton, M. M. Chen Musgrove, J. R. Brigati, and B. J. England, "Student perceptions of instructor supportiveness: What characteristics make a difference?," CBE—Life Sciences Education, vol. 20, no. 2, p. ar29, 2021.[17] M. Komarraju, S. Musulkin, and G. Bhattacharya, "Role of student–faculty interactions in developing college students

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Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University; Sepehr Vakil, Northwestern University

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thatderived from histories of colonialism and Empire” [10]. MIT was in no sense unique amongresearch institutions in tying itself to U.S. geopolitical interests but with its very high standingamong universities it achieved an extraordinary level of influence and funding during the secondhalf of the twentieth century.In June 1971, Gordon Brown, formerly dean of Engineering at MIT, accompanied by advisorsfrom the international consulting firm Arthur D. Little, arrived in Iran with the purpose ofdeveloping a comprehensive plan to develop a satellite campus of Aryamehr University ofTechnology (AMUT) in Isfahan, the third largest city of Iran located approximately 200 milessouth of capital Tehran. AMUT had been established just 5 years prior by the Shah

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Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynne A Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth L Thompson P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Silvana McCormick, Redwood Consulting Collective; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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andcomputing faculty to complete our online baseline survey. The purpose of this survey was tocollect baseline information to inform project planning and to establish a reference point againstwhich to measure change over time as a result of the project. The survey explored facultyperspectives on Culturally Responsive Teaching Practice (developed by our external evaluatorconsultant), Psychological Safety [21], Climate for Innovation [22], and DepartmentalCommunity [23]. In addition, faculty within the Computer Engineering department were asked toshare their perspectives on the department’s vision that outlines aspirations for thetransformational undertaking.Data were retained for analysis if respondents completed at least one of the scales in

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Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Hladik, University of Manitoba

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of critical reflection assignments in the recently added prerequisite for my course, I could provide more guidance about what critical reflection actually looks like. In winter 2024, I am planning on sharing two example paragraphs, one which is more descriptive and the other which is critically reflective, and asking the students to identify the differences between them to support their own critical reflection. I also created a template for the debate reports to help students understand the expectations in terms of content, level of detail, citations, etc. for each section of the assignment. Overall, I had to recognize that not all students can understand my rubrics (if they choose to read them at

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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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Kassandra Fernandez, University of Florida; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida

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Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; David A. Butler, National Academy of Engineering

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guidelines known as the “Broader Impacts Criteria” (BIC), whichwere foundational in the preparation of the forthcoming NAE report. Broader Impacts are one oftwo main pillars by which all NSF funding proposals are assessed, alongside “IntellectualMerit.” The Broader Impacts requirement was officially introduced in 1997, and in 2002 the NSFbegan returning proposals without review if they didn’t mention Broader Impacts [24]. Theimplementation of Broader Impacts stemmed from recommendations from the Committee onEqual Opportunities in Science and Engineering; the passing of the Government Performanceand Results Act; and the “NSF in a Changing World” strategic plan [25] that outlined a long-termgoal of promoting knowledge in service of society. Currently

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Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Paper ID #42446Implications of Engineering and Education Professor’s Problem-Solving Mindsetson Their Teaching and ResearchMs. Alexis Suzanne Capitano, Colorado School of Mines Alexis currently attends the Colorado School of Mines. She is a senior majoring in Electrical Engineering and simultaneously pursing a Masters of Science in STEM Education with a planned graduation date of December 2024.Ryan Miller, Colorado School of MinesDr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn Johnson is a Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Electrical Engineering. In the Fall 2021, she visited the