Paper ID #40789Technology Students’ Recognition of Algorithmic Data Bias throughRole-Play Case StudiesMr. Ashish Hingle, George Mason University Ashish Hingle (he/him) is a Ph.D. student in the College of Engineering and Computing at George Ma- son University. His research interests include technology ethics, interactions and networking in online communities, and student efficacy challenges in higher education. He received his bachelor’s degree in Information Systems and master’s degree in Information Assurance (Cybersecurity – Forensics – Audit) from sunny Cal Poly Pomona.Dr. Aditya Johri, George Mason University Aditya
EmpathyEmpathy is described as the cognitive and affective ability to ascertain and share another’semotion, state, reactions, or perspective [7, 8]. It has also been linked to behavior [9], and isdelineated as a construct that may have self-centered, other-centered, or pluralistic orientations[10]. The “affective response more appropriate to another’s situation than one’s own” [11, p. 4],has also been characterized as central to moral and ethical decisions and interpretations of socialjustice.Some scholars have labeled empathy as a teachable skill, virtue, and/or ability, and othershighlight the role personal choice plays in its development [12–15]. As Wiggins and McTighe(2005) expressed, “It is not simply an affective response or sympathy over which we
mycorrhizaas a simile of these invisible connections. Mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association betweenfungi and plants that cycles nutrients to improve the whole ecosystem. The Mycorrhizaframework aims to raise awareness of the effects of engineering education and work,incorporate social and environmental justice in engineering education, and move closer tohelping people freely and fully develop in a sustainable world. I. IntroductionIt is essential for people and the Ecosystem that we raise awareness of our engineeringimpact. Demanding for people to take action, Singer [1] presented an ethical decisionwhere we would see a child drowning. Most people would do their best to come up with asolution to help the child. Engineering with visible results or
internationalengineering education have published studies of effective programs[2]–[4] and proposed principles of global engineering competency[5]–[7], which includes intercultural communication, reflection onprofessional ethics in a global context, and increasingly, virtual teamskills. The existing literature can inform a new paradigm: globalizingengineering curricula to incorporate analysis of cultural differencewith an explicit equity framework and analysis of power that reckonswith legacies of colonialism and racism.[SLIDE 3]We will be using a live interactive “whiteboard,”starting with the “Quick Poll” questions section. Thisfeature allows for more immediate social feedbackand interaction while also permitting audiencemembers’ anonymity if they wish. (Their
the capacity of K-12 teachers to teach engineer- ing. She is also staffing the Roundtable on Linking Academic Engineering Research and Defense Basic Science. She also co-edited a resource collection translating research on women in science and engineer- ing into practical tips for faculty members and worked on LinkEngineering, an online toolkit to support PreK-12 engineering education, and the Online Ethics Center, a website that supports ethics education and science and engineering. She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Cognitive and Human Factors Psychology from Kansas State University and a B.A. in psychobiology and political science from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.Dr. Beth M Holloway, Purdue University at
, diversity, equity, and inclusion, Asian American Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies, engineering ethics, and pop culture.Dr. Qin Zhu, Virginia Tech Dr. Zhu is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Science, Technology & Society and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Vir- ginia Tech. Dr. Zhu is also serving as Associate Editor for Science and Engineering Ethics, Associate Editor for Studies in Engineering Education, Editor for International Perspectives at the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, and Executive Committee Member of the International Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include
Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, and the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learn- ing and success. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Prof. Stephen L DesJardins Stephen L. DesJardins teaches courses related to public policy in higher education, economics and fi- nances in postsecondary education, statistical methods, and institutional research and policy analysis. His research interests include student transitions from
, encouraged students to takeresponsibility for their learning by including them in course decisions, provided room forstudents to make mistakes without penalization, and fostered a collaborative community ofscholars. Furthermore, the curriculum focused on my decentering westernization, facilitatingcritical thought about engineering ethics and how race and class issues intertwine withthermodynamics, dismantling false notions of objectivity in engineering, and exploring historicaland philosophical dimensions of thermodynamics [14]. These pedagogical techniquesempowered students to develop authority in an environment that is commonly controlled by theinstructor and to critically analyze and counter dominant narratives and ways of knowing inengineering
often identify their work as rational, beyond emotion, and engineering is oftencharacterized as purely scientific, involving technical solutions to real world problems” [13].Consequently, in the code of ethics for the National Society of Professional Engineers’ (NSPE)[14] or Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) [15], there is no mention ofemotions, what to do with emotions, how to take an emotional pulse of both teachers andstudents, how both positive and negative affect outcomes, nor how to engage with the emotionsof society within engineering. The lack of acknowledging emotions, much less the pervasive ways that unchecked emotionsdominate our ability to both learn and teach, is unfortunate at best because “it is hard to
content and learn about applications of AI ● Coordinating mentoring and support activities to build engagement ● Conducting a computing identity study, which is where our research team comes in ● And finally, conducting an evaluation on partnerships Project Context 12-credit Interdisciplinary AI HSCC Certificate Machine Learning AI Thinking Applied AI in Business AI & Ethics Foundations • AI and digital competency • Applied AI
anexample, one of the first assignments in our first engineering class - EGR 111 (Introduction toEngineering Thinking and Practice) - was a personal statement of what each student hoped to dowith an engineering degree and where they envisioned they would be after graduation. This wasnot an easy assignment but one that we would give back to students on graduation day (nearly 4years later). Similar visioning assignments like an Independent Development Plan (IDP) wouldbe part of the curriculum too and would continue to be improved by the founding faculty team(e.g. Melissa Kenny, Kyle Luthy, Kyana Young, Courtney DiVittorio). Ethical Leadershipassignments and Career Readiness assignments in capstone design, etc. Figure 3: Some of the
women in engineering and technology. Dr. Bhaduri has an interdisciplinary expertise with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and Masters degrees in Statistics and Mechanical Engineering, from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include: future of work, women in technology, assessing the impact and effectiveness of inclusion and diversity initiatives as well as employing innovative, ethical and inclusive mixed-methods research approaches to uncovering insights about the 21st century workforce.Natalie Anna Foster, Sisters in STEM - Saguaro High School Natalie Foster is a current high school senior at Saguaro in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is the president of the school’s FRC robotics club and has been a member of the team
design. She received ICA’s Mentorship Award and the Provost Outstanding Mentor Award at Purdue, where she was University Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulke- ley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. She has worked with Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, four EPICS teams including Transforming Lives Building Global Communities (TL- BGC) in Ghana, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design and professional formation of engineers through NSF funding. [Email: pmbuzzanell@usf.edu; buzzanel@purdue.edu]Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Carla B
Paper ID #40685On the Importance of Spatiality and Intersectionality: Transgender andGender Nonconforming Undergraduate Engineering Experiences ThroughCritical Collaborative Ethnographic Site VisitsFinn Johnson M.A., Oregon State University Finn Johnson, M.A., is a transgender and queer doctoral student in women, gender, and sexuality studies at Oregon State University. Finn has extensive experience in transgender and queer research methodologies, legal studies, and feminist research ethics and is currently working on an engineering education NSF- funded study with the College of Chemical, Environmental, and Biological
, economic, environmental and ethical issues facing the development of nanomanufacturing and other emerging technologies. Her 1998 NSF Career Award is one of the first that focused on environ- mentally benign manufacturing. She also guides research on development and assessment of educational computer games where students explore environmentally benign processes and supply chains in manufac- turing. She has been recognized by Northeastern University, receiving a University-wide Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000, the President’s Aspiration Award in 2005, and a College of Engineering Excel- lence in Mentoring Award in 2015. An ELATE Fellow, Dr. Isaacs has served in numerous administrative leadership roles at Northeastern
our leaders Engineering Discovery Laboratory and Fabrication• Analysis - understand how to analyze information and Design Studio spaces. Then, in the middle of the week, data relevant to solving engineering problems we'll take a field trip to a nearby lake to explore sustainability and environmental stewardship initiatives.• Conceptualization - create and design ethical After completing the camp, you will leave excited about engineering solutions engineering and filled with a passion for how you can
morechallenging for minoritized students. Additionally, minoritized engineering graduate studentsencounter lack of representation at faculty and student levels, exacerbating unwelcoming feeling,and tokenism as part of diversity campaigns [13], [22].Reason of engagement and experiencesDespite all the challenges mentioned above, minoritized students often embrace their agency toplace issues in the forefront and engage in activities to help them and others navigate injusticesand inequalities. Indeed, community values and a sense of responsibility to respond to socialinjustice give minoritized students the motivation to help others reduce inequities within theirfield and develop equity ethics—challenge social inequities through their vocation—andamplifying
E. Rush, “‘Why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff?’ The ethics and science of the gendered toy marketing debate,” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 149, no. 4, pp. 769–784, 2018, doi: 10.1007/s10551-016-3080-3.[11] E. Sweet, “Boy builders and pink princesses: Gender, toys, and inequality over the twentieth century,” Dissertation, University of California, 2013. Accessed: Oct. 26, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.proquest.com/docview/1517101640?pq- origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true[12] C. J. Auster and C. S. Mansbach, “The gender marketing of toys: An analysis of color and type of toy on the Disney Store website,” Sex Roles, vol. 67, pp. 375–388, Oct. 2012, doi: 10.1007/s11199
and analysis, written communication, oral communicationThe holistic review meeting concludes with mutually setting one to three developmental goalsand one to three task goals for the semester. The developmental goals are intended to helpguide decision-making when opportunities inevitably arise, so that opportunities can beevaluated against current goals and the student feels comfortable and justified in saying “no”when appropriate.Sample items included: ● Maintains a professional academic CV ● Situates research within extant literature and contextual data ● Relates research agenda to issues of diversity, equity, social justice ● Carries out research that adheres to ethical human subjects research ● Establishes a clear and
impact studentoutcomes and the perception of faculty and students of the degree to which students experiencethese advising practices as well as the relationships between advisors and doctoral students.Literature ReviewBurt et al. [3] suggest that strong advising includes an ethic of care where not only are thestudent’s academic needs addressed and supported, but also where the advisor genuinelysupports the whole student and their life away from school. By contrast, Burt et al. consider basicadvising to be helpful to the student (particularly administratively) and to include providingresearch guidance, but it is less concerned with the wellbeing of the whole student. Weakadvising is harmful to students’ wellbeing and progress, by creating a
inclusion and diversity initiatives as well as employing innovative, ethical and inclusive mixed-methods research approaches to uncovering insights about the 21st century workforce. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Opportunities from Disruption -how lifelong learning can help create more connected classroomsAbstractThe coronavirus pandemic has led to instructors worldwide seeking ways to engage studentsbetter through virtual platforms. As the world interacts online, more than ever before, thispaper reflects on an educator’s experience with the virtual teaching and learning spaces pre andduring the ongoing
from lab groupAll faculty indicated that any communication froma grad student regarding an ethical concern “Academic” “Career”constituted “protected activity” under the anti- consequences consequencesretaliation policy.Our interviews with administration revealed that there was rarely aclear pathway to resolve a graduate student concern. Furthermore– we could not get a consensus on if almost any hypotheticalposed had an institutional policy that might apply.Between 25% and 60% of faculty interviewed on hypotheticalsrelating to intimidation, racism, safety, and title 9 issues thoughtthat a policy that might apply to a student’s case existed. Even so,faculty could rarely name or locate the
DimensionsOur third theme focuses on students who connect mechanics topics to the impacts engineeringwork has on the people and world around them. We defined Sociotechnical Dimensions asinstances where students recognize engineers’ responsibilities beyond technical competence,such as keeping people safe, promoting social justice, or positively impacting society.SafetyOur first code within this theme is Safety, which describes students who connect mechanicsconcepts to the professional and ethical responsibilities of keeping people safe through goodpractice of engineering. These excerpts highlight how mechanics can provide the foundation formeaningful engineering calculations, like finding the allowable stresses in bridges, factors ofsafety in buildings
attributes that graduates must develop during theirtraining in conjunction to the continuous improvement of programs. The attributes addresstechnical skills as well as social, ethical, and organizational skills within engineering practice torespond to the globalized and diversified environments that engineers will need to evolve in [5].Diversity is omnipresent in engineering regarding the sectors where engineers can work, theproblems they can solve, the multiple solutions they can propose, and the variety of peopleinvolved. As demonstrated in many papers [6], diversity in engineering is of great importance tocreate different approaches to problem-solving and better service for everyone.The provincial Quebec’s professional order of engineers defines
. (2015). Establishing an Explanatory Model for Mathematics Identity. Child Development, 86(4), 1048–1062. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12363Fraser, N. (2001). Recognition without Ethics? Theory, Culture & Society, 18(2–3), 21–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632760122051760Fraser, N. (2006). Reframing justice in a globalizing world. In T. Lovell (Ed.), (Mis)recognition, social inequality and social justice: Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu (pp. 17–35). Routledge.Fraser, N. (2008). Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World. Polity Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vt/detail.action?docID=1584038Gilgun, J. F. (2019). Deductive Qualitative Analysis and Grounded Theory
across disciplines is essential! Scientists and engineers generally are not trained to study language and power structures. Questioning and then eliminating problematic terms will require collaboration between the primary users of the language (e.g., some STEM fields) and those who study it (e.g., humanities scholars and social scientists).• Funding agencies could highlight this issue and require multidisciplinary teams to tackle it. The NSF Broader Impacts language might include specific reference to non-inclusive language. Research 24 Experiences for Unsdergraduates (REU) programs also might be a good place to start since they require ethics training.• Compiling
serves as an ABET Commissioner and as a member of ABET’s Accreditation Council Training Committee. He was previously a Member-At-Large on the Computing Accreditation Commis- sion Executive Committee and a Program Evaluator for both computer engineering and computer science. Estell is well-known for his significant contributions on streamlining student outcomes assessment pro- cesses and has been an invited presenter at the ABET Symposium on multiple occasions. He was named an ABET Fellow in 2021. Estell is also a founding member and current Vice President of The Pledge of the Computing Professional, an organization dedicated to the promotion of ethics in the computing professions. Estell is Professor of Computer
beneficiary oftentimes incites avisceral display of emotions as though their work ethic, will, and determination is in question[64]. A belief in meritocracy for white students also makes them believe that they aredeserving—entitled—to whatever success they are granted. In engineering, meritocracy showsitself in the manner “that students must prove themselves to be engineers, and they will make itonly if they work really hard through the ‘death march’ of math and science courses” [62, p. 11].More specifically to engineering, a blind belief of meritocracy in engineering gives a false sensethat, since the education, training, and work is hard, this will set them up for easy and wealthylives [65]. Since these beliefs are so ingrained into their sense of