to the structure above incorporated for each organ system, students were also asked tocomplete three stand-alone Equity & Ethics assignments, and two team projects, all discussedbelow.Equity & Ethics Assignment #1: Setting the toneThe semester begins with an overview of social justice on the first day of class and itsimportance in engineering work, followed by a summary of healthcare disparities as a form ofsocial injustice. To help students prepare to participate in discussions around these topics, theywere asked to individually reflect on a how a non-inclusive design or healthcare disparity haspersonally affected them or someone they love for about ten minutes. This introductory ungradedassignment was inspired Nezafati et al.’s
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, that is, these are one course with multiple CRNs. The courses listed inthe first column include only the abbreviation, these are hyperlinked to the course catalog whichincludes other information such as a brief description of the course, schedule, instructors,prerequisite(s) etc. Additionally, the third column includes a horizontal bar, a visual indication ofthe percentage enrolled.Feedback from early users included a request to see concurrent registrations in more than onecourse, i.e. a cohort of students concurrently registered in three common courses. This isfacilitated by the user clicking on any row of the table, which populates a fourth columnindicating the number of students in this cohort. This is shown in Figure 2. For instance, of
university.Despite these challenges, we believe the PubWRIT course represents a useful approach togearing up engineering students to be stewards of public welfare in their professional roles in thefuture. We encourage others to adopt and adapt these approaches at their own institutions.AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge Musabbiha Zaheer for assistance brainstorming course materialsand identifying pre-class readings and examples. As well, we would like to acknowledge all theparticipants in our study and the U.S. National Science Foundation for their support of thisresearch. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience
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