everyone, even though everything in the society pressures you into sameness – it is a handicap in the end. A handicap to live without knowing the struggle of difference – in all of its pain, its fear, its celebration, its compassion [2].”AbstractThis is an archival record of a proposed panel discussion for the 2021 ASEE Annual Conferenceand Exposition. It reflects a year-long conversation between the six co-authors. Panel attendeeswill be invited to join and expand upon that conversation. Further analyses and integration areplanned after the conference when we will have the benefit of other panel attendees’ commentsand their own narratives.Under ideal circumstances, engineering cultures in academia and industry bring out the best
Paper ID #24615Scalable and Practical Interventions Faculty Can Deploy to Increase StudentSuccessMr. Byron Hempel, University of Arizona Byron Hempel is a PhD Candidate at the University of Arizona, having received his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Kentucky and Masters in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. Working under Dr. Paul Blowers, Byron is focusing on improving the classroom environment in higher education by working in the flipped classroom. He is a University Fellow, a Mindful Ambassador, and Chair of the Graduate Student Working Group for the ASEE Chapter
contexts through an online platform. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Participation in Small Group Engineering Design Activities at the Middle School Level: An Investigation of Gender DifferencesIntroductionAs demand for expertise in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)continues to increase, STEM education is of growing concern in the United States and around theworld. With ongoing calls for improvements to K-12 STEM education [1], [2], pre-collegeengineering experiences are becoming increasingly common. The Framework for K-12 ScienceEducation [2] and Next Generation Science Standards [3] include engineering practices withinthe scope of science, indicating that