Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francesca Bartram; Natalie Wint; David Maxwell Rea

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division

act as a barrier to social justice.Natalie Wint is a White engineering academic. During this three-year period, she has begunto question who and what engineering is for, as well as who benefits from (or suffers the costof) engineering decisions. In part, her interests are born out of the frustrations experiencedwhen faced with a lack of support and recognition for work that was considered to falloutside of the engineering discipline. She is thus interested in the way in which the locationof disciplinary boundaries, norms and cultures act to exclude certain groups of people.Natalie is committed to social justice and her research and teaching have coalesced aroundthemes of critical reflection and critical thinking. She is aware of the ways in