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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Juliette Sweeney

school tending toward meritocracy with stringent admission criteria.The other case study tended toward diversity principles with relatively open admission criteria.The pseudonym used for the university tending toward meritocracy was Donnybrook and thepseudonym used for the university tending toward diversity was Benmiller. Pseudonyms wereused for universities and individuals to ensure anonymity and protect their identities.Five faculty members were interviewed at each graduate engineering schools for a total of 10faculty interviews. Faculty were recruited through direct emails to institutional emails availableon institutional websites. 10 students were interviewed at each school for a total of 20 studentinterviews. An equal numbers of

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Vanessa Ironside; Lisa Cole; Michelle Tsui-Woods

changes we must make to address these barriers.Guided by the the k2i academy Inclusive Design Framework (Reference Figure 1) (Cole,Goodyer, & Ironside, 2022), the Bringing STEM to Life: Work-Integrated Learning programwas designed to integrate inclusive approaches to both programmatic and operational designthat supports high school students who have opted out of STEM pathways. Over the past fouryears, this program has evolved over 5 iterations to the current model. The program wasintentionally designed to address critical system barriers to access and enable students whohave otherwise opted out of STEM career pathways to reconnect into future possibilities.This paper seeks to provide an overview of the design of the program and explore the

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Cindy Rottmann

me uneasybecause I viewed corporate funding of research as unethical. Five years earlier, I had beeninvolved in a protest at a faculty council meeting at our education school. The meeting wasinterrupted by a vigil to mourn a decision made by one institute director to accept research fundsfrom an aerospace manufacturing corporation with military clients. Professors, students, and staffcame together in large numbers to protest the ethical consequences of accepting capitalist dollarslinked to the military for educational research. I had been part of this protest. I also recalled thedrug trial scandal in the mid 90s at a local children’s hospital that had illustrated the dangers ofaccepting pharmaceutical dollars for medical research [26]. As

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Katherine Abrey; Maddy Cronin; Deanna Malone; Libby Osgood P.Eng.

International Humanitarian Trips: Objectionable or Estimable? Katherine Abrey, Maddy Cronin, Deanna Malone, and Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward IslandAbstractThe ethical considerations surrounding student international humanitarian trips are complex. Thisarticle considers the benefits and drawbacks of such trips by examining existing literature anddiscussing personal experiences. The positive aspects of these trips for communities includeessential work being accomplished, economic support, and job creation for support staff. Thebenefits for students include professional, personal, and technical growth, global awareness,research opportunities, leadership