algorithms to the omission of important topics and key theoretical ideas.Langley’s findings provide a rationale for integrating discussions and ideas commonly in the realm of thehumanities and social sciences into AI course design for engineering education [31]. Their study found that“problem areas like qualitative reasoning, analogy, and creativity are ignored in favor of ones that are more easilyformalized” [31]. Promoting critical thinking and creativity through interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solvingcan set the basis for qualitative reasoning beyond quantitative analyses. It also allows for deeper reasoning on theinterplays between society and technology.These findings echo Mishra and Siy, who warned that “a Computer Science centric
communities that engineersseek to serve.Sofia learned from Argentinian STSers to critically question projects focused on thedevelopment of technology for social inclusion as these often fail or create more inequalitybecause they tend to reduce poverty and social exclusion to a technical problem and becometop-down, pro-poor intervention strategies and research efforts aimed to find ‘appropriatetechnologies’ [28]. Through her research, she is committed to go beyond technologicaldevelopment by developing other alternatives of socio-technical interventions thatacknowledge the intricate relationships between materials, processes, and actors related to thee-waste management in Buenos Aires.Authentic dialogue. This element of praxis calls for “allow[ing
Paper ID #38036Introducing Engineering through the Sociotechnical Histories of EverydayTechnologiesDr. Sarvnaz Lotfi, Loyola University, Maryland Sarvnaz Lotfi holds a PhD in Science, Technology, and Society. Her historical research into R&D, busi- ness, and valuation as well as her commitment to radically rethinking STEM pedagogy draw inspiration from early-20th-century pragmatist philosopher and education reformer, John Dewey. She is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Loyola University Maryland where she teaches in the Departments of Engineering and Philosophy.Dr. Raenita A. Fenner, Loyola University, Maryland
Paper ID #43056Developing Engineers’ Critical Consciousness through Gender and EthnicStudies: Reframing STEM IdentityDr. Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College Jenn Stroud Rossmann is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College. She earned her BS in mechanical engineering and the PhD in applied physics from the University of California, Berkeley.Prof. Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College Mary A. Armstrong is Charles A. Dana Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and English at Lafayette College, where she also chairs the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. She earned her PhD in English and
Paper ID #37690Shaping the macro-ethical reasoning of engineers through deliberatecultural practicesDr. Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland College Park Jennifer Radoff is an assistant research professor at the University of Maryland in College Park. She stud- ies teaching and learning in K-16 STEM, with a focus on political, ideological, and axiological dimensions of learning. She also supports educators as they work to create more equitable learning environments for students.Dr. Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park Dr. Chandra Turpen is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics
throughstructural or cultural shifts within the engineering community, including especially through howhidden curriculum messaging shapes the student experience, both within and beyond theircoursework. School climate is malleable and can serve as a high-impact, if often elusive, targetfor intervention. A crucial goal for effective educational reform is to identify diverse dimensionsof the learning environment that can be altered to improve student outcomes. For instance,faculty have considerable control over the tone set in their classrooms around the appropriatenessof asking for assistance, for setting assignment flexibility policies and responses, and forattending to students’ learning experiences in addition to their learning outcomes. Faculty can
Design (2007) from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. More information is available at: http://mason.gmu.edu/˜johriProf. Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Mediation and Maintenance in Engineering Professional Work PracticesThere has been an ongoing call for engineering education to contribute more directly to thedevelopment of a strong STEM workforce. This assumes that a strong STEM workforce isessential to meet the future challenges of our societal, national, and global economies [1
Paper ID #37726Three-Year Capstone Design: An Innovative Interdisciplinary Preparationfor Authentic Engineering PracticeDr. Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette Mary Pilotte is a Professor of Engineering Practice from the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. She instructs a range of Multidisciplinary engineering coursework, and from 2014-2022 was Director of the Engineering Education undergraduate programs in Interdisci- plinary Engr. Studies and Multidisciplinary Engr. She is co-creator and co-director of the Fusion Studio for Entertainment & Engineering (FSEE
of 1.5 hours.This study has subjective areas and does not feature a survey or any measurement of students’emotions regarding the activity. The overall goal of this study is not to measure mental wellness,but to raise awareness and knowledge of methods to regulate and manage themselves. Theintervention could be improved through having the concept of mental wellness be incorporatedthroughout the course term to further study the long term effects of implementing an activitysuch as this and to further show students that mental wellness goes beyond just a small break.ConclusionThe main takeaway studied from the student responses indicated a positive response to theclassroom activity regarding mental wellness. We saw that there were benefits of
profession. As engineering educationfaculty, students, and support practitioners, we are engaging in a collaborative inquirymethodology to examine engineering education programs, recruitment, and curricula, andengineering career pathways to identify key practices that hinder learning about and workingtowards Solidarity Engineering. This work-in-progress presents a broad outline of work we areundertaking to explore what we call the “re-engineering” of both engineering education and ofpotential career pathways. Through our work, we hope to identify a broad set ofsolidarity-focused examples and methods. Further, we hope this paper inspires a largerconversation about how the engineering profession can reframe its ways of engaging within theworld to
. Comparative case studies and analyses were introduced with breakout room discussion to help students comprehend the interplay among science, technology and the2Cultivating “global competency” in a divided world formation of world communities in various socio-political contexts.2. Prompt-based Interview: Students conducted three sets of prompt-based interviews with their global partners through which to exchange learning outcomes and detect biases and stereotypes in cross-cultural communication.3. PECE Digital Infrastructure for collaborative homework and research data curation: The digital archival platform PECE (Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography) was implemented in this course to facilitate epistemic
) explicitly state the need for ethical and sociallyconscious work. For example, the ASCE BOK states that “civil engineers must be able toaddress the sustainability of a project during planning and to help stakeholders understand theenvironmental, economic, and social impacts” [4, p. 40]. Further, engineers must be able toanalyze situations with conflicting professional and ethical issues in order to determine anappropriate next step [5]. Building these skills in the classroom is critical, and professors mayhave the opportunity to mentor students through the complex problems that engineers solve inpractice. A recent survey of 5,025 college students found that 55% believe professors are at leastpartially responsible for being a mentor of them while 39
Paper ID #39243Transgender and Nonbinary Computing and Engineering Education: AWorkshop Experience ReportStacey SextonAmanda Menier, SageFox Consulting GroupRebecca Zarch, SageFox Consulting Group Rebecca Zarch is an evaluator and a director of SageFox Consulting Group. She has spent almost 20 years evaluating and researching STEM education projects from K-12 through graduate programs. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Transgender and Nonbinary Computing and Engineering Education: A Workshop Experience ReportExisting gender diversity Broadening
to reproducelabor i.e. workers for the workforce. Hence, when we attempt unpacking these tensions asindividual faculty members, we go beyond managing our individual learning spaces. Further,engaging in scholarship and work that deviates from the hard coded “norms” in education mayalso make faculty and students who do such work to be considered less meritorious. Yet, as waspointed out in the thoughtful and constructive reviews of an earlier version of this paper,foregrounding conflict may help disrupt this cultural reproduction of values and behaviors.Debates about sociotechnical integration through the use of historyA second way in which we are conceptualizing engineering as conflict as a generative analyticalcategory is to connect it to the
paintings found in Indonesia—date back at least 43,900 years (George, 2019).Humans came into being with a set of basic survival needs, in which storytelling played a crucialrole. Storytelling transcends boundaries and disciplines, with fictional and non-fictional storiesbeing depicted and disseminated through art, technology, writing, and speaking. Because storiesplay a critical role in offering opportunities for meaning and connection in our lives, manyscholars and researchers have attempted to harness its benefits through storytelling interventionsand approaches (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986; Sharif et al., 2018; Suhr et al., 2017). Theseapproaches take on an array of forms, ranging from written journal entries to the oral sharing ofstories with
(2019), who in “In Search of Integration: Mapping Conceptual Efforts to Apply STS toEngineering Education,” argue that the critical skills that STS offers are essential for helpingengineering students understand the impact of technological innovation in a holistic sense. AnSTS minor has the additional advantage of providing students with a recognized credential in thisskill set. Thus, in this paper, we ask further: how are STS minors being designed to provide thiscritical education as well as attract student attention and fulfill the mission of the school? Theauthors address this question through a qualitative analysis of outward facing material of minorsoffered through top engineering institutions. Our goal is to understand the state of
tailor my course content to encourage growth interms of their thinking about topics such as professional ethics and equity.Halfway through the course, students completed their second reflection assignment. In roughly700 words, I asked them to reflect on their experiences in the course so far, focusing on what hasbeen surprising and why, what has been impactful and why, and what they still want to learn orquestions they still have about technology and society. Students were expected to draw upon amix of personal experiences and materials within and beyond the course to support theirreflection. At the end of the course, students completed a final reflection centered around theirfuture as an engineer. In roughly 700 words, students responded to the
the FTX collapse as a case study through which students can deliberate onthese issues.IntroductionWhen I started following the rapid collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange in November2022, I was already considering the possibility of a case study for my engineering students.Students at my institution (and, I suspect, elsewhere) had been enthusiastic about investments incryptocurrency, even forming an official school club. I thought that studying a spectacular failurein crypto might leverage students’ interests in the manner of other case studies in engineeringethics and communication, such as the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle tragedies. I oftendevelop lessons out of such news stories when they lead with an obvious ethical lapse
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Their Conceptual Learning. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.[3] National Academy of Engineering. (2004). The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/10999[4] American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). (2012) “Innovation with Impact: Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education.” [Online]. Available: https://www.asee.org/member-resources/reports/Innovation-with-Impact[5] J. M. Smith, J. Lucena, A. Rivera, T. Phelan, K. Smits, and R. Bullock, “Developing global sociotechnical competency through humanitarian engineering: A comparison of in-person
Paper ID #43129Design Iterations as Material Culture Artifacts: A Qualitative Methodologyfor Design Education ResearchDr. Grant Fore, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Grant A. Fore, Ph.D. is the Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation in the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute at IUPUI. As a trained anthropologist, he possesses expertise in qualitative methods and ethnographic writing. His primary research interest is in the teaching and learning of ethics in higher education through community-engaged and place-based pedagogies. ©American Society for
Degree Program. 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings, 35373. https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--35373Rodriguez, N. M., Burleson, G., Linnes, J. C., & Sienko, K. H. (2023). Thinking Beyond the Device: An Overview of Human- and Equity-Centered Approaches for Health Technology Design. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 25(1), 257–280. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-bioeng-081922-024834Samnani, S., Vaska, M., Ahmed, S., & Turin, T. (2017). Review Typology: The Basic Types of Reviews for Synthesizing Evidence for the Purpose of Knowledge Translation. Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 10(27), 635-641.Tharayil, S., Borrego, M., Prince, M., Nguyen, K. A
, their negativeinfluences on engineering students, and historically underrepresented groups in engineering inparticular, remain hidden. This study seeks to link earlier work on socially deleteriousentrenched engineering mindsets and ideologies to the study of place.Engineering places are important to explore for several reasons. First, engineering students bringa variety of experiences from other places with them to college. This means that these pastexperiences become juxtaposed with the new places (and associated spaces) they encounterwithin a college campus and engineering schools. Students from diverse backgrounds willintersect with these places in a multitude of ways, including their K-12 educational experiences,their social identities, and
Paper ID #37619The Development of Career Resilience for Early Career Engineers inChina: A Grounded Theory StudyMr. Lichao Ma, Tsinghua University Lichao MA, male, PhD. student, Division of Engineering Education Research Tsinghua University. His scholarship focuses on higher education policy and management, engineering education. He is devoted to understanding and facilitating Chinese higher engineering education reform, through which he expects to cultivate engineers who can demonstrate innovation, resilience, social competency, responsibility and ethics. His research is published with journals like The Asia-Pacific
drafts were worth less (10 points) than the final deliverable (100points). Students reported that losing a small number of points on the first draft motivated themto make changes because it drew their attention to areas of improvement.We share our approach to scaffolding revision of written assignments with the intention ofproviding a translatable, easy-to-implement model for other engineering instructors, as ourapproach can be implemented in any course that includes major writing assignments.References 1. H. G. Andrade. 2000. “Using rubrics to promote thinking and learning.” Educational Leadership 57 (5): 13–18. 2. D.G. Hendricks, K. Yasuhara, and A.C. Taylor. “Enhancing Student Leadership Competencies Through Reflection
as partners in educational transformation. She pursues projects that aim to advance social justice in undergraduate STEM programs and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research.Dr. Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park Jen Radoff is an assistant research professor at the University of Maryland in College Park. She studies teaching and learning in K-16 STEM, with a focus on political, ideological, and axiological dimensions of learning. She also supports educators as they work to create more equitable learning environments for students.Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park Andrew Elby’s work focuses on student and teacher epistemologies and how they couple to other
Beddoes andDanowitz, 2022b), so further research is needed to understand student perspectives about their livedexperiences.PositionalityThe primary investigator, Katherine, identifies as a middle-aged, white, cis-gendered, heterosexual,female, first-generation student who was recently diagnosed as neurodivergent with autism, ADHD,dyscalculia, and chronic anxiety disorder. This diagnosis emerged as a new identity through thecollaborative research process described in this paper. Katherine is an adjunct faculty in the Humanities,Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) at the location of the study, the Colorado School of Mines. The findingsin this paper are from her doctoral dissertation research. The second author, and Katherine’s mentor,Jon, identifies
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aimed at promoting student narratives through audio-based methods.Dr. Cassandra McCall, Utah State University Cassandra McCall, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department and Co-Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Transition Services at Utah State University. Her research centers the intersection identity formation, engineering culture, and disability studies. Her work has received several awards including best paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education and the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech as well as M.S. and B.S. degrees in civil engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and
epistemologiesembedded in the participants’ experiences. We used interviews of nine undergraduateengineering students who self-identified as “African American” and “female” on a screeningsurvey and an open coding method. These interviews centered around the participants’engineering teaming experiences, and within them, we found evidence of the hiddenepistemologies of engineering. Specifically, we noted that knowledge is filtered through themajority white, middle-class, male shared identities that form engineering culture, and technicalknowledge is valued more than other types of knowledge. The fact that these hiddenepistemologies were revealed in data on engineering teams also implies that hiddenepistemologies are revealed and reinforced through the social