include biomedical engineering, condition monitoring, and machine fault diagnosis.Prof. Patrick Linke Dr. Patrick Linke is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Chair of the Chemical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Dr. Linke also serves as the Executive Director of the Office of Graduate Studies. He is the holder of the QatMary Queen, Texas A&M University, Qatar ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work In Progress: Towards a Transformative Collaboration – Technical Writing, Engineering, IndustryAbstractThis paper reports on a work in progress collaboration between Engineering and English facultyat an American university in the Middle
identity construction in STEM learning spaces. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Engineering as Relational and Affective: High School Students Engineer for Their Community by Constructing a Community GardenAbstractWith a growing emphasis on integrating social, political, and technical dimensions in K-12 andundergraduate engineering education, this research investigates how high school students learnand engage in sociopolitical engineering by constructing a community garden. Using a relationallearning framework, the study examines students' experiences in a project called Ashford YouthCommunity Garden (AYCG), where students from a diverse urban high school collaborated withtheir peers, teachers
learning community for first-year engineering. More general teaching and research interests include designing, implementing and assessing activities for first-year engineering, engineering mechanics, and scientific computing. Eric has been an active member of ASEE since 2001. He was the recipient of the 2008 Pacific Northwest Section Outstanding Teaching Award, chaired the PNW Section 2017-2019, served on the ASEE Board of Directors as Zone IV Chair 2022-2024. and currently serves as Program Chair for the Two-Year College Division.Anna Wolff, Whatcom Community College ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 The Historical Marker Project: A Collaboration between History, Math, and
education, collegiate service-learning, and sustainable energy installations in Latin America. Steve has experience in multi-disciplinary collaborations, in addition to collaborations with businesses, non-profit organizations, and community- based organizations. Involved in efforts that engage communities in designing, implementing, and maintaining varied sustainable energy technologies and using them as vehicles for economic and community development.Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Sarah Brownell is the Director of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program and a Lecturer in Design, Development and Manufacturing for the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of
University Channel Islands and Virginia tech he explores community empowerment for environmental justice, global engineering ethics, critical pedagogy coupled to STS, He specializes in sustainable technology, social movements, and community engagement stemming from a background in Science and Technology Studies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Cultivating “global competency” in a divided world Cultivating “global competency” in a divided world: A collaborative autoethnography of the cross-border, dialogue-based curriculum designINTRODUCTIONBACKGROUNDAmid the pandemic and geopolitical conflicts, the world and local communities are facingsupply chain
, and Outreach to coordinate and lead a variety of workshops, speakers, discussions, and more. These events support a community of graduate students and postdocs passionate about becoming effective educators through an improved understanding of research-based pedagogy.Matthew Alexander LangleyNina Mohebbi, California Institute of TechnologyMicah Kalaihi Kushi Nishimoto, California Institute of TechnologyKay T Xia, California Institute of Technology ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Fostering Effective and Enduring Advocacy in STEM: Exploring the Role of Community Through a Collaborative Autoethnography Scenario # 0
knowledge.Megan Kenny Feister, CSUCI Megan Kenny Feister is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Communication at California State Uni- versity Channel Islands. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023COLLABORATION PRACTICES AROUND TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE Abstract This paper examines collaborative work involving complex technological infrastructure,and contrasts this setting with other contexts of technologically-mediated collaboration. In doingso, we center the role of problem-solving practices as one of the key determinants of successfulcollaborative work. Data from interviews and observations with scientists indicated that whilethe complexity of
ethnographic research in both design learning and applied contexts. He is also deeply engaged in transdisciplinary experiments within academia, investigating how design methods and tools from the arts can foster innovative research and collaborative learning.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is Professor of Engineering Education and Director of Arts and Education at the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology (ICAT) at Virginia Tech. She is an executive committee member for a2ru and an editorial board member for Ground Works journal. Her research and teaching interests include developing interdisciplinary project-based learning experiences, building networks between university, industry, and community
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Making Space to Care: A Community Garden for Bioengineering LabsAbstractAs qualitative researchers embedded in a biomedical engineering department, we are currentlyattempting to create a space for conversation and action among a self-selecting group of faculty.Framed as a Community Garden, this initiative is focused on supporting discussions and activitiesaround “cultivating care” within labs in the department.In this paper, we focus on outlining the empirical and theoretical context for this initiative. TheCommunity Garden is part of a larger research project exploring the relationship between controland care in biological engineering. The laboratory
engineering education. We realized that we wanted to identifyundergraduate engineers who were open to dissolving the imaginary boundaries of thesocial and technical to truly anchor the responsibility of engineering to people, societyand the planet. To achieve this goal, we adopted an intentional recruitment andselection process that prioritized interdisciplinary collaboration and sociotechnicalresponsibility. Our approach explicitly challenged the traditional divide between thetechnical and the social, instead framing engineering as an inherently ethical andhuman-centered practice. Our aim was to build a team of undergraduate engineers 5who were willing to
recognize our friendship, whichdeveloped alongside our research collaborations, as a site of knowledge production; thevulnerability and openness with our feelings and thoughts during this dialogue can be attributedto the level of trust we have with each other. Many of these threads of thought also developed aswe co-facilitated weekly discussions as teaching assistants for a fourth-year engineering ethicscourse this year, which constantly presented new challenges in approaching critical topics withthe students. We also found ourselves regularly resonating with the writings of JSC, and as JTbegan working and learning with her, the collaboration on this paper seemed fitting. As a moreexperienced and more senior researcher in engineering education, JSC
Paper ID #49216Sociotechnical integration in data science educationProf. Cathryn Carson, University of California, Berkeley Cathryn Carson is an STS scholar and a historian of science and technology who has been active in interdisciplinary collaborations in undergraduate and graduate education, including nuclear engineering and data science. Ari Edmundson is an STS scholar and intellectual historian who has collaboratively developed integrated course materials and dedicated courses to embed critical thinking about human contexts and ethics in data science curricula. Ramesh Sridharan is a computer scientist
growing initiative focused on embedding sustainability withinengineering education [10]. However, the LASC adopts a broader approach, integrating insightsfrom the social sciences, humanities, and environmental studies alongside technicalcoursework. Furthermore, LASC courses are electives open to undergraduate students from allmajors. This cross-disciplinary emphasis fosters collaboration among students from diversebackgrounds, encouraging them to consider the cultural, social, and ethical dimensions ofsustainability and develop a more nuanced understanding of the challenges they will face asprofessionals.By incorporating insights from critical theory and sociotechnical thinking [11], the LASC seeksto move beyond the traditional engineering
Paper ID #38584Transdisciplinary Approaches in Canadian Engineering Education:Convergences and ChallengesDr. Kari Zacharias, University of Manitoba Kari Zacharias is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Engineering Professional Practice and Engi- neering Education at the University of Manitoba. She studies intersections and meeting points between engineering ways of knowing, being, and making, and other ways of understanding the world.Dr. Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba Dr. Jillian Seniuk Cicek is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Engineering Professional Practice and Engineering Education at the
electrical engineering and PhD in History of Science and Technology from Johns Hopkins University. As an engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Hearty built radio communications hardware for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. As a historian, he has studied collaborations across disciplines of engineering and applied science since the 1930s. His doctoral dissertation analyzed the rise and development of water quality management, a multidisciplinary field of applied science, from the New Deal to the Clean Water Act.Adelheid Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Pedagogical Choices for Navigating and Teaching Sociotechnical
affected in these situations, especially after being taught about QPR and stuff, and then how you as an RA can get the resources that you need.Being emotionally mature, recognizing and setting appropriate boundaries, and having professorswho are informed of their students’ circumstances are all advantageous to engineering education.First, emotional maturity helps students to manage stress, collaborate better, and communicatemore effectively. It also enables them to regulate their emotions and maintain a positive outlook,both of which are important to problem-solving and innovation. Recognizing boundaries is alsoimportant in engineering education because it helps students to understand and respect ethicaland professional norms. This includes
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
Paper ID #39174Applying STS to Engineering Education: A Comparative Study of STS Mi-norsProf. MC Forelle, University of Virginia MC Forelle is an assistant professor, teaching track, in Engineering & Society at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. Their work examines the intersection of law, technology, and culture, with particular interests in materiality, sustainability, and practices of resistance and change. Currently, they are developing a a book project that studies the technological challenges faced by users, tinkerers, and repair communities working to repair, maintain, and
education context, story-driven learning has been adopted in severaldisciplines. Broadly, such disciplines included: STEM education, non-STEM education, andgeneral education. STEM was the most common discipline category to use story-driven learning(n = 20, 54%). Second most frequent were General Education, aiming to improve student careeridentity, empathy, leadership, and collaboration skills. (n = 15, 41%). Only 1 paper reported theuse of story-driven learning in a non-STEM discipline (n = 1, 3%). See Table 4.Table 4Disciplines (n=37) Disciplines n(%) Examples STEM 20 (54%) Medical education, Engineering, psychology General Education 15 (41%) Career identity, Empathy
, theteam co-constructed a learning environment where engineering education was grounded inculture, language, and community, offering a model for equity-driven teaching in similarlycomplex contexts.MethodologyProject DesignThis two-week engineering education program was conducted in two Dominican-Haitiancommunities to examine how STEM instruction might reflect and respond to local cultural andlinguistic diversity. The curriculum was co-developed and facilitated by a multilingual,multicultural team with instruction in Spanish, Haitian Creole, and English. Activities wereselected for their accessibility and potential to foster creativity, collaboration, and practicalproblem-solving. These included LEGO robotics and Play-Doh modeling, which required
Communication lecturer and a Engineering Education researcher at the University of Michigan. Her teaching is primarily in team-based engineering courses, and her research focuses on equity in communication and collaboration as well as in group design decision making (judgment) under uncertainty. She is especially interested in how power relationships and rhetorical strategies affect group judgment in engineering design; one goal of this work is to to understand factors that inhibit full participation of students who identify with historically marginalized groups and investigate evidence-based strategies for mitigating these inequities. In addition, she is interested in technology and how specific affordances can change the
Paper ID #39306Characterizing student argument justifications in small groupsociotechnical discussionsDr. Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University Chelsea Andrews is a Research Assistant Professor at Tufts University, at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO).Ms. Fatima Rahman, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach STEM Education graduate student at Tufts University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Characterizing student arguments against a technology in small group sociotechnical discussionsIntroductionUniversities across the
societal buy-in at the end of the process is baked into the process rather than an afterthought.” (00:05:47–00:07:00)Based on this quote, this “societal buy-in” as an integral part of engineering problem solvingthroughout the entire process implies a shift in Leo’s view of engineering, a change that couldsubstantially impact both engineering education and practice.Leo expressed that while he felt supported at his university, he was also aware of structuralelements common to academia as a whole that may prevent junior faculty from feeling the samelevel of support, especially if misaligned with the status quo. These elements included not beingcredited for collaborative efforts when going up for tenure and not having the time to devote
, the system should be seen as a sociotechnical system” [5]. From the sociotechnicalcharacter of AI systems emerges the need to understand them holistically, in dialogue with societal systems. Thepace of development of these technologies and the ethical challenges that come with them are also generating a needfor new learning goals [4].When geared toward engineers, education about AI has the potential to connect practicingprofessionals to the collective and mutually dependent fields related to AI. Educating problem-solvers to exchangeinspiration and insight in collaborative conversations in society is also a crucial training for what they need toaccomplish in their work [6]. When engineers collaborate to understand the contexts that only
radar and systems technologies, Dr. Povinelli has worked with leading aerospace companies, as well as collaborating with universities and government research labs. He brings over thirty years of experience in both technical and educational fields, blending scientific rigor with humanistic insight to promote holistic, transdisciplinary pedagogies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Love and Its Attributes as a Foundation for Student Learning in Engineering EducationMark J. Povinelli, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse UniversityIntroductionEngineering plays a critical role in shaping ecosystems, human behavior, communities, societies,and patterns of
)equity is or can be shaped by current and future engineering work; (d)Obj. 4: willingness to engage others (e.g., current peers, collaborators, future work colleagues) in discussions of equity in engineering. To teach courses that meet those aims, engineering instructors also need to work towardthose same learning objectives in their own understanding, as well as learn to implement ourframework in their courses. In other words, faculty must work on the same understanding ofequity-centered engineering as students, if they are to cover such ideas in courses, and they mustalso develop equity-mindedness toward the classroom context, given their role as instructors.Ultimately, equity-centered engineering education requires a
Paper ID #44381Project DECIDE: A K12 Civics and Engineering Education Curricular Partnership(Works in Progress)Dr. Tamecia R. Jones, North Carolina State University Tamecia Jones is an assistant professor in the Technology, Engineering, and Design Program of the STEM Education Department at North Carolina State University College of Education with a research focus on K-12 engineering education, assessment, and informal and formal learning environments. She has a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, a MA in Learning, Design, and Technology from Stanford University, a MDiv from Boston University, and a PhD
Paper ID #38637Worker Safety in Offshore Wind as a Door for Sociotechnical EngineeringEducationDr. Desen Sevi Ozkan, Tufts University Desen is a postdoctoral researcher at Tufts University in the Center for Engineering Education Outreach and the Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction Tech. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Edu- cation from Virginia Tech and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University.Samantha FriedBeth J. Rosenberg ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Worker Safety in Offshore Wind as a Door for SociotechnicalEngineering EducationABSTRACT. While touched on
literature review (ScLR) conducted toelucidate the current landscape, trends, methods, and potential gaps in the literature surroundingequitable design pedagogy in engineering education. The ScLR follows the methodologypresented by Arksey and O’Malley (2005), which breaks the process into five stages: (1)identifying the research questions, (2) identifying the relevant studies, (3) study selection, (4)charting the data, and (5) collating, summarizing, and reporting the results. These stages wereperformed iteratively, which allowed for reflection and study team collaboration along eachstage. The study was grounded in four central inclusion criteria: (1) equitable design, (2)engineering education, (3) engineering course, and (4) secondary education
Paper ID #47581Contextualizing Engineering Education by incorporating Indigenous KnowledgeSystems (IKS) in the Curriculum DesignDr. Brainerd Prince, Plaksha University Brainerd Prince is the Associate Professor of Practice and the Director of the Center for Thinking, Language and Communication at Plaksha University. He teaches courses such as Reimagining Technology and Society, Ethics of Technological Innovation, and Art of Thinking for undergraduate engineering students and Research Design for PhD scholars. He completed his PhD on Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Philosophy from OCMS, Oxford – Middlesex University, London. He