Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, California State University, Channel Islands; Andrew Li; Rebecca Jun, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

four areas of divergence in the discourse in a subset of the“Engineering and. . .” divisions. This research built on previous work suggesting that the discourse on engineeringleadership (LEAD), entrepreneurship (ENT), engineering management (EMD), and engineeringand public policy permeates ASEE and is concentrated in but not limited to the division mostclosely associated with the topic (Neeley 2016). In the work completed to this point, we used thepapers published in LEAD and ENT to identify four common themes that should also be usefulfor analyzing papers from EMD and EPP: (1) program design and effectiveness, (2) individualcapabilities (including traits and thinking tools), (3) teams and groups, and (4) identity andculture. These

Conference Session

Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joey Valle, Purdue University; Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University; Polly Parkinson, Utah State University; Fawn Groves, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University

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universities. As Lasch writes in the foreword to David Noble’s America By Design,“the professionalization of engineering and the establishment of engineering education as arecognized branch of higher learning forged a link between the corporation and the universitythat remains unbroken to this day,” [11]. It has been well documented that engineering collegeand university programs significantly constrains sociopolitical understandings amongstengineering students through a focus on technical education to meet the demands of industry (seefor example [1]; [3]; [12]; [13]; [14]). One element of this touched on within the groupinterviews presented here is a significant absence of labor education and in turn, the relativerarity of unionized engineers and low

Conference Session

AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grant Fore, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Engineering Education, 2024 Design Iterations as Material Culture Artifacts: A Qualitative Methodology for Design Education ResearchAbstractStudying design processes requires the researcher to move with the designer as they negotiate anaction-reflection cycle comprised of a multitude of relationships, including the designer’srelation to themselves, to human and more-than-human others, and to the beliefs, values, andassumptions that design us every day. This paper’s goal is to introduce a qualitative methodologyfor studying the complex relationality of design, particularly (but not exclusively) in anarchitectural design education context. This methodology has theoretical and methodologicalunderpinnings in Process Philosophy and

Conference Session

Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd E. Nicewonger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Stacey Anne Fritz; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include inte ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Moralizing Design Differences in the North: An Ethnographic AnalysisThis multiple source case study tracks the “social life” (Appadurai 1986) of the “integrated trusssystem” – a prefabricated frame assembly that has been used to build homes in emergencycontexts in Alaska. We combine data from three years of ethnographic research among Alaskanengineers, builders, housing advocates, and residents of remote Alaska

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MC Forelle, University of Virginia; Kent A. Wayland, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

parts of the university. Reflecting on the 1955 Grinter Report, Sheryl Sorby, Norman L. Fortenberry, and GaryBertoline suggest a need for a revolution in engineering education, writing: “Over the years, we educators have done some tinkering around the edges, such as adding in a capstone design project, or replacing Fortran with other programming languages – but the basic structure of the curriculum remains unchanged even though our students can now find information on their phones that might have taken us hours to track down in the library.”3There is no doubt about the need for technical training, but how engineering educatorsincorporate nontechnical skills also has an impact on creating a well-rounded

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Huang; Nava Bozorgmehri; Alexander Broome; Peyton Elise Carter; Hayoung Cho; Jaxen Farrell; Jane Ginley; William Kaeul Gotanda; Margaret Hynes; Charles Patrick Neill; Owen Pett; Will Purnell; Eliana Jean Razzino; Olivia Lane Remcho; Vanessa Rigoglioso; Cyrus Rosen; Ellen Ryan; Mary Katherine Serpe; William Sweeney; Avneet Hira, Boston College; Gabriella Maria Bachiochi

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mission several promising aspects of theconvergence of engineering and the liberal arts. In an ASEE paper, Bernhardt & Rossmann [3] write thatthe program’s current mission is “engage students in engineering as a liberal art, recognizing theincreasingly complex challenges of engineering in the larger framework of socio-technical systems andexamining these systems through multi-disciplinary perspectives” (p.1). In sharing how Rensselaer’sPrograms in Design and Innovation is contending with instrumentalist rationales, Nieusma [4] shares howthe program is not merely focused on providing both engineering and liberal arts content to students, butbrings the liberal arts into the framing of engineering education itself including the curricular

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; Sean M. Eddington, Kansas State University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Past President and Wise Woman of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. She has received career achievement awards from ICA, NCA, the Central States Communication Association, and Purdue University where she was a Distinguished University Professor in communication and engineer- ing education (by courtesy) and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Her primary research areas are organizational communication, career, work-life, resilience, feminist/gender, and design. Her grants have focused on ethics, institutional transformation, and diversity-equity-inclusion-belongingness in the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Sean M

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rich Dionne, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

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

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Salinas, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines

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Paper ID #44325Sociotechnical Integration as Programmatic Foundation in Engineering: CurriculumDesign and ABET Assessment ProtocolsDr. Chelsea Salinas, Colorado School of Mines Chelsea Salinas is a Teaching Professor at the Colorado School of Mines where she focuses on program development in the design engineering space, teaching design thinking strategies, user experience and systems modeling.Dr. Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines Dean Nieusma is Associate Professor and Department Head of Engineering, Design, & Society at Colorado School of Mines. ©American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Figard, Arizona State University; Abimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University; Marcus Melo de Lyra, The Ohio State University

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Paper ID #41250Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Equitable Design in EngineeringEducation: A Scoping Literature ReviewMs. Rachel Figard, Arizona State University Rachel Figard is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education and Systems Design at Arizona State University. She received her M.S. in User Experience from Arizona State University and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University.Abimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University Abimelec Mercado Rivera is a Puerto Rican doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Engineering Education Systems and Design program at Arizona

Conference Session

Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

YiXiang Shawn Sun, National Taiwan University; Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku, University of Virginia; Jongmin Lee, University of Science and Technology; Sean Michael Ferguson, CSUCI

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Taiwan there are notsufficient instructors who are trained and motivated. These inadequate course designs andsystematic limitations lead to a lack of understanding of the relationship between technologyand society and a lack of systematic thinking among science and engineering students. Thissituation limits students’ ability to think about their professional skills, future employment,ethical responsibilities, and other issues in a global context.1Cultivating “global competency” in a divided worldWe also witnessed an educational reform in engineering education curriculum worldwide. In2018, China began the New Engineering Education and Excellent Engineer Education andTraining Plan as the cornerstone of its national engineering program. In May 2021

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; David A. Butler, National Academy of Engineering

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Learning for Veterans in Assistive Technology and Engineering(ELeVATE) program supported injured or ill veterans in succeeding in engineering or technicalprograms, leading to changes in the GI Bill that extended study time from four to five years. TheQuality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center (QoLT ERC), in collaboration withCarnegie Mellon University, has provided students with experience in design, development,publication, and patenting. Cooper stated that many alumni from these programs, particularly theERC, have held influential positions in industry and policymaking, advocating for accessiblesystems and contributing to policy changes at major corporations like Microsoft and Amazon, aswell as in federal leadership roles at the

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna G Burchfield, University of South Florida; April A. Kedrowicz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

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Communication and one from Writing) to work with the seniordesign course to enhance students’ ability to prepare and deliver design proposals, project,updates, and reports orally and in writing. The success of this small-scale initiative resulted inthe development of a college-wide engineering communication program in 2003 led by aprogram director with a doctorate in Communication (Kedrowicz) and staffed by a team ofgraduate (PhD level) teaching fellows from Communication and Writing. The goal of thisprogram was to prepare engineering graduates for leadership. As such, the program includedtraining on communication, writing, teamwork and ethics as core components of theundergraduate curriculum in every department in the College of Engineering. The

Conference Session

Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Tonn, Boston College; Avneet Hira, Boston College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

feelings of belonging in modern science. Her research specialties include histories of women, gender, and sexuality in modern science and technology; the interplay between engineers and engineering practices and the infrastructure of everyday life; and the relationship between design, technology, and justice.Dr. Avneet Hira, Boston College Dr. Avneet Hira is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Centered Engineering Program and the Department of Teaching, Curriculum and Society (by courtesy) at Boston College. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Engineering as Conflict: A Framing for Liberal Engineering EducationIntroductionIn this paper we use the framing of “engineering as conflict” to

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University; Fatima Rahman, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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[16, 20].Since these narratives are pervasive, first-year engineering students are likely to haveencountered them, and possibly accepted them, before they enter engineering programs. There istherefore a need to create classroom experiences that explicitly challenge these narratives, todevelop students’ sociotechnical understanding (or “critical sociotechnical literacy,” asMcGowan and Bell have proposed for K-12 students) [18]. As students are given opportunitiesto question these narratives, they will be able to recognize that the effects of technology areunevenly felt across groups of people and more-than-human actors and that who/what benefitsand who/what is harmed typically aligns with historical power imbalances [16, 17, 18, 20

Conference Session

Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lara K. Schubert, UCLA; Cal State Los Angeles; Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

programming based on the surveys, with a push in 2019 for awareness of Diversity,Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), with a symposium and new DEI Task Group, eventually adding aRacial Equity Task Group. Programming in the 2021-2022 year included a long-term mentoringprogram, a racial equity book club, and a DEI training for firm leaders. SE3 published resultsfrom a study of pressure points for people of color studying structural engineering by analyzingdata from programs in California. From early 2022, SE3 increasingly focused programming onequity in design as well.Hierarchy of knowledge – ‘real’ engineeringThe consequences of perceived boundaries of ‘real’ engineering, which limit engineering totechnical work, are evidenced in the accounts of the work and

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naqaa Abbas, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Reza Tafreshi, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Patrick Linke; Mary Queen, Texas A&M University, Qatar

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. As they move up thecorporate ladder, those in senior management can spend over 70% of their day writing [3]. Figure 1: Requirements of a twenty-first-century engineer [4].Despite the significance of writing and communication in the engineering field, researchindicates a gap between communication instruction in engineering programs and expectationsfrom the professionals in the field, who indicate that they need novice engineers with bettercommunication skills [3]. This suggests that what students learn in their academic programs doesnot necessarily meet the demand of the industry.This paper describes the response of two English faculty members to these concerns as wereorganize the only required technical writing course in the

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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contributemeaningfully to fields of inquiry in which all humans have a stake.ConclusionIrresponsibility, presumption, isolation, bias – these are some of the concerns about the unethicalpractice of techno-science the novel registers in the figure of Victor Frankenstein. But Victorwas right about one thing. Scientists and engineers have “astonishing . . . power placed within[their] hands” [5]. What resources can undergraduate engineering programs provide to cultivatestudents’ moral imagination and encourage them to use the power of engineering design to workfor social good? As a cautionary tale of science fiction, Frankenstein offers rich conceptualresources for engineering students to imagine possible selves, in contrast to the “salient other” ofVictor

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kassandra Fernandez, University of Florida; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida

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= Neutral, 5 = Slightly Important, 6 = Important, 7 =Very Important. The question was as follows: 31. Please rate how important the following skills are for a professional engineer: 1. Fundamental Skills (i.e. Engineering, Math, Science) 2. Technical Skills (i.e. Conducting Experiments, Data Analysis, Design, Engineering Tools, & Problem Solving) 3. Business Skills (i.e. Business Knowledge, Management Skills & Professionalism) 4. Professional Skills (i.e. Communication, Contemporary Issues, Creativity, Leadership, Life-Long Learning, & Teamwork) 5. Cultural Awareness/Understanding (i.e. of your culture, and those of others) 6. Professional Ethics (i.e. ensuring your

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Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fatima Naeem Abdurrahman, University of Maryland, College Park; Sona Chudamani, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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these status quo ideologiesin engineering are maintained by a “culture of disengagement” that decreases interest in publicwelfare, Radoff et al. [6] find indications that additional factors contribute to engaged students’reproduction of such ideologies. They find, for example, instances of students in reproducingdehumanizing narratives regarding low-income communities, despite their enrollment in avoluntary program premised on cultivating socially responsible STEM professionals [6]. Thisfinding suggests that even students who remain “engaged” to some degree can reproduce statusquo ideologies which Cech attributes to disengagement [3].One explanation as to why a macro-ethically “engaged” student may fail to attend to the socialaspects of design

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Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

[13]. Work at the intersection between emotion andethics includes empathetic perspective-taking [14]; empathy and care [15]; and risk and design[10]. Given the role of emotion in ethical decision-making [10][16] and risk management [17]and the interplay between ethics and empathy [15][14], it is important to understand howemotional engagement can support ethics education and how emotions affect students’perceptions of their ethical responsibilities.Research QuestionsThis study addresses the following research questions: 1. What emotions do students express related to their future responsibility as civil and architectural engineers? 2. How, if all, does the engineering culture contribute to students’ experience and

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Accountability and Stewardship

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail Baura, Loyola University, Chicago; Matt Miller, Loyola University, Chicago

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

part of the core curriculum.B.S. Engineering Program and Social Justice Case StudiesLUC’s B.S. Engineering program is a general engineering program with specializations ofbiomedical, computer, and environmental engineering. Each specialization emphasizes a socialjustice application. For example, in biomedical engineering, students learn to design and testrobust medical device software, in preparation for a medical device to be cleared or approved bythe FDA. All patients should receive high-quality medical devices, regardless of their ability topay. All Engineering courses are taught using a mandatory active learning style, which increasesthe retention of female students, students of color, and first-generation students [28-31].Engineering

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert P. Dalka, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Devyn Shafer; Brianne Gutmann, San José State University

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University of Maryland. She has expertise in physics education research and engineering education research. Her work involves designing and researching contexts for learning (for students, educators, and faculty) within higher education. Her research draws from perspectives in anthropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences to focus on the role of culture and ideology in science learning and educational change. Her research interests include how to: (a) disrupt problematic cultural narratives in STEM (e.g. brilliance narratives, meritocracy, and individualistic competition); (b) cultivate equity-minded approaches in ed- ucational spheres, where educators take responsibility for racialized inequities in

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarvnaz Lotfi, Loyola University, Maryland; Raenita A. Fenner, Loyola University, Maryland

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computerengineering portion. Typical course topics in the materials and mechanical engineering portionof the course included: metals and atoms, hardness testing, microstructures and properties,Hooke’s Law, and the design of trusses. Typical course topics in the electrical and computerengineering portion included Ohm’s Law, the resistor color code, equivalent resistance, power,digital logic, ASCII, and concepts regarding computer programming like basic variables andconditional statements. In addition to these technical topics, professional orientation toengineering was addressed with lectures on career opportunities, resume development, etc.Centered on preliminary topics in computer, electrical, materials, and mechanical engineering,past versions of EG 101

Conference Session

Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kylee Shiekh, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines

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Paper ID #38652Highlighting Gaps in Engineering Education through Emotional Safety inStudent StaffKylee Shiekh, Colorado School of Mines Kylee Shiekh is a student at the Colorado School of Mines. She has a degree in Computational Applied Mathematics and Data Science and is working towards a Masters in Quantum Engineering. She hopes to enter a PhD program for Engineering Education at the next step of her education. Her primary research in- terests are in engineering as enculturation, and the experiences of underrepresented students as compared to their peers.Dr. Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines Dean Nieusma is

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Zacharias, University of Manitoba; Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Chantal Rodier; Laura M. Patterson, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus; Renato B. Rodrigues, University of Manitoba; Ken Tallman, University of Toronto

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STEAM activities, such as arts integratedapproaches to assignment solutions or deliverables, and activities or reference models fromoutside of engineering faculties.Many different activities were described by participants, ranging from a capstone video projectin which mechanical engineering students creatively pitch their capstone design, tointerdisciplinary STEAM oriented engineering design degrees, to an Edward Burtynsky lecture.Many activities reflected participants’ enthusiasm for successful initiatives at their homeinstitutions, describing new and emerging programs, STEAM electives, and assignments thatinvite students to take STEAM approaches.Others used examples as models for how engineering might better adopt a STEAM approach.One

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College

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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

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Dimpho Radebe, University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto; Andrea Chan, University of Toronto; Emily Macdonald-Roach, University of Toronto; Saskia van Beers, University of Toronto; Sasha-Ann Eleanor Nixon, University of Toronto

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response bias.1-4 When we minimize the ambiguity of survey prompts, we adopt a standard set by thewhite, male majority, leaving dominant ideology intact. In contrast, when we integrate social science conceptsinto our survey, we provide an opening for the “subaltern” to speak.5Introduction: Disrupting ideological hegemony in engineering by naming cultureTextbooks on survey design emphasize the importance of generating clearly worded, accessible promptsas a means of decreasing response bias,1-4 but the concept of accessibility presumes a referent. Forwhom must our questions be clear? For whom may this demand for baseline clarity limit expression?Our primary argument in this paper is that the demand for accessible survey prompts may suppress whatis

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Duane Reedy, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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Paper ID #42156The Power of Place: A Critical Examination of Engineering Enculturation &Identity FormationDr. Timothy Duane Reedy, University of Maryland, College ParkDr. David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park David is the director of the Science, Technology and Society program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He works with STEM majors on the ethical and social dimensions of science and technology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Power of Place: A Critical Examination of Engineering Enculturation and Identity FormationAbstract

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Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexis Suzanne Capitano, Colorado School of Mines; Ryan Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines

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achievement. They found that classes taught by an instructor with a fixed mindsetresulted in achievement gaps that were twice as large as those taught by teachers with a growthmindset [6]. This impact is further confirmed by the findings in Oduwole’s paper where hementions that “teachers’ beliefs are frequently taken over by their students” (p. 115) [7]. Thesestudies demonstrate the impact of a teacher’s mindset on a student’s learning, so gaining insightsinto professors’ mindsets is shown to be valuable. Our paper explores mindsets that are commonto engineering and education faculty and related literature to each will be discussed.Engineering is a profession centered on creating a design, typically one that will address or solvea problem. Being an