Paper ID #36728Engineering Physics at a Small Liberal Arts College: Accomplishments andChallengesDr. James T. McLeskey Jr., Randolph-Macon College Dr. James T. McLeskey, Jr. is Professor and Director of the Engineering Physics program at Randolph- Macon College where he teaches courses across the Engineering and Physics curricula. His research has been focused in the areas of renewable energy and clDr. Deonna Woolard Dr. Deonna Woolard received her BS in Physics from Bethany College (WV, USA) and her MS and PhD in Physics from The College of William and Mary (VA, USA). As an applied physicist, she has been engaged with
Paper ID #49261Enginovation: A Social Experiment in Innovating TogetherDr. Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus Dr. Brooke Coley, Assistant Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University, is a trailblazing scholar and disruptor, redefining engineering through equity-driven innovation. As the Founding Executive Director of RARE JUSTICE, she spearheads transformative efforts to dismantle systemic barriers, eradicate anti-Blackness in STEM, and amplify the voices of racially minoritized scholars. Her groundbreaking research critically examines graduate education while demanding
Paper ID #46847Pedagogical Choices for Navigating and Teaching Sociotechnical Landscapesin Engineering EducationJenna Tonn, Boston College Dr. Jenna Tonn is a historian of science, technology, and engineering at Boston College. She received her BA and MA from Stanford University and her PhD from Harvard University. Her research focuses on the social and cultural contexts of science, technology, and engineering.Brit Shields, University of PennsylvaniaRyan Hearty, The Johns Hopkins University Ryan Hearty teaches in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s in
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
engineersconsider and engage with different contextual factors during design (e.g., economic, institutional,political, and socio-cultural). Contextual factors are derived from research in biomedical devicedevelopment in low-resource settings [8] and account for relevant sociotechnical dimensions thataccount for individual, physical/environmental, technical, and systemic/structural factors. Theirwork has examined how novice engineering design students engage with and consider contextualfactors throughout the design process. They note how novice engineers tend to emphasize technicalfactors and distance themselves from social considerations [18], [19]. This work is informative inthat it helps us better understand novice-like thinking and behaviors related to
chances for employment upon graduation.With these beneficial outcomes for students in mind, why is it that single-discipline designcourses – particularly those for engineering capstone design, still prevail? Research offers longlaundry lists of difficulties associated with developing collaborative design coursework includingsystemic challenges (Behdinan, Pop-Iliev, & Foster (2014); Bannerot, Kastor, Ruchhoeft, &Terry (2004)). An 11-year review of the literature suggests that while providing students withauthentic interdisciplinary practice is important, the ability to model and teach ininterdisciplinary ways is lacking (Van den Beemt, MacLeod, Vander Veen, Van de Ven, van Baalen, Klaassen, & Boon, 2020).The hypothesis of Newell, Doty
research interests related to technology and society, gender diversity and engineering education.Dr. Susanna Maria Bairoh, Academic Engineers & Architects in Finland TEK Susanna Bairoh holds a Doctor of Science (Economics) degree from Hanken School of Business and a Master of Social Science degree from University of Helsinki. She works as Research Manager at TEK (Academic Engineers & Architects in Finland) and is responsible for leading and managing TEK’s research activities and the research team. Through her research, she aims at improving gender equality, diversity and inclusion in technology workplaces and careers. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Perceived
an adjunct professor of Microbiology at a Hispanic-serving community college in Miami, Florida. As an educator, they utilized equitable teaching practices and encouraged student agency to ensure positive learning outcomes. Their doctoral research focuses on so- cial responsibility in science and engineering, with special emphasis placed on the importance of science communication and policy advocacy. They are also interested in the intersection of institutional culture and transformational change towards cultivating more inclusive and equitable access for underrepresented minority students in STEM fields. Outside of their research, they are the President of the Policy Advocacy in Science and Engineering (PASE
University of Calgary as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in STEM Education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Implications of Engineering and Education Professor’s Problem-Solving Mindsets on Their Teaching and ResearchAbstractEngineering has a reputation as a “problem solving” field, and many aspects of engineeringeducation aim to prepare its future professionals to solve problems they may face in the realworld. However, often the problem defining (or problem identifying) phase of theproblem-solving process is less visible, which has the potential to bias solutions. This paper seeksto understand the qualities of a problem-solving mindset that are illustrated in faculty
Paper ID #43681Frankenstein Lives! Teaching Mary Shelley’s Novel in the Engineering ClassroomDr. Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia Dr. Laugelli is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He teaches courses that consider social and ethical aspects of technology and engineering practice. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Frankenstein Lives! Teaching Mary Shelley’s Novel in the Engineering ClassroomIntroductionMary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, widely regarded as the first work of modern science-fiction
Paper ID #43797(Re)visions: Approaches to Teaching Technical Communications and ProfessionalDevelopment in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone CourseLynn Hall, The Ohio State University Lynn Hall is a Senior Lecturer and the Associate Chair for Academic Administration for the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in English from Miami University (Ohio). Her research interests include writing in the disciplines, technical communications, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.Mr. Bob Rhoads P.E., The Ohio State University Bob Rhoads currently functions as the
Paper ID #41503Teaching to Transgress in a Technology and Society CourseDr. Stephanie Hladik, University of Manitoba Dr. Stephanie Hladik (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Engineering Professional Practice and Engineering Education at the University of Manitoba. She holds BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering, as well as a PhD in Learning Sciences, all from the University of Calgary. Her research interests lie at the intersections of design, equity, and education. She is deeply interested in the roles that facilitators (informal educators, teaching assistants, parents, and others) play in the
Paper ID #48560Scaling Responsible Data Science Education: The Role of a Teaching Assistantin Bridging the Sociotechnical DivideAbigail Brooks-Ramirez, University of California, Berkeley Abigail Brooks-Ramirez is an Undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley completing her B.A. in Computer Science. Her research interests, strongly informed by her time as both a student and Undergraduate Student Instructor, center on inclusive pedagogy and creating tools for social impact.Rebecca Dang, University of California, Berkeley Rebecca Dang is an undergraduate student studying Electrical Engineering and Computer
Paper ID #48476Transgressing Sustainability Norms: A breakdown of how we teach sustainabilityin engineering through a bell hooks lensDr. David Robert Bruce, University of Ottawa Dr. Bruce has a passion for technology development with a focus on empowering sustainability through altering perception and perspective. His work focuses on a wide variety of pedagogical development in engineering education alongside design & development of innovations in clean energy materials production. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Transgressing sustainability norms: A breakdown of how we
, presumptuous, unaccountable,and biased techno-scientific innovation. In what follows, I analyze these themes from Shelley’snovel as they were discussed in undergraduate courses in science, technology, and society (STS).The analysis that follows offers resources for engineering instructors and students alikeinterested in drawing on the humanities to foster ethical reflection and professional identityformation oriented toward socially responsible engineering practice.Frankenstein: Ethics for Scientists and EngineersThe recent bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 2018 has generated renewed interestin the novel’s capacity to prompt ethical reflection about the practice of contemporary techno-science and engineering. For example, in 2017 David H
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
a greater degree)incorporate knowledge and skills that go beyond established disciplinary territories. Theseideals were reflected in the number of mandatory credits needed to complete for graduation,which included humanities and social sciences as core engineering subjects. Employingproject- and problem-based learning, students were encouraged to integrate design-thinkingand an entrepreneurial mindset. As noticed and emphasized (Bashir, Hahn, and Makela 2019) in the US context, Iwould like to point out that it is too important to emphasize to have like-minded communitiesof practice that support faculty-driven innovative teaching methods. At the departmental level,all departmental members including teaching and research faculty
problem-solving, technical jargon, and standardized design processes. This stands in contrast to theinformal, situated forms of engineering observed in rural DR and Haiti, which are shaped bypractical constraints, material reuse, and community-driven innovation.In the Dominican Republic and Haiti, colonial legacies manifest through language hierarchies,systemic inequalities, and limited STEM opportunities for historically marginalizedcommunities. Our research and teaching team draw on Lucena and Alder [2], [3] to critiquedominant engineering narratives and reimagine engineering as a socially and culturally situatedpractice that can empower communities when local knowledge is recognized and valued.Culturally relevant pedagogy, as articulated by
strategies related to information and misinformation, understanding the research landscape, and building innovative partnerships that span disciplines.Dr. Julie Vale, University of Guelph Julie Vale received her Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. She joined the University of Guelph in 2012 as a teaching focused faculty member and is currently Associate Director Undergraduate Studies for the School of Engineering. Originally trained in electrical engineering as a systems and control theorist, Dr. Vale’s current research focuses on engineering education and pedagogy. Her research has two aspects. The first focuses on the development of a tool to assist instructors in building
. She also earned a graduate certificate in human-centered design (HCD) from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program at Virginia Tech. Marie’s interest in values and engagement in professional cultures also extends to innovation and its experts.With Matthew Wisnioski and Eric Hintz, Marie co-editedDoes America Need More Innova- tors?(MIT Press, 2019). This project engages innovation’s champions, critics, and reformers in critical participation.Dr. Aubrey Wigner, Colorado School of Mines Aubrey Wigner is an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Mines where he teaches engineering design, entrepreneurship, and systems design.Dr. Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines Dean Nieusma is Department
Paper ID #37848Minoritization Processes in Structural Engineering Diversity WorkDr. Lara K. Schubert, UCLA; Cal State Los Angeles; Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Lara K. Schubert is a research affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. She is a former full-time structural engineer who works in feminist studies of science and technology, teaching on these topics at California State University, Los Angeles and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Minoritization Processes in Structural Engineering Diversity
. I moved to London days before the position started with limited first-hand knowledge of higher education in the UK. As a result, I had a steep learning curve interms of developing a new module in a system that I quickly realized was different from mypast experience. I was also given significant freedom in terms of designing the module; themain directive was to focus on physics in term one since students may not have taken physicsin high school and cover engineering science and design in term two. My approach todesigning the module, particularly in the second term, was informed by my core research areaof engineering ethics education. I am personally and empirically oriented toward amacroethical view of engineering, and my years of studying
facultymembers such as Noam Chomsky and Joseph Weizenbaum, believed that technologicalmodernization—enacted through research and teaching in U.S. universities and corporations-must take into account geopolitical threats to global well-being. New understandings of how tobe a responsible engineer, and responsible citizen or resident of the United States, can bedetected in their protests. Ideas of where the individual might fit into prevailing state ideologiesfueled a wide array of social protest movements in the 1960s and for aspiring engineers (and insome cases, their instructors) at MIT, the super-power status of the nation and its imperialistaims required strong critique. This produced a rupture between long-standing conventionsregarding engineers’ non
Paper ID #48280Being and Becoming an Engineer: How Generative AI Shapes UndergraduateEngineering EducationDr. Clay Walker, University of Michigan Dr. Walker is a Lecturer III in the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering Technical Communication Program. He regularly teaches first-year, intermediate, and senior writing courses for students in all engineering disciplines, but especially Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science Engineering. His research focuses on the interplay between identity, experience, and agency in language and literacy practices, with a focus on style and the development of expertise in AI
Paper ID #38069Story-Driven Learning in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature ReviewDr. Ariana Turner, Georgia Institute of TechnologyHye Yeon Lee, Georgia Institute of TechnologyProf. Joseph M LeDoux, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Joe Le Doux is the Executive Director for Learning and Training in the Department of Biomedical En- gineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Dr. Le Doux’s research interests include narrative and inclusive pedagogies and practices. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
Paper ID #38887Instructor Goals and Practices Related to Sociotechnical Thinking in theTeaching of Undergraduate Engineering StudentsDr. Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto Lisa Romkey serves as Associate Professor, Teaching Stream with the Institute for Studies in Transdis- ciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP) at the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research focus on sociotechnical thinking, engineering teaching and learning and the development of life- long learning and other ”future-focused” skills. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Instructor Goals and
competencies and iden77es; an IDS serving DE students only. 7-8. Capstone Design I & II: An interdepartmental collabora7on offering client-sponsored projects serving majors in civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical, and design engineering.Math & Science – Calculus, chemistry, physics, differential equations, computer science. Theseserve in different configurations as prerequisites to many of the engineering fundamentalscourses. These courses are offered exclusively by other departments.Engineering Fundamentals – Statics, circuits, materials, thermodynamics, fluids. These coursesare structured to satisfy the Fundamentals of Engineering General Exam that is administered bythe National Council of Examiners for Engineering 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
research has been recognized with several best paper awards and his co-edited volume, the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research (CHEER), received the 2015 Best Book Publication Award from Division I of AERA. Most recently he served as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in ICT at Aalto University, Finland (2021). He is a past recipient of the NSF Early Career Award (2009) and received the University Teaching Excellence Award (2002) and Mentoring Excellence Award (2022) for undergraduate research at George Mason University. His edited volume International Handbook of Engineering Education Research (IHEER) will be published by Routledge in 2023. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences & Technology
Paper ID #47805From Journal to General: Teaching Engineers to Write for All AudiencesAmanda Dawn Hilliard, The Johns Hopkins University Amanda Hilliard received her MA in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language and PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham in the UK. She has taught writing and communication courses abroad in South Korea, Vietnam, and Ecuador, and in the U.S. in Georgia, Texas, Arizona, and Maryland. She currently teaches in the Center for Leadership Education at the Johns Hopkins University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 From