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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer C. Mallette, Boise State University; Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University

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Paper ID #38426Building a Communication-Integrated Curriculum in Materials ScienceDr. Jennifer C. Mallette, Boise State University An Associate Professor at Boise State University, Dr. Jenn Mallette teaches technical communication at the undergraduate and graduate level. She also collaborates with faculty in engineering to support student writers. Her research focuses on using writing to improve the experiences of underrepresented students.Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University Dr. Harold Ackler is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Micron School of Materials Science and En- gineering at Boise State University. He

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AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Grant Fore, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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ontology of Alfred NorthWhitehead [2, 3]. A mathematician with formal training in theoretical physics, Whitehead shiftedfocus to metaphysics in his later years. This was in response to late 19th and early 20th centuryscientific and mathematical discoveries – such as relativity and quantum mechanics – that hebelieved destabilized the “metaphysics of scientific materialism” so that a new ontologicalsystem, aligned with contemporary scientific findings, was needed [4].Whitehead offers the foundation for an ontology built upon the idea that reality is a never-endingprocess of relational becoming. This is a process rich in experience from the tiniest atom to theconstitution of civilizations and beyond. That said, the difference between say an atom and

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Nicole Fitzpatrick, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Paper ID #42417Board 132: Exploring the Impact of Professors and Peer-Relationships onUndergraduate Mechanical Engineering Students’ Well-BeingEmily Nicole Fitzpatrick, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Emily is an undergraduate student researcher focused on engineering education in the Mechanical & Materials Engineering department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Dr. Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Dr. Jessica Deters is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Discipline Based Education Researcher at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She holds her Ph.D. in Engineering

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Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Mateo F. Rojas, Colorado School of Mines; Sofia Lara Schlezak, Colorado School of Mines; Emma Chapman, Colorado School of Mines

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Paper ID #38721Beyond uncritical blindness: How critical thinking about engineering forcommunity development could lead to socially responsible and sustainableprojectsDr. Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines Juan Lucena is Professor and Director of Humanitarian Engineering Undergraduate Programs at the Col- orado School of Mines (CSM). Juan obtained a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech and a MS in STS and BS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering froMateo F. Rojas, Colorado School of MinesSofia Lara Schlezak, Colorado School of Mines MS in Humanitarian Engineering and ScienceEmma Chapman

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Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natalie Ban; Lordina Odeibea Mensah; Matthew Whitwer; Lucy Elizabeth Hargis; Courtney Janaye Wright, University of Kentucky; Joseph H Hammer; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky

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Psychology and Hu- man Development and MA in Mental Health Counseling from Boston College. Courtney is the Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Sarah Wilson’s NSF funded research team.Dr. Joseph H Hammer Associate Professor of Counseling PsychologyDr. Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky Dr. Sarah Wilson is an Assistant Professor in Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky. She is the director of the Wilson Research Group, where she works to understand and improve mental health in engineering. In this way, she defines mental health as not just the absence of mental illness but a mental state in which engineers can effectively cope with stress, realize their potential, and contribute to

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Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Robert, University of Denver; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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more participatory research that permits neurodivergent students to share theirstories in their own voices through narrative inquiry methods (Cueller, Webster, Solanki, Spence, &Tsugua, 2022). A unique conceptual framework was theorized for this study called creative materialism,which combined new materialist theory (Nail, 2021) with culturally responsive methodologies(Berryman et al., 2013), and arts-based research methods (Leavy, 2017). This framework requiredsharing power between the participants and researcher to collaboratively and materially generate newknowledge in the form of narratives. The goal was to provide new perspectives on why, despite decadesof considerable effort to increase participation in engineering, some communities

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Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lichao Ma, Tsinghua University; Xiaofeng Tang, Tsinghua University

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a theoreticalframework for analyzing the career resilience of engineers. Although there are a few research (French et al, 2005; Brown & Matusovich, 2016; Choi &Loui, 2015) in engineering education that attempt to carry out correlation analysis on the variablesrelated to resilience in the context of engineering learning, they only verify the correlationindicators between the individual emotion, resilience, psychology and learning of engineeringstudents. These studies do not reveal the specific mechanism of resilience formation amongengineers, nor do they assess the role of risk or intervention factors. Furthermore, no engineeringeducation research to date has examined the career resilience of early career engineers. Notably

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Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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diversity and comparative insights in cross-cultural learning and research. Students used PECE to produce and curate their homework assignments and collaborative term projects. A tutorial section was offered for the methodological training.4. Collaborative term project: Each pair conducted a research project to investigate science and technology across borders.As for the student body, in this course, we had a total of 27 students, 12 students from NYCUand 15 students from UST. All of the NYCU students are undergraduates, while all of theUST students are either graduate or Ph.D. students because UST is a graduate institute. Theirareas of expertise are in various fields of engineering, including civil, mechanical, chemical,systems

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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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potential participants to voluntarily provide certain aspects of theiridentity. These aspects included: class-level, major, race, gender, sexual orientation, documenteddisability, to name a few. When selecting participants for invitation in this study, we sought tomaximize variability within these identity-based categories in an effort to capture a broadspectrum of experiences and viewpoints. For instance, in assembling the focus groups of BlackMen, we not only looked at their shared racial and gender identity, but also sought to represent adiversity of academic majors within engineering, such as Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical andComputer, and Fire Protection. We were equally diligent in grouping participants based on classstanding, from

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 2: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging I

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Jeffrey C Shragge, Colorado School of Mines; Jonah Klemm-Toole, Colorado School of Mines

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Paper ID #45730Celebrating the Skeptics: Funds of Knowledge as a Critique of EngineeringEpistemologiesDr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Professor in the Engineering, Design and Society Department at the Colorado School of Mines.Dr. Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines Juan Lucena is Professor and Director of Humanitarian Engineering Undergraduate Programs at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). Juan obtained a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech and a MS in STS and BS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering froDr. Junko Munakata Marr, Colorado School of

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 10: Institutions and Structures

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Wood, University of Michigan; Berenice Alejandra Cabrera, University of Michigan; Hayley N. Nielsen, University of Michigan; Amber N Williams, University of Michigan; Lu Zhou, Tsinghua University; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan; Grenmarie Agresar, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Joi-Lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan; Erika A Mosyjowski, University of Michigan; Steve J. Skerlos, University of Michigan

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the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan.Dr. Grenmarie Agresar, University of Michigan Grenmarie Agresar is an instructional consultant at the Center for Research on Learning in Teaching in Engineering at the University of Michigan (U-M). She earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Scientific Computation, a M.S. in Bioengineering, a M.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Joi-Lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan Joi Mondisa is an Associate

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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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’ institution as it has with manyother institutions across the US.As a Jesuit Catholic university committed to “the ideals of liberal education and the developmentof the whole person,”[11] LUM operates primarily as an undergraduate institution withconsiderable liberal arts requirements. Students who pursue LUM’s ABET-accredited bachelor’sof science in engineering must select one of four concentrations in electrical, computer,mechanical, or materials engineering. At the same time, all students are required to completecourses in the natural sciences and mathematics, as well as in the humanities and social scienceswherein reading, writing, and critical thinking skills are heavily emphasized [12]. The LUMCore Values Statement “calls upon the curriculum to

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Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University; Sepehr Vakil, Northwestern University

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Iran as the schools operated inthe second half of the 1970s. Amid intense global jockeying for late-Cold War influence andrising nuclear capacities, both institutions functioned within geopolitically determined conditionsthrough relationships with their governmental and industrial sponsors, and in Iran, also within arevolutionary context. On both campuses students and faculty expressed a range of politicalideologies centered on ideas about government and nationality as those might optimally shapeengineering practice, playing variable roles in the schools’ affiliations with state interests. Onboth campuses we find multiple ideologies being voiced, but we also trace materially connectedinterests between MIT and Sharif. Our aim in this brief

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Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; Amol Agrawal; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

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engineering programs more generally, to facilitateexchange of ideas. Second, from a research perspective, our findings are about this program, andhence readers need a detailed understanding of the program to join us in thinking about how tointerpret the underlying mechanisms of students’ uptake of cultural practices and mindsets inorder to generalize aspects of the findings beyond UMD’s particular STS program.A. Why “Postures”?In past years, the STS instructors initially struggled to connect with STEM students, especiallyengineering and computer science majors, via traditional STS pedagogies (e.g., [25], [26]). STSinstructors encountered “deterministic” mindsets identified in the engineering educationliterature, such as depoliticization of technology

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Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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stories of engineers and programs that have had exemplarysocietal impacts. A particular emphasis is placed on individuals historically underrepresented inthe engineering profession, including people of color, women, and people with disabilities,bringing their experiences and achievements to the forefront. Slated to be released in mid-2024,the report’s findings, conclusions, and recommendations are not yet available. However, thisarticle aims to shed light on the various ways that the NSF and NAE have conceptualizedengineering’s impacts on society by 1) exploring the history of engineering at NSF, 2) analyzingfoundational material from the NSF/NAE that informed the work of the committee such asNSF’s Broader Impacts and NAE’s Grand Challenges in

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Equity and Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaitlyn Anne Thomas, University of Nevada, Reno; Kelly J Cross, Georgia Institute of Technology; Isabel Anne Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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practices, Slaton [16] argues that engineering is just as much aboutthe engineer performing as it is the act of engineering itself. Slaton states that “in science andengineering the validity of findings at the bench derives from the experimenter, not theexperiment; [just as] the reliability of a building material or industrial product is determined bythe tester, not the test” [16, p. 175]. The process of engineering cannot be separated from theengineer, and the engineer cannot be separated from their identities. As a result, the cultureestablished by the forefathers of engineering (an exclusive group with identity- rather than merit-based qualifiers) influences engineering today. Because of this influence, women enterengineering learning

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 5: Decoloniality and Indigenous Knowledges

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amani A AL-Mqadma, Islamic University of Gaza; Bill Guariento, University of Northumbria; Caroline Burns, Northumbria University; Rachid Khoumikham, Northumbria University Newcastle/ and The University of Essex ; Hatem A Elaydi, Islamic University of Gaza

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(withPalestine specifically-noted) Abdel Latif and Alhamed [8] confirm a lack of data, thoughamong lecturers with Arabic as their first language, moving between Arabic and Englishappears to be common, particularly in STEM subjects. Zughoul [9] ascribes this to a lack ofL1 learning and teaching materials, and, in some scientific areas in particular, an absence oftechnical terminology in the L1. Abdel Latif and Alhamed [8] ascribe this to students’perceived lack of proficiency, with skills-shortfalls that vary from country to country.In a previous ASEE study with IUG student-engineers working telecollaboratively withcounterparts at the University of Glasgow, UK, students reported greater confidence inapproaching content when using English within their

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 3: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging II

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University; Cassandra J McCall, Utah State University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Vanessa Tran, Utah State University

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recognized by leading engineering education research journals at both national and international levels. Dr. McCall has led several workshops promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities and other minoritized groups in STEM. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering with a structural engineering emphasis.Dr. Stephen Secules, Florida International University Dr. Stephen Secules is an Assistant Professor in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education at Florida International University. Secules holds a joint appointment in the STEM Transformation Institute and a secondary appointment in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. He has bachelor degrees in

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 2: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging I

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brooks Michael Leftwich, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Paper ID #48929A Content Analysis of Company Portrayals from a Campus-Wide Job FairMr. Brooks Michael Leftwich, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Brooks M. Leftwich of Lewisburg, TN is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in First-Year Engineering at Purdue University pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. He received is M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University (2024) and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2020). Before joining Purdue, Leftwich spent six months as an English Teaching Assistant in Yunlin County, Taiwan with the Fulbright Program (2021). He is

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Sociotechnical Systems in Practice

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nandini Sharma, The University of Texas at Austin; Jeffrey W. Treem, University of Texas at Austin; Megan Kenny Feister, CSUCI

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development processes are intertwined with organizing and work. Overall, her work draws from practice theory, demands mixed-methods analyses, and straddles interdisciplinary domains such as Human-Computer Interaction, and Science and Technol- ogy Studies.Jeffrey W. Treem, University of Texas at Austin Jeffrey W. Treem is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. His research examines the relationship between technology use and social perceptions of expertise, primarily in organizational contexts. Specif- ically, this work explores how the material affordances of communication technologies affect attributions of

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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towards real-world applications through a varietyof mechanisms. Instructors demonstrated moderate support for STSE, with a strong orientationtowards problem solving and design, but shared concerns, in particular about exploring issues ofsocial justice and fairness and the possibility of imposing bias on students. This is reflective ofwork in engineering education that highlights the apolitical nature of engineering and itsresonance in undergraduate engineering programs. Finally, a reframing of STSE is offered toacknowledge the role of problem solving rather than issue exploration in engineering, whilehighlighting the need to further consider the context of engineering activities, aligned with recentwork on sociotechnical thinking and social

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Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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less desirable than ideological divergence, but drawattention to the distinction between ideological convergence that synthesizes an exploration ofparticipants’ heterogeneous stances (which facilitates learning) and ideological convergence thatis arrived at before such exploration (which constrains learning). For our analysis, we use thisdefinition of ideological convergence/divergence, as well as Philip et al. [9]’s operativedefinition of ideology as any sensemaking that “stabilizes, challenges, and/or transforms thedistribution of material and symbolic resources in society”.2.2 - Ideological Frames of Reasoning: “Narrow” vs. “Expansive”The central findings in Radoff et al. [6] were patterned sets of co-occurring themes. In analyzingthe full

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Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynne A Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth L Thompson P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Silvana McCormick, Redwood Consulting Collective; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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background. Camacho and Lord use the “borderlands of education” as ametaphor for studying this interplay between intersectionality and systemic exclusion [2].Simply increasing the numbers of people from any underrepresented and/or minoritized group ina department will not guarantee increased participation or belongingness, as numbers andpercentages do not expose and address the cultural norms that promote marginalization andexclusion of certain groups [5], [6], [7]. Change requires more than targeted percentages [8]. Wemust be prepared to examine climate, pedagogy, and subject matter. For example, Margolis and1 This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2234256. Anyopinions, findings, and

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Carrell, Texas Tech University; Joshua M. Cruz; Andrew Mark Herbert; Iris V. Rivero; Emily Lazarus; Erika Nuñez, Texas Tech University; Nafisha Tabassum; Xueni Fan, Texas Tech University

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also participate in theengineering content portion of the course, including the DMAIC and EDMAIC methodologyused in the course.Iris Rivero: I am a professor of materials and manufacturing processes with academic trainingand degrees earned in the U.S. in industrial and manufacturing engineering. My culturalbackground exposed me, at an early age, to manufacturing since while growing up in PuertoRico its ecomomy depended heavily on U.S. manufacturing companies that established companybranches in the island. Therefore, my academic career emphasizing manufacturing is deeplyrooted on my background. In that view, my teaching and research emphasizing manufacturinghas always intertwined understanding technology design decisions and the impact of

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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Paper ID #38512Charting a Research Direction to Explore Development of SociotechnicalThinking in Engineering DesignDr. Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Ben D. Lutz is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is the leader of the Critical Research in Engineering and Technology Education (CREATE) group at Cal Poly. His current research interests include engineering design learning and communication, sociotechni- cal thinking in engineering, interest and motivation in engineering, conceptual change and understanding;; and school-to

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 9: Collaboration and Community

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Rose Tawney, California Institute of Technology; Morgan L Hooper, University of Toronto; Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California; Maria Jose Azcona Baez, California Institute of Technology; Meredith Hooper, California Institute of Technology; Matthew Alexander Langley; Nina Mohebbi, California Institute of Technology; Micah Kalaihi Kushi Nishimoto, California Institute of Technology; Kay T Xia, California Institute of Technology

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they conducted for the course, final pieces of individual reflectionstudents submitted, and the materials, notes, etc. exchanged by facilitators as the course wascreated and implemented. Then, we came together as a research team to discuss the most salientaspects of our experiences and identify emerging themes that spanned the experiences of allauthors. It was during this process that students reported one of the most salient takeaways wasthe role of community in shaping their course experience. This community focus resonated withthe facilitators, as the course itself would have not come to fruition without their collaborationand co-facilitation.Once we had collectively selected to center the role of community for the CAE, we proceeded

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Accountability and Stewardship

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kari Zacharias, University of Manitoba; Renato B. Rodrigues, University of Manitoba; Paula Rodrigues Affonso Alves, University of Manitoba; Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba

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we can be the architects of Earths’ systems [19], or a warning for us, humans, toreconsider our “supremacy complex” [20].Due to the challenges of reaching international agreements on the deployment and control ofclimate engineering technologies [21], public and private organizations and institutions havestarted discussing rules, mechanisms, structures, and processes to inform responses to climatechange from local to global levels; an initiative known as “Earth Systems Governance”(ESG) [22], [23]. A foundational, guiding principle of ESG is planetary stewardship [24],which emphasizes humans’ responsible governance and active preservation of the naturalworld. Planetary stewardship calls for public and private institutions to proactively

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 6: LEES Works in Progress

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ymbar Isaias Polanco Pino, Tufts University; Luis Federico Suarez, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Greses Perez P.E., Tufts University; Koral Melissa Nuñez Javeir; L. Clara Mabour, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Taisha Pierre, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Mia Jimenez, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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Paper ID #48846Reframing Engineering in Multilingual and Multidialectal Contexts: TheRole of Instructor Identity and Language in Dominican-Haitian LearningCommunities (Work in-Progress)Ymbar Isaias Polanco Pino, Tufts University Ymbar I. Polanco Pino is a Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. candidate, GEM Fellow, and Provost Leadership Fellow at Tufts University. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Missouri. As a researcher in the postsecondary Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education space, Ymbar has focused on

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Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brandon Bakka, University of Texas at Austin; Travis Bouchard, The University of Texas at Austin; Vivian Xian-wei Chou, University of Texas at Austin; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin

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Paper ID #37397Modeled Professionalism, Identity Concealment, and Silence: The Role ofHeteronormativity in Shaping Climate for LGBTQ+ EngineeringUndergraduatesBrandon Bakka, University of Texas at Austin Brandon Bakka is a doctoral candidate at the University of at Austin pursuing a degree in Biomedical Engineering with a certificate in engineering education. He received a BS in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Colorado School of Mines.Travis Bouchard, The University of Texas at AustinVivian Xian-wei Chou, University of Texas at Austin Vivian Chou is a M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Biomechanics

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 4: Sociotechnical Integration

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Alan Chong, University of Toronto

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deeper shifts in mindset, including greater reflexivity,improved awareness of the social context for engineered solutions, capacity to grapple withethical complexity and the ability to understand and harness multiple epistemologies. But whilewe can develop educational experiences that facilitate this integration, engaging the communityof engineering students that we wish to empower can be a challenge. As Pawley argues,“…boundary work is bigger than simply differentiating one academic discipline ororganizational arm from another: the metaphor of a boundary prompts consideration of the ideasof inclusion and exclusion, as well as how various material and immaterial groups aredifferentiated.” [1]This case study shares an example of this type of