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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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teaches advanced undergraduate laboratory courses and manages the senior capstone program in the Micron School. He ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Building a Communication-Integrated Curriculum in Materials ScienceAbstractWith the need to meet ABET outcomes around professional skills, such as communication andteamwork, engineering programs have long explored approaches to ensure their graduates areable to participate in the workplace in ways that employers demand. While approaches vary andsuccess depends on a number of factors, research demonstrates that an integrated approach toprofessional skill development is the most impactful for student learning. How can anengineering program build an

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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thisanalysis of a microcosm of the experiences with transdisciplinary approaches of engineeringeducators in Canada, we conceptualize this process and these topics as “loose concepts” anddiscuss their power for future research and practice.IntroductionAcademic conferences provide an important venue to connect with the disciplinary community,to share research, and to build new knowledge. These sites of scholarly exchange are often wherewe explore concepts that are fuzzy or “loose” and through these conversations, generate newunderstandings or new directions.The Canadian Engineering Education Association / Association Canadienne de l’éducation engénie (CEEA-ACÉG) is a national organization that brings together engineering educators andresearchers at an

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Writing and Technical Communications

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan M Adams, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Brian Roth, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Katrina Marie Robertson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Trey Thomas Talko, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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Paper ID #42974Small Shifts: New Methods for Improving Communication Experiences forWomen in Early Engineering CoursesDr. Jonathan M Adams, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Jonathan Adams is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition and the writing program administrator at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ. His research on rhetorical theory, infrastructure, and communication pedagogy informs his teaching of courses in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication in engineering.Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, PrescottBrian Roth, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

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Writing and Technical Communications

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn Hall, The Ohio State University; Bob Rhoads P.E., The Ohio State University; Tyler James Stump, The Ohio State University

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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

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Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Jamaal Downey, University of Florida; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida

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that participantsmight take to grapple with a new concept or phenomenon [1]. To understand if the participants had gained any HCA, participants were asked to defineHC. Based on these answers, some identified HC as the actions of individual actors (active) or asa byproduct of schooling institutions (passive). As for the deeper understanding of theparticipants’ emotional states surrounding HC, they were asked: Can you think about an exampleof hidden curriculum you experienced in engineering? Briefly explain the situation and theemotions you had in that situation.Data Collection and Analysis The authors previously produced two manuscripts from this larger dataset that hasinformed this study. In one study, they coded the n984

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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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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

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Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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, 2024 Sociotechnical Integration as Programmatic Foundation in Engineering: Curriculum Design and ABET Assessment ProtocolsAbstractEngineering education has faced enduring criticism for being overly focused on the narrowlytechnical dimensions of engineering practice, ill preparing engineering graduates for their futurework. “Sociotechnical” approaches to engineering education have arisen as one category ofresponses to this perceived narrowness. This paper reviews our efforts to situate sociotechnicalintegration as the foundation of our new undergraduate design engineering undergraduate degreeprogram, focusing on how we have cast this foundation in both our program’s curriculum andthrough our ABET assessment protocol design and

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Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eunjeong Ma, Pohang University of Science and Technology

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, with a particular focus on the relationship between humanities andsocial sciences and core engineering subjects. The overarching goal of the engineeringeducation program was to foster creativity, innovation, collaboration, student-centeredlearning, problem-based learning, and hybrid approaches. This was reflected in the diversearray of faculty members, representing various fields including computer engineering,biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, humanities and social sciences,industrial engineering, and business administration. Since its inception, the new engineering department's identity has been a contentiousissue, particularly in relation to existing engineering disciplines and in relation to

Conference Session

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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Paper ID #39132Efficacy of Humanities-Driven Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics Curriculum on Integrating Empathy into Technology DesignDr. John Carrell, Texas Tech University John Carrell is Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Texas Tech University Honors College. He received his doctorate in industrial engineering from Texas Tech University and his research focuses on enriching engineering education through the humanities.Dr. Joshua M. Cruz Joshua Cruz is an assistant professor of education at Texas Tech University. His specializations include qualitative methods, post-secondary transitions, and

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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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beingintroduced or discussed. They emphasize the need to keep focused on the community’s needsand avoid becoming too invested in the technology itself: technological approaches should bea simple as possible and should evolve as the community develops.Tech Stewardship for Engineering Culture ChangeFinally, the most significant descriptions of the Tech Stewardship Practice Program’sapproach to stewardship (outside of the TSPP itself), are found in two publications authoredby some of the program’s developers, all of whom have been a part of the Canadian-basedEngineering Change Lab (ECL) [6], [39]. The authors ground their motivation for engagingin tech stewardship in new technological developments, which give rise to numerous“dystopian possibilities” [39

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Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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health support, engineering studentsmay struggle to succeed in their coursework and may even drop out of their programs. This canbe particularly true for underrepresented students, who may face additional challenges related tolearning such as imposter syndrome and stereotype threat, both typically reinforced byengineering’s hidden curriculum. Engineering educators should be particularly concerned aboutthese issues, as they have a responsibility to ensure that all students have access to the resourcesthey need to succeed. By taking institutional mental health resources and approaches tointervention seriously, engineering educators could help to create a more inclusive andsupportive learning environment that benefits everyone involved.B. Caring

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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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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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U.S. are finally heading the many calls to include sociotechnicalthinking–grappling with issues of power, history, and culture–throughout the undergraduateengineering curriculum. While non-purely-technical topics have historically been relegated toseparate courses, universities are now working to integrate sociotechnical content in coursespreviously considered to be purely technical. Researchers have varying motivations for thisfocus, including to better prepare students for engineering practice, which is inherentlysociotechnical [1]; to increase the sense of belonging of historically excluded students, who aremore likely to be interested in the social aspects [2]; and to create better societal outcomes [3-5].Attempts to disrupt the social

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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programdirector worked with faculty from each department to develop an integrated, scaffoldedcurriculum that was delivered by the two graduate teaching fellows per department as part of thecore undergraduate curriculum. The thrust of the program was to incorporate teaching andlearning of context-specific communication, exemplified by the communication-in-the-disciplines (CID) (Dannels, 2001) approach that positions the standards of professionalcommunication within the norms of engineering work. Collaboration occurred in at least onerequired course for each engineering student from Freshman through Senior year. The coursestypically included a team design project, thus necessitating some instruction on teamcommunication, oral presentations, writing, and

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Intervention and Intervention Challenges. Both themes are further discussed below.Level of Intervention The Level of Intervention refers to the level at which the intervention was implementedand reported. This literature review classified the intervention levels in the classroom,curriculum, or external. Table 3 presents the papers sorted by type of intervention. The classroomlevel consisted of changes, updates, or new approaches that aimed to improve a single course.Ten of the fifteen papers included focused on describing a classroom intervention. The classroomlevel offers information that can support other instructors in ideating and designing changes inthe teaching approach of a course, strategies to assess students' socio-technical skills

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Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madeline Polmear, King's College London

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. 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

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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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) identity and culture. Program design andeffectiveness dominate the discourse of both divisions, suggesting that the two groups facesimilar challenges. Areas of apparent divergence include more concern with mindsets andinnovativeness in ENT and more emphasis on team skills and mentorship in LEAD. Thesefindings present opportunities for collaboration that could benefit all “Engineering and …”divisions and help overcome the inertia that characterizes engineering education. The permeationof topics across ASEE and the convergence of themes across divisions also suggest that forminga new division might perpetuate disciplinary siloes, rather than support knowledge integrationacross the “Engineering and . . .” divisions

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Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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the FTX collapse as a case study through which students can deliberate onthese issues.IntroductionWhen I started following the rapid collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange in November2022, I was already considering the possibility of a case study for my engineering students.Students at my institution (and, I suspect, elsewhere) had been enthusiastic about investments incryptocurrency, even forming an official school club. I thought that studying a spectacular failurein crypto might leverage students’ interests in the manner of other case studies in engineeringethics and communication, such as the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle tragedies. I oftendevelop lessons out of such news stories when they lead with an obvious ethical lapse

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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skills and collaborative and inclusive teams into the curriculum. Dr. Rivera-Jim´enez graduated from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez with a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. She earned an NSF RIEF award recognizing her effort in transitioning from a meaningful ten-year teaching faculty career into engineering education research. Before her current role, she taught STEM courses at diverse institutions such as HSI, community college, and R1 public university. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Social Responsibility Views in Science and Engineering: An Exploratory Study Among Engineering Undergraduate

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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ariana Turner, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hye Yeon Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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search inquiry keywords were personal narratives, stories, engineering, classroom,university, college, students, STEM, education, intervention, pedagogy, and psychology. Throughiterative searching using these keywords, some new keywords were added (e.g., expressivewriting intervention) and removed (e.g., students). Ultimately, we ended up using the followingkeywords: engineering, education, narrative(s), personal narrative, storytelling, story, stories, 5psychology, STEM, college, university, expressive writing intervention, pedagogy, curriculum.At the same time, our target samples were post-secondary students in higher education, such thatwe

Conference Session

Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacey Sexton; Amanda Menier, SageFox Consulting Group; Rebecca Zarch, SageFox Consulting Group

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Participation in Computing/Engineering (BPC/BPE)initiatives almost exclusively center a binary gender model focusing on girls and women as staticcategories [1]. However, recent surveys [2] suggests that 2.1% of Gen Z adults identify astransgender (that is, have a gender identity that differs from the sex they were assigned at birth[3]). Additionally, in research presented at the 2022 RESPECT conference, we showed that thereare at least 10,850 nonbinary1 K–12 students in the United States registered across nine differentstates [4]. As the number of people who identify as transgender and nonbinary (TNB) increase,current best practices regarding approaching gender in computing and engineering need to berevised [5]. To further support future gender diverse

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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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Madeline Polmear, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

learning new material) [9]. However, the study ofemotions in engineering has lagged in part due to the perception of engineering as a rational andvalue-neutral profession [10] with a duality between thought and emotion [11]. To synthesize thedisparate literature on this topic, an international group of scholars has undertaken a systematicreview of emotion in engineering education [12][13]. The review includes 184 publications andindicates research on emotion in engineering education has increased exponentially since 2001[13]. This work is dominated by quantitative approaches and psychological perspectives, such asstudent self-reports of emotion. Of the 184 publications included in their scoping review, only4% related to moral and ethical emotions

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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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different students. This makes itdifficult to study our research question about whether and how cultural practices within an STSprogram help students develop and sustain the social and intellectual resources for using asocio-technical systems thinking approach to engineering practice. The influence of culturalpractice on student thinking is inherently difficult to describe, partly because engineering itself isa complex “mangle of practice” [22] and partly because students bring many standpoints to thepractice of engineering, expressed in a variety of ways. Immersive countercultural engineeringprograms have the potential to introduce new cultural practices into the existing mindsets andpractices of students. What students find salient about these

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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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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

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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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

effective solutions to these problems as they change through time.” (p 10).Re-framing the understanding of “what is technical” can be a useful in supporting the integrationof approaches in the curriculum that reflect a broader view on the sociotechnical.In the engineering curriculum, there are several curricular approaches and themes that barerelevance to STSE, and provide appropriate context to this research; for example, a focus onsustainability, community-engaged learning, global engineering, and indigenous perspectives.Ethics is a dominant focus in the professional development of engineers with respect to STSE-related practices (Hawes, 2001; Herkert, 2000; Hess & Fore, 2017), and notably, engineeringlicensing in Canada includes a

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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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. 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 student success; and (c) cultivate more ethical future scientists and engineers by blending social, political and technological spheres. She prioritizes working on projects that seek to share power with students and orient to stu- dents

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Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; Christin J. Salley, University of Michigan

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.) that can reveal hiddenrelationships between society and technology. Taken together, these features encourage studentsto try on mindsets about science and technology that situate themselves as change agents.In this paper, we articulate how STS postures encourage a sense of agency for challenging thestatus quo, both in engineering curriculum, and by extension, how professional engineersconceptualize filling the needs of communities – either their own or those communities thatinterface with engineering practices. This involves redefining what education means to studentsand how they should approach it. The existing model for engineering education is largely drivenby achieving technical competency. Most engineering courses are instructor-driven and

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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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-work transitions for new engineers. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Charting a Research Direction to Explore Development of Sociotechnical Thinking in Engineering Design AbstractEvident in calls such as the National Academies of Engineering Grand Challenges and UnitedNations Sustainable Development Goals, engineering problems are fundamentally sociotechnical.These problems both shape and are shaped by social, cultural, political, environmental, and othercontextual elements. Sociotechnical design theories (e.g., Design Justice, Value-Sensitive Design,Engineering for Social Justice, and Feminist Design) offer insight

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Accountability and Stewardship

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helen Newton; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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engineering by the students; those with an interest in sustainabilityissues do connect engineering careers to sustainability [10]. At the curriculum or program level,1.there is movement on the development of programs with a more comprehensive focus onsustainability [11].Climate AnxietyThe relationship between climate change and mental health is a relatively new area of research,with two forms of anxiety described: anxiety due to the direct experience of climate change, andanxiety produced from the perception of climate change. While research on climate change andmental health more generally is limited, research on acute weather events (floods, wildfires, andearthquakes, for example) and mental health demonstrates higher rates of depression

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cherie D. Edwards, Virginia Commonwealth University; Bryanne Peterson; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, ThatStatsGirl; Cassandra J. McCall, Utah State University; Desen Sevi Özkan, Tufts University

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, D. (2018, June). Sketching withstudents: An arts-informed qualitative analysis of first-year engineering students. In 2018 ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition.Prosser, J., & Loxley, A. (2008). Introducing visual methods.Rafaeli, A., & Worline, M. (2000). Symbols in organizational culture. In C. P. M. Wilderom, M.F. Peterson, & N. M. Ashkanasy (Eds.), The handbook of organizational culture and climate (pp.71-84). Sage Publications.Rohn, K. C., Arnold, K. D., & Martini, L. (2022). The 360 Diary Method: A New Approach toStudent Assessment and Intervention. About Campus, 27(5), 10-18.Roy, J., Wilson, C., Erdiaw-Kwasie, A., Stuppard, C. (2020). Engineering and engineeringtechnology by the numbers 2019. Washington, DC: American

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Writing and Technical Communications

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lance R Curtis, University of Maryland, College Park

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more popular approaches forincluding writing assignments in an engineering statics course requires students to write aparagraph explaining a concept [6], [14], [16]-[17], an exercise which reveals conceptualunderstanding (or the lack thereof) in students. The approach for the present work askedstudents to reflect upon the challenges they encountered in completing analytical problems. Bothapproaches will surely increase metacognition in students, but reflecting on individualperformance does not necessarily lead to increased conceptual understanding. The survey datado not reveal the reason behind this shift in attitude from a minority of the students. As such,interview data are needed to reveal the underlying mechanisms at work here.Summary of