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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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frameworks from the domains of engineering education and technical and professional communication to implement this research into a classroom intervention aimed at reducing the gendered disparity in these communication challenges. To help resolve these issues, this methodological paper presents a new research method called, "infrastructural rhetorical analysis" derived from the field of rhetoric and communication. The paper then applies this method to an educational intervention case study involving the experiences of women in the first-year engineering classroom to determine a concrete classroom intervention that aims to make the most difference with the least amount of resources needed to implement it. Keywords: Intersectional feminism

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Courtney Van Kirk; Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Emily York, James Madison University; Shannon Conley; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; Marisa Renee Brandt, Michigan State University; Kathryn Peck

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thought would support student learning,most raised concerns about time and value. One Faculty Fellow thought that he could make timefor additional interdisciplinary elements that had impact for students and the way they mightappreciate the topics he taught. “You know, we all say we don't have time to add new things. Ifeel like I do have time to add new things. It just has to be worth it.”The single STEM-trained Faculty Fellow who was already teaching material borrowed from thehumanities before the workshop was doing so in an honors program, not in a STEM program.Other Faculty Fellows had less experience with this kind of work. One described how she haddeveloped curiosity through collaboration with colleagues trained in social sciences: “ I

Conference Session

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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transformational change. We areengaging faculty, staff, and students in a substantial process of collaborative transformation thatinvolves rejecting binaries or dualisms commonly used to create hierarchies in engineeringthought and practice (rational-emotional, male-female, social-technical, mental-manual, hard-soft, concrete-abstract, etc.) and embracing a complex coexistence [11]; developing new skills inco-creation of holistic learning experiences and inclusive cultures; and evolving personal andprofessional identities that are constantly challenged and often in flux.Our transformation is guided by the following vision. Members of the Computer Engineeringdepartment at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo co-created this vision to guide our

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey T Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Courtney Burris

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issues, such as a local sport team’s new stadium. Other problems included lead waterpipes in their high school. We asked students to identify all potential stakeholders for theirproblem and select three stakeholders to analyze their power to address the problem. Lastly, thestudents provided solution suggestions that addressed stakeholders’ concerns and differences inpower.We present each of these pedagogical strategies as cases or examples of how power can betaught in engineering design courses. We explicitly draw on theories of power from socialscience to inform our creation and teaching of these activities as well as interpretation ofstudents' responses to the activities. Theories give us the ability to recognize, describe, andrespond to some

Conference Session

AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elana Goldenkoff, University of Michigan; Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan

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master’s students at a large public university about their educationalexperiences and understanding of engineers’ professional responsibilities, including those relatedspecifically to AI technologies. This paper asks, (1) do engineering master’s students seepotential dangers of AI related to how the technologies are developed, used, or possiblymisused? (2) Do they feel equipped to handle the challenges of these technologies and respondethically when faced with difficult situations? (3) Do they hold their engineering educatorsaccountable for training them in ethical concerns around AI?We find that although some engineering master’s students see exciting possibilities of AI, mostare deeply concerned about the ethical and public welfare issues that

Conference Session

AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd Nicewonger, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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program is actively involving business andindustry experts in the development of their curricular activities. Yet, while faculty andadministrators argue that the new curriculum has immense value for advancing undergraduateeducation, they simultaneously worry that such collaborations will circumspect thetransdisciplinary goals of their curriculum. As one academic stakeholder reflected, the degreeprogram has the potential to transform how the university thinks about individual learning plansfor undergraduates that exist outside of traditional disciplinary frameworks, but it also “shouldn’tbecome a pipeline for business and industry.”Alongside this tension—and partly in response to it—the authors of this paper were hired toconduct an external

Conference Session

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

Wellness, Readiness, and Thriving

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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education becomes imperative toaddress prevailing issues. The lack of discussion around emotions and the tendency to deal withchallenges in isolation, driven by "professional shame" [29], lead to mental health concerns andstrained relationships among faculty and students. Mindfulness addresses this by breaking thesilence, fostering open communication, and creating a supportive environment. Mindfulnesspractices promote students sharing more and faculty listening more through mindful listening,ultimately improving communication skills and teamwork [20]. Practicing mindfulnesscollectively enables faculty and students to build better relationships and maintain positive socialconnections, contributing to a healthier educational environment.To Enhance

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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the world continues to be plagued bypolitical strife and social injustices [3]. With these ongoing issues in mind, it is imperative thatthe Higher Education community evaluates whether institutions and faculty are adequatelypreparing future scientists and engineers to become socially responsible. Are we doing enough toensure that our engineering students are aware of the larger implications of their work and arewell-equipped to make ethical decisions that benefit society as a whole?The Boyer Commission Report, published in 1998, urged research universities to reevaluate theirdedication to significant changes in the education system. The report encouraged universities toexplore how undergraduates could “benefit from the unique opportunities

Conference Session

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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communitymembers, the firewall between technical skill and knowledge and the take-up of geopolitics inthe organization stands firm. Can we meaningfully challenge this firewall? Unclear. CertainlyJames Holly, Jr. and Brooke Coley’s radical challenge to ASEE’s enduring anti-Blackness in2022 was both powerful and swiftly assimilated by the organization’s leaders [29]. Amid someongoing address and new concern about growing anti-DEI law-making, discomfort for mostlisteners in the face of that transgressive naming of racism within the organization seemed to lastonly briefly. The sustaining relations between Engineering and its patrons and constituentsdiscourage many such confrontations: the primary aim of engineering education activitynaturally remains to

Conference Session

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

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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., 2022Challenges with Intervention Throughout the articles, authors discussed seven main challenges when integratingequitable design concepts into their workshops, courses, or programs: (1) curriculum integration,(2) faculty development, (3) assessment and evaluation, (4) student engagement and motivation,(5) prior experience, (6) long-term impact, and (7) addressing societal challenges (Table 4).During curriculum integration, faculty encountered challenges incorporating new,interdisciplinary concepts into their existing curricula, namely topics on ethics, social justice,accessibility, and sustainability (Forbes et al., 2022; Hoople et al., 2020; Letaw et al., 2022;Motti & Dura, 2021; Rossmann et al., 2020). Engineering education has continued

Conference Session

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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change over time for engineeringstudents and professionals? Can sociotechnical thinking be validly, reliably, and expedientlymeasured, and what patterns and differences emerge across different engineering populations(e.g., by career stage, type of experience, identity-based characteristics, nature of work, etc.)?What kinds of experiences promote growth in engineers’ ability to engage in sociotechnicalthinking in design? I hope these questions and others can encourage new conversations in waysthat enhance engineering educators’ language and, thus, the ability to discuss and engage withcritical issues related to sociotechnical thinking and its role in engineering design. Introduction and MotivationEvident in such

Conference Session

Wellness, Readiness, and Thriving

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julianna Gesun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Rachel Eve Gail Swan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Bryan Watson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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, the ways they act, and the rules and motives behind it [15]. In engineering ethics,Micro-ethics concerns problems internal to the professional world of engineers, such as conflictsof interest, intellectual property, and whistleblowing [12]. This level is closely associated withindividualism-based frameworks [16]. The field of engineering ethics tends to focus on Micro-ethics, since engineering education tends to focus on problems that directly impact professionalsin the field. Micro-ethics is often explored through in-depth case studies, providing a nuancedunderstanding of the intricate dilemmas faced by engineers in their day-to-day activities [12].Micro-ethics concerns itself with issues and responsibilities bearing on individuals within

Conference Session

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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Beddoes andDanowitz, 2022b), so further research is needed to understand student perspectives about their livedexperiences.PositionalityThe primary investigator, Katherine, identifies as a middle-aged, white, cis-gendered, heterosexual,female, first-generation student who was recently diagnosed as neurodivergent with autism, ADHD,dyscalculia, and chronic anxiety disorder. This diagnosis emerged as a new identity through thecollaborative research process described in this paper. Katherine is an adjunct faculty in the Humanities,Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) at the location of the study, the Colorado School of Mines. The findingsin this paper are from her doctoral dissertation research. The second author, and Katherine’s mentor,Jon, identifies

Conference Session

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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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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campus mental healthresources of extensive utilization, these issues manifest in ways that are challenging to theresidential community and those who work in campus housing. While the stigma associated withhelp-seeking is decreasing, it continues to be important for Residence Life to participate incampus efforts to support students in creating a culture of openness and support of help-seekingbehaviors. Residence Life staff can approach this issue from multiple fronts: the well-being ofstudents; providing appropriate training and support to staff; supporting staff who themselvesmay experience mental health concerns intersecting with their work roles, including secondarytrauma; and tending to their own individual well-being [10].Concepts of mental

Conference Session

Equity and Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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

ofrhetoric, Remer defines conversation as purposeful dialogue (in contrast to informalconversation) and focuses on the affinity between conversation and philosophical issues (p. 46). © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 3 2024 ASEE Annual ConferenceIn Remer’s way of thinking, dialogue is distinguished from oratory not so much by its scale, butrather by its aim and form. Conversation is not concerned with calls for immediate, specificaction, but is instead philosophical in the sense of investigating issues such as “good and evil,things to be preferred and things to be shunned, fair repute and infamy, the useful and theunuseful” (p. 45). Although conversation

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas, Austin; Ramakrishna Sai Annaluru, University of Texas, Austin; Christine Julien, University of Texas, Austin; Pedro Enrique Santacruz, University of Texas, Austin

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additional engineering coursesand disciplines.Motivation for Study:Engineering colleges and universities across the country are now beginning to acknowledge andsupport the demand for diversity and inclusion by implementing programs to recruit and retainstudents from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds [1]. The shifts in engineering educationthat introduce these issues to engineering students are also beginning to motivate novel forms ofpedagogy. In their paper, Achieving STEM diversity: Fix the Classrooms, Handelsman et al.argue that recruiting engineering students from underrepresented backgrounds is not sufficient totransform the makeup of our student bodies [2]. To ensure that we retain these students,engineering faculty must focus their

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xueni Fan, Texas Tech University; Joshua M. Cruz, Texas Tech University; John Carrell, Texas Tech University; Michael Scott Laver, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Technology). Thesecourses are unique because they are co-taught by an engineering professor and a historyprofessor who regularly collaborate to develop the syllabus and lessons within the classroom.Both iterations of the course are titled “War, Machine, Culture, and Society: History andEngineering in the Second World War,” and focus on teaching students the social and politicalfoundations of World War II while discussing technical issues, design thinking, and problem-solving skills associated with the war. As we describe in the review below, there are variousreasons to develop an interdisciplinary model in STEM courses, integrating the humanities intoengineering coursework. However, it is often difficult for STEM faculty to integrate their

Conference Session

Accountability and Stewardship

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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the years that engineering graduates do notrefer to the ethics codes [9, 10]. Further, the faculty/administration and student perceptions ofengineering ethics education delivery are not aligned. In a study conducted over 18 campuses,110 faculty members and 123 students were interviewed in 90-minute focus groups; twoadministrators from each campus were also individually interviewed. While the faculty andadministrators believed that the engineering ethics curriculum provided a “nuanced treatment ofcomplex issues, their students reported “hearing simplistic, black-and-white messages aboutethics” [11]. Due to observations of faculty approving or participating in unethical behavior,students also did not perceive the faculty as ethical role models

Conference Session

Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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and values within structural engineering put an increased burden on engineers whowork on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion because the work goes unrecognized and doesnot explicitly count for advancement. [1] This can be broken down as follows: First, there is ahierarchy at play in the commonly recognized binary classification of technical vs. social or non-technical. SE3 does not count as technical and so work in this committee does not count inperformance reviews the way professional service work in technical committees does. Second,billable work is valued over non-billable work. Because there is no existing calculus fordetermining the monetary value of the work of SE3, it is not valued in the same way as directlybillable work or

Conference Session

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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processing plant is nolonger operational, or that e-waste recyclers are burning cables to extract copper. According toMayo, this is “to help people view the familiar from a different vantage point” [11]. Our HESstudents learn to analyze and codify field research data and then share it with faculty andcommunities throughout the research process and later during research translation strategies(e.g., workshops) so all make sense of the data in new ways. From STS, our students learnconcepts related to the subjectivity and politics of data gathering, interpretation anddissemination [32-33] and how traditional practices of development attempt to cloud thissubjectivity and politics under the veil of objectivity in ways that benefit the status quo [23].For

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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the interpersonalprocesses required to produce effective products (designs and deliverables).Program 2: University of South Florida (2018 – Present)To keep pace with rapidly evolving accreditation criteria and calls by employers for broadcommunication competence among new engineering graduates, the College of Engineering(CoE) at the University of South Florida (USF) implemented a scaffolded communicationprogram in 2018 and hired communication PhD holding faculty to lead the program. Burchfieldwas embedded into two traditional, mid-level engineering courses, Engineering Economics(Econ) and Probability and Statistics (P&S), which each serve approximately 450-550students/semester. These courses are required for most engineering undergraduate

Conference Session

Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Tonn, Boston College; Avneet Hira, Boston College

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molasses, saw workers painting the tank brown tocover the seepage, heard the tank groan with the addition of new shipments, and had nightmaresabout its failure. Although he repeatedly raised concerns to his supervisor and to the treasurer ofthe company, they dismissed them, leading Gonzales to quit out of fear of what would happen ifthe tank failed (Puleo, 2003). Reframing the Molasses Flood through Gonzales’s perspectivedocuments the lived experience of the fear of engineering failure, the lack of autonomy Gonzaleshad in his position, and the social vulnerability of a non-union laborer of color.Second, several of the 2023 labor actions involved issues about the impact of emergenttechnologies on employment, from the WGA’s and SAG-AFTRA’s concerns

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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to study and accommodate locale-specific interests of broadstakeholders (i.e., faculty, staff, administrators, and undergraduate and graduate students). InYear 2 (Ideation), we continued multimethodological analyses and focused on face-to-face co-design sessions with stakeholders to develop prototypical solutions to DEI concerns in ECE andBME. In Year 3 (Implementation), we encouraged prototypes to test or implement designs. Someof these prototypes have now been institutionalized in schools and undergo periodic assessment.FacilitationWe draw upon scholarship describing what facilitators do, or how facilitation is accomplished, invarious groups. The few studies that can be reviewed for these findings focus on different aspectsof the

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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,students are directly responsible for inspecting and maintaining completed scenery, and ensuringa safe environment on stage for each technical rehearsal and performance over two weeks. Thistypically involves a pre-performance and post-performance inspection and safety check;completing minor repairs and troubleshooting; supervising students who operate/handle movingscenic elements; and escalating issues/concerns along a decision tree (which could includedetermining that an effect or element is unsafe and cannot be utilized during a performance).Their work is informed by the work of other members of the team, led by a graduate studenttechnical director from the College of Liberal Arts (CLA).During the junior year, students are assigned the role of

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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is a product of the times in which we live.The late 2010s and early 2020s have been an unusually tumultuous period around the world.While hundreds of thousands of Americans began losing their lives to covid-19, hundreds ofthousands more risked infection by pouring into the streets all over the world in solidarity withblack, indigenous, and people of color communities. Universities across the country begandemanding “Diversity Statements” from prospective faculty, announced the creation of new DEIoffices, and raced to display what seemed to many boilerplate “Black Lives Matter” statements.Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest colleges doubled-down on recent efforts to disclosetheir financial, cultural, and political ties to the

Conference Session

Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Royce A. Francis, The George Washington University; LaKeisha McClary, The George Washington University

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profession.Unfortunately, researchers in this space acknowledge that the exploration of the black maleexperience in undergraduate engineering contexts is still rare (Henderson et al., 2022c). So muchhas been written and/or said about the negative plight of black men that makes our understandingof their journeys urgent and critical. However, the vast majority of these rationales take a deficitperspective of the issue. This piece takes a different approach to the question, in the words ofMilner IV et al. (2007), disrupting what is considered normal in order to more concretelyunderstand both the uniqueness of the black male experience and also the conceptual or practicallessons we can draw from the experiences of high achieving black men in STEM.Our paper proceeds

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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at the 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