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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

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

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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the process of self-insight and the search formeaning as core principles of storytelling (Adams et al., 2007; Chandler, 2002; Gates et al.,2018; Hlalele & Brexa, 2015; Lengelle et al., 2013, 2014). Stories, as generated from our livedexperiences, provide us all the opportunity to make meaning and derive purpose from the thingsthat have happened to us—and, often, that meaning is focused on our understanding of the self. Hlalele and Brexa (2015) describe autobiographical writing as having the “potential forself-insight,” while Lengelle and colleagues (2013, 2014) similarly emphasize storytelling as amechanism for gaining self-insight. Moreover, both Gates and colleagues (2018) and Adams andcolleagues (2007) made the explicit

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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company practicing corporatesocial responsibility (CSR), the commitment “to principles of accountability to communitystakeholders, customers, suppliers, employees, and investors” [16]. In such a work environment,it is possible for an engineering manager to perform all five steps during the planning andpermitting of new oil and gas facilities [15].However, what is the outcome if an employer is not committed to CSR, but is merely providingthe minimum disclosures required by the European Union’s (EU’s) Corporate SustainabilityReport Directive law, which first applies to all large companies and all listed companies withEU operations in the 2024 financial year [17]? How can socially responsible engineering beapplied if a company’s fundamental

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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use in the world and equating knowledge of technology to knowledge of readingand writing from the past [1]. In contrasting appeals proponents have called to broaden the engineeringcurriculum to include more liberal arts, and in turn learn more engineering on the job or in graduateschool [2]. However, as we stand currently in 2023, we have not witnessed such extreme shifts in eitherdirection in a majority of programs across the United States. Instead and perhaps a more fortunatephenomenon that we have seen in undergraduate education is joint liberal arts and engineering programswhich have existed for a few decades now. For example, the Engineering Studies program at LafayetteCollege which was established in 1970 and brings together in its

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James T. McLeskey Jr., Randolph-Macon College; Deonna Woolard

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complete the same General Education sequence.The articulation of engineering with the liberal arts was considered from two perspectives. Thefirst is the obvious benefit of a liberal arts education to the engineering student [15]. Whileadvances in knowledge and technology are creating excitement in science and engineeringeducation, tomorrow’s engineer must also be able to write and communicate well; considerethics and social responsibilities; understand business; and live and work in teams as a globalcitizen. They must be able to think critically and problem-solve. The faculty of RMC pridesitself on producing graduates with all of these so-called “soft skills” as well as the breadth ofknowledge obtained by completing a large General Education

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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Paper ID #42737Navigating Epistemological Borders: Considerations for Team Teaching atthe Intersection of Humanities and STEMXueni Fan, Texas Tech University Xueni Fan is currently a graduate student in the Doctor of Education program, specializing in instructional technology at Texas Tech University. Holding a Master’s degree in applied linguistics, Fan’s research focuses on qualitative research methods, interdisciplinary studies, online learner engagement, and interprofessional education in the medical field.Dr. Joshua M. Cruz, Texas Tech University Joshua Cruz is an assistant professor of education at Texas Tech

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Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Fernandez, UMass Amherst; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Ankita Kumar; Bailey Bond-Trittipo, Florida International University; Zoii Arrianna Henry; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles

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world, as contrived in scientific understanding and theoretical knowledge.It follows then, that a question should be asked: what world are engineers taught to build andwho has access to this world? Ontological frameworks demonstrate that “the world we design is,in turn, designing us” [5]. So whose world is the engineer commissioned to build? On a hopefulnote, several engineering organizations emphasize the fact that engineering can be used for thebenefit of humanity [6]. Nevertheless, it is critical to acknowledge that engineering has been andcontinues to be used in ways that are harmful to human beings, other living organisms, and theenvironment [7]. The fundamental structure and culture of engineering is currently dominated bymilitarism

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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moralconsequences, but the stories we engineers tell about ourselves about what we do mostlydisregard this role” (p. 2). For those of us who are aware of the historical, organizational, andcultural contexts of engineering, the moral and ethical dimensions of engineering are obvious.For engineering faculty and students, these dimensions are either vaguely invoked or omittedaltogether. As Pawley puts it, “despite its embeddedness in a society fundamentally organized bygender and race and colonialism and so on, our profession acts as though engineering has escapedthis truth’s consequences, and can exist in a neutral and unbiased state, simply because it focuseson math, science, and technology” (p. 4). Thus, even if nothing is explicitly said to

Conference Session

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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conversations, andspatial, and social proximity become important to the success of this passive collaborative work.However, regardless of the extent of involvement, shared goals and communication remaincentral to successful collaborative work. Collectively, these definitions position a sharedexperience of work —goals, space, language, actions—as fundamental to collaborations. Technology mediated collaboration is also predicated on shared goals andcommunication but depending on the type of collaboration media, and the context ofinvestigation, social dynamics considered critical to collaborative work keep changing andexpanding. In other words, while collaboration technologies are designed to facilitateinterdependent work, the mediated (i.e

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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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Your Intended Major?Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Industrialand System Engineering, Computer Engineering 10%& Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, ElecEOther Engineering Major NOT Listed Above, or 10%Other Major that is Not Engineering. The last two Bi mEoptions allowed participants to write-in responses. 10% 60% Ma eE ChemEOne participant selected Electrical Engineering 10%(labeled in Figure 3 as ElecE), 1 participant MechEselected Biomedical Engineering (labeled inFigure 3 as BiomE), 1 participant selectedMechanical

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration and Sociotechnical Thinking: The Big Picture

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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above] must beharmonized with respect to the two fundamental elements of production, namely, materials andmen [emphasis added]” [p. 109]. The use of the word “men” reflects Mann’s awareness that thehuman dimension is central to engineering practice and, by extension, that cultivating the abilityto manage the human element is an essential part of engineering education. His emphasis onharmonizing elements rather than creating a hierarchy sets him apart from other authors ofreports on engineering education and suggests that he provides the basis of an approach that canmove engineering education beyond the persistent social-technical duality that has characterizedit so far.Mann’s thinking is particularly relevant because he discerns a feature of

Conference Session

Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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

Conference Session

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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, examiningpotential factors that may have contributed to it.On pedagogiesBased on feedback gathered through the student course evaluation surveys from both NYCUand UST, it was found that classroom discussions and the final project were the two mostfavored methods, while prompt-based interviews the least.Drawing on our past experience with virtual global classrooms, we began our course bygathering feedback from participants on different aspects of the course. The results of thesurvey (shown in figure below) revealed clear patterns among this group. One of the keycomponents of our course, the prompt interview, which is fundamental to our dialogue-basedteaching approach, received low ratings from students. We discussed this issue and developedseveral possible

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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ofengineering and development stand in relation to their perspectives and relate to their owneducation and practice, we engage students through critical reading, reflection and writing ofSTS works. Students, for example, learn how what constitutes engineering – i.e., who gets in,who is kept out, what problems are worthy of engineering analysis, who defines these problemspaces, etc.—is a political process where certain material conditions of capitalist exchange, andactors and institutions, often with sexist, racist, classist motives, decide how to construct andmaintain the boundaries of engineering [37–43]. Through these examples, students learn therelationship between agency and structure in engineering boundary setting, how material andsocial

Conference Session

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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mind (the traditional focus ofSTEM education) and body, allowing students to experience the value of gaining empathy forothers from multiple perspectives [24]. The STS Postures pedagogy is also inspired by workcentered on “Making and Doing” [30] and STS Critical Pedagogies [31]-[33]. Fundamentally,STS Postures involve “holding a reflexive posture that orients the body toward humility,openness, criticality, and action” [34, p. 118].B. Foundational STS theorySTS Postures pedagogy translates STS theory and jargon into an action-oriented scaffold. Centralto this enactment is encouraging student agency in the classroom (e.g., valuing their knowledges,shaping conversations, feeling heard, voicing concerns) and within the broader community (e.g

Conference Session

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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Research Group in engineering education at the University of Nevada Reno, theCross Inclusive Excellence research group at Georgia Tech, and the REDES research group atFlorida International University. Without your support and guidance during the writing process,this document would not be what it is. We are honored to be a part of this outstanding group ofscholars.This work is based on research supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.EEC-1025189. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] D. Green, “Historically Underserved Students: What We Know, What We Still Need to

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Paper ID #38036Introducing Engineering through the Sociotechnical Histories of EverydayTechnologiesDr. Sarvnaz Lotfi, Loyola University, Maryland Sarvnaz Lotfi holds a PhD in Science, Technology, and Society. Her historical research into R&D, busi- ness, and valuation as well as her commitment to radically rethinking STEM pedagogy draw inspiration from early-20th-century pragmatist philosopher and education reformer, John Dewey. She is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Loyola University Maryland where she teaches in the Departments of Engineering and Philosophy.Dr. Raenita A. Fenner, Loyola University, Maryland

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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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context that shaped what they had experienced and couldexpect. The engineering-focused environment fundamentally shapes how all aspects ofpedagogical experience at Mines. One Faculty Fellow summed up her perception of thiseducational space: “Mines…is a is a place where you come to escape all things humanities.” Sherecounted negative experiences with STEM faculty who had made her feel as if her humanitiesexpertise had no place on campus as well as students who could not, at first, find utility incourses she taught.Several Student Fellows also discussed a lack of strong interdisciplinarity in their educationalexperience, explaining that many of their traditional STEM majors focused only on STEMtopics. In one Student Fellow’s words: “there's not

Conference Session

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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Paper ID #43129Design Iterations as Material Culture Artifacts: A Qualitative Methodologyfor Design Education ResearchDr. Grant Fore, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Grant A. Fore, Ph.D. is the Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation in the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute at IUPUI. As a trained anthropologist, he possesses expertise in qualitative methods and ethnographic writing. His primary research interest is in the teaching and learning of ethics in higher education through community-engaged and place-based pedagogies. ©American Society for

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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Paper ID #39198Divergence and Convergence in Engineering Leadership, Entrepreneurship,Management, and PolicyDr. Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Engineering & So- ciety Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is a past chair of the Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division of ASEE and isDr. Rider W. Foley, California State University, Channel Islands Dr. Rider W. Foley is an assistant professor in the science, technology & society program in the De- partment of Engineering and Society at the

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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so that the DTparticipants could avoid design fixation or prematurely moving toward solutions as needed in theinformation processing of design sessions [26] and as a fundamental tension in DT itself [16,10]. He said, these would be a potential solution that we could begin to discuss and the underlying challenge is that we are limited in our resources, time, that our perceptions of how the world works. If we are going to value something, how do we incentivize it, right, with real value-added components like money, time, support. right. There’s always some value trade off. There is a design decision trade off. How do we optimize the situation.At this point, he decided to be overt in his direction but in a way