Paper ID #45146Best Overall Zone Paper: Zone IV - Innovations in Remote Teaching of EngineeringDesign TeamsSoyoung Kang, University of Washington Soyoung Kang (she/her) is an assistant teaching professor and Clary Family Foundation early career professor in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Washington (UW). She is also the executive director of the Engineering Innovation in Health (EIH) program that partners teams of multidisciplinary undergraduate and graduate students with health professionals to develop technical solutions to pressing health challenges. Dr. Kang works closely with faculty from
located in a state in which such topics are relatively open for discussion ineducational settings. Although the authors hold different identities in gender identity, race,ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and more, we are far from representative ofthe larger population and recognize the need for many more voices in this type of work.MOTIVATION2020 was a catalyst for change in higher education2020 was a tumultuous year in the United States (U.S.), when systemic racism, a pandemic, andviolence against unarmed Black people brought the nation to a racial reckoning. Structuralracism in the form of redlining, lower pay, unequal access to education and healthcare, and manymore forms of institutionalized bias laid a foundation for
engineering andwhat motivated them towards developing equity-minded educational practices for theirundergraduate students. The five faculty participants provided written reflections on how theirlife and professional experiences have informed said practices. From a social constructionismparadigm and using narrative inquiry methodology, a combination of in vivo and descriptivecoding (first cycle) followed by emergent and focused coding (second cycle) were used by thefirst three authors to generate a codebook. The theoretical frameworks of Community CulturalWealth, LatCrit, and Hidden Curriculum guided the data analysis and interpretation process.Two layers of member-checking were conducted amongst the last two authors as well asadditional Latiné/x