Conference Session

Track : Special Topic - Identity Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Michael Lorenzo Greene, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Identity

it from a CAD [model],putting it into the 3D printing [software and] configuring it so that it can print correctly.” Thesestudents often value the fact that they are able to visually see the different steps of completion ona project, something that is rarely seen in traditional classroom approaches. Makerspaces giveparticipants a sense of ownership over their intellectual property, specifically because they areable to make their ideas into tangibles. This enables students who engage in makerspaces anopportunity to validate their ideas since they are able to physically see them as well as differentproblems that arise in the design process.Real World Applications of Engineering ProcessIn engineering courses, many of the lecture format classes

Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Identity Technical Session 10

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Andrea Haverkamp, Oregon State University; Ava Butler, Oregon State University; Naya Selene Pelzl; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Identity

their broader sociological context” [28]. Ifethnography can be described as an observation and interpretation of the “other” thenautoethnography becomes an observation and interpretation of oneself and one’s perception oftheir social surroundings. It is a method engaged in both qualitative reflexive self-analysis and acommitment to theoretical scientific social analysis [29]. Autoethnographers choose a topic onwhich to focus with a method of writing grounded in factual real-world interactions, quotations,experiences, and emotive responses as best remembered and documented. The theoreticalanalysis is conducted on the written data upon completion which can include a variety of textualand narrative interpretations. Collaborative