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The Places They Will Go: What Happens When Engineering Students Critically Reflect

Conference Session: Promoting Communication Skills
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Gabrielle Orbaek White, Swansea University ; Patricia Xavier, Swansea University; Catherine Groves, Swansea University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

embed social, political and economic context intoengineering education, particularly in engineering for sustainable community development, sothat engineers better understand the wider impacts that can result from their interventions. Onesuch method is the integration of reflective exercises within engineering course work.This paper traces the adoption of critical reflection as a core pedagogical strategy in anengineering management program focused on sustainable international development within oneUK university. Critical reflection, which stems from a critical scholarly tradition, asks us toquestion our assumptions, recognize the role that power plays in shaping our social reality, anduse reason to advance our emancipatory thinking and

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Contemplative Practices as a Way of Creating Inclusive Environments in Engineering Education: A Story of One Physics Foundation Experience for Engineers

Conference Session: Creating a Supportive and Nurturing Academic Culture
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Madhvi Jayalakshmi Venkatesh, Harvard Medical School; Prakriti Dance; Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Eleanor Berke, Boston Public Schools; Jimena Bermejo; David Freeman, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Abigail M. Fry; Alex L. Hindelang
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

sciences (e.g., Critical Reflective Writing; Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering, etc.) All of these activities share a common goal of creat- ing curricular and pedagogical structures as well as academic cultures that facilitate students’ interests, motivation, and desire to persist in engineering. Through this work, outreach, and involvement in the com- munity, Dr. Zastavker continues to focus on the issues of women and minorities in science/engineering.Eleanor Berke, Boston Public Schools Berke is interested in the ways that role play may cause the body to shift the mind building, empathy and perspective. She has used acting as a tool to cultivate empathy for the immigrant experience, to improve

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Teaching Ethical Photography to Deepen Global Engineering Competency

Conference Session: Ethical and Global Concerns
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Robert S. Emmett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natasha B. Watts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #30323Teaching Ethical Photography to deepen Global Engineering CompetencyDr. Robert S Emmett, Virginia Tech Dr. Emmett serves as Assistant Director for Global Engagement in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of US Garden Writing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) and with David E. Nye, Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction (MIT Press, 2017). With Gregg Mitman and Marco Armiero, he edited the collection of critical reflections and works of art, Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (Uni

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WIP: Liberal Arts Help Engineering Students Change the World

Conference Session: Ethical and Global Concerns
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Alison Wood , Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, critical thinking and reflection, identity development,and embracing many ways of knowing and being. Learning experiences provided scaffolding forstudents to identify and prioritize the impacts they hope to make in the world; explore paths formaking these impacts possible; and begin to share these experiences, values, and ambitions withvarious audiences. The course asked students to engage with questions such as: As individualsand engineers, how should we pose ethical questions and prepare to advocate for the values thatwe hold dear? How might we start to understand and react to larger global problems, causes,challenges, and opportunities that surround us? Who am I and what is my place in the world?The course was a new, experimental

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An Emancipatory Teaching Practice in a Technical Course: A Layered Account of Designing Circuits Laboratory Instructions for a Diversity of Learners

Conference Session: Technical Courses and Liberal Education
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to create such opportunities, Dr. Zastavker’s re- cent work involves questions pertaining to students’ motivational attitudes and their learning journeys in a variety of educational environments. One of the founding faculty at Olin College, Dr. Zastavker has been engaged in development and implementation of project-based experiences in fields ranging from science to engineering and design to social sciences (e.g., Critical Reflective Writing; Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering, etc.) All of these activities share a common goal of creat- ing curricular and pedagogical structures as well as academic cultures that facilitate students’ interests, motivation, and desire to persist in

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Campaign Among Engineering Educators

Conference Session: Minoritization Processes and Critical Responses
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Ellen Foster, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Reflecting on #EngineersShowUp: Outcomes and Lessons from Organizing a Campaign among Engineering EducatorsAbstractIn an open dialogue format, participants and organizers of #EngineersShowUp report on theorganizing work, actions, discourse, and reflections emerging from an NSF-funded week ofaction campaign that occurred from February 23rd - 29th, 2020. Participants helping to organizeand take part included students, faculty, administrators, postdoctoral researchers and othersconnected to the world of engineering education. The intention of this week of action (directlyfollowing E-Week) was three fold. First, we aimed to test approaches from social movementsand assess

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Semiconductors and Society: A First-year Seminar

Conference Session: Sociotechnical Integration
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: John A. Nestor, Lafayette College
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

technology that led to a “virtuous cycle” of exponentialimprovement. Students engage in reading and discussion along with short lectures describing thedesign and manufacture of semiconductors. Hands-on experiences involving coding andintegrated circuit design are used to strengthen student understanding of basic concepts. Studentwriting assignments include reflections about their personal history experiencing technologicalimprovements, reactions to the hands-on experiences, and a book report in which they exploreone particular aspect of semiconductor technology and its societal impacts.Assessment of student writing assignments showed that students gained a qualitativeunderstanding of semiconductor design and manufacturing and an appreciation for the

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WIP: A Case Study of Integrating Inclusive Engineering Skills into a Middle-years Biomedical Engineering Course via Model-based Reasoning

Conference Session: Sociotechnical Integration
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mel Chua, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

know)? 2. Write a story about when you, or someone you know, or someone you can imagine, were personally impacted by bias in an engineering design.Student responses were collected and graded based on whether they had been submitted or not.The intent of the reflective questions was to motivate students to examine bias by giving them anopportunity to see how it had shaped their own lives. Students had already been exposed tostorytelling as a tool for communication via other initiatives in the department, so we includedsome reminders from those projects, such as “make it sticky,” “include a few compelling detailsto make the story specific [and] real,” and “help the reader see your story, like they are watchinga movie.”Intervention phase 1

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Work In Progress: A Systematic Review Describing Impacts on Engineering Undergraduates Who Participate in Outreach

Conference Session: Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in men’sresponses, expectancy was a more prominent theme for women. Thematic differences were alsoapparent in the instrumentality of the activity, with women more likely to record goals ofexciting students about engineering and men more likely to articulate goals of teaching content.Work In Progress (WIP): A Systematic Review of Outreach Impact 4 Bigelow [14] also used a VIE-informed reflection paper to investigate undergraduateengineering students’ motivation towards outreach after participating in a biomedicalengineering course in which an outreach activity was included. Using an inductive codingprocess, Bigelow identified 12 themes within the reflections, but these focused on lessonslearned

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Quantitative Assessment of Students’ Revision Processes

Conference Session: Promoting Communication Skills
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Lisa R. Volpatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alex Jordan Hanson, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer M. Schall; Jesse N. Dunietz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amanda X. Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rohan Chitnis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eric J. Alm; Alison F. Takemura, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute; Diana M. Chien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, our primary research question was: is the Comm Lab succeeding inimproving clients’ work according to our own metrics of success? I.e., do sessions bring clientscloser to our standards for a given communication task, which are informed by both rhetoricalprinciples and real-world field standards? To do so, we designed a quantitative, rubric-based,pre-post evaluation of authentic writing products: drafts for graduate school and graduatefellowship applications, assessed by authentic evaluators -- a team of our own peer coaches. Inorder to build a broader picture of the client’s analytical and reflective experience, wecomplemented the quantitative core of the study by collecting qualitative reflections about thecontent of the coaching session

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Designing an Engineering Computer Instructional Laboratory: Working with the Panopticon

Conference Session: Technical Courses and Liberal Education
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Shehla Arif, University of Mount Union
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

rectangles are desks on which computers are placed. (b) is a design ofa panopticon conceptualized by Jeremy Bentham [20].Liberative [1], [16] or engaged [21] pedagogies seek shifting of power in and outside theclassroom. The student is trusted as an equal partner in the process of learning and teaching. Thestudent experiences are valued. The responsibility of education is shared between the studentsand the instructor. The instructor facilitates learning of (individual) and among (peer) students.The shared goal is that of liberation in the sense of equity and social justice. Liberation is soughtthrough “praxis” [1] (reflective action that affects constructive changes in the world). In thisway, education becomes “practice of freedom” [21]. Practicing

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Work in Progress: Identifying Factors that Impact Student Experience of Engineering Stress Culture

Conference Session: Creating a Supportive and Nurturing Academic Culture
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Andrea J. Kunze, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julianna Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kelly J. Cross, University of Nevada, Reno; Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

documented stressors for engineering undergraduates [8, 18], theassociation of stress as part of engineering culture and how stress becomes normalized inengineering programs is understudied.The preliminary interview results suggest that engineering students are undereducated in terms ofmental health and available individual and institutional resources. Specifically, some participantscould not identify mental health and academic counseling resources readily available in theirengineering programs, suggesting a lack of accessibility. Participant responses also suggeststudents possess broad conceptualizations of stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as the effectsof each. Conceptualizations were nuanced and reflective of clinical definitions of these

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Real-world Examples and Sociotechnical Integration: What's the Connection?

Conference Session: Sociotechnical Integration
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Jacquelene Erickson, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

program, despite its clear focus on such experiences. In this section,we highlight some of the definitions, criteria, and characteristics found in the literature whichhave informed the set of characteristics used in this paper.Some discussions of real-world examples might imply that “real-world” necessitates connectionsto people in some explicit, direct or indirect way. For example, Huff writes that in his course,students, “Reflect on how real electrical systems interact with persons, and critique how theseelectrical systems affect social or environmental systems.” [17, p. 6]. In lieu of individual people,human organizations might be engaged, as suggested in the second course described bySubrahmanian and co-authors, which grounds real-world

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A Review of the State of LGBTQIA+ Student Research in STEM and Engineering Education

Conference Session: Minoritization Processes and Critical Responses
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Madeleine Jennings, Arizona State University; Rod D. Roscoe, Arizona State University; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Suren Jayasuriya, Arizona State University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering education and how their experiences reflect broader structural andsocietal inequalities present in engineering education.Dr. Suren Jayasuriya is an assistant professor in the Arts, Media, & Engineering program atArizona State University, and serves as Madeleine’s mentor on multiple projects. Hisbackground and research are in electrical engineering and computer science, although he has newresearch projects in engineering education, including epistemologies and student experiences ininterdisciplinary engineering and the arts/humanities programs. His subjectivity in this projectmostly focused on the application of queer theory and philosophy in the works collected in thisliterature review, including analyzing how effectively those ideas

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The Sociotechnical Core Curriculum: An Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies Degree Program

Conference Session: Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Julia Nicodemus, Lafayette College; Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ethnoracial minorities remain under-represented in engineering education andpractice [22]. Despite constituting just over half (51.5%) of the US population, women compriseonly 40% of the science and engineering workforce, and just 13% of professional engineers.African-Americans, though 12.3% of the general population, are underrepresented within scienceand engineering (7.7%) [23]. Underrepresentation is a concern for both utilitarian reasons ofeconomics and prosperity [e.g. 24] and also for moral reasons: it is simply unjust for the world tobe constructed by a professional community that does not reflect the demographics of that world.Interventions and investigations over many years have identified some factors that improve theexperience and increase

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A Teacher's Journey Through Engineering and Liberal Arts

Conference Session: Relationships Between Skills and Knowledge Domains
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Keith E. Hedges, Drury University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

qualitative sensibility was selected to describe the personalexperiences associated with the issue of liberal arts in higher education engineering courses andprograms. The rationale is that a narrative study affords an opportunity to tell the story throughteacher reflection [17]. The story is a chronological [17], first-person, autobiographical account[18] with prompting from archived annual review documents and subsequent validation fromcolleagues. The classroom settings included one public land-grant and one private institutionwith a mixture of engineering and architecture students in opposing degree granting programs.The narrative context is threefold as it describes a broad timeframe and scope, and then narrowsto experiences in and out of the

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Counteracting the Social Responsibility Slump? Assessing Changes in Student Knowledge and Attitudes in Mining, Petroleum, and Electrical Engineering

Conference Session: Sustainability and Social Responsibility
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Courtney Paige Stanton; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Emily Sarver; Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Susan K. Peterson, Marietta College; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Rennie B. Kaunda , Colorado School of Mines
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

part of thisprofession. Without many experiences in classes or through co-curricular activities that showhow personal and professional experiences can be integrated, students are likely tocompartmentalize those senses of social responsibility. Those who do have significantopportunities to consider how their personal goals positively impact their work will go throughan evaluative and reflective process, visualized below, to take stock of how they can live theirpersonal social responsibility goals through their profession. Thus, Canney and Bielefeldt argue,the professional connectedness realm of social responsibility development requires engineers toconsider the opportunity costs and benefits of their decisions. For example, working to

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Work in Progress: Building a Safe Queer Community in STEM—It Takes a Village to Support a Village

Conference Session: Minoritization Processes and Critical Responses
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Kelly J. Cross, University of Nevada, Reno; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

important to its members because it has helpedthem fully integrate their multiple identities into their work. The group supports members’identity development, which enhanced their ability to be supportive of LGBTQ+ students.The current study has a few limitations that can be addressed in future work. First, the currentpaper only reports a fraction of the emergent themes. Second, the VCP members interviewed forthe project were self-selected and may not be reflective of STEM faculty not participating in theVCP. In addition, the linguistic and conceptual analysis is not presented here as the interpretationis ongoing and will be deepened in future rounds of analysis. Finally, due to research stafflimitations iterator reliability has not been performed

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The Modalities of Governance in Engineering Education

Conference Session: Identity, Culture, and Socialization
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas A. De Pree, Bucknell University; Rafael Julián Burgos-Mirabal, University of Massachusetts- Amherst
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

differentiatedhigher education market. The prevalence of these rankings in the public mind have promptedmany universities to strengthen their enrollment management strategies in order to expandenrollments, maintain better balance across enrollment swings, and to manage their discountrates (amounts offered through financial aid) to keep their institutions solvent—a pressure that islikely only to intensify due to the fiscal impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Manyinstitutions report that the downside of national rankings is that they do not accurately reflect thequality of education offered by their institution, and therefore do not make for an efficientmarket. Indeed, our data point to specific gaming behaviors, often tuned to the algorithmsemployed by

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Disciplinary Socialization in First-year STEM Students

Conference Session: Identity, Culture, and Socialization
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Benjamin Goldschneider, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

asked to reflect on their choice ofuniversity and major, as well as their experiences with courses and assessment. Furthermore,participants were asked to speak about various aspects of their social experience thus far in theiruniversity career, including the disciplinary makeup of their friend group and their participationin disciplinary professional societies and other extracurricular activities. Interviews lastedapproximately one hour each. The recordings were sent to a professional transcription serviceand were checked once more by the research team to ensure the accuracy of the transcript.AnalysisThe process for this analysis began with familiarization with each of the individual participant’sinterview transcript. Each was read first for