Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Carrell, Texas Tech University; Joshua M. Cruz; Andrew Mark Herbert; Iris V. Rivero; Emily Lazarus; Erika Nuñez, Texas Tech University; Nafisha Tabassum; Xueni Fan, Texas Tech University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

intentionalacts in how students understand empathy and the “meaning context” for which the relationshipbetween students and their subjects are made. The interdisciplinary or even transdisciplinaryapproach for developing and analyzing empathy embedded in engineering education provides alink to expand into other analysis techniques, such as discourse analysis.Others have certainly seen the benefits of discourse to think through empathy in education.Warren [20], for instance, reflects on the ways that adopting different, critical classroomdiscourses is important for creating and expressing a culturally sensitive and empatheticdisposition. Nolan [21] understands teacher discourses and dispositions as almost synonymous,explaining that teachers’ dispositions

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rich Dionne, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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learned”. The reflective component is critical for students toconsider how elements of their design worked or failed to meet their design expectations.Likewise, as a pedagogical instrument, the reflective component of the presentation offers thestudent a formative opportunity to “rethink” how any future instance of similar design practicemight be enhanced.PedagogyCorrect content with fitting assessments can only have the greatest impact if aligned withstrategic and purposeful pedagogical approaches. The THTR59700 course is at the core activelearning-oriented and engages technical knowledge across students' academic advancement,keeping the developmental growth of students in mind. In particular, the pedagogicalframeworks that most clearly relay

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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questions to establish the context from which the students were speaking. I approachedthese conversations with humility as I sought to learn with the participants as they are experts intheir own experience.LimitationsThe findings are reflective of the students who chose to participate in the study and thus self-selected to engage in an interview on ethics and responsibility that was conducted in English.The university at which the interviews took place is Dutch and English speaking, but mostBachelor’s programs are taught in Dutch, which was the native language of all of theparticipants.There is ongoing conversation around the inclusion of demographic questions in interviews [28],including where they should be placed and what effect they might have

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LIBED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jingshu Meng; Hannah Norton; Chelsea Andrews, Tufts University

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Diversity

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student looking to take this course, and would it bedifferent if it was a student of color?” When answering this question, Ebo said that he does notthink that his advice would be different to a white student or student of color, but rather it wouldbe different for an international student. He said that his international student identity is what heunderstands, so he would only speak through that context.2: moving towards racial-ethnic identity examination in the U.S. context. After some periodof time, international students tend to start evolving their identities to fit into the U.S. context. Inthe interviews, students often reflected on a catalyst that required them to consider how theiridentity fits in the U.S. context.Positioning themselves

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Systems in Practice

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Aubrey Wigner, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines; Chelsea Salinas, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

the various focus areacourses are not degree requirements, the program development team has decided to restrict allABET accreditation program assessment to the design spine courses: The campus-wideCornerstone Design course, the IDS 5-course sequence, and the 2-course Capstone Designsequence. Because EDS offers the bookend design experiences to the campus community, we donot have full independent control over those courses within the design spine, but we havesufficient control to specify ABET assessments and associated student learning outcomes.Innovating with ABETEngineering program builders typically have much to say about ABET program accreditation,and wide-ranging scholarship provides guidance, critique, and reflections in response to

Conference Session

Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Jamaal Downey, University of Florida; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida

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Diversity

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and enthusiasm,then students tend to reflect those emotions. Not surprising, if teachers show contempt or a lackof interest in a particular problem or body of research, students’ emotions of boredom, irritation,or anxiety surface [4]. If “both knowledge and emotion are inescapably matters of concern ineducation is one which has been reached by generations of teachers, parents, and educationistsfrom the time of Plato to the present day,” [5, p.229] why are discussing the importance ofemotions within the engineering classroom (and field in general) is still seen as taboo?Theoretical/conceptual frameworkSymbolic Interactionism To better understand the focal group for this study, we must explain the framework ofsymbolic interactionism that

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MC Forelle, University of Virginia; Kent A. Wayland, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

parts of the university. Reflecting on the 1955 Grinter Report, Sheryl Sorby, Norman L. Fortenberry, and GaryBertoline suggest a need for a revolution in engineering education, writing: “Over the years, we educators have done some tinkering around the edges, such as adding in a capstone design project, or replacing Fortran with other programming languages – but the basic structure of the curriculum remains unchanged even though our students can now find information on their phones that might have taken us hours to track down in the library.”3There is no doubt about the need for technical training, but how engineering educatorsincorporate nontechnical skills also has an impact on creating a well-rounded

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University; Fatima Rahman, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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Diversity

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development of technology [18]. These values tend to reflect the interests andneeds of those who have historically held power in society [16, 20, 22].The idea that technology is not neutral and is designed by humans also brings to questiondeterministic narratives of technology. Technological determinism assumes that technologydevelops in a self propelling fashion, where new technology is inevitable and humans mustsimply accept and adapt to it [23]. This framing absolves the creators of any responsibility inanticipating harm and designing to mitigate the negative impacts of the technology they design[17]. As technology is created by people, who live and work in societies, it inherently embodiesthe social norms, ideologies, and practices of societies

Conference Session

Global Roles and Societal Responsibilities of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lichao Ma, Tsinghua University; Xiaofeng Tang, Tsinghua University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

engineering education contended thatalthough adversity usually refers to major events that cause paralyzing outcomes, it was alsovaluable to recognize more subtle pressure and risk factors as well as their impact on resilience(Hunsu et al., 2021). This view is echoed in our study, which found that when first entering theworkplace, early career engineers were more likely to encounter not major destructive setbacksbut mini-crises or subtle pressure, which nonetheless call for the need of career resilience just aswell. Furthermore, this study found that in the Chinese context, the mini-crises experienced byearly career engineers often reflected not a lack of technical knowledge, but rather, a lack ofrelevant non-cognitive abilities or non-technical

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Systems in Practice

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, The George Washington University; Cory Brozina, Youngstown State University ; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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the company, “. . . and then where I’m at now,[shifting from] the technical side to the supervisory side, it’s more managerial tasks and also thedesign.” (P-3). The nature of one’s responsibilities and roles also reflected a level of experienceand competence in the company. For example, the following quotes describe first an experiencedindividual’s role and responsibilities compared to the second quote from someone relatively lessexperienced in the organization. [experienced] I work with everybody. I’m like the top of the triangle for the project in the field. I work with the project manager and all my contractors, suppliers, vendors, customers, etc. They all go through me and then I work with project management and my

Conference Session

Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Kacey Beddoes, San Jose State University

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under grants EEC#1929484 and #1929478. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation.References[1] A. Danowitz and K. Beddoes, “Effects of COVID-19 on Stress and Mental Health of Community College Pre-Engineering Students,” in Frontiers in Education Annual Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, Oct. 2022.[2] A. Danowitz and K. Beddoes, “How the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped demographic variation in mental health among diverse engineering student populations,” Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 67–76, Jul. 2022, doi: 10.1080/22054952.2023.2184912.[3] J. K. Hyun, B. C. Quinn, T

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer C. Mallette, Boise State University; Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University

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with collaboration in their education. These projectswere meaningful and relevant to their goals and offered opportunities to apply the vast range oftheir education and training to do experimental work and create effective writing for audiencesbeyond their course instructors. Part of this is the power of the applied project courses, but theother is reflective of the community built within these project courses, as well as the preparationthe students received.This feedback from past students indicates our work supports their writing in the mannerintended. However, we currently lack detailed, quantitative data for a more thorough assessment.A multiyear, post-graduation survey of alumni will provide the information we need to morerigorously

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fatima Naeem Abdurrahman, University of Maryland, College Park; Sona Chudamani, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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