Stransky, J., & Butler, B. L., & Ritz, C., & Dringenberg, E., & Miskioglu, E., & Bodnar, C. A. (2023, June), Board 419: Students use their Lived Experiences to Justify their Beliefs about How they Will Approach  Process Safety Judgment  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42748

\bibitem{asee_peer_42748}
  Stransky, J., \& Butler, B. L., \& Ritz, C., \& Dringenberg, E., \& Miskioglu, E., \& Bodnar, C. A. (2023, June), \emph{Board 419: Students use their Lived Experiences to Justify their Beliefs about How they Will Approach  Process Safety Judgment}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--42748

Jeffrey Stransky, Brittany Lynn Butler, Cayla Ritz, Emily Dringenberg, Elif Miskioglu, and Cheryl A Bodnar.  "Board 419: Students use their Lived Experiences to Justify their Beliefs about How they Will Approach  Process Safety Judgment".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/42748 Internet.  12 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_42748}
  Jeffrey Stransky, Brittany Lynn Butler, Cayla Ritz, Emily Dringenberg, Elif Miskioglu, and Cheryl A Bodnar.
  "Board 419: Students use their Lived Experiences to Justify their Beliefs about How they Will Approach  Process Safety Judgment".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/42748 Internet.  12 Dec, 2024

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title = "Board 419: Students use their Lived Experiences to Justify their Beliefs about How they Will Approach  Process Safety Judgment"
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AB  - In the chemical industry, judgments related to process safety hold the potential to lead to process incidents, such as chemical leaks and mechanical failures that can have severe consequences. Many of these judgments require engineers to juxtapose competing criteria including leadership, production, relationships, safety, spending, and time. For such judgments, numerous factors are at play, including our beliefs about ourselves and our intention to behave a particular way. As part of a larger research project funded through the NSF Research in the Formation of Engineers (RFE) program, we are working to investigate: 1) What do engineering students and practitioners believe about how they approach making judgements?, 2) how do they behave when actually making judgements?, 3) what gap, if any, exists between their beliefs and behavior?, and 4) how do they reconcile any gaps between their beliefs and behaviors? 

After completion of the first year of the project, we have interviewed fourteen senior chemical engineering students about how they believe they will approach process safety judgments in scenarios where they must juxtapose competing criteria. During our initial analysis to characterize students’ espoused beliefs about their approaches towards making process safety judgments, we identified an emergent finding about how they justify these beliefs. We present this emergent finding by answering the research question: How do undergraduate engineering students justify their beliefs about how they will make judgments in process safety contexts? When we asked students to provide reasoning for the beliefs they conveyed about how they will approach process safety judgments, we found that overwhelmingly, students used their lived experiences in different work settings to justify their beliefs. These lived experiences included engineering co-ops, internships, volunteer, and retail work. This emergent finding suggests that students’ lived experiences may be greatly informing their espoused beliefs about how they will approach process safety judgments. This paper will also briefly discuss implications for process safety educators on how they may incorporate lived experiences, or other ways of knowing, so students may develop more robust beliefs about process safety judgments.

AU  - Jeffrey Stransky
AU  - Brittany Lynn Butler
AU  - Cayla Ritz
AU  - Emily Dringenberg
AU  - Elif Miskioglu
AU  - Cheryl A Bodnar
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Board 419: Students use their Lived Experiences to Justify their Beliefs about How they Will Approach  Process Safety Judgment
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