Beck, A. L., & Cha, E. J. (2023, June), Board 44: Work-In-Progress: What Goes into an Engineering Decision: An Infrastructure Decision-Making Game for Exploratory Equity Learning   Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42808

\bibitem{asee_peer_42808}
  Beck, A. L., \& Cha, E. J. (2023, June), \emph{Board 44: Work-In-Progress: What Goes into an Engineering Decision: An Infrastructure Decision-Making Game for Exploratory Equity Learning }
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--42808

Abigail L. Beck and Eun Jeong Cha.  "Board 44: Work-In-Progress: What Goes into an Engineering Decision: An Infrastructure Decision-Making Game for Exploratory Equity Learning ".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/42808 Internet.  01 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_42808}
  Abigail L. Beck and Eun Jeong Cha.
  "Board 44: Work-In-Progress: What Goes into an Engineering Decision: An Infrastructure Decision-Making Game for Exploratory Equity Learning ".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/42808 Internet.  01 May, 2024

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AB  - In structural engineering education, social considerations, beyond life safety, have not been incorporated or highlighted within the curriculum. With ABET’s EAC Criterion 5 expansion, we see calls for increased embracement of diversity, equity, and inclusion as a profession. It is the duty of educators to convey to students that engineering decisions have broad-reaching impacts on community beyond their pure technicalities. As engineering decisions are made, elements concerning equity, such as equity of impact, should be weighed along with classic performance benchmarks. This paper introduces an infrastructure decision-making game that highlights many different aspects to be considered in risk mitigation decision-making: equity, community impact, system performance, uncertainty, and resource constraint. In this game, teams make decisions about which elements of an electric network to repair and retrofit given constraints as hazards randomly impact the community. While making the decision, the teams must weigh many different metrics and be conscious of the demographics across the community. The construction of this game proves an apt complement within classic educational structure, such as in basic structural engineering courses, where students can connect design retrofit strength levels with broader community impact. This game is applicable to students in high school and college, and also professionals, as an introductory course module for complex multi-faceted risk mitigation engineering decision-making and the role of equity considerations in it. The game design is flexible and can include other impending issues, such as climate adaptation. It also has a potential to be expanded to include other social considerations, such as diversity and inclusion. The paper presents the game development, along with results from a post-game survey demonstrating the effectiveness of the game. 
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