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Centering Equity and Inclusion in Engineering Collaboration and Writing

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

LEES Session 8: Care and Commitments

Page Count

35

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41037

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/41037

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502

Paper Authors

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Jennifer Mallette Boise State University

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Jennifer Mallette is an associate professor of English at Boise State University, where she collaborates with engineering faculty to support student writers. Her research builds on those collaborations, examining best practices for integrating writing into engineering curriculum; she also explores women’s experiences in engineering settings through the context of writing.

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Abstract

This paper focuses on preliminary findings from a study that asked students and alumni to share their stories around teamwork and communication in engineering settings. In addition to student and alumni stories of teamwork, engineering faculty were interviewed to learn more about how they approach collaborative and communication-based projects and how consider diversity, equity, and inclusion in their teaching. The goal was to connect the ways that instructors frame these collaborative projects and to surface how implicit biases may emerge and impact students. The findings reported here focus on what students and alumni participants shared about their positive and negative collaborative experiences, with an emphasis on the intersections between those experiences and their background/identities that may elicit bias from their peers. This paper concludes with recommendations for educators to work toward reconceiving their collaborative and communication-based assignments and to begin uncovering their own implicit biases.

Mallette, J. (2022, August), Centering Equity and Inclusion in Engineering Collaboration and Writing Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41037

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