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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND THE HOLISTIC ENGINEER: FOUNDRY GUIDED APPROACHES

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ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Publication Date

March 12, 2023

Start Date

March 12, 2023

End Date

March 14, 2023

Conference Session

Curriculum Development 2

Tagged Topics

Diversity and Professional Engineering Education Papers

Page Count

10

DOI

10.18260/1-2--44996

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https://peer.asee.org/44996

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136

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Andrea Arce-Trigatti Tallahassee Community College

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Andrea Arce-Trigatti holds a PhD in Education with a Learning Environments and Educational Studies concentration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and educational evaluator whose research centers on cultural

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Pedro E. Arce Tennessee Technological University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-9869-9942

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Dr. P. E. Arce is University Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Professor and Past Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at TTU, Cookeville, TN-Currently, he is a co-coordinator of the Grad Engineering Education Task Force of the TTU College of Engineering

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Sabrina H. Buer Tennessee Technological University

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Carlos Roberto Galindo Oakley STEM Center at Tennessee Tech University

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Carlos Galindo is currently the Outreach Coordinator of the Oakley STEM Center at Tennessee Tech University. He holds a Masters of Science degree in Integrated Marketing Communications from Florida State University with a concentration in Multicultural Marketing. Carlos is also the co-advisor of Futuro and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, as well as the co-Director of the STEM Foundry Heritage Fellows program, Science Olympiad Scholars, and the Regional Science and Engineering Fair. He is also the 2022 STEM Innovator award from the TN STEM Innovation Network.

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Abstract

The Renaissance Foundry (herein the Foundry) is an innovation-driven learning platform that has focused on collaborative opportunities and team-based learning approaches to engage students in the development of prototypes of innovative technology directed at addressing complex social challenges. Over the past five years, several outreach and educational programs at Tennessee Technological University have been implemented using a Foundry-guided approach to curriculum development. These include, for example, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Foundry Heritage Fellows (STEM FHF), the Holistic Foundry Undergraduate Engaged Learners (FUEL), and the newly approved Engendering the Spirit of Gadugi at the FEW Nexus. These are programs supported by various State and Federal initiatives and aligned with larger efforts to facilitate the development of holistic engineers. All three programs leveraged the Foundry as a way to facilitate the integration of diverse perspectives and build social frameworks into engineering designs. Using preliminary evaluative data and results from the curriculum efforts of these programs, this contribution presents a work-in-progress that explores how Foundry-guided approaches to curriculum development in these programs provides potential opportunities for integrating inclusive engineering frameworks into students' overall learning experience.

Arce-Trigatti, A., & Arce, P. E., & Buer, S. H., & Galindo, C. R. (2023, March), CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND THE HOLISTIC ENGINEER: FOUNDRY GUIDED APPROACHES Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--44996

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