Hendricks, D. G., & Gunnarsson, C., & Birch, C. (2019, April), Design and Implementation of an Engineering for Social Justice Curriculum  Paper presented at 2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--31753

\bibitem{asee_peer_31753}
  Hendricks, D. G., \& Gunnarsson, C., \& Birch, C. (2019, April), \emph{Design and Implementation of an Engineering for Social Justice Curriculum}
  Paper presented at 2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--31753

Dianne Grayce Hendricks, Celina Gunnarsson, and Camille Birch.  "Design and Implementation of an Engineering for Social Justice Curriculum".  2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia, 2019, April.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/31753 Internet.  20 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_31753}
  Dianne Grayce Hendricks, Celina Gunnarsson, and Camille Birch.
  "Design and Implementation of an Engineering for Social Justice Curriculum".
  \emph{2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia, 2019, April}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/31753 Internet.  20 Jan, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Here we describe the design and implementation of a curriculum that explores social justice in a science and engineering context, with specific focus on race, gender/sex, sexuality, and disability. We emphasize what students can do to advocate for and represent diverse peoples, and to promote social justice through science and engineering practice. 

In this course, students critically evaluate how cultural and scientific theories of gender/sex, race, disability, and sexuality influence one another. Throughout the course, students are asked to reflect on who gets to be a scientist or engineer, who defines which questions researchers ask and which problems engineers solve, who benefits from these solutions, and what role social justice plays in science and engineering practice. 

Students reflect on the impact of science and engineering in society through weekly readings and class discussions. In addition, students complete a final paper and a team project in which they design a science/engineering solution that promotes social justice. Throughout the course, we explore these inter-related questions:
1)	How do our cultural ideas about race, gender, disability and sexuality influence science/engineering knowledge and practice?
2)	On the other hand, how does our science/engineering practice influence our cultural ideas about race, gender, disability and sexuality?
3)	How can we use science and engineering to promote social justice for all people?

The authors have previously published work describing pilot efforts to explore the interplay of diversity and ethics in engineering in a large introductory bioengineering course [1-2]. Whereas these efforts were intended to serve as model curricula to be implemented in an existing course, here we describe the launch of a stand-alone course that is available for undergraduate students in all majors.

Assessment of our curriculum will include written student surveys, instructor observations, and excerpts of student work. Example curricular materials will be provided.


AU  - Dianne Grayce Hendricks
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AU  - Camille Birch
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