Facilitation for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through Design Thinking
- Conference
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Baltimore , Maryland
- Publication Date
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June 25, 2023
- Start Date
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June 25, 2023
- End Date
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June 28, 2023
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)
- Tagged Topic
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Diversity
- Page Count
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24
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--43681
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https://peer.asee.org/43681
- Download Count
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422
Paper Authors
Patrice Marie Buzzanell
University of South Florida
orcid.org/0000-0003-0058-7676
Patrice M. Buzzanell is Distinguished University Professor and immediate past Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida and Endowed Visiting Professor for the School of Media and Design at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Fellow and Past President of the International Communication Association (ICA), she also is a Distinguished Scholar for the National Communication Association (NCA), Past President of the Council of Communication Associations, and Past President and Wise Woman of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. She has received career achievement awards from ICA, NCA, the Central States Communication Association, and Purdue University where she was a Distinguished University Professor in communication and engineering education (by courtesy) and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Her primary research areas are organizational communication, career, work-life, resilience, feminist/gender, and design. Her grants have focused on ethics, institutional transformation, and diversity-equity-inclusion-belongingness in the professional formation of engineers.
Sean M. Eddington Kansas State University
Sean Eddington (Ph.D., Purdue University) is an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Kansas State University. Sean's primary research interests exist at the intersections of organizational communication, new media, gender, and organizing.
Carla B. Zoltowski
Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)
orcid.org/0009-0003-1391-6800
Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and (by courtesy) the School of Engineering Education, and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program within the College of Engineering at Purdue. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Dr. Zoltowski’s research interests include the professional formation of engineers, diversity, inclusion, and equity in engineering, human-centered design, and engineering ethics.
Abstract
This paper explores how facilitating design thinking (DT) can transform engineering cultures for greater diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). We aim to understand better how facilitators work with DT participants in particular spaces and engineering cultures regarding sensitive ethical issues like DEI, and to provide guidelines for developing facilitation expertise for DEI in DT sessions. Qualitative causal mapping is conducted to visualize how facilitators draw out participants’ understandings and explanations of marginalization and inclusion by attending to design session participants’ own expressions of causality and hopes for the future.
Buzzanell, P. M., & Eddington, S. M., & Zoltowski, C. B. (2023, June), Facilitation for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through Design Thinking Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43681
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