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Indigenizing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programmed Engineering Education Curriculum, Challenges and Future Potentials

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 5

Tagged Divisions

Equity and Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY)

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

8

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43678

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/43678

Download Count

294

Paper Authors

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Bahar Memarian University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-0671-3127

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Dr. Bahar Memarian is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator with more than 10 years of research and teaching experience at the intersection of applied and social sciences. She has designed and executed research projects as both a team leader and a member. She has also developed and delivered learning modules and courses in the areas of STEM, design, and engineering education at the secondary and undergraduate levels.

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Abstract

In this Work-In-Progress (WIP) paper, the integration of Indigenous ways of knowing is explored with a focus on pedagogy that is technologically enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI). An overview of AI programs, providing their key methods of decision making is presented. The technological, educational/philosophical challenges of integrating Indigenous ways of knowing considering AI programs are then discussed from the perspective of a non-Indigenous researcher. The contribution of this work is in recognizing the larger issue of not knowing what Scientific vs. Non-scientific is in the engineering education curriculum and where Indigenous ways of knowing fall into the spectrum. Subsequently, AI programs used in the engineering education curriculum may be challenged to characterize and account for Indigenous ways of knowing through an equitable, diverse, and inclusive lens.

Memarian, B. (2023, June), Indigenizing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programmed Engineering Education Curriculum, Challenges and Future Potentials Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43678

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