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Piloting a JEDI (Justice, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion) Technology Ethics Living and Learning Community

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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

How Communities and Systems Influence Equity: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 2

Page Count

9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41773

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https://strategy.asee.org/41773

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Matt Gordon University of Denver

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Dr. Matt Gordon is Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Denver. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1992 from Stanford University and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado. His research areas include numerical and experimental plasma physics, chemical and physical vapor deposition, electronic packaging, and bio-medical engineering. Courses taught include undergraduate finite elements, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and engineering economics and ethics, and graduate finite elements, numerical methods, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, plasma fundamentals and gas dynamics.

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Scott Leutenegger

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Abstract

This academic year we are piloting a new Living and Learning Community (LLC) focused on Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Technology Ethics. Our LLC model at the University of REDACTED calls for students to live together on the same dorm floor, take a two-credit course together, and various co-curricular activities. For the course, students read articles and watch videos curated by the instructors. Students then engage in short writing exercises, small group discussions, and then full class presentations. Other active learning models such as design exercises are being utilized. Topics covered during the first quarter include racism/anti-racism, sexism/anti-sexism, social media, AI, ethics, diversity in engineering and computer science, and infusing JEDI into engineering/computer science education. Students are exploring how recent and new technology is codifying systemic oppression based on race and gender. We have been using ethical models to explore decision making of hypothetical and real products/systems. During the second quarter, we are considering the additional topics of privacy, surveillance, physical/cognitive augmentation, and robotics, continuing to explore these issues using a JEDI lens. Our curriculum is a work in progress; hence we are assessing the course on an on-going basis. Before the final paper is presented, we will have completed our two-quarter sequence and we plan to present our curriculum, assessment results, as well as discuss how the co-living and co-curricular components related to the learning experience.

Gordon, M., & Leutenegger, S. (2022, August), Piloting a JEDI (Justice, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion) Technology Ethics Living and Learning Community Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41773

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