Reddy, E. A., & Kleine, M. S., & Parsons, M., & Nieusma, D. (2023, June), Sociotechnical Integration: What Is It? Why Do We Need It? How Do We Do It?  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44239

\bibitem{asee_peer_44239}
  Reddy, E. A., \& Kleine, M. S., \& Parsons, M., \& Nieusma, D. (2023, June), \emph{Sociotechnical Integration: What Is It? Why Do We Need It? How Do We Do It?}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44239

Elizabeth A. Reddy, Marie Stettler Kleine, Matt Parsons, and Dean Nieusma.  "Sociotechnical Integration: What Is It? Why Do We Need It? How Do We Do It?".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44239 Internet.  21 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44239}
  Elizabeth A. Reddy, Marie Stettler Kleine, Matt Parsons, and Dean Nieusma.
  "Sociotechnical Integration: What Is It? Why Do We Need It? How Do We Do It?".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44239 Internet.  21 May, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Sociotechnical integration is an innovative, yet arguably elusive, approach to engineering education. It acknowledges how the bounds of technical and nontechnical knowledge are blurred and makes space for generative work at their intersection. Traditional engineering coursework tends to promote narrowly defined conceptions of “engineering knowledge” as exclusively technical. Sociotechnical integration encourages engineering educators to explore the space connecting technical and nontechnical disciplinary silos. We believe this connection can be more than a middle ground or a hybridization of the disciplines, but rather a bridge to new potentials for engineering education. This paper draws on relevant scholarship and empirical insights from a set of interviews with select engineering educators to interrogate the practice and potential of sociotechnical integration. Interviewees represent a wide range of academic positions, disciplinary backgrounds, and educational programs and were selected for this study to provide a broad set of perspectives on creating and leading engineering programs that systematically engage the social. We explore the motivations underlying sociotechnical approaches, the goals we hope such approaches will achieve, and the mechanisms used to integrate social content into engineering classrooms and programs. In so doing, we build on the work of our colleagues who highlight distinct frameworks for “sociotechnical” engagements, entailing different modes of defining the categories of “social” and “technical” and conceptualizing their relationship. Such distinctions are useful because, despite the depth of commitment to sociotechnical integration among our selected interviewees, their approaches vary considerably. In light of our findings, we have developed our own approach to sociotechnical integration for our institutional context, which we share in closing. Taken together, we believe this work can aid readers in exploring the current status and potential futures of sociotechnical integration in engineering education.
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