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Work in Progress: Engineering Health Equity: Perspective and Pedagogy of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning and Impact on Learners’ Social Identity

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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 8

Tagged Divisions

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

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

13

DOI

10.18260/1-2--44234

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/44234

Download Count

207

Paper Authors

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Mayari I. Serrano Purdue University, West Lafayette Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-6459

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Mayari Serrano Anazco is a visiting clinical assistant professor at the College of Engineering and John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology Engineering at Ecuador's Army Polytechnic School and her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Technology from Purdue University. After obtaining her Ph.D., she was appointed as the first post-doctoral fellow of the Women in Engineering Program at Purdue University. She has authored, co-authored, implemented, and assessed learning activities, outreach activities, and workshops focused on modifying negative attitudes towards technology and engineering and increasing knowledge of several topics of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
Mayari Serrano's research focuses on commercial and educational technologies' effect on teaching, learning, diversity, and inclusion. Her publications show interdisciplinary interest and cover multimodal learning environments, embodied cognition, complex concepts, user experience, spatial abilities, gender bias, gender stereotypes, e-mentoring, sense of belonging, campus climate, and exergaming.

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Natalia M. Rodriguez

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Daniel Guberman

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Jacqueline Callihan Linnes Purdue University, West Lafayette Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-4962-0908

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Dr. Jacqueline Callihan Linnes is the Marta E. Gross Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the College of Engineering Honors Program at Purdue University. Her work advances paper microfluidics, molecular biosensors, and human-centered instrumentation design for translation into point-of-care diagnostics for global health and health disparities research. She teaches undergraduate design courses for first year engineering honors and capstone design, graduate level instrumentation measurement and point-of-care diagnostics, and human-centered design workshops to practitioners around the world.

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Abstract

This research explored the beliefs related to the health disparities, systems, and innovation of honors/engineering students enrolled in a course on Health Equity. This course aims to bring together undergraduate students across disciplines from engineering, public health, pharmacy, anthropology, sociology, and other social and basic sciences to learn from each other through co-designing solutions to address health disparities. The Global Learning Short Scale Plus (G.L.S2+) was used to assess students’ beliefs related to global self awareness, cultural diversity, personal and social responsibility, understanding global systems, and applying knowledge to the contemporary global context. Qualitative and quantitative analyses showed Personal and Social Responsibility was a predominant factor influencing students’ beliefs. Numerous experiences were identified as drivers of involvement or action with an interest in the global systems’ factors.

Serrano, M. I., & Rodriguez, N. M., & Guberman, D., & Linnes, J. C. (2023, June), Work in Progress: Engineering Health Equity: Perspective and Pedagogy of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning and Impact on Learners’ Social Identity Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44234

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