2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Facilitation for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through Design Thinking

Presented at Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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.

Authors
  1. Dr. Sean M. Eddington Kansas State University [biography]
  2. Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski Orcid 16x16http://orcid.org/0009-0003-1391-6800 Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) [biography]
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