2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Board 325: IUSE/PFE:RED Innovation: Breaking the Binary

Presented at NSF Grantees Poster Session

This paper introduces our NSF RED project Breaking the Binary (IUSE/PFE:RED 2234256). Our project is designed to engage computer engineering faculty members, students, and other stakeholders in a substantial process of collaborative transformation that involves rejecting binaries or dualisms commonly used to create hierarchies in engineering thought and practice (rational-emotional, male-female, social-technical, mental-manual, hard-soft, concrete-abstract, etc.) and embracing a complex coexistence; developing new skills in co-creation of holistic learning experiences and inclusive cultures; and evolving personal and professional identities that are constantly challenged and often in flux. While individual and group differences in beliefs, values, and identities are always present during change processes, these differences are often implicit and unexamined. Our project will make these differences a visible component of critical reflection and generative dialogue, in service to both educational research and practice, and aligned with capacity building for critical awareness and action. We have developed a model for change we call Critical Collaborative Educational Change, an iterative reinforcing loop showing reinforcing relationships among critical consciousness, values and beliefs, actions, and collective well-being. Individuals will cycle through this loop, as will the entire group, as they are influenced by and situated within the broad contexts of the CPE department, STEM education, engineering practice, and society as a whole.

Authors

Dr. Lynne A Slivovsky http://orcid.org/https://0000-0001-8815-9312 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Dr. Lynne Slivovsky is the Inaugural Chair of Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
Dr. Lizabeth L Thompson P.E. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Dr. Lizabeth Thompson is the Director of General Engineering and a professor in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She has been at Cal Poly for nearly 30 years and has held various positions on campus including Co-Director of Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies, Director of Women’s Engineering Programs, and CENG Interim Associate Dean. Although she has taught over 25 different courses, she currently teaches Financial Decision making, First Year engineering, Senior Project, and Change Management. Her research is in Engineering Education where she has received $11.8 million of funding from NSF as either PI or Co-PI. She researches equitable classroom practices, integrated learning, and institutional change. She spent the 2019-2020 academic year at Cal State LA where she taught and collaborated on research related to equity and social justice. She is a co-advisor to Engineers without Borders and oSTEM at Cal Poly.
Dr. Jane L. Lehr California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Jane Lehr is a Professor in Ethnic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies and Director of the Office of Student Research at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is affiliated faculty in Computer Science & Software Engineering and
Dr. Bridget Benson California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Bridget Benson received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obipso in 2005, a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2007 and a Ph
Dr. Andrew Danowitz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4842-2005 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Andrew Danowitz received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2014, and is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. His research interests involve student mental health and accessibility in engineering education.
Dr. John Y Oliver http://orcid.org/https://0000-0003-2877-6751 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo [biography]

Dr. Oliver is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. His field of expertise is in computer architecture and system performance analysis, dabbler in cybersecurity and passionate about broadening pathway

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