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U427A·SUNDAY WORKSHOP: Off to a Sociotechnical Start: Addressing Sociotechnical Dualism in First-Year Engineering Courses
Workshop First-Year Programs Division (FPD)Session Description
Free ticketed event
During the 23-24 academic year, we (four technical communication instructors) hosted a series
of dialogues at our home institution, the University of Michigan, about the importance and
challenges of teaching engineering as a sociotechnical discipline in introductory engineering
courses. The dialogues included guest speakers from a variety of disciplines in and related to
engineering education and brought together both technical and technical communication faculty.
The purpose of this proposed workshop is to
1) share the key takeaways from our experience, and
2) build a conversation across institutions about how we
a) identify the introductory concepts and skills necessary to set up students for
people-first, socially just engineering,
b) overcome what Leydens and Lucena (2017) have described as the
“sociotechnical dualism” divide pervasive in engineering education.
Speakers
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Kelsey McLendon
University of Michigan
TBD
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Dr. Katie Snyder
University of Michigan
TBD