Background Engineers are increasingly being asked to empathically engage with a broad
range of stakeholders. Current efforts to educate empathic engineers, however, are …

Does engineering design education in North America prepare students to address the major
issues of our time? In today's political and social climate, engineers are part of multi …

This study extends previous work on two related phenomena, empathy and care, within
engineering. In two phases, we collected and thematically analyzed semi-structured …

Engineering educators must consider how the cultural backgrounds of students coincide (or
diverge) with the epistemological and ontological formation of an engineer. Hence, this work …

Purpose Science museums provide a context for develo** and testing engineering
activities that support visitors in creating personally meaningful objects. This study aims to …

Engineering is both a social and technical discipline, and engineering students encounter
the social aspects of engineering work in a variety of education and internship contexts …

As the world becomes more connected and globalized, the problems that engineers are
called upon to solve are increasingly complex and interdependent. Unfortunately …

This paper presents a design-based research project undertaken to test and implement an
interest-based engineering challenges framework for pre-college students. This work is …

Engineering students must be prepared to function as professionals in increasingly diverse
societies. However, addressing diversity is primarily relegated to efforts focused on …

How do we combat the “culture of disengagement”(Cech, 2014) in engineering education?
How do we effectively prepare students for the sociotechnical nature of engineering …