Authors

Devin R. Berg, Tina Lee, and Elizabeth Anne Buchanan

Venue

ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access (Virtual Online)

Abstract

This complete research paper will describe our qualitative analysis of the impacts of a first-year engineering course which includes curricular elements of social justice, social responsibility, and ethics. We present our interpretation of four interesting results that came out of our mixed-methods study (n=231) in which we surveyed students taking a first-year engineering course on their perceptions of the role of engineering in society and the world. We find that while a single course is unlikely to be sufficient to greatly influence student perceptions, for some sub-groups, the influence was greater than for the study sample as a whole. We specifically highlight four notable findings and discuss their implications.

Links

Publisher: 10.18260/1-2–35231
Preprint: 10.31224/osf.io/3qeyc
Presentation: 10.5281/zenodo.3908536