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Engineering Studies
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Publications (71)
September 2024
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Critique of Anthropology
Within days of taking office in January 2021, President Biden signed an executive order establishing the Justice40 initiative, which directed federal agencies to ensure that at least 40% of the benefits of federal investments flow to historically marginalized communities. This article traces how Justice40, as interpreted and enacted by government bureaucrats, academics, industry researchers, and activists, intervenes in the governance of the energy transition it seeks to put into motion. Drawing from ongoing critical participation in energy research and development arenas and taking inspiration from Kim Fortun’s notion of the “informating of environmentalism,” this article argues that Justice40 can be understood as an attempt to informate justice, rendering it into problems that can be understood, manipulated, and audited through information systems. Scrambling to manage their accountabilities to the executive branch, Congress, and the American taxpayers footing the bill for massive infrastructure investments, Department of Energy programs are rolling out intricate systems of quantification, whose objectives of commensurability obscure local conceptions and prioritizations of justice. While Justice40 articulates lofty goals of energy transition enhancing the wellbeing of people who have otherwise been harmed by or excluded from the country’s existing energy infrastructure, its everyday practice has the ironic effect of undermining both epistemic and procedural justice.
March 2024
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Journal of Engineering Education
Background Identifying as an engineer is essential for belonging and student success, yet the social context and professional norms make it more difficult for some students to establish an identity as an engineer. Purpose/Hypothesis This study investigated whether first‐generation college students' funds of knowledge supported their engineering role identity. Design/Methods Data came from a survey administered across the United States western, southern, and mountain regions in the fall semester of 2018. Only the sample of students who indicated they were the first in their families to attend college was used in the analysis ( n = 378). Structural equation modeling was used to understand how first‐generation college students' funds of knowledge supported their engineering role identity; measurement invariance was examined to ensure that the model was valid for women and men alike. Results First‐generation college students' funds of knowledge individually supported the components of the engineering role identity development process. Tinkering knowledge from home and perspective‐taking helped inform interest and performance/competence beliefs. First‐generation college students' bids for external recognition were supported through their mediational skills, their connecting experiences, and their local network of college friends. The bundle of advice, resources, and emotional support from family members was the only fund of knowledge that directly supported students' perceptions of themselves as engineers. Conclusions The relationships we established between first‐generation college students' funds of knowledge and emerging engineering role identities call for engineering educators to integrate students' funds of knowledge into engineering learning and to broaden disciplinary norms of what counts as engineering‐relevant knowledge.
December 2023
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Mining
According to the International Energy Agency, clean energy transitions significantly increase strategic minerals demand [...]
November 2023
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October 2023
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Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society
September 2023
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En la educación ingenieril en los Estados Unidos y en la mayoría de los países del mundo, ha existido una separación histórica e ideológica entre el aprendizaje "social" y el "técnico", a pesar de que la práctica de la ingeniería siempre es sociotécnica. La mayoría de los planes de estudio de ingeniería se enfocan en temas técnicos, cubriendo superficialmente los aspectos sociales. Sin embargo, una perspectiva sociotécnica está siendo reconocida como importante para el éxito, la sostenibilidad y la equidad de los proyectos de ingeniería. En los EE.UU, la ingeniería para el desarrollo comunitario (ECD, por sus siglas en inglés) están tratando de cerrar la brecha entre una formación universitaria técnicamente estrecha y la ingeniería como una práctica sociotécnica mediante el desarrollo de pedagogías que incorporan estrategias concretas para la investigación y práctica sociotécnica. Este artículo explorará una de estas estrategias: la traducción de la investigación. La traducción de la investigación aplica de manera efectiva los hallazgos de investigación en resultados prácticos, cerrando la brecha entre el conocimiento académico, el conocimiento común y el impacto en el mundo real. Su objetivo es hacer que la investigación compleja sea accesible y aplicable a diferentes audiencias, fomentando prácticas basadas en evidencia para la mejora de la sociedad. En este artículo, exploramos estudios de caso de traducción de la investigación en un proyecto internacional de ECD entre EE.UU y Colombia de minería de oro artesanal y de pequeña escala (MAPE). Dos estudiantes de posgrado, Gibson y Rojas, desarrollaron proyectos de investigación en ingeniería para comunidades MAPE en Antioquia, Colombia. Las principales preguntas de investigación son hasta qué punto las realidades de los proyectos de investigación de Gibson y Rojas se alinean con un modelo propuesto de traducción de investigación para ECD y cómo el contexto de las comunidades de MAPE en Antioquia influyeron en sus prácticas y modelo de traducción de investigación.
August 2023
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Engineering Studies
![Global socio technical competency framework, originally published in [19].](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371708549/figure/tbl1/AS:11431281169234750@1687265893566/Global-socio-technical-competency-framework-originally-published-in-19_Q320.jpg)
June 2023
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Mining
The greatest challenges for contemporary and future natural resource production are sociotechnical by nature, from public perceptions of mining to responsible mineral supply chains. The term sociotechnical signals that engineered systems have inherent social dimensions that require careful analysis. Sociotechnical thinking is a prerequisite for understanding and promoting social justice and sustainability through one’s professional practices. This article investigates whether and how two different projects enhanced sociotechnical learning in mining and petroleum engineering students. Assessment surveys suggest that most students ended the projects with greater appreciation for sociotechnical perspectives on the interconnection of engineering and corporate social responsibility (CSR). This suggests that undergraduate engineering education can be a generative place to prepare future professionals to see how engineering can promote social and environmental wellbeing. Comparing the different groups of students points to the power of authentic learning experiences with industry engineers and interdisciplinary teaching by faculty.
June 2023
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... As consumers' demand for personalized products increases, engineers must be equipped to adapt design needs to applicable cultural contexts; on-size-fits-all no longer works [13]. Following from prior work showing the promise of virtual international collaboration in engineering education [14], our project, Activa tu Speaking seeks to redress this gap by providing students with an opportunity to work on an engineering design project with international peers to develop solutions relevant to both contexts, as is obtainable in the workforce while developing competency, confidence, and a sense of cultural sensitivity in speaking the primary language of international peers. ...
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January 2021
... Some commentators have lauded the DOE for advancing further than other agencies in Justice40 implementation (Walls et al., 2024), including by requiring applicants to submit a Community Benefits Plan (CBP) addressing Justice40 requirements, oriented around eight DOE-specific policy priorities (Fig. 2). Still, critics note the DOE's problematic overreliance on quantification and highlight that its operationalization of Justice40 is becoming increasingly bureaucratic rather than decreasing (Smith, 2024). ...
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September 2024
Critique of Anthropology
... Incorporating technology-based funds of knowledge perspective, such academic discourse and dialogue relationships in ELs' writing practice are transformed and internalized through the use of mobile and Google Classroom applications (Chen, 2021;Chen et al., 2017;2024). However, while gender-related patterns rooted in students' sociocultural experiences have been mentioned in passing in previous funds of knowledgeinformed studies, they have yet to be engaged deeply (Gelir, 2022;González et al., 1993;Verdín et al., 2024). ...
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March 2024
Journal of Engineering Education
... While this workshop was a preparatory exercise for students' upcoming virtual community visit with Colombian stakeholders, an assessment of the actual interactions with those stakeholders and the development of prototypes was beyond the scope of this study, as these were outcomes of the more comprehensive two-week summer session. Publications focusing on the broader summer course can be found in Rivera et al. and Schwartz et al. [50], [51]. That said, as shown in Table III, the questions students generated for Colombian stakeholders in the post-workshop prompts were within the scope of the HE-RAP workshop and are analyzed in detail in the "Results" section of this article in order to evaluate students' preliminary attention to front-end sociotechnical factors. ...
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July 2021
... Engineering thriving requires unique definitions at each of the MMML due to the unique functioning at each level. [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41] • Academic performance [42], [43] • Confidence [39], [44], [45] • Mindfulness [46] • Self-awareness [47] • Creativity and innovation [48] • Ability to work in team [39], [41], [45], [49] • Problem-solving skills [46], [50] • Communication skills [41], [46], [50] • Achievement-oriented [41], [51] • Sense of purpose and intention [38] • Agency [45] • Self-efficacy [38], [39], [42], [45], [52], [53], [54] • Growth mindset [55], [56] • High metacognitive awareness [47] • Relationships with peers, professors, instructors [ [58] • Increased number of university resources [41], [44], [52], [57], [59] • Level of student involvement in clubs and professional development organizations [51] • Level of faculty accessibility [49] • Student-teacher ratio [49] Macro Societal and Larger Systems ...
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June 2023
... Scholars in this research cluster have explored how integrating service learning into engineering education contributes to students' career preparation. This involves the development of technical, critical and reflective thinking, and project management skills (Huff et al., 2016;Wait et al., 2013), as well as students' confidence, professional identity, and ethical conduct (Huff et al., 2013;Rivera et al., 2022). ...
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August 2022
... Conversely, STT developed a more critical purpose in engineering education: to raise awareness of the social influences, purposes, and impact of engineering. This critical purpose is highlighted in many recent studies in engineering education linking STT to social justice-related practices (Chen et al. 2023;Jiménez Becerra, Rojas-Alvarez, and Bustamante Salamanca 2022;Leydens, Johnson, and Moskal 2021;Reynante 2021;Smith et al. 2021;Smith, McClelland, and Restrepo 2023). ...
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June 2023
Mining
... [20] Gibson adapted and implemented a modified ethnographic methodology to conduct interviews, focus groups, and site visits in rural areas of Andes, primarily basing the research approach on principles from a community-based research (CBR) course at Mines. [21] RT was not Gibson's intention from the onset of her project, yet there turned out to be several instances of employing RT in her work and considerable methodological and theoretical overlap with principles from CBR. (1.5) Gibson also describes the implementation of RT in her project. [21] Gibson identified significant barriers to implementing RT in several phases outlined in the research translation model, specifically in the phases of "decision-making and actions taken from research results" and "influence on future work" [4] phases 5 and 6 listed above. ...
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January 2023
IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering
... While this workshop was a preparatory exercise for students' upcoming virtual community visit with Colombian stakeholders, an assessment of the actual interactions with those stakeholders and the development of prototypes was beyond the scope of this study, as these were outcomes of the more comprehensive two-week summer session. Publications focusing on the broader summer course can be found in Rivera et al. and Schwartz et al. [50], [51]. That said, as shown in Table III, the questions students generated for Colombian stakeholders in the post-workshop prompts were within the scope of the HE-RAP workshop and are analyzed in detail in the "Results" section of this article in order to evaluate students' preliminary attention to front-end sociotechnical factors. ...
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June 2022
... Conversely, synergies can be harnessed when these objectives are integrated, such as using green infrastructure to manage stormwater while also enhancing urban biodiversity and recreational spaces (e.g., CBM Plan in Copenhagen). In this context, co-benefits might include improved air quality (Tomson et al., 2021), enhanced community well-being (Venkataramanan et al., 2019), and increased property values (Spahr et al., 2021), which can provide additional incentives for stakeholders to support blue-green infrastructure projects. Addressing the conflict and leveraging synergies requires careful planning and stakeholder engagement to ensure that the multiple benefits of blue-green infrastructure are realized. ...
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November 2021
Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment
