Background Engineering educators prepare students for responsible, ethical, and socially
aware engineering practice by contextualizing engineering in a variety of ways. Recently …

Technology should be accessible and inclusive, so designers should learn to consider the
needs of different users. Toward this end, we created the theoretically-grounded CIDER …

Undergraduate first-semester general chemistry (GC1) functions as a gatekeeper to STEM
degrees, asymmetrically impacting students who are nonwhite, from lower socioeconomic …

With the ubiquity of computing technologies, adolescents are increasingly affected by
algorithmic biases. While previous work provides insight into adolescents' perceptions of …

Background: The growing complexity of the impacts of computing technologies on
adolescents' lives requires them to make similarly complex decisions around technology …

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 …

Problem framing is an essential stage in engineering design mainly because it is crucial in
developing solutions to design problems. Engineers' ability to frame a problem is naturally …

Despite decades of calls for both broadening participation in engineering and for STEM
faculty to adopt evidence-based teaching practices, change is notoriously slow. In response …

This theory paper considers prominent critical social theories from the education research
literature to conceptualize a critical theoretical space to understand individual theory …

Engineering is fundamentally about design, yet many undergraduate programs offer limited
opportunities for students to learn to design. This design case reports on a grant-funded …