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Online Engagement and Outreach Activities in an ASEE Student Chapter During Turbulent Times

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Virtual Conference

Publication Date

July 26, 2021

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July 26, 2021

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July 19, 2022

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 5

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Student

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Diversity

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13

DOI

10.18260/1-2--37538

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https://strategy.asee.org/37538

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Amanda N. Quay Stanford University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-5984-7239

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Quay is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and president of its ASEE chapter. Their favorite chapter ASEE event in 2020 was “Culture of Disengagement in Engineering Education?” with Dr. Khalid Kadir (UC Berkeley), which had strong turnout, lively discussion and strongly resonating perspectives for environmental engineers.

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Callan E. Monette Stanford University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-1859-114X

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Callan is a Ph.D. student at Stanford in Bioengineering, and financial officer of the chapter. Her favorite part of the ASEE chapter is that it offers a great platform to meet other grad students, postdocs, and faculty members that share a passion for equ

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Stacey A. Huang Stanford University

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Stacey is a current NPP Fellow. She completed her Ph.D. at Stanford in Electrical Engineering, and served as the president, vice president, treasurer of the ASEE chapter there. She was involved in the chapter as an officer since 2017, and has particularly enjoyed bringing in ASEE chapter alumni now teaching at other universities and colleges to offer their insights since leaving Stanford.

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Alexa Wnorowski Stanford University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-1652-4728

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Alexa is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford in Bioengineering and an Education MA student; she is a chapter general officer. Alexa’s favorite chapter events are the ASEE Breakfast Chats (ABCs), which offer learning and conversation with engineering educators sharing their research or experiences.

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Anjali Mulchandani Stanford University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-6529-8336

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Anjali is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford in Civil and Environmental Engineering, starting as an Assistant Professor at University of New Mexico in 2021; she is a chapter general officer. She has led efforts to stand up an anti-racist learning club for the chapter, offering continued dialogue on anti-racist ideals, DEI goals and culturally responsive teaching.

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Ronnie Miller Stanford University

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Abstract

Following the shelter-in-place guidelines enacted across California in the early spring of 2020, many institutions transitioned nearly all student programming to online offerings. On the heels of the burgeoning public health challenge followed a long overdue reckoning with systemic and racial inequity catalyzed by George Floyd’s murder. In response, our ASEE Student Chapter made major pivots in its mission to address both (A) the pressures and stressors students and educators faced coupled with their desire for engagement and (B) the integration of anti-racist pedagogy into their engineering education practices. In this paper, we will discuss the major components of these pivots, including (i) transitioning existing programming to the virtual environment, (ii) reassessing chapter direction and goals by expert elicitation to evaluate chapter niche, (iii) developing new strategies to increase participation and engagement, including the formation of an anti-racism multimedia learning club aimed at promoting awareness of systemic inequity and discussing strategies to combat anti-black racism in higher education, and (iv) continuously adjusting chapter goals and activities through iterative reflection. We will place this discussion in the context of literature on mental health, well-being, and flourishing of students and educators during this unprecedented time.

Quay, A. N., & Monette, C. E., & Huang, S. A., & Wnorowski, A., & Mulchandani, A., & Miller, R. (2021, July), Online Engagement and Outreach Activities in an ASEE Student Chapter During Turbulent Times Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--37538

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