Special Session: Implementing a Teaching Framework of Critical Consciousness Embedded in Engineering Design Courses

This special session will provide an opportunity for educators to learn about critical consciousness and how to embed topics intended to promote the development of critical consciousness in the engineering design curriculum. The authors will present a critical consciousness teaching framework, which incorporates the engineering design process with critical consciousness topics through intergroup dialogue and discussion of engineering innovations. Session participants will engage in interactive activities to understand the framework, ideate how it may be adapted at their own institutions, and review case studies of challenges and affordances of using the teaching framework.