2021 PCEE Paper Award Winners
The PCEE Division awards two annual awards: The PCEE Best Paper Award, and the PCEE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.
2021 PCEE BEST PAPER AWARD WINNER
Observing Empathy in Informal Engineering Activities with Girls Ages 7-14 (RTP, Diversity)

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Paper Authors
Susan M. Letourneau New York Hall of Science
orcid.org/0000-0001-8115-6063
Dorothy Bennett New York Hall of Science
ChangChia James Liu New York Hall of Science
orcid.org/0000-0003-1173-6817
Yessenia Argudo New York Hall of Science
Kylie Peppler University of California, Irvine
Anna Keune Ruhr-University Bochum
Maggie Dahn University of California, Irvine
orcid.org/0000-0001-5982-8169
Katherine McMillan Culp New York Hall of Science
CITATION: Letourneau, S. M., & Bennett, D., & Liu, C. J., & Argudo, Y., & Peppler, K., & Keune, A., & Dahn, M., & Culp, K. M. (2021, July), Observing Empathy in Informal Engineering Activities with Girls Ages 7-14 (RTP, Diversity) Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. https://peer.asee.org/37531
2021 PCEE BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION
Enhancing Preservice Teachers’ Intention to Integrate Engineering through a Multi-Disciplinary Partnership (Evaluation)
Paper Authors:
- Francisco Cima Old Dominion University
- Pilar Pazos Old Dominion University orcid.org/0000-0003-4348-7798
- Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University
- Kristie S. Gutierrez, Old Dominion University orcid.org/0000-0002-9339-7574
- Stacie I. Ringleb, Old Dominion University
- Orlando M. Ayala, Old Dominion University
- Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University orcid.org/0000-0002-8095-938X
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CITATION: Cima, F., & Pazos, P., & Kidd, J. J., & Gutierrez, K. S., & Ringleb, S. I., & Ayala, O. M., & Kaipa, K. (2021, July), Enhancing Preservice Teachers’ Intention to Integrate Engineering through a Multi-Disciplinary Partnership (Evaluation) Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. https://peer.asee.org/37084
2021 PCEE BEST DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION PAPER AWARD WINNER
Elementary Teachers’ Verbal Support of Engineering Integration in an Interdisciplinary Project (Fundamental, Diversity)

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CITATION: Lilly, S. C., & McAlister, A. M., & Chiu, J. L. (2021, July), Elementary Teachers’ Verbal Support of Engineering Integration in an Interdisciplinary Project (Fundamental, Diversity) Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. https://peer.asee.org/37020
2021 PCEE BEST DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION PAPER HONORABLE MENTION
Middle School Engineering Teachers’ Enactment of Pedagogies Rooted in Funds of Knowledge and Translanguaging: A Comparative Case Study (Fundamental)
Paper Authors:
- Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University
- Jorge Americo Acosta Feliz
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CITATION: Wilson-Lopez, A., & Acosta Feliz, J. A. (2021, July), Middle School Engineering Teachers’ Enactment of Pedagogies Rooted in Funds of Knowledge and Translanguaging: A Comparative Case Study (Fundamental) Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. https://peer.asee.org/37505
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