Engagement in Practice: Model for Project-Based Community Engagement [Central American NGO] Case Study
- Conference
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Minneapolis, MN
- Publication Date
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August 23, 2022
- Start Date
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June 26, 2022
- End Date
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June 29, 2022
- Conference Session
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2 - Community Engagement without Frontiers
- Page Count
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7
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--40613
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https://peer.asee.org/40613
- Download Count
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267
Paper Authors
Paul Leidig Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)
Paul A. Leidig is a PhD candidate in Engineering Education and a member of the instructional team for the Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Bachelors of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Masters of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Leidig is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado and has six years of structural engineering consulting experience. He currently consults on learning and talent development programs within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Mr. Leidig has focused on community-engaged engineering and design for over fifteen years.
William Oakes Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)
William (Bill) Oakes is a 150th Anniversary Professor, Director of the EPICS Program, Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and a registered professional engineer. He is one of the founding faculty in the School of Engineering Education having courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering and Curriculum and Instruction. He was the first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning and a co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He is a fellow of ASEE and NSPE.
Steve Crowe
Abstract
The landscape of community-engaged engineering and design is evolving as many global communities have experienced infrastructure development in recent decades, climate change and local crises impact peoples’ environments, and calls grow for more community-led participatory development. Through its years in operation, Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Guatemala has developed approaches for addressing these challenges in their programs, but found a need for a tool to evaluate, communicate, and more effectively implement them with their stakeholders. A Model for Project-Based Community Engagement was developed to facilitate reflection on program design, development, and analysis in just such cases. This recently-created model was applied by EWB Guatemala staff in their work and is presented as a case study here for how the model can be applied. The model is shown to provide an effective framework for reflection on the program’s structures, and the organization plans to further utilize it going forward.
Leidig, P., & Oakes, W., & Crowe, S. (2022, August), Engagement in Practice: Model for Project-Based Community Engagement [Central American NGO] Case Study Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40613
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