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Jordan F. Ermilio, Center for Humanitarian Engineering and International Development, College of Engineering, Villanova University

providing remote technical assistance that includes students, faculty andprofessional mentors volunteering expertise to assist with humanitarian projects in developingcommunities. This paper provides an overview of the program design with an emphasis on the verticalintegration of projects across undergraduate and graduate engineering programs. Details on the curricularaspects of the program as well as a participatory framework that includes depth and breadth of opportunityis provided. The motivation for this paper is to demonstrate best-practices in engineering service-learningwith the objective of highlighting the role of academic institutions when engaging with humanitarianorganizations internationally. The design and execution of the

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Kyle P Fuller, Northeastern University; Andrew J Lopreiato, Northeastern University; Raiden L Schodowski, Northeastern Univeristy; Alec W Silverman, Northeastern University; Samantha L Bowman, Northeastern University; Caitlynn E. Tov, Northeastern University; Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University

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First Year Engineering program. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Development of a Surgical Lamp for Ethiopia by Undergraduate Innovators for Global HealthAbstractFor populations in low-resource countries, access to proper healthcare is often hindered by a lackof functional medical equipment. In these settings, equity requires adjustment of traditionalengineering design priorities to maximize usability and benefit to the healthcare facility.Minimalism, efficiency, and on-the-ground practical value must be prioritized overembellishment, complexity, and state-of-the-art features.Northeastern University Innovators for Global Health (NU-IGH) is a student organization

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Mike Simard PE, Villanova University

failure rate that is 75% lower than those who do not, see Table 1 [1].Research also shows that project management regularly ranks high on the list of essential skillsthat experienced practitioners say new engineering graduates need [2]. Fundamental technical content takes up the bulk of the typical undergraduate engineeringcurriculum, leaving little room for a course that would focus on both the hard and soft skills ofproject management. However, the importance of developing engineering students’ projectmanagement skills should not be discounted. Standard practice is to include a one or twosemester design project for senior engineering students, often referred to as the capstone course.Such courses are an ideal forum for providing project

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Eileen Haase PhD, The Johns Hopkins University

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project helped them tounderstand both an injustice within society and how to apply the design process to solve a need.They also felt the deliverables for the Health Inequity project (elevator pitch, design criteria,final presentation) required both teamwork and professional skills.The guest speakers had a powerful impact on the freshmen. Speakers included an ER clinicianwho treated a child seriously ill from a neglected tooth, an entrepreneur motivated by hismother’s cancer diagnosis to develop a start-up in digital pathology, a faculty member whodeveloped a mathematical model for accurately diagnosing sepsis, and a researcher sharing datafrom her work on the lack of diversity in clinical trials for prostate cancer treatment, particularlyamong

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Dimitrios Stroumbakis PE, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College

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served on two national industry standards groups and as core Team member, received two industry awards ”Cisco’s Optics Supplier of the Year” Award and ”IBM’s Quality Partner of the Year” Award. Dimitri is an Assistant Professor at Queensborough Community College (CUNY) and has a strong in- terests in leveraging instructional technology, Flipped Class Room Learning, and online student-centered pedagogy. He is a strong advocate of authentic industry partnering at several levels to enhance students’ job-readiness upon graduating. Dimitri’s recent research has been in Micro-Fluidics Systems for DNA sequencing applications. American c Society for Engineering

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Aaron P. Wemhoff, Villanova University

sequence had been offered five times, withthe most recent offering in Fall 2020/Spring 2021 being the focus for this study.EGR 9200 provides the theory and some practice in applying engineering pedagogy to lessondelivery and syllabi development. The course cohort is taught well-established methods toimprove student engagement and learning [9, 10], to reduce cheating [11], to address all learningstyles [12], to promote inclusiveness in the classroom [13], and to structure courses aroundpsychological principles such as Bloom’s taxonomy [14]. The EGR 9200 course schedule alsoincludes three guest lectures to introduce the students to issues and opportunities outside ofstandard teaching: 1. A leader of the Villanova University Counseling Center

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Jamie R Gurganus, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Tanner J Huffman, The College of New Jersey; Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado Boulder

Paper ID #35262Informing Authentic P-12 Engineering Outreach EffortsDr. Jamie R Gurganus, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Jamie Gurganus is the undergraduate program coordinator and a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UMBC, Director for the Center for the innovative, teaching, research and learning and she is the Associate Director of Engineering Education Initiatives at COEIT. Her research is focused on solving problems relating to educating and developing engineers, teachers, and the community at all levels (k12, undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and faculty development). She

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Frank E. Falcone P.E., Villanova University; Gayle F Doyle, Villanova University

semester for a mandatory total of three credits earned for the firstthree years of the Career Compass Program.The overall goals of Career Compass are to provide professional guidance and to develop a senseof personal awareness within each student such that he/she proactively searches for and finds apost-graduation career path best suited to his/her professional interests and personal aspirations.Development of the Career Compass ProgramCurrently, many technical institutions and colleges of engineering offer a range of professionaldevelopment activities and programs [2], [3]. Over the past two decades, The College ofEngineering at Villanova University has organized events generally centered around on-campus