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Celena Miller, University of Texas Austin - Center for Space Research ; Margaret Baguio, University of Texas at Austin

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for Education and Outreach for NASA’s Texas Space Grant Consortium at The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Space Research. She has over 30 years education experience including classroom teaching, as a 4-H and Youth Extension Agent for the Texas Agri-life Extension Service, managed a USDA Science and Literacy grant for underrepresented and un- derserved youth, and provides space education programs for teachers at students in her current position with Texas Space Grant Consortium. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas State Univer- sity, post-graduate work at Texas A & M University and a Masters in Education from The University of Houston. American

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Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Nathan Howell, College of Engineering, West Texas A&M University; Erick Benjamin Butler, West Texas A&M University; Vinu Unnikrishnan, West Texas A&M University

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Howell, Kenneth Leitch, Vinu Unnikrishnan, and Erick Butler Civil and Environmental Engineering College of Engineering, West Texas A&M UniversityAbstractEngineering education literature provides evidence for many positive impacts from Service-Learning (SL)on engineering students and young engineering professionals. Traditionally most engineering courseworkis heavy on hard science and math and very light on courses involving social sciences. Four faculty (allnoted as co-authors) from West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) advised or led in two different civiland environmental engineering senior design student groups in a SL opportunity in Amarillo, TX in the2019-20 school year. We worked with a local

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Monikka M. Mann, Texas Tech University; George Tan, Texas Tech University

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theirpresence is in alignment with appropriate social etiquette and communication skills. In addition, another area where cooperative learning is especially impactful is in the developmentof employability skills. Employability skills refer to those basic skills that are necessary for anindividual to obtain, maintain, and succeed in meaningful employment. Students expect to leaveschool after having gained the skills, knowledge and ability to earn a job [38]. These skills include notonly basic academic skills but higher-level thinking skills and the so-called “soft skills” such as timemanagement, communication, punctuality and cooperation [39]. Research Based Teaching Practices (RBTPs)As briefly discussed earlier, Research Based

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Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Robert Harold Lightfoot Jr, Texas A&M University; Drew Steven Casey, Texas A&M University; Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University

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inclusive classroom. The teaching fellows arecurrently writing up their results for FIE submission. The Research Faculty Fellows meet weekly to plan and design classroom experiments in theirown classroom, write NSF proposals, and give feedback on each other's work and publications. Manyof the participants found the training on how to write strong research proposals highly valuable andcommented that the group provided valuable insight and feedback into the proposal writing process.The grant writing training includes tips and guidelines for how to write a research proposal, plan atimeline, budget the project, involve the best collaborators, and create project management andpersonnel documents such as a biosketch and facilities description