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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Cijy Elizabeth Sunny, Baylor University; Kathleen Koenig, University of Cincinnati

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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

education research community in the U.S. has specified the nature of instructionalstrategies in retaining students in STEM-related courses, with a focus on an integrated STEMcurriculum designed to improve non-cognitive factors, such as interest, while developingpositive attitudes towards STEM [5][6][7]. Interests and attitudes in science develop early in astudent’s life, and it is important to develop these attitudes as they are motivators towardspursuing STEM fields and careers [8] [9]. More recently, the National Academies of Sciences,Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) 2017 report on supporting student’s college success hashighlighted the importance of intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies and the evolvingneed for labor market recruits to

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Srinivas Mohan Dustker, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Bandi Surendra Reddy, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management; Rohit Kandakatla, KG Reddy College of Engineering and Technology; Gopalkrishna H. Joshi, KLE Technological University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

ideas rather than immediately ruling them out because of a closed, stubborn mindset. … I realized that the rest of the semester would look very different from what we originally envisioned, but I also realized that was okay and that it was more important to keep an open mind and remain optimistic about the possibilities still remaining. I believe that both being flexible and keeping an open mind are important skills in many different aspects of life as well as in my future career. Often times, I will face unexpected situations, so I believe it is important to know how to quickly react to ensureIn this quote showing an Emerging level, the student critiques their personal and academicgrowth through

Conference Session

What Are Crucial Barriers and Opportunities to Bring Our Whole Selves to Engineering Education? Moving Watermelons Together

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Ann D. Christy P.E., The Ohio State University; Marybeth Lima P.E., Louisiana State University and A&M College; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Julia D. Thompson, University of San Francisco

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

]Belonging (or not) AutobiographyIn high school, I thought engineering would be a great place for me to belong. The summerbefore my senior year of high school I participated in a 6-week summer research programthrough the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program at the University in myhometown. I was matched with a civil engineering faculty member, Prof. AULE. In the lab, Iwas closely mentored by one of her Master’s level graduate students, ANSP. I felt I belonged.These women became my role models and mentors. I continued working with Prof. AULE pastthe 6-week program - I was hired as an hourly employee for the rest of the summer and workedbasically 40-hours per week in the environmental engineering lab. I enjoyed talking with thegraduate

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Pamela Cristina Silva Diaz, PamLab Design and Engineering; Maggie Favretti, Design Ed 4 Resilience; Nathalia Ospina Uribe; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Marcel Castro-Sitiriche, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Luisa Rosario Seijo-Maldonado; Marian Irizarry, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Javier Moscoso, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Gabriela Alexandra Otero-Andino; Kevin O'neil Crespo Pagan; Laura Sofia Garcia Canto; Grace Amato, Connecticut College; Fernando Antonio Cuevas, University of Puerto Rico; Dulce M. del Rio-Pineda, Mujeres de Islas, Inc.; Reiner F. Simshauser-Arroyo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

challengesin Puerto Rican communities, compounded by the additional constraints and threats imposed bythe COVID-19 pandemic. This led to a decision to recraft a planned summer conference as partof a sponsored research project “Cultivating Responsible Wellbeing in STEM: SocialEngagement through Personal Ethics” (NSF 1449489) into a virtual symposium consistingprincipally of community designers. Thus, we launched the 2020 Co-Creating Symposium, inwhich we aimed to prototype a new model of solution-seeking at the community level which, asnoted previously, would break the pattern of the paternalistic, outsider-driven power dynamics.3. Co-Creating Guiding PrinciplesIn conceiving the Symposium, we asked the following questions: ● How might we create an

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Callie Charleton; Miral Desai, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Carissa Elaine Noriega; Celeste Yi ming Soon Ramseyer; Elise Gooding; Michael S. Reyna, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth L. Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jeff Jones, Cuesta College

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

a loose relationship with connections established by individual faculty orstaff members without formal ties. These individual connections have now grown to includesignificant National Science Foundation (NSF) scholarships in science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (S-STEM) grant known as Engineering Neighbors: Gaining Access, GrowingEngineers (ENGAGE). This creates a partnership between the institutions to support studentsuccess through pre-transfer, during transfer, and post-transfer stages. This is done byminimizing economic barriers and supporting student development in five areas: academic,engineering transfer/career path, personal, connection, and professional. ENGAGE is alsodesigned to create sustainable change so that our