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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5
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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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at the community college leveldifficult. This paper will outline the process, activities, and barriers to successfully establishingthe first community college chapter of EWB while strengthening ties between the university andlocal community college.Cuesta is one of 114 California community colleges and a Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI)(over 33% of students are Latinx) with an enrollment of approximately 10,000 students peryear in credit-granting programs at its main campus in San Luis Obispo. Cuesta hashistorically served a large percentage of students (50%) outside of its service area. However,as noted in its 2011-16 master plan [3], this is shifting due to changing educationalneeds/populations in the county.Cal Poly is committed to a
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2
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Ebenezer Rotimi Ewumi, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University; Candis S. Claiborn, Washington State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University
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HIEPinvolvement. For example, HIEP's participation rates on different engineering and computerscience majors, including civil, chemical, electrical, mechanical, and materials engineering, etc.,are analyzed to examine the practices that work for a particular E/CS major. The present studyreports findings from NSSE 2012 and 2017 surveys.Results show that, among the E/CS seniors, service-learning, learning community, and studyabroad program are the HIEP with the highest non-participation rate with 41% (service-learning),59% (learning community), and 68% (study abroad program), indicating that they do not plan toengage in these practices in their senior year. Conversely, internships, and culminating seniorexperiences had the most participation among E/CS
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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2
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William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette; Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Andrew Pierce, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Jorge Martinez
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consistency across teams. Each sectioncomprises multiple project teams. A common design process, where interactions withcommunity partners is central, guides students through the design process. Once a project isdelivered, a new project is identified by students, their faculty mentor(s) and communitypartner(s). Example projects include assistive technology, database software for human servicesagencies, and energy-efficient and affordable housing solutions [1-3].Spring 2020 move to onlineLike many campuses, Purdue University moved online in March of 2020 and sent students homewhere possible. This began an odyssey that would last into 2021. The major milestones areshown in Figure 1. Before the formal announcement, the staff prepared plans to move to
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6
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Jay H. Arehart, University of Colorado Boulder; Kathryn Langenfeld, University of Michigan; Brenton Kreiger
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the communities or do not always provide theexpected long-term benefits to communities. For example, in water, sanitation, and hygiene(WASH) projects, the extensive monitoring, evaluation, and maintenance required for effectiveWASH interventions decrease the likelihood student-led projects will be successful in positivelyimpacting a community’s health over the intended design life [8], [9]. Furthermore, theconstraints of the academic calendar and the high turnover rate of students from year-to-yearoften results in students only being engaged for a single year, while many infrastructure projectstake multiple years to complete from planning to construction to monitoring and evaluation.As a result, it is often a challenge to identify service
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6
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Patrick Sours, Ohio State University; Michael J. Hagenberger, Ohio State University
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-world projects, and 4. propose a continuous improvement plan for the course sequence.Course Development HistoryThe global capstone course sequence was created to give students an engineering experience in a real-world, global development context. This was first offered in the 2015-2016 academic year as a projectoption in a traditional civil engineering capstone (CE Capstone) course sequence for students interestedin working on a humanitarian engineering project. The initial project was a water supply, treatment anddistribution project in collaboration with a rural community in Tanzania. Due to the growth in popularityof the Tanzania project and minor differences in course deliverables that created student confusion, aseparate section
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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2
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Camille Velarde, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Estike Kokovay Gutierrez
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activities. They identify learningneeds, plan and implement the activity or curriculum, assess the learning outcomes, and makedecisions about how and to whom outcomes are reported, whereas the organization providessupport when needed or invited. Full community control demonstrates a great degree of equityand power sharing, with the community as the authority.Fourth, the community has agency over the outcomes, while acknowledging that educationaloutcomes are influenced by social, economic and structural factors. Thus, mature projectsinclude interventions also address social, political or economic barriers to participation. In suchprojects, community members collect and control their own data, and their own narrative, andthe data are used in ways that
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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2
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Cijy Elizabeth Sunny, Baylor University; Kathleen Koenig, University of Cincinnati
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attain these non-cognitive competencies, which are goals for K-12 and higher education [10].Given the raised awareness for the importance of these non-cognitive skills, assessmentsdeveloped to measure these are essential. As per the NASEM report recommendations, thespecific skills or constructs need to be clearly conceptualized and must be designed, developed,analyzed, and interpreted based on stakeholder needs [10]. The purpose of this research paper isto introduce a new and innovative methodology to the engineering education researchcommunity, named Concept Mapping [11], which has traditionally been used in evaluation andprogram planning in the health sciences. This methodology will be explained in the context ofhow it was used in developing
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6
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Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University; Jeff Wood, Stanford University
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STEM and coaches a robotics team comprised of girls from 22 high schools. Shoshanah holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford, an MA in Technology Strategy from Boston University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.Mr. Jeff Wood, Stanford University Goal: Make a difference in the world, through development and training of engineers to solve the most pressing problems facing the world today. ME Capstone Course and Lab Project Development Director Jeff is the ME Capstone Course and Lab Projects Development Director at Stanford, where he brings his 25-year industry experience to the role. He is responsible for the ongoing strategy, design, curriculum plan and instruction plans for capstone courses
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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1
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Reed Marshall ; Daylen James McGhee, United States Military Academy; Lixrine Epie Ngeme, United States Military Academy; Joseph Carl Price ; Aaron T. Hill Jr., United States Military Academy; Brad C. McCoy, United States Military Academy; Kevin P. Arnett P.E., United States Military Academy
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self-motivation, distractions, technical issues,and computer illiteracy. These virtual issues are huge, problematic factors that affect studentsacross the board, regardless of the subject matter. However, given than many already perceivethat STEM subjects are too hard to begin with make it even more difficult for teachers trying toeducate and inspire students in a virtual environment. Taking all this into consideration, it isimperative for faculty to effectively plan an outreach that provides an environment for studentsto feel comfortable venturing into fields of studies which they do not feel comfortable with.Building upon this current body of knowledge, our outreach plan sought to integrate necessaryaspects of teaching that would be fun
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2
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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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-building, for example, community designers(especially youth) are rarely in the lead. Often, the sense of urgency in a disaster recoverysituation creates a “help the helpless” mindset among aid agencies, and also creates a timeausterity that conflicts with listening, building local consensus, and modifying recovery plans [1][2] [3]. Few funding channels are open to community teams to design and implement their ownsolutions. It is difficult for community designers to access scholarly research and technicalengineering, and difficult for sophisticated engineers to embrace simple, inexpensive solutions.To put this in perspective, we understand development approaches in general, and disaster reliefapproaches in particular, to fall under one of four
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2
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Wookwon Lee P.E., Gannon University; Pezhman Hassanpour P.E., Gannon University; Saeed Tiari, Gannon University
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results with those previously reported in the literature [1] that was also studied forfreshmen's SLP activities in traditional circumstances but based on physical in-lab activities. SRLis regarded as a complex repository of knowledge and skills for planning, implementing, Table 3. Questionnaire on Student Learning Outcomes Question Q1-a: The Service-Learning Project activities in FYSE provided me with an opportunity to improve my ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. Q1-b: Participating in the Service-Learning Project activities in FYSE, I have improved my ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. Q2-a: The
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6
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Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Timothy W. Mays, The Citadel; Rebekah Burke P.E., The Citadel; Kweku Tekyi Brown P.E., The Citadel; John C. Ryan, The Citadel
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Copeland Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Construction Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. His academic experience includes: trans- portation infrastructure planning and design, infrastructure resilience, traffic operations, highway safety, and geographic information systems. His research interests include: constructing spatial databases for better management of transportation infrastructure, improving transportation design, operation, safety and construction, understanding long-term effects of urban development patterns, and advancing active living within the built environment for improved public health. He teaches courses in interchange design, transportation engineering, highway design
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4
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Angela L. Chan, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
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invitation to “make the space their own” [3]. Senses of playfulness andcommunity is also a key component of game jams to generate creativity and innovation [28].The structure should align with the type of participants recruited and intended educationaloutcomes. If a hackathon decides on an open format with little facilitation, which is more typicalof technical events, preliminary planning can ensure inclusivity in team formation and idea-pitching [9]. Understanding priorities, such as technical education versus ideation, can bebeneficial. Think Global Hack Local partnered teams with local organizations to produce webtools, reducing potential harm by directly providing a requested product while increasing drivefor civic participation [4]. On the
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4
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Ziliang Zhou, California Baptist University
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proctors and graders. Over theyears, hosting math competitions had become the most common service opportunity for theengineering students. Our students not only enjoyed the service activity but also appreciated theconnection with the prospect engineering students.During the competitions, we also opened our labs for tours and showed the competing studentsand parents the connections between the math and the engineering professions.This paper will outline the detail process of hosting math competitions (MATHCOUNTS formiddle school and AMC10/12/AIME for high school), the preliminary impact of thisengagement, the key lessons learned, and the future research plan for quantitative assessment ofthe impact.The overall objective of this work is to share our
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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1
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Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Paula Davis Lampley Esq., University of Cincinnati; Krizia Leonela Cabrera-Toro, University of Cincinnati
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. The stories shared in the classroom are impactful. Depending on the narrative, aparticular story could convey a message that people of color do not belong in the engineeringfield. In addition, such narratives may create stereotypes that educators continue to perpetuate.WOCSEC provided a safe place for female engineers of color to act as storytellers as they sharedtheir experiences while in college and in their careers. Their stories were impactful and provideda space for counter-narratives that were rich with authentic discussions regarding the realities ofmatriculating as a female of color in engineering.University InitiativeIn 2018, the University of Cincinnati adopted a strategic plan with three major platforms:academic excellence, urban
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5
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Lamyaa El-Gabry, Princeton University; Martina Sherin Jaskolski
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Engineering equal numbers of male and female students wereselected from AUC and Princeton. The wind pump was intended to serve as a test vehicle for useof wind energy in this community. It was moderately successful but because of its relative lowflow rates, it did not have a huge impact on the community (unless the diesel engine was brokenor out of fuel in which case it was better than nothing). While the wind pump could not producesufficient water for flood irrigation, it can produce enough water for other low-water usageagricultural methods like small integrated protected systems or hydroponics.For the second edition of the programmed planned for the Summer 2020, the team was to designan integrated aquaculture and hydroponic system for El Heiz that
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4
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Rajani Muraleedharan, Saginaw Valley State University; Marie Cassar, Saginaw Valley State University
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technology (3 items), feelings of confidence whenworking independently, online learning, when working in teams, and when challenged (5 items).Finally, seven items from the Student Attitudes Toward STEM Survey ask students about futureacademic plans and personal contacts with individuals working in STEM-related careers.The pre-post intervention survey also includes the six items comprising the Revised ImplicitTheories of Intelligence (Self-Theory) Scale [4]. These items assess the degree to which studentsreport the belief in a growth mindset for intelligence. The items ask students to indicate agreementwith statements about the malleability of a person’s intelligence level, indicative of a growthmindset, using a 6-point Likert scale. The final three
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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1
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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University
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addition to thestudents in the program, family members were invited to participate in the activities so that itbecame more of a family affair than simply a student-only program. Twelve students participatedin the program that was remotely delivered over a period of two months. A pre-program survey ofthe participants was performed before the start of the program and a post-program survey wasconducted after the program. Additional details of the program, the surveys, and the measuredlearning outcomes will be presented in this paper along with plans for program expansion.IntroductionPhiladelphia has the highest poverty rate among the largest 10 cities in the country[1]. Reflectiveof the high poverty rate, Philadelphia residents are more likely than
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6
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Nathalie Al Kakoun, Swansea University; Frederic Boy, Swansea University; Patricia Xavier, Swansea University
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data indicating the number of the healthy versus the ill, the numberof the educated versus the uneducated and the number of the employed versus theunemployed, for example).We also provided them with a Matrix of Basic Human Needs, designed by Max-Neef [95].The matrix incorporates and lists all basic human needs that typically have to be met in orderto live a satisfactory life.Maps and plans of either district (along with residential listings and form of occupation –domestic or business) were also given to the students. This was to give them an insight on the‘urbanisation’ of either district and of the road networks, to facilitate the designers’understanding of the environmental and cultural scenario/status they are to ‘deal with’.This Human
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5
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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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emerginglevel. A key takeaway from Figure 1 is that no student was reflecting at the surface level by theend of the semester.In this quote is an example of Deep Level reflection. The student is reflecting on the wholesemester from multiple perspectives, while also recognizing the conflicts and acknowledging thedifferences. Thus, this student is critically thinking at the Deep level. …, I have learned the importance of flexibility and keeping an open mind. After school was called off and classes moved online midway through the semester, everything changed, and we had to quickly change our entire plan. … Remaining frustrated and stuck on our old plans and ideas of how the semester was supposed to go would only slow our
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2
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Greg Rulifson P.E., USAID; Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines
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,stakeholders and the general public” in the post-survey. Two students did not include thecommunity as the stakeholder who approves of a company’s operations, and four more chose notto try to define the SLO in the pre-survey.All seventeen students had an advanced definition of SLO by the end of the course. One goodexample of advancing understanding is Student 231, whose pre-course definition did not includethe community at all, “A license that a business has to obtain to operate.” By the end of thecourse, they defined the SLO as “a verbal contract between a company and the community inwhich it plans to operate, allowing the company to conduct its business in that place.”Q10: How does a company best know it has a social license to operate?In responding
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5
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Scott Gerald Shall, Lawrence Technological University
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. (2012). Housing and Slum Upgrading. Retrieved fromhttps://unhabitat.org/urban-themes/housing-slum-upgrading.UN-Habitat. (2015). Streets as Public Spaces and Drivers of Urban Prosperity. Habitat III: IssuePapers, 22 – Informal Settlements. Retrieved from https://unhabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Habitat-III-Issue-Paper-22_Informal-Settlements-2.0.pdfWorld Health Organization. (2000). Informal Settlement Report. Retrieved fromhttp://www.who.int/ceh/indicators/informalsettlements.pdfi Cities of the future will be largely extra-legal. Most will not be planned, will not conform to anybuilding regulations and will not be built on land that is legally owned. These cities will not bemapped, permitted or otherwise documented. (WHO, 2000)ii
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4
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Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas Eric Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology
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a key factor, both creating the workshop and implementing it. The same facultymembers are involved with these three programs. They also train the student volunteers to runthe workshop smoothly. Since most of the STEM program participants are female, SWEmembers play role models in those events. Most SWE members are enthusiastic in promotingSTEM to young girls and high school students. Depending on the number of participants, thenumber of volunteers varies. For the Girl Scout events, we typically need more than 30volunteers, so planning ahead to make sure we have enough volunteers is key to success.SWE organize the annual Girl Scout event, most volunteers are from SWE club, there are someother professional clubs on campus to help out as well
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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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it atry.I felt a sense of culture shock becoming a new assistant professor at an R1 university as a 26-year old. I was burnt out from my PhD, having defended and finalized by dissertation in Augustimmediately before coming to Ux. The department didn’t seem very welcoming. From thefaculty search that hired me, two people were hired - myself and a Hispanic male. Thedepartment got an extra faculty line since perhaps we both qualified as ‘diversity hires.’ Somefaculty in the department seemed to resent that. And the resources planned for the position (labspace, funds) were simply cut in half. I felt somewhat alone, and a message of ‘sink or swim’was conveyed by the department chair and many faculty. I certainly didn’t feel that I belonged. Ifelt
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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2
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Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette
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of the model offered opportunities to explicitly definestakeholders as well as to illuminate and discuss both the recourses provided and the valuegained by each of the various stakeholders through the engagement project deliverables andprocess.IntroductionCommunity-engaged learning or service-learning is the integration of academic learning withwork that supports the greater good within local or global communities in order to enhance theacademic learning, address needs within the community, and to give students broader learningopportunities about themselves and society at large. Within engineering, the pedagogy is oftenused in design or project-based experiences where a physical deliverable, software program,design, or plan is produced as a