Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

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

, control of how potential NGO partners develop andenact accountability towards constituents and values, ETH programs can have influence onhow NGO partners put effectiveness into practice. For example, ETH design projects can bethought through from the outset with embeddedness in mind by ensuring that data-gatheringin community only happens after enough trust building has taken place between thecommunity and NGO partners. In doing so, engineering teams can ensure that the quality ofthe data informing design projects is reliable and trustworthy.ETH teams can also influence what NGOs do with their organizational flexibility. Forexample, engineering teams can invite NGO staff to have more involved participation inproblem definition/solutions with

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

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

central component of the value for the community partners. Thisdiffers from many of the early adopters of service-learning, where the service was typicallydefined as time spent within the community or in the partner organization [1]. Nearly 90% of thestudents studied in Where’s the Learning in Service-Learning [2] were from placement-basedapproaches. It is not surprising, therefore, that many of the models for community-engagedlearning were designed with placement-based approaches in mind. While such models can beuseful in engineering, they lack the context of the project experience that adds dimensions notaddressed in earlier models. A project deliverable is central to many engineering experiences,while the project process, including activities