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Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hyunjung Ji, The University of Alabama; Sally Grace Shettled, The University of Alabama; Mark Allen Mueller, The University of Alabama; Colby Nicole Putman, The University of Alabama; Amelia Salazar, Sam Houston State University; Laurel Jane Holmes MPH, Energy Alabama; Hyun Jin Kim, The University of Alabama

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construction, engineering,manufacturing, etc. by 2030 [1]. However, as clean energy job opportunities increase, the gapbetween available jobs and qualified workers grows. Education in the U.S. does not emphasizethe clean energy or environmentally friendly behavior, so many students do not see these jobs asa potential career path or even know they exist.Education plays a critical role in helping the United Nations reach its Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) [2]. Environmental education begins with giving children access and opportunitiesto build a relationship with nature, learn about environmental issues and the need for cleanenergy, develop important skills for the clean energy workforce, and inform them of the jobs andcareer paths in clean energy

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session - Exploring the Transformative Power of Service, Engagement, and Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame

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Comparisons SB/Elkhart Advanced Manufacturing SB/Elkhart Affordable Housing SB/Elkhart Design-Thinking Camp SB/Elkhart Food Information Network (FINs) SB/Elkhart Lead Service Lines SB/Elkhart Michiana Community Health Coalition SB/Elkhart SB Public Works Complete Streets Louisville Beargrass Creek Louisville Food Justice Louisville Empathic Design for Pedestrians Youngstown Neighborhood Development Youngstown SIMUN (Street Information Mapping Unit).Together, the elements of this internship experience were expected to show positive impacts onfactors related to career discernment, among other outcomes. For example, with mentorship,findings have shown that for students working with an academic leader such

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Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ezequiel Aleman, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Ethan Paul Ruchotzke; Michael Brown, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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. As a team we planned a three day game design workshop for middle school students that: ● fosters interest in computer science careers by exposing students to basic programming concepts; ● encourages the development of ethical decision-making capacities by designing games that address contemporary challenges in adolescents’ lives; and ● harnesses the motivational affordances of games to encourage students to engage in interest driven learning.Game Jam workshops are potentially well suited to achieving the goals we note above because of their open-ended nature [3]. Game jams build on the affordances of games, offering youth a playful and agenticperspective on design and problem solving, while exposing them to basic

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Community Engagement Division 4 - Cultivating Engineering Excellence through Mentorship and Humanitarian Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; Amelia Elizabeth Cook, Lipscomb University; Lewis Ngwenya, Lipscomb University; Hannah Grace Duke, Lipscomb University

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. She primarily teaches thermal-fluid sciences as well as introductory and advanced design courses.Amelia Elizabeth Cook, Lipscomb University Amelia Cook is an undergraduate student in the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering at Lipscomb University. Amelia is studying mechanical engineering and, following her graduation, will be starting her career in engineering consulting as an EIT. She is currently researching the connections of humanitarian engineering projects affecting views of diversity, inclusion, equity, and professional development.Lewis Ngwenya, Lipscomb University Lewis Ngwenya is an undergraduate student at Lipscomb University. He is studying electrical and com- puter engineering and plans to get some

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Connor Becerril; Joanna D. Kinsey, Quinnipiac University; Courtney McGinnis, Quinnipiac University; John E. Greenleaf, P.E., Quinnipiac University; Kimberly DiGiovanni, Quinnipiac University

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undergraduate research experience to the student, a selection of Likert-scale and open-ended survey questions were evaluated, specifically: 1. How would you rate the QUIP-RS program overall? (5-point Likert scale with options of Excellent-Very Good-Good-Fair-Poor) 2. How do you feel that the QUIP-RS program has supported your ambitions and/or impacted your future career? (Open-ended) 3. What do you consider to have been the best aspect(s) of your experience with QUIP-RS? (Open-ended) 4. What outcomes (e.g., conference presentations, articles, projects, poster presentations, etc.) do you expect from your QUIP-RS project? (open-ended)These questions are part of a 20-question assessment survey administered through

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Community Engagement Division 5 - Nurturing Well-Being and Promoting Awareness

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University

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setting financial goals for the future. • Access to insurance Engaging in work • Understanding career paths that is meaningful, Occupa- • Awareness of personal skills and interests tional enjoyable and aligns • Engaging in professional development with personal values. • Networking with alumni and other working professionals Establishing a sense • Joining organizations, clubs, or community groups of connection and • Connection to

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sydney Donohue, University of New Mexico; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico

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motivations and hindrances questions as well as qualitativeanalysis on students’ experiences and attitudes exhibit four main trends.Outreach Trend 1: Students enjoy attending outreach and find it helpful to themselves andto societyAll 19 (100%) respondents reported that improving teaching or communication skills had animpact on their volunteerism (Figure 1). An engineering student said, “It is important tounderstand how to present your [research] field to many diverse groups.” 17/19 (89%) ofparticipants reported “Fun or Enjoyment” having an impact on why they volunteer for thesebroader impact outreach events. 16/19 (84%) students believe that participating in outreach willhelp them in their future careers. For example, one student said, “By

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Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marissa H. Forbes, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego

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some cases, they were personally impacted by them. For example,one student hadn’t previously considered engineering as related to social justice. She wasn’tinterested in pursuing a career in the technical-focused engineering field, but after seeing theconnections between engineering and social justice, she had a change of heart and wasreconsidering that decision: I also learned that engineering can involve social justice issues as well. Before, I did not think I would end up pursuing any sort of career in engineering because I never enjoyed the technical aspects of what was previously required. Once introduced to our project, I was intrigued to not only address modern sustainable food systems through methods

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Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick Sours, The Ohio State University; Cherish Vance, The Ohio State University; Tylesha D. Drayton, The Ohio State University

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focus. • Provide students with experiential learning opportunities to develop and work directly with sustainable technologies and community development efforts. • Support team-based, multidisciplinary, experiential learning opportunities that engage students at multiple points in their academic careers: from introductory and survey courses to capstone design and research initiatives. • Exposing students to the skills, materials and techniques associated with the global challenges in sustainable development. • Provide accessible meeting space for student teams to work on engineering for sustainable development initiatives, interact with internal and external partners, and support

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Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marian K. Zaki, Houston Christian University

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, computer architecture, full-stack development, and cryptography and networks security. Her research interests lie at the intersection of security and distributed systems. Marian has received several awards during her career for teaching, mentorship, excellence in research, and for her contribu- tions in building the Computer Science and Cyber Engineering programs at the College of Science and Engineering at HCU. She enjoys mentoring students and building connections and partnerships with the community and industry to bring real-world problems for her students to work on. She is currently leading the AR development group in the department, as well as multiple academia-nonprofit students projects

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session - Exploring the Transformative Power of Service, Engagement, and Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Selvin Yovani Tobar; Bara Maisara Zalloum; Anna N. Le; Yessenia Nicacio-Rosales; Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College- One of the City Colleges of Chicago

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aptitude [2]. When community service is integrated into a school’s curriculum, it hasbeen found to increase students’ enjoyment of learning, academic motivation, and performance[2-3]. In adults, reports have shown that volunteering improves physical and mental health,boosts self-esteem, and increases overall happiness [4]. Students who support communityengagement initiatives such as volunteering related to their discipline, gain applicable experienceand advocate for their careers [5].Service learning is one type of community service in which projects are assigned within astudent’s curriculum [6]. Within the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM), [7] research has been conducted on how to improve student retention

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session - Exploring the Transformative Power of Service, Engagement, and Research

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expectations, about half of thestudents interviewed had their general expectations met, while the other half had theirexpectations challenged. Students who felt a strong connection to their local community anduniversity had the most positive perceptions of their outreach work with respect to botheffectively gathering data for the research and building skill sets for future careers. Studentsfound that there was a stark contrast between the perceptions of flooding in rural, private localesversus urban, shared community regions. The strong ties of regional universities to local ruralcommunities, as well as the increased willingness of the public to speak to student researchers,were both found to be important aspects of study effectiveness. Results from

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Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen M. Conroy, The Ohio State University; Patrick Sours, The Ohio State University; Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University; Rachel Marie Tuttle

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Humanitarian Engineering CourseDesignAn introductory Humanitarian Engineering course was developed and incorporated into theminor. This course focuses on contextualizing skills [9], empathy building, and fostering studentself-awareness regarding their positionality in colonial contexts and power dynamics as it relatesto community-engaged design work [12], [13].The initial course covered content on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals,global lifestyles and assumption making, global natural resource and technology distributions,colonization, valuing ways of knowing, traditional ecological knowledge, participatorydevelopment practices, career paths in HE, social impact companies, supply chainconsiderations, reflection techniques, and several

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Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roneisha Wynette Worthy, Kennesaw State University; Amy Borello Gruss, Kennesaw State University

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roles to bolster motivation toward degree completionand a career in the field, particularly, when it comes to women [8]. This finding was reinforced inthis study with many of the reflection responses codes under this theme coming from participantswho identify as women. Some of the statements of the participants are as follows: “I have always thought volunteering was an amazing way to contribute to the community.” (Student 3 – Hispanic Woman) “I always look for opportunities like this to volunteer. I feel like this is how I got connected to engineering so I should give back and do the same.” (Student 18 – African American Woman – 1st Generation) “Giving back to the community is a part of our role as human

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khalid Oladeji Bello, University of Louisville; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Hazel Marie, Youngstown State University ; Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame

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uniqueopportunity for students to collaborate with community members and achieve the program'sshort-term and long-term goals. In this program, students were randomly assigned to teamswhich may have had an effect on their satisfaction levels based on the feedback from thestudents. Future work will focus on developing a project skill matrix to effectively assignstudents to community projects while considering factors such as project interest, career goal andteam dynamics. In addition, more work will be done on expanding the projects to othercommunity needs, related topics and regions. Multi-site data will be collected and analyzed tocompare the similarities and differences between the different project sites.ReferencesAnderson, S. G. (2002). Engaging

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Community Engagement Division 4 - Cultivating Engineering Excellence through Mentorship and Humanitarian Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ping-Chuan Wang, State University of New York, New Paltz; Wenyen Huang, State University of New York, New Paltz; Graham Werner, State University of New York, New Paltz ; Darren Wang, Stony Brook University ; James M. Amodio, John Jay High School, Wappingers Central School District

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Paper ID #38830Robotics Mentorship as a Cross-Disciplinary Platform to FosterEngineering Soft SkillsDr. Ping-Chuan Wang, State University of New York, New Paltz Ping-Chuan Wang is Assistant Professor in the Division of Engineering Programs at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. He received his doctorate degree in Materials Science and Engineer- ing from Columbia University in 1997. After a career in the semiconductor industry, he joined SUNY New Paltz in 2018 with research interests in microelectronics reliability, additive manufacturing, and interdisciplinary engineering education.Dr. Wenyen Huang, State

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hannah Cooke, University of Connecticut; Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, University of Connecticut; Todd Campbell, University of Connecticut; Chester Arnold; Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut; Byung-Yeol Park, University of Connecticut; Peter C. Diplock

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Program Assistant for the National Institute of Health’s Maximizing Access to Research Careers Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research program in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida. Her new book, The Latinization of Indigenous Students, comes out spring 2023 with Lexington Books.Todd Campbell, University of ConnecticutChester ArnoldDr. Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut Maria Chrysochoou is a Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut.Byung-Yeol Park, University of ConnecticutPeter C. Diplock ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Community