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Royce A Francis, The George Washington University; James P Ferguson, The George Washington University

graduates do notface a critical thinking “skills gap,” but a “context gap” upon entry to the workplace due to thesituatedness of engineering work and communication practices. While it may not be possible within theundergraduate education context to fully replicate the contexts graduates will face in practice, coursesdesigned with a focus on engineering judgment and critical thinking as enacted through writing processesmay adequately simulate aspects of engineering work contexts in ways that require students to strengthentheir critical thinking skills. Furthermore, the literature suggests that unstructured, team-based projectswith extensive communication requirements such as a written report, oral presentation, or proposal maypermit greater student

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Charlotte Gottilla, University of Delaware

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an interest in humanitarian engineering for international development, particularly related to energy access and sustainability, which she hopes to further pursue after graduation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Lessons Learned: Looking Back at Ten Years of Student Engagement in Malawi through Engineers Without BordersAbstractThe Engineers Without Borders (EWB) program at the University of Delaware (UD) hassupported a water access project in Malawi since 2014, assessing, constructing, monitoring, andrepairing borehole well projects in four communities. UD’s EWB chapter, a student-run,faculty-advised organization with professional engineer mentors and nonprofit partnerships

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Alexa Joelle Prince, Pennsylvania State University; Nelly Cecilia Perez, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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University, Berks Campus Sadan Kulturel-Konak is a professor of Management Information Systems and the director of the Flem- ming Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED) Center at Penn State Berks. She received her Ph.D.in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Auburn Univ.)Dr. Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Dr. Abdullah Konak is a Distinguished Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Penn- sylvania State University, Berks. Dr. Konak also teaches graduate courses in the Master of Science in Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations program at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State World Campus. Dr. Konak’s primary research interest focuses