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Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer A. Warrner, Ball State University; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Anand Nageswaran Bharath, Cummins Engine Company

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

combustion engines through Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations to improve fuel economy and emissions. He is currently a senior engineer in Combustion Research at Cummins Inc., where in addition to his primary role in developing future engine systems, he leads a planning team of Cummins engineers in organizing an after-school STEM Outreach Program at Girls Inc. to encourage girls to pursue STEM Careers. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Development and Implementation of K-12 STEM Outreach Programs in Industry and Academia: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons LearnedIntroductionAccording to the U.S. Department of Labor (2022), the number of job openings in STEM(science

Conference Session

Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Hua, Southern Methodist University; Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

workforce. TheU.S. government has argued that focusing on STEM is “critical to the prosperity, security, andhealth of our Nation—our history is filled with examples of how America's ability to attractglobal talent has spurred path-breaking innovation” [6]. This narrative of STEM lacks thebroader social, economic, or ecological problems that STEM careers and adjacentinterdisciplinary practices deal with daily [7].While there is a recognition of the importance of interdisciplinary content integration throughreal-world problem-solving in STEM curricula [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], these methods are nottypical components of STEM education curricula. Standardized testing, mandated curricularrequirements, class schedules, and other school structures often

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Micaha Dean Hughes, North Carolina State University; Aaron Arenas, North Carolina State University; Latricia Walker Townsend, North Carolina State University; Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University

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-based content grounded in local STEM careeropportunities that would enable them to pursue fulfilling careers within the community they are from.Using a Rural Cultural Wealth framework, we provide a lens on how curricular development andimplementation of the DeSIRE course highlights rural ingenuity and resourcefulness in order toaddress the community’s need to bolster the engineering workforce. Further, using qualitative dataanalysis of student focus groups and teacher interviews, we present multilevel findings of how theprogram has supported and strengthened the way students and teachers think about opportunities intheir rural space. This paper serves as an informational tool for K-12 schools, universities, andengineering industry and community

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Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Perry Weinthal, Florida Atlantic University; David Jaramillo

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

: Theyparticipants are likely to face in their professional careers, thus explore IBM Cloud Services [2] . Programming interfaces:enhancing their experience and skills in a practical, hands-on They work with Node-RED [3]. Artificial intelligence: Theymanner. engage with IBM’s AI Watson. The Hack-a-Thon not only focuses on technical skills devel-opment but also emphasizes the cultivation of soft skills such ascommunication, teamwork, and time management. By the end ofthe event, participants are expected to present their projects toa panel of industry experts and faculty, demonstrating not onlytheir technical prowess but also their ability to communicatetheir ideas effectively. This

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiffany Smith, NASA; Zachary T. G. Pirtle, NASA

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG), Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

indicates that engineering leaders and social science andhumanities scholars can benefit from dialogues like this one. Engineering leaders grapple withethical quandaries at all stages of their career: depending on their level of authority andresponsibility, they may be willing to engage differently with ethical concepts and theimplications of ethical decision-making. Social scientists and humanities scholars can learndirectly from the lived experience of engineers and project managers and better understand therationale for their decisions when in direct conversation. The interest in engaging on thesetopics, and deeper study on the ways in which practicing engineers engage on these topics, maybe a valuable point of study for future engineering

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Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Renshaw, Western Washington University; Bree L Carpenter, Western Washington University; Kylea Assayag-Nodine, Western Washington University; Derek M Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University; Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University

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. “Engaging future engineers is a central topic in everydayconversations on engineering education... It is imperative that the community reflects onprogress and sets a more effective path for the future.” [4] A second motivation was to provide an opportunity for students to begin building self-starting skills earlier in their academic career. The owner of DCOF was highly supportive ofallowing the activities and engagements to be student-led. This gave students the independenceto set their own activity structure and to make decisions in deciding their goals and needs inaccomplishing tasks. There are clear benefits to students; “Without the presence of an organizingfaculty member, students are forced to make decisions in a real-world environment, in

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel A Acuña, George Mason University; Nathalia Peixoto, George Mason University; Holly Matto, George Mason University; Siddhartha Sikdar, George Mason University

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teams to work on real-world problems in our community, we also anticipate that thistraineeship program will foster new convergence research opportunities (Objective 2). Further,by strategically bringing together students recruited from various departments on campus, wehope to increase our university’s capacity to produce diverse cohorts of interdisciplinary STEMprofessionals with skills essential to a range of research and innovation-related careers withinand outside of academia (Objective 3).Recruitment and OrientationTrainees participate in the training program using a cohort model. Each year we recruit around20 students to participate as a cohort, intending to recruit at least 100 students over 5 cohorts.Trainees must be enrolled in a

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Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emma Sophie Stine, University of Colorado Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado Boulder

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Paper ID #41476Navigating Transformational Resistance: Exploring Humanitarian EngineeringStudents’ Capacities for Addressing Systemic Causes of Infrastructure ServiceDisparitiesMs. Emma Sophie Stine, University of Colorado Boulder Emma Stine is pursuing a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she is researching student experiences before, during, and after attending a graduate program in humanitarian engineering, focusing on how these experiences influence career goals and outcome expectations. She is interested in how these goals align with social justice movements, including if and how

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

that are directly applicable to professional work such as writing emails, making valuable presentations, presenting data in an easy way so people can understand it. Little things that I constantly practiced in my EWB undergraduate career that I didn’t necessarily know would be valuable in my career. I think those day-to-day activities, the leadership component. I don’t think the people skills I learned I thought would be as valuable until post-grad. (Crystal)Communication was also pointed out by James. I think I do value the communication and how some of our meetings went, because I can kind of see that when I'm in meetings now, I know how to lead a meeting better. I'd never really done that

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; René Marie Rosalie Marius, Lipscomb University; Mark Sedek, Lipscomb University

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engineeringclasses in high school, but later notes that he chose to attend Lipscomb due to the HE programoffered through the Peugeot Center. Though service was not indicated as his primary reason forchoosing engineering, it seems that S17 saw the benefits of service through engineering, and thisheavily impacted his college choice. In contrast, S34 clearly stated his desire to “work on stuffthat’s gonna help people” as his reasoning for choosing engineering as a career path. He alsomentioned experiences with building things and a working knowledge of engineering from themilitary as influential as well.According to two studies, very few engineering students choose the major to help society or forsocial good at 3.3% (n=390) and 14.4% (n=97) respectively [21

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Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George A Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Elizabeth G. Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

reflected on why understanding redlining andother social justice issues are important to their future careers as civil engineers. This paper describeswhat was done in both classes and reflections from both students and instructors.IntroductionService-learning and community-based learning are proven pedagogical approaches used across multipledisciplines and educational levels to bridge teaching and community engagement (Billig, 2000; Kuh,2008). Over the course of decades, research demonstrates the benefits of service-learning (SL) to studentlearning (Warren, 2012), satisfaction (Drinkard & Tontodonato, 2019), engagement, and retention(Bringle, Hatcher & Muthiah, 2010). This paper describes how information on redlining wasincorporated into a

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paula Alvarez Pino, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Andrew J. Sullivan, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Mona N Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham

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inneighborhood revitalization projects, students gain real-world experience, develop practicalskills, and build meaningful relationships with the community and with professionals andorganizations involved in the project. Furthermore, students have the opportunity to see thetangible results of their efforts, motivating them to pursue careers in civil engineering with acommitment to make a positive impact on society.This paper describes the framework developed for neighborhood revitalization projects,emphasizing the community engagement initiatives and student involvement efforts.Additionally, we discuss the methodology developed to assess the success of this program andhow we plan to integrate community-based projects into the engineering curriculum

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; xinquan Jiang, The Ohio State University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

99.45 Minimization 131.3 Adaptation 10 106.37 Minimization 97.99 Minimization Table 1: Humanitarian Engineering Minor Students IDI ScoresCase 1: (Student 9)– White, female, Biological Engineering with Humanitarian EngineeringMinor, Minimization to AdaptionStudent 1 completed the HE minor pathway by taking multiple HE centric courses at variouspoints throughout their academic career. This student started with a Development Orientation(DO) in the Minimization orientation at Time 1 – September 2021 (T1) and achieved a growth of31.8 points to finish in Adaptation by April 2022 T2 DO. The student exhibited their Adaptationorientation within the qualitative data noting insights into the stakeholder

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University; Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; Kristen Conroy, The Ohio State University; Kadri Akinola Akanni Parris, The Ohio State University

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to students being perceived by the community as experts even though many were early in their educational career. This led to ineffective feedback and dialogue amongst collaborators. Indeed, we have noticed that there are inconsistencies between community partners’ perceptions of engineering students’ skills and abilities and the reality that they are young learners who may be novices when it comes to project deployment and partnership/relationship development. This can result in community partners requesting assistance in projects outside of student expertise and putting too much stock in student recommendations.e. Students participating in construction – In traditional engineering service-learning courses it is common for

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gianina Morales, University of Pittsburgh; Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Emily C. Rainey, University of Pittsburgh

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

,rhetorical, and technical communication studies, with a focus on the writing of engineers atdifferent stages of their careers (in industry or academia) in relation to workplace factors (e.g.,[27], [28], [29]). Conclusions from this line shed light on disciplinary genre use, as well ascommunication and writing conventions. Other studies have sought a broader representation ofdifferent literacies, drawing from disciplinary literacy perspectives (e.g., [30], [31], [32]). Theseauthors present some representations of engineers’ literacy practices, attending to the specificdisciplinary nuances Moje mentioned [26].Considering the lack of research on the literacies of HCD, we explored a taxonomy of human-centered engineering design literacy practices as

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Mateo Rojas; Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; Jaime Elizabeth Styer, Colorado School of Mines; Sofia Lara Schlezak, Colorado School of Mines

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consideration of the socioeconomic development of the local workers.[29]Targeting five main audiences (workers, governmental officials, scholars, professors, andstudents), Schlezak aimed at influencing academic research, partnerships, and policies for thedevelopment of environmentally sound and socially just interventions related to e-wastemanagement and promoting safe working conditions in Argentina. At the global level, sheintended to motivate action towards occupational safety in the informal sector and call theattention of traditional mining and engineering professionals, scholars, and educators into futurework in the field of urban mining.The RT activities that this early-career researcher conducted were designed differently accordingto each