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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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AJ Almaguer

audience.We believe that community service builds strong, empathetic leaders. With this in mind, wetackled this design problem like engineers would and specified the user needs of students likeourselves, our k-12 mentees, and the university—our primary stakeholders. After manybrainstorming sessions, we concluded that we have three main user requirements: (1)professional development, (2) the need for practical, technical experience—a chance to put ourengineering education into practice, and (3) formal mentor training.We used results from a recent a study1 performed by the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) andour own experiences to define user requirements for our k-12 mentees including the need formore exposure to science and engineering as well as the

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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of Situational Leadership in Engineering 114 Classrooms  Jin-Lee Kim, et al., Effectiveness of Using Visualization in Construction Education 125 Concurrent Session Presentations04 00 05 15 PM Experiential Learning  Stacy Gleixner, et al., Service Learning Project in a Multi-Disciplinary Renewable 134 Energy Engineering Course  Lily Gossage, On Exploring the Connection between Hispanic Engineering 143 Students’ Educational Goals and Communal Obligations: For Projects-Based Learning through Community Engagement  Shoba Krishnan, et al., Projects Integrating