Conference Session

Assessment of Community Engagement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; James Huff, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

leave from his role as an instructor of engineering at Harding University. His research interests include professional socialization of engineers, social cognition in engineering, community-driven design, and interpretive phenomenology.Dr. William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. William ”Bill” Oakes is the director of the EPICS program and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has held courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He is a registered professional engineer and on the NSPE board for Professional Engineers in Higher Education. He

Conference Session

Assessment of Community Engagement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theresa M. Vitolo, Gannon University; Karinna M Vernaza, Gannon University; Barry J Brinkman, Gannon University; Scott E Steinbrink, Gannon University

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Community Engagement Division

, and are all tenured.Hence, many of the demographic and attribute elements of the survey are irrelevant.What is relevant are the elements questioning work effort relative to personal values. TheSEECS Faculty Satisfaction Assessment (see Appendix B) uses a subset of questions from theHERI survey. To emphasize the association between the personal statement and the facultymember‟s perspective on the value of the SEECS work to realize the personal value, an emphasisaspect is included in the assessment. Hence, a faculty member is not only asked whether thepersonal statement is important, but also whether the SEECS program is viewed as beingimportant relative to the statement. Essentially, if faculty members highly rate a value statementand if the

Conference Session

INTERACTIVE SESSION – Measuring the Impact on Communities

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Julie P Martin, Clemson University; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Tamara Floyd Smith, Tuskegee University

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Community Engagement Division

ofengineering students‘ academic and career decisions, the second study finds that students‘decisions to select engineering as a college major and to persist in undergraduate engineeringstudies are influenced by the available resources in their social networks, as well as the activationof those resources. Social networks and social capital characteristics are often viewed in terms ofsize and heterogeneity (with the idea that large, more heterogeneous networks typically result inmore social capital). While this is often true, this study's preliminary results also reveal thatsometimes only one person (a social capital ―agent‖) or experience (i.e. resource) can also beinfluential in students' selection and persistence in engineering studies. Both of these