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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut (Beirut); Mohamad K. Naja

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engineeringcommunity in earthquake risk mitigation and response operations in future earthquake disasters.Keywords: Volunteer programs, Engineering students, Lebanon, Earthquake, Disaster riskmitigationIntroductionIt has been shown from recent earthquake devastations that loss of lives and long term effectscan only be effectively reduced through planned response action programs that engagecommunity trained volunteers led by credible organizations. A case study in the Nishi Suma area( Japan) by R. Shaw and K. Goda 1 pointed out that 60 percent of residents were evacuated bytheir own efforts, and approximately 20 per cent were rescued by neighbor volunteers. This datasignifies the importance of community volunteer in the immediate rescue operation

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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socialand physical structures. --Oosterlaken (p. 8)1  Introducing a technology may create process efficiencies and in turn eliminate jobs. It canlower the cost of goods while promoting waste and consumerism. In playing an essential rolein the process of economic and social development, introducing a new technology mayproduce undesirable and unintended social transformations, involving moral issues such aschild labor, women’s economic participation outside the home, and democracy. --Nichols and Dong (p. 190)2  AbstractDesign for technology, which prevails in engineering design courses, addresses constraintssuch as budget, time and functionality established by a client. Meanwhile, human-centereddesign (HCD) emphasizes users' needs

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiago R. Forin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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implications of their ideas in new experiences. Having skills in all fourstages allows the learner to achieve a full range of development and help develop their 6, 7engineering skills. Page 24.82.3 Figure 1. Kolb’s Learning Model Concrete Experience Abstract Conceptualization Observations and Generalizations Reflections

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cathy Leslie P.E., Engineers Without Borders - USA

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teachengineers professional skills, global and cultural competencies, hands-on experience, andcomplex problem solving1,3,5,6. These claims have fueled this research’s focus on EWB-USAmembers.In order to better understand EWB-USA members, this research compares questionnaireresponses from engineers who are EWB-USA members with engineers not involved with theorganization. In general, we seek to better understand the ways in which these two groups ofengineers are similar and different in (1) how they begin their engineering studies, (2) what theylearn during their educational experiences, and (3) what they expect in their future engineeringcareers. This paper shares the findings from a pilot survey that will later be deployed to theentire memberships of

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Swan, Tufts University; Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; Timothy Henry Hellickson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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interviewed), but attrition leadto less than 175 (89 interviewed) continuing their participation throughout the three years.This paper focuses on the insights or ‘lessons learned’ during the study’s development andimplementation, with a focus on how to maintain participation rates. Specifically, insightsdiscussed in this paper include methods in 1) recruitment and retention of student participants, 2)compensation of participants, and 3) maintaining participant interests in each round of the study.Other insights discussed include maintaining consistency in the survey and interview instrumentswhile also allowing changes in the items used. The longitudinal nature of the project also forcedthe project team to address continuing participation of students

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carlos German Montoya Rodriguez, Ohio State University; Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, The Ohio State University; Roger Dzwonczyk, The Ohio State University; John A Merrill, Ohio State University; Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University; Miriam Cater, Ohio State University

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thecourse does not follow a social enterprise model specifically, the teams are asked to speculate onpossible entrepreneurial opportunities that may be associated with their projects.The service-learning engineering courses are only a part of a dynamic and evolving humanitarianengineering construct at The Ohio State University. Service-learning is consider as the first phase, Page 24.188.6the feasibility phase or proof of concept phase, of a three-phase approach to delivering useful,sustainable technologies to underserved people in the world. Phase 2 involves bringingsuccessful Phase 1 projects into the community as pilot programs in close

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Kubicki, The Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership; Laura Lynn Lynch, Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership; Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University

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need for a mobile health clinic was first observed in the summer of2012 by a group of institute students in Ghana. This team observed a lack of healthcare in theperiphery villages on the outskirts of regional hospitals. The team returned with theirobservations and a graduate student, under the direction of one of the authors, developed theconcept. Her report stated, “The Mobile Clinic will serve a niche market not currently met byexisting mobile clinics and international aid work.”1 The 2013 team set out to accomplishserving this need during the next year.The concept of mobile healthcare is not new; however, the mobile healthcare project discussedin this paper is unique in the sense that it was and continues to be student-led. Currently

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindsey A Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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might havecreated difficulties in wholly implementing their philosophy. 1 Nelson, Lindsey. (2012) “Scaffolding Undergraduate Engineering Education with the Wellbeing Framework” American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition. 2 Nelson, Lindsey. (2012) “Design for the Other 90 Percent and Appropriate Technology: Exploring the Engineering Design Legacies of Paul Polak and E.F. Schumacher.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition. Page 24.243.11 3 Design for Extreme Affordability. (2014) Course webpage accessed at http

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura M. Patterson, University of British Columbia

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contingent onmaintaining the academic robustness and good will of partnering organizations. The project hasbeen deemed successful anecdotally; however, these observations need to be tested with surveysand assessment tools to determine if the project achieved its intended purpose and if it had thedesired impact. The next phase of the project involves surveying the three major stakeholders inthe project: the students, the participating not-for-profit organizations, and the professorsinvolved in delivering the assignment to students. These stakeholder surveys will be todetermine if they 1) deemed this a valuable exercise, 2) felt they achieved the major learninggoals, and 3) believed this project is worth the effort to execute it. The surveys will

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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. Page 24.293.2World PovertyOne of the motives for our work in the developing world has been to help people get out ofextreme poverty. Compared to the West, the developing world is a place with low income, lowamounts of technology, and frequently unstable or corrupt governments. The figure belowshows the progress that has been made on a global level in decreasing the rate of extremepoverty (living on less than $1.25 per day).Figure 1 Poverty levels over time. Source World Bank 1While world poverty is decreasing when based on the percentage of people living below $1.25per day, this is a bit misleading. The decrease in extreme poverty has not been uniform aroundthe world. This is shown in the table below from the World Bank1

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Scott Bates, University of Utah; Karen J. Krapcho, University of Utah; Crystal Orantes, University of Utah

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Retain Students using an Engineering Ambassador ProgramIntroduction The mission of the Engineering Ambassador Program, in the College of Engineering atthe University of Utah, is to recruit prospective students into engineering majors and to retainand graduate students who work as engineering ambassadors. The program, as implementedtoday, is a result of merging two existing programs: an NSF-funded mentor program and theAmbassador Program through the College of Engineering. With a growing need for engineers in the United States, universities aim to enroll, retain,and graduate more engineering students so they may provide more active engineers for theircommunity 1. Through previous studies it has been

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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needed to develop morecomprehensive ways of understanding design2. These kinds of experiences include internationaltrips to experience the culture of a partner community.This past summer EPICS offered an immersive design experience to a group of 13 students (12undergraduate, 1 graduate) from a variety of majors. The design team’s goal was to make a campmore accessible to children with physical disabilities through the design of an accessible treehouse and the adaptation of a sailboat to allow control of the steering through a switch (e.g., puffand sip or joystick). The students completed one week on campus, then traveled to the camp forchildren with disabilities for a week. During this week, the students ate meals and attendedvarious activities

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill B. Elmore, Mississippi State University

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system has served as a key component in our K-12 outreach program, our freshman chemical engineering classes and as a means for engagingour chemical engineering students in service learning activities.This integration of activities, all surrounding the LEGO™ Robotics system (coupled to Vernier®sensors and probes and “in house”-designed apparatus) has engaged students at all levels, frommiddle school through chemical engineering seniors in an exciting, “studio-based” environment.Anecdotal evidence suggests students readily “latching onto” key concepts and various aspectsof engineering through this “multi-modal” learning approach. Objectives of this method ofprogram integration include: 1) strengthened recruiting of students to engineering studies

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerardo J. Pinzon PE, Texas A&M International University; Jaime Rene Huerta

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States successfully compete, prosper and ensure its place in the globaleconomy. One of these highlighted measures was to improve STEM education 1. This initiativehas shown great success, to the extent that it was re-enforced in 2010 by President Obama.Significant investments have been made to increase the interest in STEM education, including Page 24.817.2funding not just for high school levels but as early as kindergarten (the K-12 initiative). Thisway, every U.S. child will have to get involved. However, the population in the U.S. is changing rapidly. Thirty-seven percent of peopleunder age 18 in the U.S. are persons of color, and this

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Mazzurco, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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typology that enables practitioner to learn from their own and other’s mistakes.In this study, we take the first steps toward creating a failure typology that can help engineeringstudents and practitioners avoid negative outcomes of their design. My guiding questions are: 1)what types of failures occur in humanitarian and similar engineering projects?, and 2) what canwe learn from these failures? To address these questions, we collected cases of failed projectsfrom a variety of print and online sources. we analyzed the cases and inductively constructed atypology to classify the occurred failures. In the sections that follow, we first present theinclusion criteria we used to select cases and what procedure we employed to analyze them. wethen

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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with approving the thematic interpretations, finalizing the reportsdesigned to inform and improve their particular partnership, and the ‘meta-analysis’ that includesa cross-analysis of all the data generated from all of the focus groups.”Worrall focused on community partners involved with service-learning initiatives at DePaulUniversity. The initial round of data collection included surveys, followed by 40 one-on-one oneinterviews conducted across 12 organizations. Interviews were transcribed and coded foremerging patterns and themes.Finally, Stoecker and Tryon’s study was motivated by the larger question, “Who is served byservice-learning” (p.1). It was conducted as an action research project at the University ofWisconsin-Madison, headed by

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University

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basis of the organizing scheme and the methodology bywhich it was derived.Theoretical foundations and methodologyWe begin by recognizing that a learning collaboration across students, faculty and communitypartners, is a dynamic human system. In the general case of CE, humans are designing together.It is widely recognized by organizational behavioral researchers6 that the visible actions(“events”) of a dynamic human system are rooted in the underlying and hidden mental modelsthat the participants hold. Peter Senge popularized these organizational dynamics in his books onsystems thinking7, based on anthropologist, Edward T. Hall’s metaphor of an iceberg8, Figure 1,where the tip represents the visible actions (the visible 10%), which proceed from

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Greg Rulifson P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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and McTighe (2005) identified three stages: (1) Identify desiredoutcomes and results, (2) Determine what constitutes acceptable evidence of competency in theoutcomes and results, and (3) Plan instructional strategies and learning experiences that bringstudents to these competency levels. They posit this approach will help faculty designinstruction that promotes understanding and fosters student engagement.Another important approach to curricular reform that called for improvement throughoutundergraduate education has been in service-learning pedagogy. Service-learning is a teachingmethod in which students participate in organized service activity for academic credit that meetsidentified community issues, and that reflection done by the

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aimee S. Navickis-Brasch, University of Idaho, Moscow; Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho, CDA; Fritz Fiedler, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jillian Rae Cadwell, University of Idaho; Laura Laumatia, Coeur d'Alene Tribe; Kathy C. Haynie, Haynie Research and Evaluation; Christine Meyer, Coeur d’Alene Tribe Department of Education

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conducting summer camps at places of tribal significance. This provides tribal youthwith an opportunity to learn about the relevance of STEM in their community by engaging themin the development of engineering solutions to local environmental problems.This case study focuses on the first half of the grant, specifically the curriculum development andimplementation for the first-year summer camp, and the post-camp reflections. The followingobjectives guided this study, specifically to describe: 1) how the CBPR methodology is appliedto develop and implement a culturally relevant STEM curriculum that emphasizes engineering,2) the impact of the summer camp experience on student's knowledge and attitudes about STEMcontent, and 3) how the CBPR methodology

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Joann M. Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Jeffrey Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Tyrone Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Ricardo Maldonado; Cristina Rivera-Vélez, GREAT IDEA; Davis Chacon-Hurtado, University of Connecticut; Pablo Jose Acevedo, UPRM

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havecreated for our students.2. Schumacher’s Intermediate Technology as the Precursor to Appropriate Technology Appropriate technology is widely credited as an outgrowth of the ideas expressed by the“radical economist”1 Ernst Friedrich “Fritz” Schumacher in his book Small is Beautiful: A Studyof Economics as if People Mattered2, which is a compilation and synthesis of his writings andwork from the 1940s through 1960s in which he developed the concept of “IntermediateTechnology”. The origins of Intermediate Technology reside in Schumacher’s criticism ofconventional development practices, which assumed that the problems of the developing worldcould be solved by the transfer of capital-intensive, large-scale technologies from theindustrialized

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Victoria Louise Graf; Shawna Leigh Draxton, WISH Charter

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. Experiences can involve course-basedservice learning, as well as both co-curricular and extracurricular service experiences. According Page 24.1119.2to the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, “service-learning is a teaching and learningstrategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrichthe learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.”1 Althoughservice-learning programs are quite diverse in their approach, there are certain commoncharacteristics among them. According to Eyler and Giles, service-learning experiences: • Have a positive effect on student personal

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut (Beirut)

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community. However, theirdamaging effects on human lives tend to be the highest in developing countries, while shockingeconomic losses have repeatedly been seen in developed countries 1. It has been shown by recentearthquake devastations that the loss of lives and destructions can only be effectively reducedthrough national awareness, preparedness, and planned response action programs.Approximately 90 percent of earthquake fatalities occur in developing countries 2, where mostearthquake deaths are due to a lack of awareness and preparedness, poor engineering design andconstruction practices and corruption in the construction sector 3. Thus, the Lebanese engineeringcommunity must be properly and adequately educated and aware of the involved seismic