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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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employers better understand engineers of the future.Extensive qualitative data collection led to the creation of a survey to test pre-educational traits,educational gains, and career expectations between engineers involved and not involved withEWB-USA to help address whether engineers involved in EWB-USA are different fromengineers not involved in EWB-USA. This paper presents and discusses the results of responsesfrom 566 engineering students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Results showedsignificant differences in which EWB-USA engineers displayed different personality traits andcommunity service attitudes, higher professional ABET learning outcomes, and higherexpectations of professional skills in their future careers than engineers not

Conference Session

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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involving the development of assistivedevices for local elementary school children with disabilities in an effort to promote inclusiveeducation. Students were asked at the end of the yearlong capstone course sequence to reflect onand respond to four open-ended questions regarding their perceptions of working on such Page 24.1119.5projects: 1. How did your senior project impact your development as a professional? 2. How did it impact your development as a member of society? 3. What did you learn from your project in regards to human needs, especially for those with disabilities? 4. How did this project affect your future career plans?A

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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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starting her doctoral studies.Prof. Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Assistant Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Global En- gineering Program, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recent recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the

Conference Session

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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activity that may encourage students to study civilengineering. Engineering Ambassadors a unique perspective when discussing the career outlook withprospective students. Talking to high school students helps them process what they are learningin their degree program, and helps them identify potential careers that would be of interest tothem. While they do not have experience working as engineers, their enthusiasm aboutengineering and projects they have worked on may help others see this as a possible collegemajor and future career choice.Enrollment at the University As stated in the introduction, our engineering ambassador programs have been an integral

Conference Session

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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to bealigned with the volunteer functions inventory 18:1. Values that refers to contributions to the society and helping people who are in need. This function was also associated to altruism 192. Understanding in which volunteerism gives an opportunity to learn, understand, practice, and apply skills. This function is related to the knowledge function.3. Career that serves to increase one’s job opportunities and consequently improve his/her career.4. Social in which an individual volunteers due to social pressure or to satisfy people in one’s social environment. Page 24.1364.55. Protective where volunteering is to reduce

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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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continue to refine ouractivities to be supportive of state math and science standards—now under consideration throughefforts such as the “Common Core State Standards Initiative”.9Examples of skills around which we are shaping our outreach activities may be found in the 2014draft of the Mississippi College- and Career- Readiness Standards for Mathematics.10 Theseinclude:  Make sense of problems & persevere in solving them  Reason abstractly and quantitatively  Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others  Model with mathematics  Use appropriate tools strategically  Attend to precisionThese generalized skills and others, more specific to engineering design and problem solvingmesh closely with our

Conference Session

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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move beyond the excellent but often-shortlived undergraduate projects that might be of a voluntary nature to inspire work that is morecentrally tied to career ambitions. A complete overview of the project’s activities, publications,personnel, and partners can be found at http://greatidea.uprm.edu.15 We broadly speak of research in Appropriate Technology as research that is responsiveto a specific community or social context. The coursework and seminars that we offer enablestudents to learn skills to conduct research in this context, particularly when their researchinvolves interaction with a community. Implicitly, such work is interdisciplinary, requiring notonly the usual scientific and technical training, but also techniques (or at

Conference Session

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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modeling, and controls. He is an inventor with over twenty patents and the author of more than two hundred publications including two books. A Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Society of Plastics Engineers, he is the recipient of over twenty different recognition awards including the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the ASME Ishii-Toshiba Award for sustained and meritorious contribution to Design for Manufacturing and Life Cycle.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Curriculum Development in the School of Engineer- ing and an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Assistant Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Global En- gineering Program, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recent recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the social sciences to advance understanding of geographic, disciplinary, and

Conference Session

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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Paper ID #8964Restoring Water, Culture, and Relationships: Using a Community Based Par-ticipatory Research Methodology for Engineering EducationMs. Aimee S Navickis-Brasch P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow Aimee Navickis-Brasch is a registered professional engineer with over twenty years of practitioner experi- ence in Hydraulic and Stormwater Engineering. The majority of her career was spent working for WSDOT Headquarters Hydraulics and Stormwater Office where she was responsible for providing statewide sup- port including; design, research, training,and policy development. Aimee is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Civil

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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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, engineering students are working to developmodular packages for continued development. Other engineering students are designing low-costequipment to outfit the vehicle with more capabilities in the future. Engineering studentsinvolved in any aspect of these projects will walk away with a unique skillset and widened worldoutlook on the impact of engineering. Many of the engineering students have been inspired topursue engineering careers related to healthcare and helping to solve the Grand Challengesfacing our world. Large long-term projects involving a significant number of students frommultiple disciplines can be implemented at any university that has an engineering or engineeringtechnology school. While the cost of implementing these projects

Conference Session

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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team proposal project was offered again in2013.There are multiple considerations for this type of project in terms of logistics and sustainability,especially for yearly participation of 220 students in this project. This paper will discuss thestrategies involved in adapting a community service learning project originally designed for 60students to a larger scale project for 220 students while maintaining the academic robustness ofthe proposal assignment and the good will of the partnering community organizations.1.0 IntroductionEngineering is a profession that holds high respect within the community. The design,communication, research, audience analysis, and business skills that engineers build and developthroughout their careers are

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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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differences around the world. I now realize how engineering is interrelated with government, economics, religion, culture, education, and business. I will forever remember the lessons I learned during my time in Rwanda and am driven to build upon this experience to make the largest impact I can throughout my professional career and my personal life.From our 2010 Rwanda trip • This was the greatest day of my life. Page 24.293.11 • There is little doubt in my mind that the lives of both Baylor University team members and students at the Sonrise School in Musanze, Rwanda were completely transformed. We left Waco two

Conference Session

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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aimed atstudents creating avatars by dressing up a miniature avatar with the uniform/dress of the careerthat they hope to obtain once they graduate from high school and from college. Parents wereasked to also create an avatar of their choice with the career that they are currently in and/or thecareer that they would have liked to have chosen. Parents and students then introduced theiravatars to the group, and many meaningful conversations took place among students and parents. The day ended with three simultaneous sessions that focused on astronomy in the evening.They were able to watch an astronomy show at the Planetarium, participate in a space triviagame and were able to have an interactive Skype chat with an Astronomer from the

Conference Session

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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transactional frame ofmind: their attention was on how the activity would meet their course requirements and expandtheir career-related experience. The engineering students approached the project from a relationalframe of mind; their attention was on the needs of the client. The end result was that the client,who had participated in three consecutive years of “service learning” projects, declined toparticipate in future collaborations.One of the consequences of putting a priority on the relationships is that the completion ofprescribed projects may then be secondary. Task oriented people may find these types of CEprojects as “accomplishing little” because the accomplishments are not in the visible physicaldomain. When the focus is “relational,” the

Conference Session

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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whatmatters can be exacerbated if students’ first career position involves working for atechnology-based industry, where compliance with corporate authority and the single bottomline is what ensures job security. Generally, nowhere in this process are students challengedor invited to consider the social-justice dimensions inherent in their design work, such as howdesigning a children’s clinic can benefit from identifying the root causes of why such a clinicneeds to exist; how designing an aesthetically appealing, highly functional website canaccount for users who may have inconsistent and/or slow download capacities; or howdesigning a prosthetic device for wealthy clients might leave poor veterans priced out of themarket. If the focus remains

Conference Session

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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. Page 24.501.6 5. Mindset, work and life. The importance of mindset on a variety of learning, professional, and personal outcomes has been recently established23. Several on-line survey items were included to evaluate whether participants have a fixed- or growth-oriented mindset. In addition, questions were added that probed participants’ attitudes toward career, employers, personal life, and work-life balance55. 6. Engineer identity. Engineer identity has been an under-studied research topic 36, 52. Recent advances in identity theory have come to recognize that people have multiple identities. Therefore, it is important to investigate if an engineer identity is triggered during CE efforts and if that

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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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an economicallyand infrastructurally developing country (Q6 and Q9). Overall, the students articulated that theprogram enriched their academic careers (Q10).Another source of lessons learned in service learning comes from final reports and personaljournals submitted after completion of the programs. Journals serve the purpose ofdocumentation during the entire service-learning process. Journal entries include a pre-trip entryabout expectations, numerous entries during the trip, and a post trip reflection which ties togetherthe community context and the engineering project17. Both MdL and Choluteca students reportedthat they became considerably more experienced and skilled in manual labor. More significantlyhowever, they experienced the entire