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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Community Engagement Division

Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference and Exposition Proceedings, June, St. Louis, MO.51. Swan, C., Paterson, K.G. (2011). ISES – A Longitudinal Study to Measure the Impacts of Service on Engineering Students, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference and Exposition Proceedings, June, Vancouver, BC.52. Tonso, K. L. (2006). Student Engineers and Engineer Identity: Campus Engineer Identities as Figured World, Cultural Studies of Science Education, 1: 273-307.53. Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Interaction between learning and development, in L.S. Vygotsky, Mind and Society: The development of higher psychological processes, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp 70-91.54. Vygotsky, L.S. (1986). The development of

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill B. Elmore, Mississippi State University

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #9871Integrating Community Engagement, Freshman Chemical Engineering, andan AIChE Student ChapterDr. Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University Bill B. Elmore currently holds the Hunter Henry Chair and Associate Directorship in the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. In his twenty-fourth year of engineering education, Bill focuses on project-based learning at all levels of the undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum and undergraduate research in energy and micro-scale reactor studies

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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, Page 24.439.10curious outgoing, kind, and/or hardworking. Although these results cannot make causal claims,it could also be the case that involvement with EWB-USA alters personality traits due to beingaround like-minded people. More thorough personality research is needed to clarify thesefindings, but the results point to the idea that EWB-USA members may have an expanded visionof who can do engineering based on their departure from the stereotypical engineeringpopulation.These results also showed that the two groups of engineers had equal intrinsic motivations forengineering, which indicates that despite personality differences, students involved with anEWB-like activity held similar interest for the subject of engineering. This suggests that

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura M. Patterson, University of British Columbia

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Community Engagement Division

institutionsto allow for long-term commitment to service learning. Page 24.292.42.1 The AssignmentLima and Oakes10 identify the following four key characteristics to effective service learningeducation: service, academic connection, reciprocal relationship, reflection. With those in mind,the learning objectives for this assignment were created.The learning objectives were for students to write a problem-solution proposal to a local not-for-profit organization to support and garner funds for an actual engineering/science-relatedendeavor relevant to the organization. This project is broken up into the following threeassignments: the team proposal, the

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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in the context of rural Haiti, and also through the related efforts to provide technical education and training to community members (capacity building). Personal Remark from Joann Rodríguez: My work with the GREAT IDEA project is the best professional and personal opportunity of my life. We, as engineering students, need courses and research experiences focused in the development of skills to work with and for the community. Engineers should work to solve problems in the simplest way and always keep in mind what the user really needs, rather than the creation of new products to make the user depend on it. For example, with the IBSF, the basic need of safe water can be provided without sophisticated technology and

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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Community Engagement Division

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

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #10351What is Design for Social Justice?Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is an associate professor in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines, USA, where he has been since 1997. Research and teaching interests include communication, social justice, and engineering education. Dr. Leydens is a co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (2010). He recently served as guest editor for an engineering communication special issue in Engineering Studies and won the James F. Lufkin Award for the best con- ference paper—on the

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Community Engagement Division

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #10076Immersive Community Engagement ExperienceDr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette Carla B. Zoltowski, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in engineering education, all from Purdue University. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Zoltowski’s academic and research interests include human-centered design learning and assessment, service-learning, ethical reasoning development and assessment, leadership, and assistive technology.Ms. Antonette T