Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Students

Collection

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

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

instruments to explore theimpacts of CE on engineering students’ learning; specifically, traditionally technical attributes(e.g., ABET Criteria 3a-e) as well as a mix of non-technical attributes (e.g. global awareness,social context of problems, self-efficacy, identity, civic development, intercultural sensitivity,and psychosocial well-being). The two major components of the study consisted of semi-annualrounds of administering an on-line survey (for all participants) and telephone interviews(conducted with a sub-set of participants). An additional instrument to measure interculturalsensitivity was administered to the interview sub-set on an annual basis. Overall, the projecthad an initial, total participant number of over 250 (including 120