Conference Session

Civic Engagement and Volunteerism in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Deepa Gupta, The Boeing Company; Timothy Kieran O'Mahony, University of Washington, College of Education LIFE Center; Laura E. Meyers, City University of Seattle; Fabian Zender, The Boeing Company; Danielle LoVallo Vermeer, The Boeing Company

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Education, 2015 The Business Case for Engineering Skills-based Volunteerism in K-12 EducationAbstractSkills-based volunteerism programs can provide technical employees effective and meaningfulopportunities to utilize, develop, and transfer their skills while contributing to their companies’community engagement objectives in K-12 education. While many companies encourage theiremployees to engage in education-related volunteerism, these efforts are often one-off eventsrelated to student outreach or recruiting, rather than opportunities for employees to utilize theirskills to not only give back to community, but also develop professionally and personally. Thisstudy focuses on assessing the impact of a pilot