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Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy Smith, Australian National University; Jennifer Patricia Turner, Engineers Without Borders Australia ; Nick John Brown, Engineers Without Borders Australia; Joli Price, Engineers Without Borders Australia

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provide background or context for the project, or in a small number of cases, direct data collection, analysis and testing. 3. through a dedicated for-credit course. Students can undertake the Summit to contribute to the EfaHC course. Students complete one and a half days of workshops and three assignments before the Summit, with an additional day workshop and three assignments upon returning from the Summit.Table 1: Assessment tasks for the curriculum integration options for EWB Summits.Option Assessment DueWork • Summative 5-page work experience • once all 12 weeks of workExperience report summarising work completed. experience completed by

Conference Session

Student Preparation for, and Outcomes from, Community Engagement Efforts

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Parker, The Johns Hopkins University; Michael L Falk, Johns Hopkins University

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Ph.D. in Physics (1998) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been twice selected as a visiting ´ Chaire Joliot at the Ecole Sup´erieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles at Paris Tech and has orga- nized extended workshops on the physics of glasses and on friction, fracture and earthquakes at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has received several awards for his educational accomplishments, and in 2011 he received an award from the university’s Diversity Leadership Council for his work on LGBT inclusion. His education research focuses on integrating computation into the undergraduate core curriculum. Falk also serves as the lead investigator for STEM

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Queen Retherford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kelly Summerford Ellenburg, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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learningwithout specifically requiring service learning activities in undergraduate curriculum. Focus onmulti-disciplinary team experience, formulation and solution of engineering problems, andeffective communication1 all comprise the easily achieved outcomes from service learningopportunities.While a single engineering department is capable of developing an experiential learningopportunity for undergraduate students, the development of a robust service-learning programcan be hindered by a lack of resources and inability to provide truly interdisciplinary projects forstudents. Faculty support, continued program maintenance, and overall program managementrequires resources not always available at a department or college level. A formal service-basedor

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., Univerity of Illinois College of Engineering; Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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coursedevelopment, leading to complete integration of intent and collaboration processes among thepartners.Early in the curriculum-development effort, faculty committed to following an inquiry-led modelfor the classroom, focusing on student-led collaboration rather than faculty-initiated learningprocedures. To facilitate this approach, the curriculum was developed around key concepts andquestions, rather than around lectures and information dissemination. By creating general areasof inquiry that span across disciplines, multiple faculty could provide the perspectives of theirown disciplines to inform a broader understanding of the topic relevance. For example, on thetopic of environment and society, the engineering faculty led the discussion and

Conference Session

Student Preparation for, and Outcomes from, Community Engagement Efforts

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Devika Patel, Stanford University

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from instances like the Toilet Challenge. To put trained andqualified engineers out into the world, it is necessary to supplement engineering education withculturally aware project-based curriculum. In ensuring global impact, meshing together thetechnical, social and cultural aspects of an engineer’s humanitarian effort is crucial.However, this is not frequently seen in the context of engineering projects with the internationalcommunity. The need for these specific skills and research is even more integral in the study ofstigmatized, or taboo, topics that engineers may find themselves addressing in their projects,where the approach can be key to the success of an intervention. Taboo issues consist of acts thatare considered to be forbidden

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ziyu Long, Colorado State University; Sean Eddington, Purdue University; Jessica Pauly; Linda Hughes-Kirchubel, Purdue University; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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of oneness with a belongingness to some human aggregate” (p. 21). Additionally, success within an organization for newcomers is predicated on one’s abilityto be integrated into the organization (learning departmental norms, behaviors, and even politicallandscapes and becoming a part of the organization) present within the workplace, a process thatcan occur concurrently with organizational programming as a means to socialize newcomers totheir new setting. Organizational integration can manifest in aspects such as levels oforganizational acculturation, familiarity and recognitions of other members, and involvement ofthe organizational life (Myers & Oetzel, 2003). Organizational acculturation can be indicated bya development of a

Conference Session

Student Preparation for, and Outcomes from, Community Engagement Efforts

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh; Sina Arjmand, University of Pittsburgh; David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh

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ensure that students understand the impact of engineering projects on society aswell as the social contexts within which they operate, to develop confidence in the students’ability to solve problems, to help the students function successfully and comfortably in aprofessional engineering environment, and to understand and appreciate what it means to be aprofessional engineerService learning has been shown to do this while also providing an experience that is bothfulfilling and enlightening [1-2]. Many engineering students are overwhelmed by the workloadof the engineering curriculum, and are not stimulated by the course materials. Some studentslack the maturity or experience to understand how the engineering curriculum will be of value tothem in