Conference Session

Research, Innovation and Careers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Whitesel, South Mountain Community College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Marco Wehrfritz, Skyline Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

interesting to a larger population, that maybe enough to encourage the potentially diverse, non-engineering population to get involved at themakerspace. Encouraging interdisciplinary activities not only increases usage of the makerspace[4], especially with Entrepreneurial majors, but also increases the diversity of those who use thelab space [3] [4] and their overall interaction [2].One of the most commonly noted best practices involves the creation of a sense of communityand a collaborative culture. This has been noted in multiple articles, including those based oninternational makerspaces [4] as well. In general, the sense of community often originates fromsimply allowing the students to participate in the governing and daily operation of