Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Service and Outreach Projects

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Francisco Cima, Old Dominion University ; Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University; Stacie I. Ringleb, Old Dominion University; Orlando M. Ayala, Old Dominion University; Kristie Gutierrez, Old Dominion University; Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

undertaken during the spring semester 2019 at a large public university in theMid-Atlantic region. The main goal of the research was to explore whether undergraduatestudent participation in an interdisciplinary service-learning collaborative project resulted in anincrease in their teamwork effectiveness.ParticipantsSeventy-six undergraduate students were recruited to participate from two colleges: PreserviceTeacher Students (PST, N1=34) and Undergraduate Engineering Students (UES, N2=42) at aUniversity in the Mid-Atlantic region. Their participation was associated with courses they weretaking as part of their degree programs. Table 1 and Table 2 show the distribution of participantsby gender and ethnicity respectively for each degree program.Table 1