Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University; Sukrati Gautam, Purdue University; Peyman Yousefi, Merck Group; Nuela Chidubem Enebechi, Purdue University; Andrew Pierce, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

involvevarious components including an interconnected network of dedicated staff, students, instructors,Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTA’s), and both community and corporate partners, amongothers. These components work together within the university’s framework to create anenvironment that fosters student learning experiences while addressing community needs, whichis highlighted in a systems-level perspective2,4. The complexity of these systems underscores thenecessity for comprehensive approaches to understanding and enhancing service-learninginitiatives from multiple lenses.As GTA’s are largely responsible for facilitating course delivery, playing a support role for facultyand students5 (Figure 2), their personal and collective experiences are often

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sydney Donohue, University of New Mexico; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

/ISEC49744.2020.9280745.[12] K. B. Lang, “The relationship between academic major and environmentalism among college students: Is it mediated by the effects of gender, political ideology and financial security?,” J. Environ. Educ., vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 203–215, 2011, doi: 10.1080/00958964.2010.547230.[13] T. Li and Y. Xie, “The evolution of demographic methods,” Soc. Sci. Res., vol. 107, p. 102768, Sep. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102768.[14] S. L. Laursen, H. Thiry, and C. S. Liston, “The Impact of a University-Based School Science Outreach Program on Graduate Student Participants’ Career Paths and Professional Socialization,” J. High. Educ. Outreach Engagem., vol. 16, no. 2, p. 47, 2012.[15] B. A. Holland, “Factors and Strategies that

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 4 - Cultivating Engineering Excellence through Mentorship and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; Amelia Elizabeth Cook, Lipscomb University; Lewis Ngwenya, Lipscomb University; Hannah Grace Duke, Lipscomb University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

engineering as a professional wayof being [9] whereas Huff et al. discusses the importance of identity development in early careerengineers [10]. Initial findings from the open-ended questions from the questionnaire fromthematic analysis of the responses are analyzed fully in [2].Though not necessarily foundational to this work, the authors find inspiration from three otherstudies with similar objectives. First, Cech discusses an idea that beliefs of professional work canimpact intra-profession activities in the workplace [11]. Cech reflects that the engineeringideology of technical/social dualism may have a role in the gender wage gap in the field. Inrelation to this study, could involvement in HEPs cause students to reconsider their