Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emma Sophie Stine, University of Colorado Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado Boulder

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

highlight their ongoing motivation for equity, which‬ ‭stems from their personal experiences in a low-resource community.‬‭ nother participant discussed how the resilience and strength of low-income communities fuel‬A‭her motivation to address infrastructure injustices. She explained:‬‭ onestly, I'm very angry at a lot of injustices in the world. I think there are so many people that‬H‭deserve better. I have a lot of privilege that I've not earned. So I think it's genuinely my‬ ‭responsibility to work on injustices that I see that I'm able to tackle.‬‭[...]‬‭I'm really inspired by a‬ ‭lot of people's strength and resilience. Working in Latin America, I worked in a couple of‬ ‭underserved communities, and‬‭[there are]‬‭just people‬‭that are

Conference Session

Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paula Alvarez Pino, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Andrew J. Sullivan, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Mona N Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham

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. Theultimate goal is for this initiative to serve as a model and inspiration for universities andcommunities alike, highlighting the transformative power of collaboration between highereducation institutions, industry, and community partners to drive meaningful improvements inour communities, fostering growth, innovation, and social well-being.1. IntroductionOverview of Community Engagement in Engineering EducationIn recent years, the field of community engagement in engineering education has been growing,reflecting a shift towards a more holistic approach that extends beyond theoretical knowledge.Building sustainable and resilient communities is a core purpose of civil engineering andeffectively engaging with communities is vital. Such engagement is

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Ashish Dahiya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

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imperative to identifyand challenge any dynamics that can hinder a collaboration.Much of the work addressing decolonization, anti-colonizing, and reciprocity focuses oncommunity members collaborating with NGO’s, academia, and other institutions. Global healthorganizations have also paved the way in assessing mutualism and respect by shifting toparticipatory programs and reevaluating collaboration dynamics [1]–[3]. Since community-basedservice-learning has grown in higher education, it also offers infrastructure for examining colonialelements within institutions and their collaborations to focus on community impacts [4]–[7]. Thesecase studies and perspectives present concepts that are transferable to assessing power distributionsin various local and

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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behavioral experiments, institutional analysis, and qualitative data collection. Through his work, Peyman systematically investigated the interplay of natural, physical, and institutional factors in coupled human-environment systems. He focused on understanding the prerequisites for building resilient communities at various scales, aiming to enhance adaptability in the context of climate change.Miss Nuela Chidubem Enebechi, Purdue University Nuela Chidubem Enebechi (Nuela) is a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. She is an international student from Nigeria and received her bachelor’s in Computer Science at Minnesota State University Moorhead.Mr. Andrew Pierce, Purdue University Andrew Pierce is the

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen M. Conroy, The Ohio State University; Patrick Sours, The Ohio State University; Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University; Rachel Marie Tuttle

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

the name Humanitarian Engineering and its connotations, definitions, andimplications, but it was ultimately decided to move forward without changing the program namedue to a number of factors, including the number of potential names already used to refer to otherprograms within the large university ecosystem (global engineering, engineering for communityservice, sustainable and resilient communities, etc.). We began by finding alignment on theprograms mission, vision, and student outcomes. This was accompanied by a restructuring of theHE minor (Table 1) to provide scaffolded learning experiences and the addition of anIntroduction to Humanitarian Engineering course.Aligning on Student Learning OutcomesDesignThe initial step towards providing

Conference Session

Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Hua, Southern Methodist University; Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

result in content areas beingtaught in silos. Technical skills are decontextualized [13]. Even when there is a focus onreal-world problem-solving in STEM education practices, what is often missing is the space toground knowledge from the culture of a related community, the place of the problem, or thepeople who seek to solve it [7]. The authors of this study aim to understand and reflect on thesenotions central to community-based learning (CBL) practices within a STEM classroom.This case study was part of a broader educational project developed to integrate CBL as alearning context for STEM or STEM-adjacent classrooms, leveraging the contexts of localenvironmental injustices and community infrastructure inequities. To authentically engage inreal

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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frameworkto use when promoting community-engagement among engineering students asdemonstrated through a specific case-study of raising awareness of antibiotic resistance.Future efforts should include “scaling-up” this approach to include additional instructorsas well as “expanding” this approach to explore additional subject matter such as thefood-energy-water nexus, zero waste, and climate resilience among other topics forenvironmental health literacy.References 1. R. Aminov, R”A brief history of the antibiotic era: Lessons learned and challenges for the future,” Front. Microbiol., vol. 1, no. 134, 2010. [Online] Available: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2010.00134. 2. S. Oerther and D.B. Oerther, “Antimicrobial resistance

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel A Acuña, George Mason University; Nathalia Peixoto, George Mason University; Holly Matto, George Mason University; Siddhartha Sikdar, George Mason University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

• University center focused on interdisciplinary research & training • Community-engaged design projects • University center infrastructure, core • Seminar series on interdisciplinary faculty, and collaborators convergence • Diverse stakeholder community and partners • infrastructure for recruiting diverse students (LSAMP, FOCUS) Outputs Outcomes • Design project reports and presentations • Trainees apply convergent