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Engineering Ambassador Program Connects High School Students with University Students and Career Engineers in their Communities

Conference Session: Community Engagement in Engineering Education Projects
Collection: 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University; Paul E. Post, Ohio State University; Lisa Abrams, Ohio State University
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #13110Engineering Ambassador Program Connects High School Students with Uni-versity Students and Career Engineers in their CommunitiesDr. Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University Howard L. Greene directs K-12 Education Outreach for the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, bringing university research and teaching intersections to the K-12 community, especially those underserved and/or underrepresented. Prior to Ohio State, Dr. Greene worked for 12 years in med- ical device development and later in STEM education and outreach at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to Battelle, Dr. Greene was a professor

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Engagement in Practice: Unlocking STEM as a Career Choice for Middle School Females in a Rural School District

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Nirmala Prakash, Florida Atlantic University; Rachel Tobillo, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #17822Engagement in Practice: Unlocking STEM as a Career Choice for MiddleSchool Females in a Rural School DistrictDr. Nirmala Prakash, Florida Atlantic University Nirmala Prakash (Ramlakhan), Ph.D. Professional Preparation University of Central Florida, Bachelor of Science in Biology B.S. 2002 University of Central Florida, Masters of Science in Health Science M.S. 2005 University of Central Florida, Doctorate in Science Education Ph.D. 2012 Appointments/Professional Experience 2015-present: Associate Research Professor of Clinical Biomedi- cal Science: Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic

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Impact-Driven Engineering Students: Contributing Behavioral Correlates

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 3
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Eric Reynolds Brubaker, Stanford University; Mark Schar, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

. Mark is also researches empathy and mindfulness and its impact on gender participation in engineering education. He is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and teaches the course ME310x Product Management and ME305 Statistics for Design Researchers. Mark has extensive background in consumer products management, having managed more than 50 con- sumer driven businesses over a 25-year career with The Procter & Gamble Company. In 2005, he joined Intuit, Inc. as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and initiated a number of consumer package goods marketing best practices, introduced the use of competitive response modeling and ”on- the-fly” A|B testing program to qualify

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Distinguishing Engineers of the Future: Comparisons with EWB-USA Members

Conference Session: Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cathy Leslie P.E., Engineers Without Borders - USA
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

employers better understand engineers of the future.Extensive qualitative data collection led to the creation of a survey to test pre-educational traits,educational gains, and career expectations between engineers involved and not involved withEWB-USA to help address whether engineers involved in EWB-USA are different fromengineers not involved in EWB-USA. This paper presents and discusses the results of responsesfrom 566 engineering students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Results showedsignificant differences in which EWB-USA engineers displayed different personality traits andcommunity service attitudes, higher professional ABET learning outcomes, and higherexpectations of professional skills in their future careers than engineers not

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Learning through a Community-based Energy Conservation Project

Conference Session: Community Engagement in Engineering Education Projects
Collection: 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Christine Zakzewski, The University of Scranton; Mark Robert Murphy Sr., University of Scranton, Director of Sustainability; Michael Mahon Ph.D., Abington Heights School District
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

the Abington Heights School District in Northeast Pennsylvania. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in education from the University of Scranton and his doctorate from Marywood University. He began his career as a science teacher later accepting positions as assistant principal and high school principal. He has been a superintendent for the past 15 years and is currently working on an MBA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Page 26.1077.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Learning through a Community-based Energy Conservation

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Survey Development to Measure the Gap Between Student Awareness, Literacy, and Action to Address Human-caused Climate Change

Conference Session: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haley Margaret Gardner
Tagged Divisions: Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

climate change effects their motivations and agency to solve complex global problems for a sustainability in their career.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering

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Work in Progress: Involving Teachers in International Community Engaged Learning Projects to Enhance their Understanding of Engineering and Intercultural Awareness

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Kellie Schneider, University of Dayton; Leanne Petry, Central State University; M. Suzanne Franco, Wright State University; Malcolm W. Daniels, University of Dayton; Amy Anderson, University of Dayton; Marjorie Langston, Hamilton Township High School ; Megan Shepherd; Madeline Mock
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

Merriweather(2014) report that careers that are perceived to help humanity with high levels of communityengagement may be more attractive to African American, Latino/Latina, Native American andfemales [5]. Engineering Community Engaged Learning (CEL) is an excellent way to help thoseinvolved in these experiences to understand how engineering, as well as other STEM careers, canhave a high level of community engagement, can be used to help humanity, require creativityand are personally rewarding careers. CEL provides the participants with a way to engage withthe community through learning opportunities that address critical community-identifiedinterests and needs, and sustaining reciprocal partnerships. This may be why CEL attractsfemales at a rate

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Effect of Letter Exchange Program on Student Development, Persistence, and Interest in Civil Engineering

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Julie Fogarty, California State University, Sacramento; Nathan E Canney P.E., CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Benjamin V Fell P.E., California State University, Sacramento
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

, Persistence, and Interest in Civil EngineeringAbstractExposing pre-college students to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)activities and undergraduate college students to service learning have both been linked toincreased interest and participation in STEM careers. This study investigates the use of theWriting Partners program as an intervention to increase college students’ intentions to persist inthe major and increase K-12 students’ awareness and understanding of engineering. The WritingPartners (WP) program consists of college students exchanging letters with a local 5th or 6thgrade student twice over the course of a semester, culminating in a campus visit for theelementary students. This research

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A Comparative Assessment of Graduate versus Undergraduate Student Outcomes via International Community Engagement Programs

Conference Session: Global Community Engagement in Engineering Education
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kristine Louise Guzak, Michigan Technological University; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Alexandra Archer, Michigan Technological University
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

essays by experimentalvariable (gender, class, experience). See Appendix A for the list of all codes(motivations) and Appendix B for the raw pie charts depicting all codes within thegroupings. While the top reason is idealistically focused (“helping others”), the rest arepragmatically focused professional and personal drivers.The top five reasons students participate in these programs are shown in Table 2 andinclude: helping others, personal goal, a desire to work abroad, a career goal, a desire tosolve problems and to gain hands on experience. A common statement was the desire tomake a difference and to use engineering to accomplish that goal for their community

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Engagement in Practice: The Boys & Girls Clubs as Community Partner for Engineering

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 1
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Rebecca Medina, Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #18686Engagement in Practice: The Boys & Girls Clubs as Community Partner forEngineeringDr. Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo Jane M. Fraser is chair of the Department of Engineering at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She was formerly on the faculty at the Ohio State University and Purdue University. She has a BA in mathematics from Swarthmore College and MS and PhD in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California-Berkeley.Rebecca Medina, Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County Becky began her career with Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County in 1994 as a

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Differences by Student Gender in Engineering Service-Learning

Conference Session: The D/M/A of CE
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

in Engineering Service-LearningAbstractAttracting and retaining women in engineering is critical in the USA today. While women arecoming to college in overrepresented numbers, they are not represented equally to men inengineering majors. Though a university can only have limited impact on the attrition of womenin the engineering workforce, we can (and must!) work to improve recruitment and retention andto graduate women with adequate preparation for an engineering career. An increasing numberof engineering programs are integrating service-learning (S-L) into their curricula.For the past eight years of one S-L program, students in a college of engineering have beenwidely surveyed at the beginning of their studies and at the end of each

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Engagement in Practice: STEM Engagement through Mentoring

Conference Session: Engagement in Practice: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach
Collection: 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Mariam Manuel, University of Houston; Ricky P. Greer, University of Houston; Jerrod A Henderson, University of Houston (CoE & CoT); Virginia Snodgrass Rangel Rangel, University of Houston
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”Dr. Jerrod A Henderson, University of Houston (CoE & CoT) Dr. Jerrod A. Henderson (”Dr. J”) is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Cullen College of Engi- neering at the University of Houston. He joined the University of Houston after six years as a chemical engineering faculty member at the University of Illinois. He has dedicated his career to increasing the number of students who are in the pipeline to pursue STEM careers. He believes that exposing students to STEM early will have a lasting impact upon their lives and academic pursuits. He is the co-founder of the St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy (SEBA). SEBA is an educational

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Understanding Self-efficacy and Persistence for STEM Education in Underrepresented Middle School Students

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4
Collection: 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Rajani Muraleedharan, Saginaw Valley State University; Marie Cassar, Saginaw Valley State University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

since 2014. She is the member of Institutional Review Board Committee, reviewer of Consumers Energy Engineering Talent Scholarship, and member of C of IDEAS at SVSU.Dr. Marie Cassar, Saginaw Valley State University Associate Professor of Psychology American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work-in-Progress: Understanding Self-Efficacy and Persistence in STEM education for Underrepresented Middle School StudentsAbstractGrowth in tech industries such as, communications, robotics and transportation, have highlightedthe need for drawing an increasingly diverse population of students into STEM education early intheir academic careers. While many

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Engagement in Practice: Successes Gleaned from the St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jerrod A Henderson, University of Houston; Ricky P Greer, University of Houston; Ryan G. Summers, University of North Dakota; Jason W. Morphew, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #19013Engagement in Practice: Successes Gleaned from the St. Elmo Brady STEMAcademyDr. Jerrod A Henderson, University of Houston Dr. Jerrod A. Henderson (”Dr. J”) is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Cullen College of Engi- neering at the University of Houston. He joined the University of Houston after six years as a chemical engineering faculty member at the University of Illinois. He has dedicated his career to increasing the number of students who are in the pipeline to pursue STEM careers. He believes that exposing students to STEM early will have a lasting impact upon their lives and academic

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Teaching STEM to K-12 Students: Undergraduate Students Engaged in Engineering Pedagogical Development in a COVID-Persistent Learning Environment

Conference Session: Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1
Collection: 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Reed Marshall ; Daylen James McGhee, United States Military Academy; Lixrine Epie Ngeme, United States Military Academy; Joseph Carl Price ; Aaron T. Hill Jr., United States Military Academy; Brad C. McCoy, United States Military Academy; Kevin P. Arnett P.E., United States Military Academy
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Increasing the interest of students in the STEM field will present the growingneed for engineers as a necessary change to sustain the increasing demand for infrastructure,houses, businesses, energy, water, and infrastructure.In a 2008 report, a public high school authority in the U.S. discovered an extremely low level ofinterest for participating in STEM-related career academics in high school among middle schoolstudents; however, the students showed higher interests in arts, literatures, businesses, andentertainment-related careers, especially the females who make up only 25% of the STEM jobs[3], [4]. Recently, a 2018 research conducted on behalf of Junior Achievement and Ernst &Young LLP (EY) revealed a significant drop. Only 24% of boys were

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Exploring Motivations of Volunteer Undergraduate Head Mentors in Engineering Outreach to Underserved and Underrepresented K-12 Mentees

Conference Session: Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jennifer L Sullivan, Rice University; David Daniels, DREAM - Achievement Through Mentorship; Imani O. Butler, Rice University; Brent C Houchens, Rice University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

predominantlydescriptive. They also found weaknesses in the two or three-factor model because of the lack ofwidespread usage. Through factor analyses, Cnaan and Goldberg-Glen found that most motivesgrouped to one factor, suggesting a unidimensional scale. (Cnaan & Goldberg-Glen 1991). However, the unidimensional scale was soon challenged by multifactor models. Clary andSnyder found that different volunteers have different motivations for volunteering, and that onevolunteer can have several motivations (Clary & Snyder 1999: 157). They developed theVolunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) to identify the extent to which 6 sources of motivation,known as “functions” (Values, Understanding, Career, Social, Enhancement, and Protective),have the greatest influence

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Engagement in Practice: A Process for Creating a New “Council’s Own” Junior Girl Scout Badge in Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Morgan Stewart, Sealed Air Corporation; Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charlotte Marr de Vries, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Laura Jacobson, OM Partners; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Kathy Jacobson, Lockheed Martin, Retired; Allison Mae Hughes, Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

Education and Environmental Science and in 2014 she graduated from UNCA as a certified History and Science teacher. She feels extremely fortunate to have found a career that connects the organization she believes in with a field she is passionate about. Address: 3650 Ashford Dunwoody RD Atlanta, GA 30319 Phone: 478.414.6306 Email: Ahughes@gsgatl.org c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Engagement in Practice: A Process for Creating a New “Council’s Own” Junior Girl Scout Badge in Mechanical EngineeringAbstractOver the past two years, a team of female faculty and industry innovators have collaborated todevelop a new Junior (4th and 5th

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Learning to Lead in a Global Community

Conference Session: Global Community Engagement in Engineering Education
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Joseph East, Michigan Technological University; Genevieve Gierke, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

is responsible for its overall coordination and development. Her responsibilities include corporate sponsor- ship development, interdisciplinary program evaluation and assessment, and workshop/course instruction in the areas of teaming and leadership. She is also actively involved in coordination, curriculum devel- opment, assessment, and instruction in the Pavlis Global Leadership program. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Wayne State University and is currently working on her Ph.D. at Michigan Technological University. Before joining MTU, she held various engineering and management positions during a 15 year career in the automotive industry

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Student Perceptions of Design Projects that Involve Developing Assistive Devices for Elementary School Children with Disabilities

Conference Session: Impact of Community Engagement on Students
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Victoria Louise Graf; Shawna Leigh Draxton, WISH Charter
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

involving the development of assistivedevices for local elementary school children with disabilities in an effort to promote inclusiveeducation. Students were asked at the end of the yearlong capstone course sequence to reflect onand respond to four open-ended questions regarding their perceptions of working on such Page 24.1119.5projects: 1. How did your senior project impact your development as a professional? 2. How did it impact your development as a member of society? 3. What did you learn from your project in regards to human needs, especially for those with disabilities? 4. How did this project affect your future career plans?A

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Engagement in Practice: Infusing the STEM Pipeline Through Community Engaged Learning

Conference Session: Engagement in Practice: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach
Collection: 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Sara Jordan-Bloch, Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University; Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

toaddress the glaring underrepresentation of girls and women in STEM—science, technology, engineering,and mathematics—fields. Motivated by the critical imperative of better understanding and addressing thegender biases that inhere early on in the STEM pipeline, this initiative aims to provide innovative trainingand support to young women in STEM as they transition through high school and college to successfultechnology careers. This initiative is distinct from traditional pipeline projects because it does not focuson the technical skills and education of STEM. Instead, the project takes an interdisciplinary approach toSTEM education, infusing students’ technical training with leadership training through a lens of genderinequality—bringing together

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Engagement in Practice: Lessons Learned Partnering with Science Educators and Local Engineers in Rural Schools

Conference Session: Engagement in Practice: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach
Collection: 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Holly Larson Lesko, Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Gary R. Kirk, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech; Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech; Veronica van Montfrans; Andrew L. Gillen, Virginia Tech; Tawni Paradise, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Sarah Anne Blackowski, Virginia Tech; Liesl M Baum, Virginia Tech
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies.Dr. Gary R. Kirk, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia TechDr. Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia

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Understanding the Participation, Perceptions, and Impacts of Engineering Faculty Learning Communities: A Mixed Method Approach

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
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

Leadership Excellence. Editor of three books and author of over 160 journal articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, leadership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through NSF funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu

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Engagement in Practice: Outreach Program to Introduce Computer Science to Middle School Students

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Sifat Islam, Florida Atlantic University; Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Iris Minor, Florida Atlantic University; Susanne I Lapp, Florida Atlantic University ; Dilys Schoorman, Florida Atlantic University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

alsoeducated about careers that require this skill set and were introduced to a programminglanguage called “Processing”. We observed that students showed increased enthusiasmtowards CS. In addition, we noticed that the group activity component of the classesencouraged sociability and idea synthesis among peers. This CS community outreachprogram motivated us to extend the effort to teach science concepts using the Processinglanguage. This may potentially promote sociability, creativity, and empowerment inSTEM among middle school students. Specifically, we plan to use the Processingprogramming language to facilitate learning of biological and chemical concepts, sincesuch concepts can be difficult for students to visualize from a textbook. This

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Service Learning as a Philanthropy Effort of a Student Organization

Conference Session: Learning Through Service
Collection: 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

thisfield. They can be contributing to the operations aspect or to the sales process. TheIndustrial Distribution program at Texas A&M University has about 500 students andabout 20% of these students are female. Many of them do not think technical sales is apossible career choice for a woman. Many of them also shy away from the many otheropportunities that an ID major can pursue thinking that technical sales is the only optionfor them. In most Engineering schools, there is an active Society of Women inEngineering (SWE) chapter in existence and it is true in this case as well. However, theactivities that SWE hosts are mainly catered to students wanting to purpose engineeringjobs in design, manufacturing, construction etc. The SWE activities

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A Case Study in Effective Education-to-Workforce Pipelining: An Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Academy

Conference Session: Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Ranjeet Agarwala, East Carolina University; William Juhling McClung, Pitt County Robotics; Tijjani Mohammed, East Carolina University; David M. White, East Carolina University; Merwan B Mehta, East Carolina University; Jimmy Bill Linn, East Carolina University; Tamer Omar, East Carolina University
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

with the renewable energy sector.Mr. William Juhling McClung, Pitt County Robotics William (Bill) J. McClung, PE is a Senior Maintenance Engineer at PotashCorp in Aurora, North Car- olina. In this role, he is exposed to a wide variety of engineering and maintenance challenges involved in operating a vertically integrated modern phosphate plant. He has a diverse background including manu- facturing, product design and development. Bill began his career designing and supervising construction of custom fire trucks for Sutphen Towers, Inc. He later supervised product design, development and cur- rent product support of a variety of forklifts manufactured for Clark, Hyster and Yale brands. Bill is very active with youth

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Parents’ Perceptions of STEM Education in Black Churches

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 3
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Tracy Pritchard, University of Cincinnati; Delano White; Keri K. Eason
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

K. Eason Keri Eason is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include Asian American Identity, Higher Education, and Pop-Culture. Keri received her B.A. from Northern Kentucky University in 2010. She earned her M.A. in English from Northern Kentucky University in 2013. Keri began her career at Gateway Community & Technical College as an Academic Advisor for the Nursing Program. She worked as an Academic Advisor for the University of Cincinnati’s Center for Exploratory Studies between 2015-2017. Keri has taught College Success Skills and Discovering UC. She began the Sociology PhD program at University of Cincinnati in the Fall of 2018

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Aspirations: Overcoming Barriers to Success through Pre- and Post-secondary School Partnerships

Conference Session: Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4
Collection: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Chelsea Cefalu, Lafayette College ; Arthur D. Kney, Lafayette College
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

education. Similarly, the Talent Search program provides academic tutoring,financial aid counseling, career counseling, mentoring, and workshops on navigating the post-secondary application process.In 2006, the Pell Institute on Higher Education conducted a focus group study with first-generation students in Texas who had recently completed either the Upward Bound or TalentSearch pre-college education programs. The purpose of the focus group was to determine whichaspects of the program had the greatest impact on their college aspirations and expectations.Going into the program, many of the students believed that they could not get into college, andeven if they did, they would not be able to pay for it [7]. They further rationalized that collegewas

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Seeking Relevancy, Building Excellence: Service-learning in the SEECS Program

Conference Session: Relevance of and Models for Community Engagement in Engineering Education
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Karinna M. Vernaza, Gannon University; Theresa M. Vitolo, Gannon University; Barry J. Brinkman, Gannon University; Scott Steinbrink, Gannon University
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division

undergraduateeducation, and (3) to foster professional development for careers or graduate education. Thesegoals are realized through the students’ shared interactions within the SEECS seminar.Students awarded SEECS scholarships are required to attend a seminar where specificdevelopment and learning outcomes are realized in a team-based, project-based approach. Thechallenging and engaging aspect of the SEECS program is this zero-credit seminar. The SEECSseminar is structured around three components: engineering design, professional development,and personal development.While the two development facets are valued, the engineering design component is the pivotalexperience connecting and building not only engineering competency but also personalconfidence