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

. That does not mean that thequality of the work is compromised. Only committed students volunteer to work on theseprojects and the faculty closely supervises their work.ConclusionBeing engaged in student organizations provide significant leadership, problem solving,and communication skills that are transferred to the workforce. SWID allows students theopportunity to hone those professional soft skills and creates a forum that opens andencourages dialogue between students and industry. Some of the soft skills that studentsdevelop during their project discussions are asking the right questions, asking leadingquestions, interacting with “different” people – people with various skill levels, skillssets, objectives, backgrounds, needs etc., learning

Conference Session

Civic Engagement and Volunteerism in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A. Delaine, Universidade de São Paulo and IFEES; Jose Roberto Cardoso, Universidade de São Paulo; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

engineering problems”.Promoting, empathy, EQ and other soft skills has been referred to as holistic engineeringeducation [29]. As these skills are essential to workforce success [26], play an importantrole in augmenting communication skills in engineering students [30, 31], and areimportant to help engineers consider the impact of their work on society [32], findingways in which holistic engineering education can be achieved is important, yetchallenging. Engineering has historically had a masculine image [33], which is“associated with keeping emotions to oneself or actively hiding feelings in order to beperceived as objective, impartial, analytical, and not weak [34].” Integrating these

Conference Session

Measuring the Impact of Community Engagement on Students

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keilah Maria Tablante Bias, University of Prince Edward Island; Daniel Larsen, University of Prince Edward Island; Libby Osgood P. Eng, UPEI & Dalhousie University; Alex Gamble, University of Prince Edward Island; Spencer Paul Montgomery, University of New Brunswick

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Curriculum MaterialsDe Putter . International Journal of Science Education Vol 34.3 Knight, D. W. (2007). Improving Engineering Student Retention through Hands-On, Team-Based, First Year Design Projects. International Conference on Research in Engineering Education (pp. 1-13). Honolulu, HI: American Society for Engineering Education.4 Del Vitto, C. (2008). "Cross-Cultural "Soft Skills" and the Global Engineer: Corporate Best Practices and Trainer Methodologies. Online Journal for Global Engineering Education Vol. 3 Iss. 1, 1-9.5 Kedrowicz, A. A., & Taylor, J. L. (2013). Engineering Communication and the Global Workplace. International Professional Communication Journal, 81-105.6 National Academy of Engineering