Conference Session

Humanitarian Engineering, Social Entrepreneurship and Communitarian Innovation in the Global South

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha Janneth Salinas S, Minuto de Dios University Corporation; viviana Garzon, UNIMINUTO; IVÁN DARÍO GARCIA P.E., UNIVERSIDAD MINUTO DE DIOS; Miguel Gonzalez, Universidad Minuto de Dios

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Community Engagement Division

Innovation Science Park of UNIMINUTO, developed a STEMRobotics program partnering with i-Carnegie (now Robomatter Inc., a spin-off of CarnegieMellon University), through a project carried out in eight rural schools in Colombia, whichbenefited more than 2,000 middle school and high school students through three years. Theproject included the training of local teachers, the adaptation to the Colombian contextmethodology and of a set of guides, and the implementation monitoring during three years.The main results of this process were the increase in motivation for learning of the studentsand the development of hard and soft skills by both high school students and teachers5.The results of this previous experience led to investigate STEM education [1

Conference Session

Engagement In Practice: Integrating Community Engagement into Engineering Curricula

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria C. Sanchez, University of Maryland College Park; Dylan Anthony Hazelwood, University of Maryland, College Park; Dave K. Anand, University of Maryland, College Park

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Community Engagement Division

“engineering is not just engineering”, the course is an attempt to recognize the importance of theunderstanding that engineers are responsible for the social change that their profession creates.Traditional engineering courses typically focus on the development of technical skills but oftenfail to help students develop the professional or “soft” skills that engineers need today and to createa sense of social responsibility [1]. It was very important to the instructional team that studentsdevelop the needed cultural awareness and that they would be inspired to use their technical skillsto practice social entrepreneurship with the intention of making a difference in their communitiesand society at large. Unlike many courses that engage engineering