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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Romeo Ballinas-Gonzalez, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Benjamin Sanchez, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Miguel X. Rodriguez-Paz, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Juan Arturo Nolazco-Flores, Tecnologico de Monterrey

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

started social projects. Inthis study we propose a framework for the development a radio podcast for students in universities in orderto enhance their soft skill along their studies. We propose a methodology and then we present a case studyfor the implementation of the method approach. The results show that the radio podcast program helps thestudents and university to engage with the community in order to attend social problems. Also, the programhas demonstrated to develop the communication skills of the students involved by creating innovativesolutions in specific socio-economic contexts and coordinating in multidisciplinary teams.Keywords: podcast, social media, engineering education, Tec21, higher education, educational innovation.1

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Joan B Schuman, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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careers, I believe that they will in fact be better prepared for aglobal world.This work was funded in part by a grant from my University through the Campus Committee forDiversity and Inclusion.References[1] A. Parkinson "The Rationale for Developing Global Competence," Online Journal for GlobalEngineering Education: Vol. 4:Iss. 2, Article 2, 2009 [Online] Available at:http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/ojgee/vol4/iss2/2http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/ojgee/vol4/iss2/2[2] C. Del Vitto ,"Cross-Cultural "Soft Skills" and the Global Engineer: Corporate Best Practicesand Trainer Methodologies," Online Journal for Global Engineering Education: Vol. 3: Iss. 1,Article 1, 2008 [Online] Available athttp://digitalcommons.uri.edu/ojgee/vol3/iss1/1http

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute

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rate of their students (of some 50% countrywide);developing the students’ soft skills; tightening the relationship with industry; forming engineersthat could better fit the demands of their future employers (in industry) or of innovation andentrepreneurship.Formative initiatives aimed at forming grassroots engineersSo far, we have briefly: presented grassroots engineering (GE) and its theoretical legitimacy;derived from some Freire’s works the four complementary skills an educator/grassroots engineermust possess in addition to the conventional mainstream (or “technical”) ones; sketched someaspects of the Brazilian regulation of both higher education in general and engineering educationin particular that either make it possible or limit this