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Community Engagement in Diverse Contexts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jo-Ann Panzardi PE, Cabrillo College; Terra D. Morris, The RP Group; Xitlali Galmez-Marquez, Cabrillo College; Patricia E. Sanders; Eva Schiorring, StemEval; Kurt Degregorio, Cabrillo College

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(SHPE) conferences.This paper presents both quantitative and qualitative obtained from the 2013-2017 abroadprograms. The quantitative data was collected in the form of pre and post self-assessmentsurveys and institutional retention and transfer data. In the self-assessment surveys, studentsrated their industry skills, civic engagement, global cultural skills, personal and academicgrowth, and engineering skills based on Purdue University’s Engineering Projects in CommunityService (EPICS) Program with a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high) scale. There was an overallaverage increase from 6.84 to 8.80, resulting in a 28.7% increase in the students’ perceived skillset. The retention and the transfer rates of the abroad students were compared to a

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Community Engagement in Diverse Contexts

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Jerrod A. Henderson, University of Houston (CoE & CoT); Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, University of Houston; Rick P. Greer, University of Houston; Mariam Manuel, University of Houston; Sara Jolly Jones, University of Houston; Victoria Doan, University of Houston

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c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019The Motivations of STEM MentorsIntroductionSchool-Based mentoring (SBM) currently is the most widely available and fastest-growing formof mentoring in the United States [1]. One challenge limiting mentoring programs is their abilityto attract and retain mentors. Why mentors decide to become involved and the conditions underwhich they persist as mentors are questions that require robust answers due to the importance ofcultivating deep relationships between mentors and mentees in order to obtain positive results[2], [3], [4]. While we know some demographics about individuals who mentor, we know lessabout why mentors decide to become mentors and why they persist. Existing research points

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Community Engagement in Diverse Contexts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Gerald Shall, Lawrence Technological University

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address.Part One: On the Dissonance Between Paradigms of Practice and Shadow-CitiesThe informal settlement, defined as communities constructed without permission on landillegally acquired, is currently the largest and fastest growing settlement type on the planet [1].iNow, and in the future, the majority of our planet’s inhabitants live in settlements that will not bemapped, permitted or otherwise documented [2].ii They will have no formal access to sewage orwaste disposal and only intermittent access to transportation, schools, water and electricity.They will live in communities poorly constructed, posing a danger to the occupants and asignificant drain on our planet’s civic and environmental resources [2].iii Their homes will bebuilt of scrap

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Perspectives on Service Learning: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Pierce, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); William C. Oakes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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into their careers andlives after graduation. Such approaches are often referred to as high impact pedagogies [1].The American Association of Colleges and Universities classifies service-learning as a “highimpact pedagogy” [2]. While the roots of service-learning, also called community engagedlearning, date back to the 1860’s with the Morrill Act and the 1920’s with the work of JohnDewey, curricular integration took root in the U.S. in the 1970’s. In the 1990’s there was asignificant increase in the adoption of the pedagogy within many disciplines in higher education[3, 4]. Research has shown that service-learning, can have benefits on student persistence [4-12],learning of core disciplinary knowledge and the broader skills needed in today’s

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Engaging Community through STEM partnerships

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica A. Kuczenski, Santa Clara University

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which offer inclusive learning opportunities for all participants. Whilechallenges exist, the class will continue to evolve and hopefully the partnerships will continue tobe meaningful to all involved.I. IntroductionOne primary purpose of higher education in engineering is to prepare engineering students fortheir future world of engineering practice. Recently, this purpose has required engineeringeducators to shift our thinking towards preparing students specifically as engineers who emergefrom college ready to participate as active and effective members of a global society [​1​], [​2​].Haag, et al. [​3​] observe that the “current work environment requires engineers to be globalcitizens, as well as aspirational, ethical leaders” and mimics

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Community Engagement in Diverse Contexts

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Brandon S. Field, University of Southern Indiana; Adam Giles Tennant; David J. Ellert PE, University of Southern Indiana

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were provided so the students could see sample labwork completed.The students enjoyed the course and a reversal in a declining course and student evaluation wasobserved between this most recent offering and the course evaluations from the previous fall,which was rewarding to the faculty member see Table 1. Table1: Course Evaluation and Student Evaluation for CE381 Soil Mechanics Pre and Post Minka House Project Material Incorporation Course Evlauation Student Evaluation CE381 (2017) 80% 80% CE381 (2018) 87% 88%Course evaluations are an important source of

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Engineers and Communities: Critical Reflections of Challenges, Opportunities, and Practices of Engaging Each Other

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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Responsible Mining, ResilientCommunities (RMRC) Project and in collaboration with educators, researchers, students, andactivists primarily affiliated with a rural campus of Corporación Universaitaria Minuto de Dios(UNIMINUTO) and urban Universidad Nacional (UNAL) in Colombia. This partnership hasmade a series of activities possible for students, including 1) 400-level project-based HE coursein the fall of 2018, 2) a Global Social Innovation Challenge (GSIC) project-based competitionrun by University of San Diego’s Center for Peace and Commerce in the spring of 2019, and 3) afield trip to Colombia with the RMRC Project team in the summer of 2019. In these experiences,undergraduate engineers learned about artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM

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Designing Opportunities for Youth Engagement in STEM

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Mary Anna LaFratta, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack P. Eng. P.E., Western Carolina University; Lane Graves Perry III, Western Carolina University

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of Community Engagementduring the 2017-2018 academic year. The team has obtained about $3500 of internal funds and$1000 external funding to fully materialize this interdisciplinary Service-Learning project. Thisproject will focus on 2D design, and hopefully lead to a future course on 3D interactive design.IntroductionResearch into the value and impact of service-learning as a pedagogical approach is robust. Ameta-analysis of 62 studies engaging nearly 12,000 students found that those involved in service-learning experiences demonstrated significant gains in key outcome areas including academicperformance as an indicator of learning, civic engagement and social skills, and attitudes towardsself-worth and personal growth [1]. While there are

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Perspectives on Service Learning: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David C. Che, Mount Vernon Nazarene University; Steve Feazel, Vision Word

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semester of 2017, a local inventor (2nd author of this paper) needed some CADmodeling support. We adapted our curriculum and made it a priority to help meet this need. Wewere rewarded for it - students loved these service projects. The S-L project served as a link fromengineering theory to everyday objects people can touch and see. Along the process they learnedwhat they needed to learn - the CAD tools. It was a win-win situation. In the following sections,we will document these activities and share some ABET outcome assessment results.The Wrap Rack ProjectOur university’s motto is "To Seek to Learn is to Seek to Serve."1 Service-Learning (S-L) haslong been recognized as an effective way of achieving multiple student learning outcomes

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Engineers and Communities: Critical Reflections of Challenges, Opportunities, and Practices of Engaging Each Other

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Callie J. Miller, James Madison University; Jason Forsyth, James Madison University; Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University; Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University

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, but also, they learn aboutthemselves as budding engineers and their future role as an engineer in society.Project Design & ExecutionThe teaching team has written on the course structure, project design, and project execution [1-4], thus it would be repetitive to describe these in detail herein. There are, though, some criticalelements of the course sequence that should be shared herein for clarity.First, the second-year design experience is a two-course sequence: Engineering Design I andEngineering Design II. The course’s outcomes and course description do not explicitly state thatthe courses require engagement with a member of the local community for completion of thecourse project. Instead, the courses are focused on teaching students

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Designing Opportunities for Youth Engagement in STEM

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Oscar Matias Gonzalez Chamorro, Proyecto Arapy; Gustavo Ramón Samaniego Balbuena, Colegio Inmaculada Concepción; Jorge H. Kurita, Universidad Nacional de Asuncion

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experiments, the wiring of sensors to amicrocontroller board and the open source program coding were all valuable learningexperience to students. As a result of the success of this activity, in supporting STEMeducation, made the local government initiate the process to include Space Education aspart of the curriculum initiatives. Keywords—HAB, STEM, Space Education, Open Source Hardware, Low Cost)I. INTRODUCTION In spite of the early creation of the Paraguayan Space Agency by congress in 2014, Law5151/14, [1] it didn’t start office up until 2017 by executive order Act 6466/17 and Act 7364/17.During this period of time, by initiative of academia, i.e. Facultad Politecnica UniversidadNacional de Asuncion (FPUNA), an attempt to conduct a near

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Engineers and Communities: Critical Reflections of Challenges, Opportunities, and Practices of Engaging Each Other

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Wei Lu, Texas A&M University; Mary E. Campbell, Texas A&M University

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. She is actively involved in service-learning related projects as the project manager as well as research investigator and data analyst. She earned her Master of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University in 2012; and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications from Texas A&M University in 2017.Dr. Mary E. Campbell, Texas A&M University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Engagement in practice: Lessons learned from a two-year multidisciplinary service- learning course Bringle and Hatcher [1] defined service-learning as a “course-based, credit

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Engaging Community through STEM partnerships

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shiyin Lim, Santa Clara University; Sydney Thompson, Santa Clara University; Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University

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- Chico. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Engagement in Practice: The Do’s and Don’ts in Partnership Development for a Successful Humanitarian Engineering Project.IntroductionHumanitarian engineering projects are increasingly being used in engineering education as a wayto teach sustainable development, involve students in a hands-on project, raise student socialawareness and engage underrepresented groups in engineering. Advocates of these projects laudthe experience and engineering growth gained by participating engineering students [1]. Butthese programs face criticism when student experience is placed above project effectiveness andcommunity impact [2]. The literature is full of

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Engineers and Communities: Critical Reflections of Challenges, Opportunities, and Practices of Engaging Each Other

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Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University; Kaleb Eldridge, Heart to Honduras; Patrick John Sours, Ohio State University

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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Engagement in Practice: The Vocabulary of Community Development as an Indicator of a Participatory MindsetIntroductionSince 2005, at The Ohio State University (OSU), an ecosystem of offerings in HumanitarianEngineering has emerged, from a themed living-learning community, Humanitarian EngineeringScholars, to a humanitarian engineering minor supported by several core courses and numeroushumanitarian engineering student organizations. Since then, what were a few short-term studyabroad opportunities evolved into eight full-fledged service learning programs with manyexecuted in conjunction with local or global NGO/non-profit partners [1]. These expandedopportunities in service

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Designing Opportunities for Youth Engagement in STEM

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Molly Y. Mollica, University of Washington; Alyssa M. Spomer, University of Washington ; Brianna M. Goodwin, University of Washington; Shawn Israel, University of Washington, Departmet of Rehabilitation Medicine; Anat Caspi P.E., University of Washington; Heather A Feldner, University of Washington Department of Rehabilitation Medicine; Katherine M. Steele, University of Washington; Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington

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adaptationand distribution to increase community awareness and improve the accessibility of adapted toys inWashington. This paper describes lessons learned and best practices in engaging the communitythrough toy adaptation in two contexts: 1) education outreach and 2) toy donation to families,clinics, and schools.IntroductionToys are essential for development because through play,children get exposure to novel concepts such as cause andeffect, develop communication and motor skills, and gainopportunities in independent play and decision making[1-2]. Adapted toys are generally not available in stores,and specialized websites sell adapted toys for 3-5 timesthe cost of the non-adapted toy. To address this problem, Figure 1: Adapted toy and sample

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Engaging Community through STEM partnerships

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Schaffer, Santa Clara University

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Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Engagement in Practice: Using STEM Outreach as a Platform to Improve Social Awareness and Learning SkillsIntroductionSTEM Outreach in the Community is a course taught at Santa Clara University (SCU) with thegoal of satisfying SCU’s Experiential Learning for Social Justice (ELSJ) requirement andproviding an avenue for SCU students to make a difference in the local community. The courseconsists of an outreach component where students teach engineering lessons after school at localpartner sites to 20-25 at-risk K-12 students. Most partners have students from 4th-6th grade as it isan ideal time for STEM outreach [1]. In addition to benefiting the K-12 students, STEM outreachhas also been shown

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Designing Opportunities for Youth Engagement in STEM

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Simone A. Smarr, University of Florida; Tiffanie R. Smith, University of Florida; Juan E. Gilbert, University of Florida

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Department in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida where he leads the Human-Experience Research Lab. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Engagement in Practice: CodeIT Day - Creating a One Day Experience to Increase The Diversity Among Youth interested in STEMBackgroundComputer science and other STEM related fields continue to expand and grow as society becomesmore and more technologically advanced. The Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests thatemployment in computer occupations alone is expected to increase 12.5 % from 2014 to 2024;that is an estimation of 500,000 new jobs 1 . The Bureau also reported that 99% of

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Perspectives on Service Learning: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Foster, George Fox University; Gary E. Spivey, George Fox University

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this program [1], the SE program grew out of both theengineering program’s and the university’s mission to develop graduates with a servicementality. Additionally, the engineering program’s focus on hands-on design-and-buildexperiences naturally engaged students to discover how they could serve using the engineeringskills they were learning.In the beginning, the initial instructors collaborated with the EPICS program started at PurdueUniversity [2], [3] and patterned much of the GFU program from theirs. The EPICS program atPurdue was an elective for students. However, the faculty of GFU felt that the service-learningopportunity was important enough to create a sequence of courses that would be required of allengineering students. The SE

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Elizabeth Anne Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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, Herkert [1] noted that there were no “established instructional methods for teachingethics, nor is there any relevant inclusion of ethics in the undergraduate STEM curricula.” And,Riley et al. [2, p. 107] reported that “engineering curricula are increasingly filled with requiredcourses from within the engineering discipline, often leaving students with little room to takeelective courses such as engineering ethics.” And more recently, Howland et al. [3] asserted“there is a lack of research on foundational understandings of social and ethical responsibilityamong engineering students, including how their perceptions change over time and followingparticipation in specific types of learning experiences.” Despite these challenges, engineeringethics

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Helen Carlson P.E., Ph.D., Merrimack College; Anne Pfitzner Gatling, Merrimack College; Katherine Marie Donell

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practiced in other projects throughout the semester.IntroductionThere are many challenges in STEM education, including stimulating student interest, retainingstudents of diverse abilities and backgrounds, and preparing students to address the realities ofthe post-academic world and work-space. Many novel approaches have been developed toaddress these challenges, including problem- and project-based learning [1], entrepreneurship[2], and flipped classrooms [3].First-year engineering students face many unique challenges, including a heavy academic load ofprimarily technical courses. Engineering student success has been shown to be helped byincreasing students’ peer-to-peer instruction [4], and increased efficacy [5] and increasingstudents’ personal

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Engaging Community through STEM partnerships

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathalia Ospina-Uribe, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus ; Pamela Cristina Silva Díaz; Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. He is active in the Mechanics Division. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Engagement in Practice: Building Effective Community Resilience through Active ParticipationKeywords: Community Resilience, Participatory Design, Climate Change, Vulnerability,Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Creative Capacity Building (CCB), AppropriateTechnology, Local Innovation1. IntroductionAfter a “catastrophe” or “disaster” – defined as “a potentially traumatic event that is collectivelyexperienced, has an acute onset, and is time delimited, … attributed to natural, technological, orhuman causes” [1] – the concept of Resilience is useful to

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Perspectives on Service Learning: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon M. Kellam; Guthrie J. Boleneus, Eastern Washington University; Jacob Stewart; Donald C. Richter P.E., Eastern Washington University; B. Matthew Michaelis, Eastern Washington University; Robert E. Gerlick, Eastern Washington University

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, after seeingan article in The New York Times on 3D printed hands [1], reached out to our department in late2017 seeking assistance in building a prosthetic for her 5th grade student, who was a congenitalamputee, missing an arm just below the elbow. A 3D arm was printed from a model on the e-Nable website [2] and fitted to the student, who was more than thrilled. The new hand providedthe ability to grasp with fingers by flexing the elbow joint. This allowed the child to hold smallobjects, such as a water bottle, fruit, a book, and even a basketball. With this success, andlearning of this need in the community, the project was expanded with funds from a small grantto build ten more limbs for children in the area. This paper is a presentation of

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Engineers and Communities: Critical Reflections of Challenges, Opportunities, and Practices of Engaging Each Other

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Matias N. de Paula, University of San Diego

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). Some of de Paula’s academic and professional accomplishments include being the recipient of a Fulbright FLTA scholarship (2008-2009) and a Cambridge University Best Practice in State Education Scholarship (2011). In addition, he has attended and presented in conferences and teacher training seminars in Argentina, England and the USA c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 "Ingeniero como vos": An analysis of the Mbyá-Guaraní Practices Associated with Engineering DesignAbstractThe Mbyá-Guaraní are a group of nomadic people that have inhabited impenetrable territories inSouth America for centuries [1]. They are one of the groups that had the least amount of