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Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelsey B. Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University; Marta C. Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University; Min Young Pack, Pennsylvania State University; Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Samir Narendra Patel, Pennsylvania State University; Tara Lynn Sulewski, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Amy L. Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University

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, innovation space design, curricularprogram development, indigenous knowledge integration, greenhouse design and businessstrategy development. The low-cost innovation space will enable students and entrepreneurs todesign and create products that will add value to their daily lives and promote entrepreneurialendeavors. Universal connectors will be used in this innovation space for rapid prototyping oflocally-relevant technology products. An innovative science curriculum in the form of acertificate program for secondary school science teachers was developed. This curriculum willintegrate the innovation space into the formal education system and help sustain it. An affordablegreenhouse was prototyped and field-tested as a compelling example of a game

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Global Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aditya Johri, Virginia Tech; Akshay Sharma, Virginia Tech

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important part of the engineering curriculum in many institutionssince its introduction within engineering schools in the early 1990s. The newly formed ASEEcommunity on service-learning is further evidence of its importance and adoption.Moving beyond engagement with local communities and projects, an international or globalflavor is also evident in many service-learning projects. In many cases this interest has emergedout of engineering faculty members’ research efforts. Many faculty members in civil andenvironmental engineering, mechanical engineering, and other disciplines, are involved withresearch on global climate change, sustainability, and other global challenges. Several efforts inthe area are also being driven by researchers in areas such

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Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carrie-Ann Miller LCSW, State University of New York, Stony Brook

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student mentors in developing STEM Tech Clubs. The clubs will service girls from underserved school districts. Each club will use service-learning to exam and come up with a design for an environmental issue. The designs will be built using the engineering design model and presented at a capstone event. She served on the Connect To Tech Advisory Board as a member on this network of school personnel, industry leaders, and community members, whose goal is to further the education of students on Long Island in STEM areas. She has been a Long Island Regional Service Learning Network, Advisory Board member. Members provide curriculum and technical assistance to school districts that are interested in developing a service

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Lessons Learned through Community Engagement of Engineering Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Manuel A. Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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each semesterhave a required course in which S-L projects are mostly required but in some cases optional. Lastacademic year (2010-2011) 1267 students were engaged in service-learning projects in theengineering college. The total enrollment for the college was 1600 the same year. An estimated49,500 hours were contributed to the community. One way to illustrate the number of courseswith S-L integrated into the curriculum is depicted in Figure 1. Each column represents anacademic year under its department. Within each column, dots with deeper shading indicate thatthe S-L was required for everyone in the course that semester. Lighter shading indicates that theS-L was a choice, or elective, opted by only some of the students in the course, usually

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Relevance of and Models for Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karinna M. Vernaza, Gannon University; Theresa M. Vitolo, Gannon University; Barry J. Brinkman, Gannon University; Scott Steinbrink, Gannon University

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for those suffering from cerebral palsy. A recent exerciseallowed clients to participate in a geocaching activity which integrated retention of presentedmaterials with recall of known facts about their home area.9One of the ways adults with disabilities are supported through the Barber Institute is byproviding vocational training and work-site opportunities. Clients proceed through an initialassessment, hard and soft skills training, individualized and specific site-training, and exposureto labor incentives. Once clients are prepared and qualified, they may move into supportedemployment services.While in supported employment, a client is guided and supported by an employment specialist, ajob coach. Clients (1) may become direct hires, (2) may

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Stakeholder Perspectives on Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan E. Canney, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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AC 2012-3887: ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ VIEWS OF THE ROLE OFENGINEERING IN SOCIETYNathan E. Canney, University of Colorado, Boulder Nathan Canney received bachelor’s degrees from Seattle University in civil engineering and applied math- ematics. After graduation, he worked for Magnusson Klemencic Associates in Seattle, Wash., as a struc- tural engineer on high-rise residential buildings. Canney returned to school at Stanford University for a master’s degree and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in civil engineering, with an engineering education research focus.Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt has been a professor in the Department

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Relevance of and Models for Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan McCahan, University of Toronto; Holly K. Ault, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University; Mark R. Henderson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University; Annie Soisson, Tufts University

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anti-foundational goals.This balance is reflected in the model we propose.3. Description of the ModelOur group formulated a model which characterizes 12 dimensions of LTS programs inengineering. This model provides a basis for comparing and contrasting programs. In addition,it can be used as a check list for developing a new LTS program, evolving an existing LTSprogram, integrating LTS into a curriculum, or assessing the quality of an LTS program.The dimensions are formulated to capture the qualities of current LTS programs that are presentacross a wide breadth of engineering institutions. As such the dimensions need to encompass thebroad variety of existing programs as well as take into account future developments in thispedagogy. The

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Stakeholder Perspectives on Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Nathan E. Canney, University of Colorado Boulder

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for learning, and a variety of attitude changes.11Inaddition, LTS may help attract and retain a greater diversity of students in engineering.12,13To allow more students to reap the benefits from LTS, faculty must be willing to integrate SLinto their courses and mentor extracurricular LTS activities. However, little is known about thebest practices, benefits, and challenges of LTS from an engineering faculty perspective. Resultsfrom the few studies on faculty to date are summarized below.The SLICE program at UMLhas conducted assessment of faculty via both an annual writtensurvey instrument and in-depth interviews with 14 faculty.14 The reach of this program has beenphenomenal, growing from a single faculty member engaged in SL in 2003 to 37 of

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Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shoba Krishnan, Santa Clara University; Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University

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AC 2012-3801: ENGINEERING SERVICE LEARNING: CASE STUDY ONPREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE GLOBAL COMMUNITYDr. Shoba Krishnan, Santa Clara University Shoba Krishnan received her B. ech. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India, in 1987, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 1990 and 1993, re- spectively. From 1995 to 1999, she was with the Mixed-Signal Design Group at LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, Calif., where she worked on high-speed data communication IC design and testing. She is an As- sociate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif. Her research interests include analog and mixed-signal integrated

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Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Light, Lewis-Clark College

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things that make service-learning projects difficult to find and develop. Despite these difficulties, engineering educatorshave incorporated service learning in their curriculums. Examples of service-learning in thefreshmen and junior/senior years of an engineering program can be found with a search throughthe National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.1 However, there are few project-specific service-learning opportunities for sophomore-level foundational engineering courses. This paper seeksto fill this gap by providing a description of a service-learning project developed specifically fora statics and dynamics class. It should be noted this case study is limited in scope in that theemphasis is on program evaluation rather than academic research

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Relevance of and Models for Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James L. Huff, Purdue University; Dulcy M. Abraham, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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and curriculum and instruction in the College of Education. He is an Fellow of the ASEE and NSPE. He was the first engineer to win the Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service- learning. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education for his work in EPICS. Page 25.130.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Adapting Curricular Models for Local Service-Learning to International CommunitiesIntroduction:In recent years, respected voices in

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Relevance of and Models for Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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-120.8. Coyle EJ, Jamieson LH, Oakes WC. Integrating engineering education and community service: Themes for the future of engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education. 2006;95(1):7-11.9. VanderSteen J. Humanitarian Engineering in the Engineering Curriculum. Kingston, Canada: Civil Engineering, Queen's University 2008.10. Mehta K, Morais DB, Zhao Y, Brannon ML, Zappe S. Milking the Rhino - Innovative Solutions Showcase: Promoting Ethics Education, User-Centered Design and Social Entrepreneurship in the Global Context. Paper presented at: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition; 26-29 June, 2011; Vancover, BC.11. Baillie C. Engineers within a local and global society. Synthesis Lectures on Engineering

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Stakeholder Perspectives on Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Bull, Brown University School of Engineering; Maureen Kay Sigler, Brown University; Michael Lye, Rhode Island School of Design

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time for testing, feedback from users, andreflection.The spring 2011 “Sustainable Energy Technology” course was an instance of the indirect model.Two teams of students (7 of the 30 students enrolled) worked on projects that had been definedbefore the start of class and in this case the faculty member in charge acted as proxy for thecommunity partner. The projects (a building scale energy use analysis and a district-wide datacollection, aggregation, and analysis) had community based components and aligned with thecourse goal of students completing a design project that integrated a sustainable energytechnology with existing infrastructure (only the students in these community related projectswere surveyed.) Both projects were data rich and

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Lessons Learned through Community Engagement of Engineering Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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their quality of life. The room was filled with a palpable excitement.Upon returning to GFU, work began on a postural assist device. This work was done byinterested students as an extra-curricular activity. Other similar service projects had beenattempted at GFU, some completed, but all were difficult to sustain. The university has agrowing engineering program (50 full-time students in the first complete four-year class in 2003,and over 180 in 2011), but there simply was not enough critical mass to maintain the inertia ofmany of these project ideas. As time went on, the faculty began to look for a way to add service-learning activities directly into the curriculum. The faculty investigated what resources wereavailable to support a course that