Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Joann M. Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Jeffrey Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Tyrone Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Ricardo Maldonado; Cristina Rivera-Vélez, GREAT IDEA; Davis Chacon-Hurtado, University of Connecticut; Pablo Jose Acevedo, UPRM

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

in the context of rural Haiti, and also through the related efforts to provide technical education and training to community members (capacity building). Personal Remark from Joann Rodríguez: My work with the GREAT IDEA project is the best professional and personal opportunity of my life. We, as engineering students, need courses and research experiences focused in the development of skills to work with and for the community. Engineers should work to solve problems in the simplest way and always keep in mind what the user really needs, rather than the creation of new products to make the user depend on it. For example, with the IBSF, the basic need of safe water can be provided without sophisticated technology and

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cathy Leslie P.E., Engineers Without Borders - USA

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

survey in order to build upon this finding.The other remaining seven sub-themes in the survey include engineering motivations, ABETlearning outcomes, EWB-USA learning impacts (compared with coursework, questions onlygiven to EWB-USA members), global competency, engineering identity, career outcomeexpectations, and future career goals. These themes are briefly described below.Methods Page 24.439.4Findings from qualitative data, combined with the literature shared above, led to the selectedsurvey themes presented in Table 1. Of the nine survey themes, seven themes used items fromexisting scales, and two themes used items developed by the research