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Models and Practices of Community Engagement for Engineering Faculty

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tamara Ball, UCSC Baskin School of Engineering; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz

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for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems (CenSEPS) and a member of the Sus- tainable Engineering and Ecological Design Program at UCSC. He is recipient of numerous awards including a Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship, the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America, an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Microscopy Society of America. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and the MSA. He has been elected to the executive board of the Engineering Research Council of the American Society of Engineering Education and is series co-editor of ”Advances in Microscopy and Microanalysis” published by Cambridge University Press. He is

Conference Session

Models and Practices of Community Engagement for Engineering Faculty

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University; Peter Wesley Odom, Oral Roberts University

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worldviewoptions.18 In addition, encouraging students to make connections between engineering andhuman spirituality is seen to be an important aspect of a whole-person education.19 AlthoughORU is a Christian institution, students are encouraged to wrestle with these issues and come totheir own conclusions based on the evidence from all pertinent fields of study.In conducting these 250 seminars, churches and schools are contacted by project team membersto explore their openness to the idea of a presentation on science and faith. A description of theseminar is provided, and many groups accept and appreciate our offer to serve them in this way.A convenient date is set and the standard presentation is modified based on the interests and ageof the audience

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Civic Engagement and Volunteerism in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David A. Delaine, Universidade de São Paulo and IFEES; Jose Roberto Cardoso, Universidade de São Paulo; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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Paper ID #13586Qualitative Analysis of Boundary Spanning Implications within Interviews ofEngagement StakeholdersDr. David A. Delaine, Universidade de S˜ao Paulo and IFEES David A. Delaine has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Drexel University, in Philadelphia, USA. He currently serves as an executive member of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), as Vice President for Student Engagement, Diversity, and Inclusion. IFEES aims to strengthen engineering education practices around the world. He has recently completed his tenure as a Fulbright Scholar and is currently performing

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Learning Through Service

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Katherine Schmotzer; Ana Paula Valenca, Purdue EPICS

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technical and club advisors forthe EWB-USA. The local club already had professional mentors who travelled in-country theprevious summer on an assessment trip with a team of students. These mentors continued withthe class and supported the faculty for EPICS who was an added advisor and managed the courseand assessments along with a graduate teaching assistant. He was also added as an advisor for theclub to keep him informed about activities and also to make it easier on the student members toobtain required signatures within the university system. A second club advisor was kept from theprogram that had overseen EWB-USA previously and still had responsibility for the organization.This shared ownership has worked well.Student Reflections and