Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Plymesser PE, Montana State University, Billings; Damon Lee Sheumaker; Christopher Robert Allen, Civil Engineering and the Center For Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

. Concurrently students worked to fundraise forimplementation, discussing with the Bozeman community, the failure/lessons learned andanticipated path forward. With the design and funding complete the design was submitted to andapproved by EWB-USA for implementation during the 2015 travel season.The same contractor that had drilled the well at Munjiti the previous summer was hired toconstruct the rainwater catchment system. Some on-site design changes were made andconstruction was completed near the end of the time for the travel team associated with theimplementation of the RWCS. One seemingly small task remained for a complete system, thesand needed to be graded and cleaned for the sand filter. A small set of laboratory screens wasbrought from the US

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison B. Hoxie, University of Minnesota Duluth; Mary U Christiansen, University of Minnesota Duluth

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

those they will find aftergraduation.Project based learning in one form or another has been around for many years. In 1959, JohnDewey came out with one of the first formal articles discussing project-based learning. In it heexplained how he taught students in his laboratory through a process of inquiry, where he gavethem real-world scenarios and problems to solve. When the students felt engaged and invested ina real, legitimate project, Dewey observed that the students gained greater understanding of thematerial3. Today it is commonly accepted that project based learning environments possess fivemain components: a driving question, exploration of the driving question through authentic,situated inquiry, a community of collaboration that includes

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., Univerity of Illinois College of Engineering; Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

course in its first semester, 13 came from Engineering, eight came from UrbanPlanning, six came from Community Health, seven from Anthropology, and five from GlobalStudies, with one additional student a faculty member teaching science at the University ofIllinois Laboratory High School. One registrant was professional staff of the University whoaudited the course because of a personal interest in the topic. Within these five sections, studentsrepresented additional programs ranging from Translation & Interpretation Studies to African-American Studies. All five sections met together, with faculty from each of the departments co-instructing all class sessions. One faculty member acted as lead facilitator for each class, with allothers

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Queen Retherford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kelly Summerford Ellenburg, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

enterprise.While various programs have experienced growth, some programs have diverged over time andare no longer deliberately described as experiential learning opportunities. West VirginiaUniversity’s PRIDE program has been discontinued, yet the opportunity for experiential learningstill exists as described in a recent capstone course syllabus9 as well as numerous journal articlesdiscussing the program’s education methods and observations10,11. Similarly, Kansas StateUniversity’s Mechanical Engineering Design Laboratory still exists as a required componentwithin the undergraduate curriculum, but is not necessarily a deliberate service learningexperience at this time12. These programs demonstrate the common reality for most civilengineering capstone