Conference Session

Community Engagement in Diverse Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

, soilclassification, and includes eight laboratory experiments. The course content matches very wellwith the knowledge needed to produce a geotechnical report such as required at the Minka site.From the faculty members prior experience teaching the course, it was desired to have the lab bea more dynamic and formative experience for the students. To do this, the Soil Mechanics classincorporated the Minka site soil into the laboratory portion of the class. A formative approachwas taken to the individual labs that would all come together to produce a summative project of ageotechnical report of the Minka site.For the first lab and before ground was broken at the Minka sites by the contractor, studentscollected soil samples at various depths to determine the

Conference Session

Engaging Community through STEM partnerships

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Schaffer, Santa Clara University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

explore moreabout privilege, perspective, and how hard work – while it makes a difference – may not get oneas far if there are systemic hurdles in their way. The role of one’s community on the individual’ssuccess is discussed further as well.Lecture 6: Teaching with ConstraintsIn this activity, students put into groups and asked to design a typical lab lesson. They are told thatthey have access to a standard laboratory classroom, will have a diverse class among manydimensions stressing that there will be students of varying familiarity with the material, ethnicitiesand socio-economic backgrounds. They are told that the materials for their lab cost about $300and to plan accordingly. After the initial lesson is designed, each group is given

Conference Session

Perspectives on Service Learning: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He is a registered professional engineer and on the NSPE board for Professional Engineers in Higher Education. He has been active in ASEE serving in the FPD, CIP and ERM. He is the past chair of the IN/IL section. He is a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of Great Teachers at Purdue University. He was the first engineering faculty member to receive the national Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning. He was a co-recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engi- neering and Technology Education and the recipient of the National