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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 1

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Rachel Koh, Smith College

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product. Another problematicassumption made in the students’ economic proposal was that what works under consumercapitalism in the U.S., where a high percentage of the population has expendable income, wouldwork in the very different economic circumstances of Nicaragua. The project was ultimatelystalled at the proposal stage because of disagreement about this point.By the time they reach their senior capstone, engineering students have often had few- if any-courses that require them to consider empathic approaches to designing for a client orcommunity whose racial, ethnic, national, socioeconomic, or other demographic backgrounddiffers from their own. This experience gap is reflected when students don’t have the tools tounderstand the needs of

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

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Melissa Morris, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide

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engineering laboratories in the thirdyear. The final year consists of traditional capstone design projects, similar to those at mostaccredited programs.As noted in the previous section, retention can be improved by many different factors. One ofthe results of having a project course with professional skills every semester during the entiredegree program is that as students work in teams and present so that they get to know each otherwell and develop a community. As already noted, a community aids in student retentionthroughout the entire four-year sequence [4]. Particularly in the second year, more benefit isgained when a focus is placed on directing students toward their future careers and providingmentorship to aid their motivation to continue in

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 3

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Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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attach to their helmets or shirts.• For mine tailings remediation, students developed a conceptual design to use remediated tailings as raw material to make construction bricks.• For miner’s safety and health, students identified a number of ergonomic backpack designs to minimize back injuries when carrying ore out of mine shaftsEDNS 491-92 Engineering for Community Development (ECD) Capstone Design Studio. Tocontinue addressing the problems associated with design for industry mentioned above, wedeveloped a design studio environment inside of our university’s Capstone Design course thatallows us to bring in multiple ECD projects at the same time, requiring different time frames fortheir completion, and different skill sets required

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 1

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Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Michael A Soltys, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jennifer Kracha, University of Colorado Boulder

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undergraduate program at the University of ColoradoBoulder piloted an innovative engineering design course available to students in all engineeringdisciplines (link to course site, including examples of student projects:https://www.colorado.edu/eplus/courses/geen-2400-engineering-projects-community​). The purposeof this course is to provide engineering students with the next step in a sequence of hands-on,team-based, interdisciplinary engineering design courses and create a natural progression between afirst-year projects course and senior capstone course. The University already offers anentrepreneurial design course option for juniors but the second-year of coursework was lacking arelated course option. Based on research around project-based service

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

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Maija A Benitz, Roger Williams University; Li-Ling Yang, Roger Williams University

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academic content. It is important that the work is done in partnership with thecommunity, and not for the community, in a way that is truly reciprocal. Finally, students mustreflect on their work before, during and after the experience to process, contextualize, anddeepen their learning.While community engagement projects have been primarily incorporated into first-yearcurriculum as well as senior design capstone experiences, there continues to be growth in the useof this pedagogy across the entire undergraduate engineering experience [3]. Communityengagement projects also occur in extracurricular settings, for example through participation instudent clubs such as Engineers Without Borders [4].The benefits of community engaged learning for course

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 3

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John Bernhard Kleba, ITA - Aeronautics Technological Institute (Brazil); Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute (Brazil)

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- Engineering Innovation - Ideas for social enterprises created by the students; • Any year - Work Experience or internships with community-based organizations or social enterprises; • Year 3 or 4 - Engineering for a Humanitarian Context course as a dedicated elective subject; • Year 4 - Systems Engineering Project (1 semester) and Individual Research Project (2 semesters) - both involve service learning and external partners, the former with a group capstone project, the latter, with research to development or humanitarian contexts.Engineering for a Humanitarian Context (EfaHC). Although the student may participate in HEdriven activities in all years, just one elective course is specific to the subject of HE, the

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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Adetoun Yeaman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020A Qualitative Study of Empathy in the Experiences of Students in a First-Year Engineering Service-Learning CourseEmpathy is an important ability for engineers, it allows us to connect with the people we impactas we seek to solve problems, engage in design and innovate technologies. This ability iscommonly and casually defined as the ability to put oneself in another person’s shoes. Severalresearchers within and outside of the engineering education community have sought to defineand suggest practical

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 1

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Patrick John Sours, Ohio State University; Michael J Hagenberger P.E., Ohio State University

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members of Marwa Village. The conclusion was that thecommunity had the desire and organizational capacity to be a strong partner for aninternational water development project. A multi-disciplinary team was assembled, traveled toMarwa in May 2016, and established the foundation that would evolve into a multi-year, multi-phase community development project: Maji Marwa. The Maji Marwa project was introduced to students as a capstone project option in theundergraduate civil engineering program and has expanded to collaboration amongst twouniversities, five colleges and participation from over 175 students. The rainwater harvestinginitiatives goal was to collaborate with in-country partners to construct three rainwaterharvesting (RWH) systems

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

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Joan B Schuman, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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. However, the IDI surveys almost always show a higher perceived culturalcompetency than the actual measured developmental level which would need to be taken intoconsideration. Evaluating training or experiences incorporated into classes at multiple levelswould provide a better picture of whether my conclusions are correct. I have incorporated aService Learning project for people in another culture for a Senior Capstone course. Thesestudents did not travel to that location but needed to learn about the culture in order to create adesign that was effective. Based on the research shown in this paper, one project most likely wasnot sufficient to increase cultural competence. However, if students are exposed to manyexperiences over their college

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Amanda Johnston, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Emily Honor Hubbard, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Paper ID #29000Development of Empathy in a Rehabilitation Engineering CourseDr. Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Lauren Cooper earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a research emphasis in Engineering Education from University of Colorado Boulder. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Her research interests include project-based learning, student motivation, human-centered design, and the role of empathy in engineering teaching and learning.Amanda Johnston, Purdue University-Main