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The D/M/A of CE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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in Engineering Service-LearningAbstractAttracting and retaining women in engineering is critical in the USA today. While women arecoming to college in overrepresented numbers, they are not represented equally to men inengineering majors. Though a university can only have limited impact on the attrition of womenin the engineering workforce, we can (and must!) work to improve recruitment and retention andto graduate women with adequate preparation for an engineering career. An increasing numberof engineering programs are integrating service-learning (S-L) into their curricula.For the past eight years of one S-L program, students in a college of engineering have beenwidely surveyed at the beginning of their studies and at the end of each

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Assessment of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Theresa M. Vitolo, Gannon University; Karinna M Vernaza, Gannon University; Barry J Brinkman, Gannon University; Scott E Steinbrink, Gannon University

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program are (1) to increase the number of academically talented, but financiallydisadvantaged students in the stated majors, (2) to assist students to be successful in theirundergraduate education, and (3) to foster professional development for careers or graduateeducation. These goals are realized through the students‟ shared interactions within the SEECSseminar.Students awarded SEECS scholarships are required to attend a seminar where specificdevelopment and learning outcomes are realized in a team-based, project-based approach. TheSEECS zero-credit seminar is structured around three components: engineering design,professional development, and personal development – with the design component absorbing50% of the seminar‟s focus.The design

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The D/M/A of CE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel M. Dulaski, Northeastern University

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experience is one of the last opportunities that instructors have to share their ideaswith students in an academic setting. One “parting charge” for students leaving campus is givingback to the community. Since 2010, Northeastern University’s Transportation capstone programhas successfully integrated the academic and real-world experience resulting in a culminatingexperience. When done properly, both the community and students will benefit from thecommunity-based capstone project.A student’s academic career is typically spent on a college campus with very little interactionwith the surrounding community. Throughout their academic careers, students are surroundedwith “text book” problems. The “given” that is provided in homework assignments

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Assessment of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan E Canney P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Tess Bowling, University of Colorado at Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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F 10 4/4/2/0 0/5/5The distribution of interview methods and demographic breakdown of the sample population are Page 23.724.3in Table 1. Three different interview methods were used to encourage conversation with thestudents. The first method was semi-structured interviews, with questions about why thestudents chose engineering as a major, what they hoped their career would look like, how theydefined social responsibility, what experiences in their life had influenced that view, if anyclasses or projects had been particularly formative with respect to their view of socialresponsibility, what it meant to them

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The D/M/A of CE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua M Frey, Elizabethtown College; Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College

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projects.There are a variety of approaches to outreach, but those that involve undergraduate engineeringstudents accomplish two goals: 1) encouraging more K12 students to consider engineering bybreaking stereotypes, and 2) involving the undergraduate engineering students in meaningfulcommunity engagement, which they will hopefully continue throughout their careers. There are several reasons that involving undergraduates in outreach is particularlyeffective, primarily because they can break the stereotypes of engineers that most K12 studentshave in their minds. Obama administration officials have met with business executives andschool deans in order to better understand the barriers to creating more engineers, which wereidentified as scientists

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Socio-cultural Dimensions of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Miguel A. Pando, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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attitudes, volunteering, and extracurricular activities. Thepre-trip questionnaire included questions on reasons for enrolling in the study abroad, enrichingeducational activities, attitudes toward engineering, reasons for volunteering, and expectationsregarding ABET a-k learning outcomes, as stated by the department. The post-trip questionnairerepeated the items on attitudes toward engineering and engineering learning outcomes, includingthe opportunity to comment on each of the learning outcomes. Students were also asked abouttheir perceptions of the project’s value to their learning and to the community, along with theirfuture educational and career plans. The pre-trip focus group included a discussion of questions related to expectations

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INTERACTIVE SESSION – Measuring the Impact on Communities

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Julie P Martin, Clemson University; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Tamara Floyd Smith, Tuskegee University

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from academia to the work place, a sense of belonging can result in increasedfeelings of security, stronger self-concept, self-respect and coping abilities11 and is cited inorganizational behavior texts as part of the definition of an organization (e.g., Liebler &McConnell12). Thus, from the perspective of the 21st century workforce, improvedunderstanding of and ability to build community in the undergraduate STEM experience links toessential needs in the technological workforce.Not only do we want to retain students throughout their STEM academic careers, we want theircareers to be fulfilling and sustainable. Previous research in STEM education shows that studentsuccess can depend on integration of academic and social experiences (e.g

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Drennan MSW, Centers for Disease Control ; Mary Y. Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Maggie Varga, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education; Sean J Creighton, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education; Derrick Langley, Air Force Institute of Technology; Diana Lynn Cahill, Air Force Institute of Technology

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student cohort meetings, not having adedicated program coordinator, not offering group meetings to discuss resumes, careers,graduate school, or offer a poster conference. While it is typical at other NSF-funded REUprograms to have a program coordinator, each student in the AFIT Summer Research Programis directed through his or her own AFIT Faculty Advisor and has a unique experience. Anotherunique aspect of the AFIT summer program is that all students are required to work the samecore hours between 0900 and 1500 each day.The new paradigm that we present in this paper is novel and unique because we were able tofigure out a way forward to assess students’ experiences in 2012 and use this information to gainsupport and resources to upgrade future

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Assessment of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; James Huff, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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, contribution to the 155community, value of service)Total Number of respondents 2044Alumni surveys are the newest form of programmatic assessment and were designed to provide aperspective from alumni after they have been out in the workforce. The survey items weredesigned to assess alumni with regard to the influence of EPICS on: (1) their careers, (2) theircommunity involvement, and (3) their ability to connect their career/discipline to communityengagement. The survey was also leveraged data for educational research that will be the subjectof future papers. The survey questions are included in Appendix E

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Socio-cultural Dimensions of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aimee S Navickis-Brasch P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho; Jillian Rae Cadwell, University of Idaho ; Laura Laumatia Laumatia; Fritz Fiedler, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Paper ID #7302How Land Use Change, Changed CultureMs. Aimee S Navickis-Brasch P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow Aimee Navickis-Brasch is a registered professional engineer with over nineteen years of experience in Hydraulic and Stormwater Engineering including positions with: Bovay Northwest Consulting Engineers (Dames and Moore), Boeing, and Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). The ma- jority of her career was spent working for WSDOT as a headquarters hydraulic and stormwater engineer where she was responsible for providing statewide support including; design, research, training, men- toring, and

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Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farzana Ansari, University of California, Berkeley; Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Ryan Shelby, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa A Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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coded into grad school, industry, undecidedbetween grad school and industry, and other. Any differences between leadership and non-leadership module students were assessed for all qualitative questions.ResultsChanges in confidence from first to third year reveal significant overall positive increases forleadership students in both professional and technical skills. Students in the leadership moduledid significantly better acknowledge the role that leadership plays in both teaching andengineering careers. This was also reflected in their qualitative data, which provided a deeperunderstanding for the benefit of leadership studies and service learning activities in students’undergraduate experiences. Qualitative data was otherwise split over the

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Marie Brown, Northeastern University; Mario Alan Hulett, Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc.

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careers in STEM fields ● Traditional Community Service - Any other type of community services such as roadside clean up, volunteering at a shelter, etc.A central objective of TORCH is to promote the value of STEM education in the Blackcommunity. An emphasis is placed on the first three components as they encourage members toapply their technical skill while giving back. The latter two components are included as a Page 23.1353.2grassroots outreach component and for record keeping purposes respectively. Chapters areencouraged to connect efforts in multiple areas through the establishment of a TORCH Center, asingle location offering

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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and Trumbull studied the effects of an outreach program for science graduate studentsaiming to “increase scientific literacy in the community, increase voter comfort andunderstanding of scientific issues, to encourage people who have not traditionally consideredcareers in science to consider them, and to build positive university and communityrelationships.”8 Though the students interviewed found they gained a deeper understanding oftheir own research areas by teaching them in a way that younger students could understand,again the perceptions about the rigor and career-advancement elements of the project were abarrier to participation: “graduate students who were involved in outreach were perceived to beless serious about their research and

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Socio-cultural Dimensions of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Mazzurco, Purdue University; James Huff, Harding University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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know how to replenishtheir knowledge by self-motivated, self-initiated learning. They will have to be aware ofsocioeconomic changes and appreciate the impact of these changes on the social and economiclandscape in the United States and elsewhere. The engineer of 2020 and beyond will need skillsto be globally competitive over the length of her or his career” (pp. 152-153).3But while this need may be well-recognized,4-5 the motivations for producing globally competentengineers vary across a number of stakeholders. For example, the Newport Declaration includesa very diverse set of rationales for global engineering education.6-7 The declaration characterizeshow globalization dynamics and discourses affect traditional views of engineering, with

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Socio-cultural Dimensions of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Antonio Jose Soares P.E., Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Rabbani Muhammad, Florida A&M University; Doreen Kobelo, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; G. Thomas Bellarmine P.E., Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Chao Li, Florida A&M University; Salman A. Siddiqui, Florida A&M University

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, and urban planning and design. He has also been a religious advisor volunteer to several departments of corrections since 1970.Dr. Doreen Kobelo, Florida A&M University/Florida State University Dr. Doreen Kobelo is an assistant professor at Florida A&M University in School of Architecture in their Division of Engineering Technology. Her primary research interest is on traffic operation and safety. Dr. Kobelo is currently working on studying traffic operation and safety in third-world countries in particular Africa and how it affects their economy. She also has been working with minorities in the STEM field and encouraging them to consider transportation ans a potential career. She received her master’s and

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Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joan B Schuman, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Kellie Grasman, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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feel strongly thatthey are helping the communities and that their experiences could change the type of volunteerwork some students pursue in the future.IntroductionTo be fully prepared for a professional career in the engineering field requires students todevelop different types of skills. According to ABET, engineering baccalaureate graduatesshould possess a set of five “hard” skills and a set of six professional skills3,4,5. The professionalskills, outlined below, are skills that employers desire from engineering professionals.(1) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams(2) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility(3) an ability to communicate effectively(4) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of

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Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University; Darrell G. Harden II, Michigan Department of Transportation; Danielle Elise Larson- Jaramillo, Western Michigan University

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transportation plan and policy objectives byproviding detailed analyses of school sites for potential SRTS projects, and it keeps MDOT outfront on SRTS at the federal level. Finally, the CCE 1001 service-learning design project givesthis community partner the opportunity to contribute to the development of future civil andconstruction engineers by working on MDOT projects to start their academic career and bygaining hands-on experience with multimodal transportation. The outcome will be engineers whowould be more aware of the issues of accessibility, sustainability, and livability in engineeringdesign, and who would be more comfortable interacting with a variety of socioeconomic groups.Sustainability of the Curriculum ImprovementA key to improving the

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Assessment of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew J. Traum, Milwaukee School of Engineering; David A Howell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Leah C. Newman, MSOE

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thepinnacle and capstone of the students’ engineering curriculum while propelling them into theirprofessional careers. When consciously adopted by engineering faculty as an underlying projectmanagement pedagogy, servant-leadership is an effective and powerful teaching technique.Faculty become servant-leaders by providing guidance to their students in planning,implementing, and testing their designs.As a teaching pedagogy used in business, servant-leadership has been shown to increase courseimpact, meaning, and relevance while empowering students, increasing their confidence, andenriching the student-teacher relationship. [1] Servant-Leadership used in marketing has beenshown to increase student knowledge and skills as well as instilling increased

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Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marybeth Lima, Louisiana State University

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Parks Association, which makes me eligible for liabilityinsurance.OutcomesSix-year retention rate data was collected from the time that the service-learning component ofthe course was fully implemented (1999) until 2007 (students take the course as second semesterfreshmen, and so began their college careers in Fall 2006, representing the latest date at which 6-year retention rate data is available). The overall retention rate of the cohort is 60.5% (244/403)--this percentage represents the students who graduated with a B.S. in biological engineering.There exists limited data for the course before it was taught using service-learning, but for theyear prior to the implementation of service-learning (or active learning), the retention rate was26

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; David O Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Annie Soisson, Tufts University; Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through service, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as com- plex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 engineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech.Dr. Annie Soisson, Tufts University Annie Soisson is the Associate Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) at Tufts

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan E Canney P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Molly Victoria Shea, University of Colorado

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there can be a lot to learn sort of from all sides of it…” Ryan had an engineeringbackground and was one of three males in the class. He also volunteered to work with the localnon-profit (TI) to enter survey data into a database for the resource-limited organization. Ryancame straight from an engineering undergrad and was drawn to this program, saying “I figuredout that I don’t want to do structures (structural engineering design on buildings/bridges) withmy career, I want to do something broader, solve some more problems that affect more people.”We chose these case study students to explore how two students with different backgrounds, butwith high-engagement in the class grappled with the challenges of learning in a project-basedsetting

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Assessment of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jude L. DePalma, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I Jaksic P.E., Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Hüseyin Sarper, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo

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informed by two quotes from the PROPEL application: Because Hispanic university students are often reluctant to dedicate themselves to the STEM fields, believing the profession will not integrate well with their community- minded career aspirations or that the time commitment to STEM majors will prevent them from actively engaging with their community, we created new STEM service learning opportunities. These will focus on innovation in addressing sustainability issues in the community, state and country. Service learning is a critical component in attracting Hispanic and low-income students to STEM degrees. Hispanic STEM students in particular express a desire to pursue a chosen profession

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Assessment of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; David O Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Annie Soisson, Tufts University

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Department of Engineering, which graduated its inaugural class in May 2012. At JMU, Dr. Pierrakos is the director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) and director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through ser- vice, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as complex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 en- gineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bowa George Tucker, UMass Lowell; David O Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Annie Soisson, Tufts University

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identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through ser- vice, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as complex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 en- gineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical En- gineering from Virginia Tech.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts UniversityDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environmental, &