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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

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Rajani Muraleedharan, Saginaw Valley State University; Marie Cassar, Saginaw Valley State University

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since 2014. She is the member of Institutional Review Board Committee, reviewer of Consumers Energy Engineering Talent Scholarship, and member of C of IDEAS at SVSU.Dr. Marie Cassar, Saginaw Valley State University Associate Professor of Psychology American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work-in-Progress: Understanding Self-Efficacy and Persistence in STEM education for Underrepresented Middle School StudentsAbstractGrowth in tech industries such as, communications, robotics and transportation, have highlightedthe need for drawing an increasingly diverse population of students into STEM education early intheir academic careers. While many

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

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Reed Marshall ; Daylen James McGhee, United States Military Academy; Lixrine Epie Ngeme, United States Military Academy; Joseph Carl Price ; Aaron T. Hill Jr., United States Military Academy; Brad C. McCoy, United States Military Academy; Kevin P. Arnett P.E., United States Military Academy

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. Increasing the interest of students in the STEM field will present the growingneed for engineers as a necessary change to sustain the increasing demand for infrastructure,houses, businesses, energy, water, and infrastructure.In a 2008 report, a public high school authority in the U.S. discovered an extremely low level ofinterest for participating in STEM-related career academics in high school among middle schoolstudents; however, the students showed higher interests in arts, literatures, businesses, andentertainment-related careers, especially the females who make up only 25% of the STEM jobs[3], [4]. Recently, a 2018 research conducted on behalf of Junior Achievement and Ernst &Young LLP (EY) revealed a significant drop. Only 24% of boys were

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

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Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Paula Davis Lampley Esq., University of Cincinnati; Krizia Leonela Cabrera-Toro, University of Cincinnati

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inquiry tool will be administered tocamp participants throughout high school to measure their interest in engineering, intent to majorin STEM and overall college readiness. In this paper we will describe how the program wasimplemented, the experience of the participants and share the data from the pre-post survey.Keywords: pre-college, gender, race/ethnicity, engineeringIntroductionCreating equitable access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)education and career opportunities should begin at a pre-college level in order to reduce gendergaps and racial/ethnic disparities. The United States government has invested in STEMdisciplines to address the low presence of URMs (African Americans, Hispanics, and NativeAmericans

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

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Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas Eric Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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technologies. This involves development of hardware and software systems with sensors, embedded control and mechanical actuators. Applications include respiration monitoring, sleep apnea, rehabilitation of impaired muscle for recovery of motor func- tion, health monitoring for elderly to extend independent living, and diabetes management. These systems utilize internet of things (IoT) for remote communication between patient, medical staff, care-givers and instrumentation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 STEM Programs for Female StudentsAbstractDespite engineering careers helping to solve problems in society and the

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University

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to electricity 2. Energy generation, transmission, and distribution 3. Energy and electric circuits 4. Energy efficiency 5. Introduction to renewable energy 6. Fundamentals of Solar Electric Circuits 7. Economics of Renewable Energy & Career Path in Renewable Energy 8. Social, Environmental, and Political considerations for Renewable Energy SystemsSeveral materials have been sent to the students including: an electric circuits kit, solar cells, adigital multimeter, energy-efficient bulbs, and an energy monitoring device. The contentpresented during the workshops followed the best practices for energy education includingcontent from the US Energy Information Administration[13], US Department of Energy[14], andthe National

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2

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Cijy Elizabeth Sunny, Baylor University; Kathleen Koenig, University of Cincinnati

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education research community in the U.S. has specified the nature of instructionalstrategies in retaining students in STEM-related courses, with a focus on an integrated STEMcurriculum designed to improve non-cognitive factors, such as interest, while developingpositive attitudes towards STEM [5][6][7]. Interests and attitudes in science develop early in astudent’s life, and it is important to develop these attitudes as they are motivators towardspursuing STEM fields and careers [8] [9]. More recently, the National Academies of Sciences,Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) 2017 report on supporting student’s college success hashighlighted the importance of intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies and the evolvingneed for labor market recruits to

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2

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Greg Rulifson P.E., USAID; Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines

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many are enrolled in the school’s Humanitarian Engineering undergraduateminors. In contrast, Petroleum Engineering Seminar is a required course for petroleumengineering students that teaches CSR themes as part of its broader focus on professionaldevelopment. Both courses are almost exclusively taken by graduating seniors. For the purposesof this paper, we analyze one semester of data. In Fall 2017 the Seminar course was taught by aprofessor who held both a PhD in petroleum engineering and a JD and was appointed to thePetroleum Engineering Department. The course was grounded in project-based learning instudent groups, with a focus on practical application to student careers. The second author helpeddevelop the course activities and assignments

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2

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Ebenezer Rotimi Ewumi, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University; Candis S. Claiborn, Washington State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University

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learning.Keywords: NSSE, high impact educational practices, engagement IntroductionResearch shows that engineering majors lose talented, capable individuals to other non-engineering majors and careers [3]. Despite ongoing efforts to improve science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate persistence and success, the attrition ratesamong women and students in underrepresented minority groups have increased over the pastdecade. A recent report suggests that nearly half of college students starting in STEM majors leavethe STEM field before the fourth year of their degree program [13]. Over the years, researchershave developed innovative ways to increase engagement among engineering students

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

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Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Timothy W. Mays, The Citadel; Rebekah Burke P.E., The Citadel; Kweku Tekyi Brown P.E., The Citadel; John C. Ryan, The Citadel

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dynamics, and civil engineering aspects of antiterrorism.Dr. Rebekah Burke P.E., The Citadel Dr. Rebekah Burke is an Assistant Professor of Construction Engineering at The Citadel. She received her Doctoral degree from Arizona State University. She was previously the Director of Sustainable Design for Clark Nexsen, Architecture and Engineering, where she also began her career as a structural engineer. She was a founding board member, and the first chair elect of the Hampton Roads Green Building Council.Dr. Kweku Tekyi Brown P.E., The Citadel Dr. Kweku Brown is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel. He received his Civil Engineering Master’s degree from the University of Connecticut and

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

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Nathalie Al Kakoun, Swansea University; Frederic Boy, Swansea University; Patricia Xavier, Swansea University

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/Communion value system – otherwiseknown as the fundamental dimensions [14],[15], or the Big Two [16]. This dichotomousframework of personal value (and subsequent motivation) was initially proposed by Bakan in1966 and was designed to categories people into two sets of “human existence” [17]: theAgentic (those preferring “getting ahead” [18]) versus the Communal (those preferring“getting along” [18]) [17],[18].Diekman et al. [19] argued that “STEM careers are perceived as less likely than careers inother fields to fulfil communal goals (e.g., Working with or helping other people)” in theirpaper, and indeed, found that “STEM careers, relative to other careers, were perceived toimpede communal goals” and that “communal-goal endorsement negatively

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What Are Crucial Barriers and Opportunities to Bring Our Whole Selves to Engineering Education? Moving Watermelons Together

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Ann D. Christy P.E., The Ohio State University; Marybeth Lima P.E., Louisiana State University and A&M College; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Julia D. Thompson, University of San Francisco

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inpeople, e.g., faculty, students, and administrators in academia, and employees, clients, and publicstakeholders in industry. Bringing out our best performances increases career satisfaction andproductivity. Yet we also recognize that the engineering education and industry cultures weinhabit often fall (far) short of that ideal.Many of us in engineering education are working towards the transformation and healing of theengineering profession and engineering education cultures – while individually striving to bemore authentically ourselves. We recognize that our inner work is directly linked to our outercommunity. This panel represents the collective thinking of a group of six engineering educatorsin different paths and stages in our careers. We

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

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Ziliang Zhou, California Baptist University

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competitions in high school andchose college majors in STEM related fields. Most of them cited years later the positive impactof MATHCOUNTS in their career and life.In this work, we would like to share our experiences and the detail processes so that others in ourASEE community may use as a reference when hosting math competitions for their localschools.MATHCOUNTS at our UniversityThe College of Engineering has been hosting the local MATHCOUNTS chapter competition formore than ten years. The engineering students acted as proctors and graders as part of theirengineering service activity. Including students, teachers, parents, and siblings, this eventattracted several hundred people each year to the campus on a Saturday between 8am to 3pm.Many of the

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

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Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University; Jeff Wood, Stanford University

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in the Mechanical Engineering Department, as part of a broad effort to redesign the curriculum requirements for the undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jeff has over twenty years’ product development and manufacturing experience bringing medical and consumer products to market, through the course of my career journey with Apple, SGI, Nektar, Boston Scientific and Amazon/Lab126. In addition to working with and training engineers in industry, his 9+ years coaching and teaching students in science and sports provide an excellent foundation for educating engineers to make a difference in the world. Specialties: Leading organizations to deliver innovative, thoughtful products; thorough understanding of

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

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Bob Schaffer, Mission College

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resource was through a volunteer program that was also created within SCU. TheSociety of Women Engineers (SWE) chapter had recently created the cleverly named SWE++program where members of SWE teach programming to local 7th grade girls who had notpreviously been exposed to computers or the world of programming. This outreach puts femalecollege students in teaching positions in front of their younger counterparts. This works to shiftimplicit gendered stereotypes that can hinder a pathway to a STEM-related career [6]. SWE++transitioned to online in Spring 2020 and hosted weekly Zoom sessions. Students from theSTEM Outreach class supported these SWE++ lessons by joining the virtual sessions and goinginto Zoom breakout rooms to work with smaller

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2

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Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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thedevelopment of the projects. The second program is the IDEAS Learning Community thatengages about 25 first-year students yearly in a one-semester partnership with an outreachprogram from Indianapolis, Indiana which is about an hour from campus. The central classcombines career exploration and integration into the university with discussions and experiencesaround diversity. The engagement with the outreach program provides a context and activitiesthat enhance the learning goals and provides experiences to bring the class together. Thedeliverables are activities for K12 students both at the outreach center and for an annual visit tocampus.EPICS ResultsEPICS is large and complex, with many stakeholders. We first examined the three commonstakeholders of

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

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Angela L. Chan, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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lead to business and academicpartnerships, career opportunities, and continued friendships. Relevant to the projects, iterationand diverse perspectives can be encouraged through observing actions, overhearingconversations, and impromptu training [9].Ending a hackathonCompetitive and high-pressure environments are frequently documented deterrents to beginnerand non-male participants [3]. Though prizes are not primary motivators for participants at civichackathons [15], the competition itself with collaboration instead of antagonistic settings stillincreases excitement [3]. While some hackathons have eliminated prizes altogether [4], analternative is creating theme-based awards such as Hope’s "The Healthy Communities Award"and "The Information

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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Callie Charleton; Miral Desai, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Carissa Elaine Noriega; Celeste Yi ming Soon Ramseyer; Elise Gooding; Michael S. Reyna, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth L. Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jeff Jones, Cuesta College

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a loose relationship with connections established by individual faculty orstaff members without formal ties. These individual connections have now grown to includesignificant National Science Foundation (NSF) scholarships in science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (S-STEM) grant known as Engineering Neighbors: Gaining Access, GrowingEngineers (ENGAGE). This creates a partnership between the institutions to support studentsuccess through pre-transfer, during transfer, and post-transfer stages. This is done byminimizing economic barriers and supporting student development in five areas: academic,engineering transfer/career path, personal, connection, and professional. ENGAGE is alsodesigned to create sustainable change so that our

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2

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Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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effective, responsible, andaccountable to the communities they hope to serve? How do engineering students understandhow to work in these organizations that historically have not been part of traditionalengineering career pathways – “The Road Less Travelled”? This paper presents a conceptualmodel for understanding, partnering, and building relationships between engineering teamsand NGOs, organizations that rarely figure in the employment landscape of engineering. Itproposes that sustainable community development (SCD) projects require a level ofembeddedness in communities, engagement, continuity and logistical maturity that mostengineering schools with community-engagement programs are ill equipped to provide bythemselves but that in partnership

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2

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Camille Velarde, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Estike Kokovay Gutierrez

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Academy of Educa- tion / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions, specifically on design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Mrs. Estike Kokovay Gutierrez American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Tool for Informing Community-Engaged ProjectsAbstractWhile research suggests that community-engaged projects can be particularly effective, suchwork is notoriously time consuming and not scalable. The

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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Srinivas Mohan Dustker, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Bandi Surendra Reddy, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management; Rohit Kandakatla, KG Reddy College of Engineering and Technology; Gopalkrishna H. Joshi, KLE Technological University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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ideas rather than immediately ruling them out because of a closed, stubborn mindset. … I realized that the rest of the semester would look very different from what we originally envisioned, but I also realized that was okay and that it was more important to keep an open mind and remain optimistic about the possibilities still remaining. I believe that both being flexible and keeping an open mind are important skills in many different aspects of life as well as in my future career. Often times, I will face unexpected situations, so I believe it is important to know how to quickly react to ensureIn this quote showing an Emerging level, the student critiques their personal and academicgrowth through

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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Lamyaa El-Gabry, Princeton University; Martina Sherin Jaskolski

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strongly hold a desire to help others as a motivator in their job selection and that more serviceengagement as students correlates with expectations that helping others will be more integratedinto one’s career as an engineer.Paterson et al [23] quantitatively assessed intercultural development using the InterculturalDevelopment Inventory (IDI) to answer two questions: the first is whether service-orientedexperiences attract engineering students with an intercultural mindset and the second is whetherparticipation in service-oriented experiences leads to elevated intercultural proficiency forengineering students. The answer to the first question was a clear yes; students attracted to suchprograms scored significantly higher on the IDI which is

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2

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Pamela Cristina Silva Diaz, PamLab Design and Engineering; Maggie Favretti, Design Ed 4 Resilience; Nathalia Ospina Uribe; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Marcel Castro-Sitiriche, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Luisa Rosario Seijo-Maldonado; Marian Irizarry, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Javier Moscoso, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Gabriela Alexandra Otero-Andino; Kevin O'neil Crespo Pagan; Laura Sofia Garcia Canto; Grace Amato, Connecticut College; Fernando Antonio Cuevas, University of Puerto Rico; Dulce M. del Rio-Pineda, Mujeres de Islas, Inc.; Reiner F. Simshauser-Arroyo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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-create innovative solutions for community challenges.Ms. Maggie Favretti, Design Ed 4 Resilience Maggie Favretti is a lifelong learner, and authentic engagement educator. Throughout her career teach- ing high schoolers and teachers, college students and professors, and community adult leaders, Maggie converges disciplines and aligns sectors toward shared efficacy and problem solving. Maggie’s current work recenters the role of designer (design thinking) in youth, educators and community, and focuses on disaster recovery, youth empowerment, and climate justice.Nathalia Ospina Uribe, Nathalia Ospina Uribe earned her B.S. degree in Architecture from the Univ. La Gran Colombia (UGC) (2013). Finish her M.E. degree in