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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Victoria Louise Graf; Shawna Leigh Draxton, WISH Charter

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, students withdisabilities are educated alongside students without disabilities as the first and desired optionwhile maintaining appropriate support and services. A growing body of research indicates thatinclusive education is an effective practice for most students. For example, it is well documentedthat inclusive education can yield positive outcomes for all of those involved, including the focusstudents, typical peers, classroom teachers, and the school community at large.The engineering student teams were required to submit their designs to the 2013 RESNA StudentDesign Competition, an annual competition sponsored by Rehabilitation Engineering andAssistive Technology Society of North America. This paper will provide a discussion of thedesign

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cathy Leslie P.E., Engineers Without Borders - USA

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the analysis. The first was a comparison of EWB-USAmembers and Non-EWB members based on the direct responses about membership. The secondcomparison was run in order to account both for EWB-USA members who did not activelyparticipate with the organization regularly and for engineers who are active in anotherorganization or program similar to EWB-USA. Respondents in the “EWB-like” group are those Page 24.439.5who indicated that they had either limited, moderate, or extensive active participation in EWB-USA or a similar organization. Respondents were required to write in the organization orprogram that they considered similar to EWB

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Joann M. Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Jeffrey Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Tyrone Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Ricardo Maldonado; Cristina Rivera-Vélez, GREAT IDEA; Davis Chacon-Hurtado, University of Connecticut; Pablo Jose Acevedo, UPRM

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havecreated for our students.2. Schumacher’s Intermediate Technology as the Precursor to Appropriate Technology Appropriate technology is widely credited as an outgrowth of the ideas expressed by the“radical economist”1 Ernst Friedrich “Fritz” Schumacher in his book Small is Beautiful: A Studyof Economics as if People Mattered2, which is a compilation and synthesis of his writings andwork from the 1940s through 1960s in which he developed the concept of “IntermediateTechnology”. The origins of Intermediate Technology reside in Schumacher’s criticism ofconventional development practices, which assumed that the problems of the developing worldcould be solved by the transfer of capital-intensive, large-scale technologies from theindustrialized

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Scott Bates, University of Utah; Karen J. Krapcho, University of Utah; Crystal Orantes, University of Utah

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found that students are more likely to beretained and graduate if they have a supportive peer group, social involvement, a good attitudetoward engineering, and pre-college analytical skills1-4. The Engineering Ambassador Programaims to provide retention and more engineering graduates through all of these means. It does soby creating a community of engineering students who work together to recruit high schoolstudents to the field of engineering by providing them with awareness of engineeringopportunities, academic advice, and analytical skills through hands-on activities. This programalso benefits the ambassadors as it engages them in a learning community experience, which isknown to provide their participants with practical competence, personal

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos German Montoya Rodriguez, Ohio State University; Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, The Ohio State University; Roger Dzwonczyk, The Ohio State University; John A Merrill, Ohio State University; Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University; Miriam Cater, Ohio State University

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Engineer (PE) PUBLICATIONS 51 Peer-reviewed journal publications 74 Conference presentations 9 Short papers 10 PatentsDr. John A Merrill, Ohio State University Dr.Merrill is Associate Director of the Engineering Education Innovation Center at Ohio State University.Dr. Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University Page 24.188.1 Howard Greene is a Senior Project Manager and Research Specialist at the Ohio State University (OSU) who directs K-12 Education Outreach for the College of Engineering. Dr. Greene has built capacity in several aspects of Humanitarian Engineering (HE) through the Engineering Education