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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aimee S. Navickis-Brasch, University of Idaho, Moscow; Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho, CDA; Fritz Fiedler, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jillian Rae Cadwell, University of Idaho; Laura Laumatia, Coeur d'Alene Tribe; Kathy C. Haynie, Haynie Research and Evaluation; Christine Meyer, Coeur d’Alene Tribe Department of Education

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is used to facilitate partnerships and relationshipswith the community. We address these objectives using multiple data sources and observations todefine the case study activities. We then consider the impact of the camp on students byqualitatively assessing student camp surveys. Qualitative assessment of community data sources(i.e. reflections and surveys) guided the grant partners in evaluating the application of the CBPRmethodology for building community relationships. These reflections are summarized as lessonslearned and include plans for modifying the research approach to strengthen the partnership andsupport tribal youth.Background

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut (Beirut); Mohamad K. Naja

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engineeringcommunity in earthquake risk mitigation and response operations in future earthquake disasters.Keywords: Volunteer programs, Engineering students, Lebanon, Earthquake, Disaster riskmitigationIntroductionIt has been shown from recent earthquake devastations that loss of lives and long term effectscan only be effectively reduced through planned response action programs that engagecommunity trained volunteers led by credible organizations. A case study in the Nishi Suma area( Japan) by R. Shaw and K. Goda 1 pointed out that 60 percent of residents were evacuated bytheir own efforts, and approximately 20 per cent were rescued by neighbor volunteers. This datasignifies the importance of community volunteer in the immediate rescue operation

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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, philosophy of technology, and participation action research, and applied totopics such as renewable energy, agriculture, water purification, and birthing. The course hasbeen offered twice, reaching a total of 50 students (despite our focus on graduate education,about 40 of these students were upper division undergraduates), and is in the late stages ofbecoming a permanent course at UPRM. A summary of the overall course outcomes andassessment was published in 2012.16 To date GREAT IDEA is(has) sponsoring(ed) five Master’s students and one exceptionalundergraduate student to investigate diverse topics that relate to or instantiate AppropriateTechnology. The PI’s are also working in the rural village if Duchity, Haiti to plan developmentof power

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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toinitiatives within the College of Engineering, including the first-year experience, transfer studentsuccess, summer camp coordination and development, lesson plan development, and diversityinitiatives. The Ambassadors still bring modules out to high school classes and promoteengineering at community events; however, they also serve as a focus group for opinions andinitiatives on retention issues. The current group of ambassadors is a varied group with highpercentages of female (70%) and ethnically diverse (60% non-Caucasian) students. The majorityof the applicants for the ambassador positions are ethnic females, a disproportionate Page

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut (Beirut)

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Lebaneseengineering institutions and an active engagement of the engineering community in planning andpreparing for future earthquakes. Senior students attending engineering colleges in Lebanon(n=378) were surveyed to: assess their awareness and preparedness to earthquakes, to ascertainwhether there is a link among their awareness and preparedness, and to determine howengineering educational programs have affected their current awareness and preparedness.Although the findings indicate satisfactory seismic risk awareness across the majority ofparticipants, a poor level of earthquake preparedness was revealed. The role of engineeringinstitutions and organizations has insignificant influence on both awareness and preparedness ofparticipants. This article calls

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Mazzurco, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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cultureGovernment Service for Computer kiosks to help provide better access to Failure to assess assetsRural Citizens (GSRC)14 government information and services.Customer Service (CS)15 Mechanization of business operations with a Failure to assess assets planning machineVillage Improvement Project Nursery for the woman of the village Failure to apply knowledge(VIP)16Findings: Modes of FailureBy inductively analyzing the cases, we found that failures were due to 1) failure to learn, whichrefers to a lack of knowledge or failed attempt to learn about the context, and 2) failure to applyknowledge about the context when proper knowledge was properly gained. The failure

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindsey A Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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should undertake community engagement. I will nowdiscuss each program’s philosophy of how engineers should undertake community engagement.The Design for Extreme Affordability course at Stanford University uses design thinking todevelop products and services for people making less than $4/day.3 Students work in teamssupervised by different businesses already operating in target communities. In addition todeveloping a working prototype, student teams author business plans to strategize how to serve alarge customer base. Several projects focus on increasing the incomes of smallholder farmers orproviding assorted low-cost health care products suited to rural environments. Philosophically,the Design for Extreme Affordability course conceives poverty

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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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services."15 Our projectsspecifically worked with children with a range of disabilities as categorized by IDEA and whohave an Individual Education Plan (IEP). An IEP establishes the individualized objectives of achild with a disability as defined by federal regulations. The IEP is intended to create a specific Page 24.1119.3program for educators to help children reach educational goals more easily than they otherwisewould.16In a full inclusion setting, students with disabilities are educated alongside students withoutdisabilities as the first and desired option while maintaining appropriate support and services. Agrowing body of research

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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where disability did not matter. [Camp] is able to implement a practical social model that theorists can only talk about. As I continued on this project, I became increasingly convinced that that [sic] the way [camp] views disability is the way the entire world Page 24.689.8 should view disability. Based on my experience at [camp], I plan to strive toward integrating a universal design component into every software engineering project that I work on. They have inspired me to push these ideals into every proposal I will make.The students also identified that they learned teamwork and leadership skills, and how they

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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 introduction, EWB-USA continues to be mentioned as an influential learningactivity, particularly in project-based service learning (PBSL) and learning through service(LTS) literature (e.g. 14,15). In his study on LTS students, which included EWB-USA students,Carberry15 found that LTS students exhibited personality traits “which fl[y] in the face ofengineering stereotypes” (p.110). As a result, we plan to compare personality profiles, usingquestions from the big five personality domains16, between EWB-USA engineers with Non-EWB engineers. In his report, Carberry went on to say that “[t]he inclusion of students withsuch personality profiles is a necessity for the success of engineering” (p.110). We agree that adiversified engineering

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura M. Patterson, University of British Columbia

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ofnegotiating relationships with a wide variety of organization representatives. This collaborationhas been done through the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus’s CommunityService Learning Program and their representatives. This department is available on theOkanagan campus whose mandate it is to liaise between the faculty and the organizations so thatit is a rewarding experience for all involved. This service has made running a project withmultiple and varied not-for-profit organizations possible.The third consideration is planning. In order to ensure that a larger-scale project runs assmoothly as possible, much planning needs to happen ahead of time to ensure the multipleworking parts of the project operate as seamlessly as possible

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerardo J. Pinzon PE, Texas A&M International University; Jaime Rene Huerta

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fromstrongly disagree, disagree, agree, and strongly agree. As indicated in the following graphs, thecompleted surveys show the impressive results, demonstrating positive responses wherein“strongly agree” and “agree” totaled in the 90th percentile. This feedback has played a major rolefor planning future programs. The complete results are shown in the following graphs: Student Parent1. I have learned a lot of during this GEAR UP eventStrongly Disagree 0% 0%Disagree 0% 0%Agree 25

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Swan, Tufts University; Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; Timothy Henry Hellickson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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activities can be housed,but is grounded in three interrelated elements that have been traditionally used to describe suchlearning activities; namely,. 1. The CE efforts must be authentic with the project initiated by the learners or by the affected community. 2. The service must be intentional and appropriately developed, i.e., it is grounded in the needs of the community and developed jointly by all stakeholders, most specifically the learners and the affected community. 3. The learning is the primary goal in carrying out the project and is enhanced by the service nature of the effort. Therefore, the learning must be planned and assessed, especially through the use of structured, critical reflection.As a

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University

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Page 24.1037.7about why they continued to return even though we were only discussing our aspirationstogether, making plans on how we might achieve them, but were not actually making what somemight call “tangible,” physical progress. Some of the participants found this frustrating andchose to stop participating. However, for those that continued their participation, a differentquality of attention and experience began to develop, which enabled different types ofcollaboration. This distinctive quality is illustrated by excerpts from the response to the question,What are you getting out of your participation? This is a very brilliant group of people with a deeper purpose than just teaching content; I truly believe that they are

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Kubicki, The Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership; Laura Lynn Lynch, Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership; Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University

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a strategic plan for clinic use in the region.A medical team composed of staff from a district hospital was the first to take the clinic into thefield (along with the institute team). The team included a clinical laboratory scientist, midwife,two community nurses, three nurses for vitals and shots, two pharmacists, an insurance agent,and driver. The hospital’s doctor led and organized this team. He was also the one to develop themost effective strategy for seeing patients in periphery villages. For five days, the leadershipinstitute team worked with the medical team to observe how the clinic was being used and togather ideas for improvement. Each morning, the van was stocked with supplies for the day,which included medication, malaria rapid

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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the system. So far (7 months later)everything is still working well. We plan on going back to Haiti in May 2014 to continue withseveral other similar projects in the community.The photo below shows our students working on the solar panels on the roof of the communitytraining center. Page 24.293.10Figure 8 Working on the solar panel installationReaction of our studentsEven though we have had many failures, we keep doing these projects for several reasons. Wethink we have finally figured out a way to work with a local community in a sustainable way. Inthis way we are now making a difference in the lives of poor people in the developing world.We

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill B. Elmore, Mississippi State University

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contribute substantively to their value of the need for life-longlearning, and using their engineering education for making adifference in the lives of others. By approaching K-12 students withopportunities to creatively understand and apply engineering design, we believe their potential Page 24.769.8for preparing, preservering and performing as future engineers is greatly enhanced.Assessment rubrics are being designed to quantitatively assess the impact on students in a pre-and post- assessment approach. These instruments will be used in our spring and summer 2014outreach activities with planned

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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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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benefit underserved communities. This pipelineis afforded by the program construct that moves innovation from incubation (Phase 1) tocommunity introduction (Phase 2) to a sustainable business (Phase 3). It should be noted that notall innovations are expected to make it through all 3 project phases. For a number of reasons aninnovation or technology may prove in any early stage to be unaffordable or otherwiseinappropriate and the project is dropped. In other cases, the business plan may prove to beunrealistic. However, the academic calendar accommodates this multi-year, phased programrather well, as the cycle involving feasibility, user needs, prototype development, pilotinstallation and business start-up generally takes 3-4 years if one is to

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Greg Rulifson P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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and McTighe (2005) identified three stages: (1) Identify desiredoutcomes and results, (2) Determine what constitutes acceptable evidence of competency in theoutcomes and results, and (3) Plan instructional strategies and learning experiences that bringstudents to these competency levels. They posit this approach will help faculty designinstruction that promotes understanding and fosters student engagement.Another important approach to curricular reform that called for improvement throughoutundergraduate education has been in service-learning pedagogy. Service-learning is a teachingmethod in which students participate in organized service activity for academic credit that meetsidentified community issues, and that reflection done by the