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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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geotechnical structures. In addition, he was the recipient of the 2009 Inter- national Road Federation (IRF) Fellowship Grant selected on the basis of strong academic background, professional qualifications and leadership potential. Currently, he is a Graduate Teaching Associate for the undergraduate level courses of the First Year Engineering Program at The Ohio State University. He has also served as a Resident Director for Engineering Service Learning programs in Honduras where sustainable humanitarian engineering projects have been implemented to bring better life to the people of the community.Ms. Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, The Ohio State University Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Paper ID #10075Learning from failure: Developing a typology to enhance global service-learningengineering projects.Andrea Mazzurco, Purdue University Andrea Mazzurco is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. He earned a B.C. in Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. His research interests include global engineering education, critical and emancipatory pedagogies in engineering projects for sustainable community development, and social justice education for engineers.Prof. Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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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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Paper ID #8657Student Perceptions of Design Projects That Involve Developing Assistive De-vices for Elementary School Children with DisabilitiesDr. Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University Dr. Matthew T. Siniawski is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. He teaches the senior capstone design project courses and has recently begun mentoring students on the design of assistive devices for children with disabilities. One of his research interests lies in understanding how these Learning Through Service projects impact participating engineering students

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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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Progress] Community Engagement in a First-Year Engineering Communication Course: Increasing Student Numbers from Handfuls to Hundreds.AbstractEngaging first-year engineering students in their mandatory, first-term, communication coursecan be a challenge when some may not yet understand how these communication skills will beused in their day-to-day professional interactions. However, adding a real client with real needswhere the students’ work can have real impact adds immediacy and interest. To those ends, acommunity service learning team proposal project was created in 2011 for 60 students of a firstterm, first-year engineering writing course, which is a part of a common first-year engineeringcurriculum. In this

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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the future.Ms. Laura Lynn Lynch, Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership I am a fourth-year biomedical engineering/pre-medicine student at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mi. I traveled to Malta this past summer through the Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership. While in Malta I completed service projects that both enhanced my leadership skills and pro- vided me insights to the differences in learning outcomes associated with leadership and cultural literacy in developed versus developing countries.Dr. Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University Robert O. Warrington is currently Director of the Institute for Leadership and Innovation, which houses the

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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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. Page 24.293.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Community Engagement in the Developing WorldIntroductionBaylor University has a long standing program doing service projects in the developing world.Our engineering program has been involved with this since 2005.We have done projects in Kenya, Rwanda, Honduras, and Haiti. In each of the countries ourengagement with the local community in the area has been different. The level of engagementhas had a significant impact upon the sustainability of the projects. Our model for how best todo this engagement has changed as we have learned from experience.We have learned that for our projects to be sustainable there needs first to be a

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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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will trace the evolution of partnership networks at globally engaged engineering programs atfour universities using discourse analysis.2 I reviewed all publicly available documentation thatdetailed the development of partnerships that sprung from assorted signature projects todetermine how discourse models influenced building partnership networks. I will first detail eachof the four programs, describing their philosophies on how engineers should undertakecommunity engagement. Next, I will discuss an early signature project of each program. Then Iwill highlight how the program’s philosophy about community engagement affected how itpursued partnerships. Lastly, I will discuss implications of this research for engineeringeducators seeking to

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiago R. Forin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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particular way ofinterpreting, which prevents further reflection. Boud states that if learner experiences feelings 5that prevent further reflection, then the learner must find some way to regain flexibility (p. 29).A common detraction from using reflective practices in engineering is that the students willfocus too much on the emotional aspect of the project, such as complaining about the amountof work to be done or the dysfunction of the team. To help avoid this issue, reflective promptscan be worded to address discoveries and anticipations. This would allow the analysis to focuson how the projects and student work would be impacted by new information

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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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students from across campus worktogether on long-term projects that benefit the local or global community. Project work centersaround the engineering, technology, and computing needs of a community partner, butinterdisciplinary team interaction is an integral element for project success. Students mayparticipate in EPICS multiple semesters and participation for multiple consecutive semesters on aproject team is encouraged. Teams are composed of first year students through seniors from anydiscipline, as well as graduate students in a few select disciplines such as audiology or industrialdesign.Most EPICS projects last at least one-year, although partnership with the communityorganization continues for several years. Projects are intended to solve

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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organizations may have relative to partner motivations. Based on this research theauthors suggest that engineering programs increase emphasis on learning about the communityorganization within their stated learning objectives, since it is deemed important by thecommunity partners and critical for effective relationship building and joint project work.IntroductionEngineering community engagement can be seen as part of a wider movement across academiato create both curricular and extracurricular experiences where students have opportunities toserve local and/or global stakeholders. Such programs allow students to practice engineeringproblem solving in context while being a part of a larger community and providing service toothers, thereby helping to

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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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). Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in structural mechanics, biomechanics, engineer- ing ethics, and engineering education. He is PI of two NSF sponsored research projects and is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. Papadopoulos is currently the Program Chair Elect of the ASEE Mechanics Division and serves on numerous committees at UPRM that relate to undergraduate and graduate education.Dr. William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez William J. Frey has taught research, business, engineering, and computer ethics at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez since 1990. He is a member and former director of that university’s Center for Ethics in the

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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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, each withdifferent consequences for the students, the faculty, and the community partners. Throughnarratives of project partners, faculty and students, we contrast the experiences of two types ofCE projects and their impact on participants. From this two-year case study involving 88freshmen, 16 faculty members and 15 community partners, we conclude that successful CElearning requires that all participants have an awareness of the type of CE project that isintended. This paper implies that appropriate choices in the initial phases of creating thecommunity-engaged collaboration are critical to a result that satisfies the participants.Background and motivationCommunity-engaged learning is often recognized as a high-impact practice in higher

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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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officer posts for the Environmental Engineering Division (2003-7) and the Community Engagement Division (2011 – present). His current research interests in engineering education focus on project-based learning and service-based pedagogies. He also does research on the impact of temperature (heating and/or freezing) on engineering properties of soils and on the development of reuse strategies for waste materials.Prof. Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison UniversityMr. Timothy Henry Hellickson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Page 24.501.1 c American Society for Engineering

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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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students. Dr. Cadwell currently consults on a $1.2 million NSF grant that she procured in partnership with the Univer- sity of Idaho faculty in Curriculum and Instruction, UI Extension, and two local Native American Indian Tribes: the Coeur d’Alene (CdAT) and Spokane (ST) tribes. The grant, ITEST, Strategies Project—Back to the Earth (BTTE), is addressing a national call to increase the STEM workforce pipeline by supporting and improving the STEM educational experiences for Native American students. Dr. Cadwell is a member of the grant leadership team with expertise in STEM content, curriculum development, and technology ed- ucation. The team is using an interdisciplinary framework to reach under-served populations. The

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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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Paper ID #9871Integrating Community Engagement, Freshman Chemical Engineering, andan AIChE Student ChapterDr. Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University Bill B. Elmore currently holds the Hunter Henry Chair and Associate Directorship in the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. In his twenty-fourth year of engineering education, Bill focuses on project-based learning at all levels of the undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum and undergraduate research in energy and micro-scale reactor studies

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Department of Education, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizen- ship and Public Service and Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. He has been an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education, having served at various officer posts for the Environmental Engineering Division (2003-7) and the Community Engagement Division (2011 – present). His current research interests in engineering education focus on project-based learning and service-based pedagogies. He also does research on the impact of temperature (heating and/or freezing) on engineering properties of soils and on the development of reuse strategies for

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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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understanding engineers involved specifically with Engineers Without Borders-USA.Dr. Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Amy Javernick-Will is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford Uni- versity and has focused her research efforts on knowledge transfer in global organizations, global projects, and increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in engineering.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Daniel Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate with the Design Center Colorado in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of

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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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sessionsand Saturday mentoring of the students, plus workshops throughout the year, including summers.TAMIU GEAR-UP is now working on its fourth cohort and in their current grant; they areserving approximately 10,000 students who are currently in 9th grade. The students will beafforded college awareness and readiness activities in addition to the services provided by thegrant through high school graduation and up to one year into their postsecondary education. GEAR UP IV implemented the “Creating A Vision” project, which is a partnership grantbetween TAMIU and 19 school districts throughout the southern part of Texas, coveringapproximately 14,792 square miles. The grant is designed to provide low-income students withthe skills, motivation, and

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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from the criticaland sometimes-subtle dimensions of social justice.5 Design cases that involve, for example,“design for the other 90%”6 or designing for people with disabilities redirect attention toquestions of design for social justice. This paper identifies and briefly describes four forms ofdesign: design for technology, HCD for users, HDC for communities, and design for socialjustice. The paper explores how social justice has been enacted—or neglected—in specificdesign contexts within engineering education, and how it can be further integrated in each ofthese forms of design education.This paper is part of a broader project to integrate social justice across three components ofengineering curricula—engineering design, engineering sciences

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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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attend this event which occursin the spring coinciding with the time that high school seniors are making their choices aboutcollege. The focus of the night is to introduce prospective students and their parents to conceptsrelating to bringing ideas to reality through engineering design and invention. The night beginswith a guest lecturer who presents information on their research and development and strives toinspire students to think outside of the box. The speaker is followed by breakout sessions thatinclude hands-on activities where students work on a small-scale design project, test their design,and make modifications as needed. This gives students exposure to prototyping. Anotherbreakout session option is to attend a panel discussion that