Conference Session

Lightning Talk - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

and in person summer community development projects.Celebrate diversity of faculty and students while reducing gaps in opportunities andresources. In similar ways that we invite our graduate students in the [program deleted forreview], recognizing and valuing differences among Colombian faculty and students allowedthem to position themselves with respect to the histories of development and with specificstruggles of vulnerable communities. For example, during participatory workshops with students,they mapped their perspectives, began to position themselves and their histories in relation to thehistories of struggles in their territory, such as violent conflict around gold mining or Stateneglect in delivering basic services to their communities

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

theMissouri University of Science and Technology. Details of these course have beenpublished previously, including: 1. science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) diplomacy [5], 2. public health engineering [6], or 3. biological principles of environmental engineering [7].The original impetus for the selection of raising awareness of antibiotic resistance wasthe involvement of the author in the Diplomacy Lab program offered by the United StatesDepartment of State [8]. “DipLab” provides a platform to “course source” the “wickedproblems” identified by America’s diplomatic corps. Students, working under thesupervision of a faculty mentor and in collaboration with representatives from theDepartment of State, explore the full