Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University ; Joey Valle, Purdue University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG), Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

Paper ID #42045Engineering Ethics and Unionization: Challenging NSPE’s Positions on Engineers’Relationship with Labor UnionsLazlo Stepback, Purdue University Lazlo Stepback is a PhD student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His current research interests focus on engineering ethics, the connections between personal morals and professional ethics, and how students ethically develop as engineers. He earned a B.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO) in 2020.Dr. Joey Valle, Purdue University Joseph ’Joey’ Valle is a queer Latine Ashkenazi Jew employed as a postdoctoral

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Smith, NASA; Zachary T. G. Pirtle, NASA

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG), Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

Paper ID #43419Engineering a Bridge Across Cultures: Insights to Support Dialogue withEngineering Professionals on Ethical and Social Design ConsiderationsMs. Tiffany Smith, NASA Tiffany Smith serves as NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) and Director of the Office of the Chief Engineer’s Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL). Ms. Smith is responsible for managing NASA’s APPEL Knowledge Services learning and development program, providing strategic communications and continuous learning to project management and systems engineering personnel, and overseeing knowledge services across the agency in

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis; Seema Mukhi Dahlheimer, Washington University in St. Louis; Sandra Payton Matteucci

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Paper ID #41379Engagement in Practice: Innovating a Project-Based, Community EngagedCourse for Engineering Students that Fosters Ethical ThinkingProf. Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis Tucker Krone joined the faculty in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. He teaches statistics, ethics, publication writing, communication, and community engaged courses. Tucker emphasizes engineering and statistics as forces for equity and social justice. Tucker Krone’s current passion focuses on integrating community engagement, social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emma Sophie Stine, University of Colorado Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

education programs found that‬ ‭engineering educators often attribute engineering project failures to technical, communication, or‬ ‭cultural issues and overlook the oppressive systems that could contribute to a pattern of failures‬ ‭across projects.‬I‭ nstead, students have expressed frustration with only being shown cases of failure‬‭[21]‬‭and‬ ‭wanting examples of success stories. HE students have expressed “just wanting to know what to‬ ‭do" when encountering complex ethical and ambiguous questions. Further, without clear‬ ‭answers, they express frustration and disengagement from discussion topics around systematic‬ ‭oppression‬‭[5]‬‭. Other scholarship has shown students‬‭dropping out of engineering spaces when‬

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marissa H. Forbes, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

opportunity provided bycommunity capstone projects can provide an unquantifiable richness, texture, and ethicalpreparation to uniquely prepare students for responsible and ethical engineering praxis. And yet,we recognize the limitations in our current instructional model that prevent this ideal from fullycoming to fruition (yet).In this work in progress paper, we share preliminary findings from our nascent exploration of thestudent experience working on community capstone design project teams using studentreflections and instructor observations.ContextThe University of San Diego is a private, Catholic university, known for its commitment to theformation of values, community involvement, and preparing leaders dedicated to ethical conductand

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ezequiel Aleman, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Ethan Paul Ruchotzke; Michael Brown, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

. As a team we planned a three day game design workshop for middle school students that: ● fosters interest in computer science careers by exposing students to basic programming concepts; ● encourages the development of ethical decision-making capacities by designing games that address contemporary challenges in adolescents’ lives; and ● harnesses the motivational affordances of games to encourage students to engage in interest driven learning.Game Jam workshops are potentially well suited to achieving the goals we note above because of their open-ended nature [3]. Game jams build on the affordances of games, offering youth a playful and agenticperspective on design and problem solving, while exposing them to basic

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Sours, The Ohio State University; Cherish Vance, The Ohio State University; Tylesha D. Drayton, The Ohio State University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

and resultant student learning outcomes were created with the intention of trainingstudents with the skill sets required to address complex societal challenges built from theexperiences working within the Engineering for Sustainable Development (ESD) realm.The ideals that have emerged from this domain focus on considering political dimensions,structural conditions, ethical considerations, as well as stakeholder understanding, values anddynamics; these considerations are aimed at addressing the problematic engagements and pitfallsseen historically within the HE domain. “Humanitarian Engineering” effectively and cohesivelyintegrates these skill sets and linkages to address issues far beyond what we have historically andethnocentrically

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Ashish Dahiya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

advantage of their participation is due to having returning students as peer mentors.Faculty and staff are important elements of collaboration infrastructure, with a high factor ofinfluence in not only the students’ outcomes and guidance, but also to the partnerships. By havinga shared dedication to community work, they contribute by guiding students to maintain highstandards, helping to ensure continuity with ethical and functional designs. The faculty are alsocommitted to understanding each other’s long-term institutional goals. Rather than seeing them asexternal objectives, the willingness to support looks like integrating those visions into their ownsystems and goals, with joint initiatives. Each of the IIT professors understands the excitement

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 4 - Cultivating Engineering Excellence through Mentorship and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; Amelia Elizabeth Cook, Lipscomb University; Lewis Ngwenya, Lipscomb University; Hannah Grace Duke, Lipscomb University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

ideologicalseparation of technical and social concepts thus reducing inequality in the field? Similarly,McGee and Bentley describe a desire in black and Latinx STEM students to practice equity andjustice within and outside their career and coined this concept as ‘equity ethic’ [12].Interestingly, Swan, Paterson, and Bielefeldt suggest that women and minorities tend to invest inand benefit from involvement in service-learning in engineering due to their potential for socialimpact [13]. Is it possible that student involvement in HEPs could create an equity ethic whichleads to more inclusive practices in their career? Lastly, Reynante details a connection betweenstudent involvement in community engagement, a field closely related to humanitarianengineering, and

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen M. Conroy, The Ohio State University; Patrick Sours, The Ohio State University; Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University; Rachel Marie Tuttle

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

knowledge and solutions,” [9] to “contextualism, or theunderstanding that solutions must consider social, technical, and environmental contexts” [9],prompted the restructuring of partner projects and the HE program. Project timelines wereelongated to span multiple years with continued partnership engagement. That builds andresonates with efforts and practices aimed at creating and maintaining ethical partnerships [10].A further motivation to restructure the HE program was the goal of scaffolding the educationalexperience so that students can learn principles of community engaged engineering, then engagewith a community partner, and culminate their academic experience with a year-long designcourse in partnership with the same community. The goal was

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel A Acuña, George Mason University; Nathalia Peixoto, George Mason University; Holly Matto, George Mason University; Siddhartha Sikdar, George Mason University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

extent does the program increase a trainee’s intentions to pursue a research or innovation-related career? o To what extent does the program increase a trainee’s preparedness to perform professional skills related to obtaining a job?To address the evaluation questions, we gathered data from surveys and student reflections. Thebaseline/post-survey assessed research skills (e.g., problem identification, hypothesisconstruction, research design, data analytics, products), socio skills (e.g., ethics, socioeconomicimplications, policy/regulatory challenges, dialogue), professional skills (e.g., leadership,teamwork, and management), communication skills (written, translational, and presentation),community

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; xinquan Jiang, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

justice,political dimensions, structural conditions, and ethical considerations, as well stakeholderunderstanding, values, and dynamics, which also aligns with ABET-EAC’s Criterion 3 StudentOutcomes. [5] By providing students an opportunity to learn from and about multidisciplinaryand multicultural elements present within engineering design considerations, they can develop,with this approach students will develop intercultural competence and be better prepared totackle wicked problems [10].The FEW Model builds upon the current literature and particularly the idea of the engineer’sresponsibility relating to social elements that even exceed traditional notions of engineeringethics as described with the Engineering for Social Responsibility

Conference Session

Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Hua, Southern Methodist University; Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

-world problem-solving, students, professionals, and all who are engaged must understandthe context of the problem. Contextual understanding is rooted within disciplines of the socialsciences such as history, geography, civics, and more. Dually important is how the engagedproblem-solvers relate to the context as a sense of place or their relation to community. Theneeds of our communities guide real-world problem-solving. The increasingly urgentenvironmental, ethical, and social justice exigencies require a critical rethinking of education,particularly STEM education. This opens educational opportunities for situating learners incritical, agentive roles and supporting their tackling of challenges and controversies usingreal-world tools in

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University; Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; Kristen Conroy, The Ohio State University; Kadri Akinola Akanni Parris, The Ohio State University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

., & Blatchley, E.R. (2021). Global Service-Learning: A Systematic Review of Principles and Practices.International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement.https://doi.org/10.37333/001c.31383[7] Bielefeldt, A. R., Polmear, M., Knight, D. W., Canney, N., & Swan, C. (2021). EducatingEngineers to Work Ethically with Global Marginalized Communities. EnvironmentalEngineering Science, 38(5), 320–330. https://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2020.0269[8] Dean, J. H., & Van Bossuyt, D. L. (2014). Breaking the Tyranny of the Semester: A Phase-Gate Sprint Approach to Teaching Colorado School of Mines Students Important EngineeringConcepts, Delivering Useful Solutions to Communities, and Working on Long Time ScaleProjects

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George A Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Elizabeth G. Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

destroyed. This separated communities and decreased the value of the properties because it’s by a noisy highway. I saw through this lab first hand some of the houses that used to be where Highway 75 now is. In CIVE 101, I learned more in depth how the highway being built there affected the community and reinforce the consequences of redlining from the presenter who came and talked about redlining, and the exhibit we went to on Dodge Campus. This matters because redlining is an unfortunate truth about our city’s history, and it still affects the city, and the people in the city, today. It matters to me as a civil engineer because as a civil engineer, it is my job to uphold the ethics that we

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Renshaw, Western Washington University; Bree L Carpenter, Western Washington University; Kylea Assayag-Nodine, Western Washington University; Derek M Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University; Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

areas of CAD, geometric and solid modeling, machining and CNC, engineering design and ethics, and machine design.Prof. Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University Jill Davishahl is Associate Professor and First Year Programs Director in the Engineering + Design department at Western Washington University. Jill’s teaching, service, and research activities focus on enhancing the first year student experience by providing the foundational technical skills, student engagement opportunities, and professional skill development necessary to improve success in the major. Her current research focuses on creating inclusive and equitable learning environments through the development and implementation of strategies geared

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Snyder, University of Michigan; Aditi Verma, University of Michigan

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Paper ID #44133Engagement in Practice: Building Community Engagement into a First-yearDesign-Build-Test CourseDr. Katie Snyder, University of Michigan Dr. Snyder is a lecturer for the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She teaches design, ethics, and technical communication as social justice to students in the College of Engineering.Prof. Aditi Verma, University of Michigan Aditi Verma (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan. Aditi is broadly interested in how fission and fusion technologies

Conference Session

Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Mateo Rojas; Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; Jaime Elizabeth Styer, Colorado School of Mines; Sofia Lara Schlezak, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Gibson contributes to multiple NAE and cross-Academies initiatives, focusing primarily on the Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering program. Gibson completed her M.S. from the Colorado School of Mines as a member of the inaugural cohort in Humanitarian Engineering and Science (HES). In the HES program, Gibson specialized in Environmental Engineering and conducted research under the NSF-funded ”Responsible Mining, Resilient Communities” project in Colombia. She was named Outstanding Graduate Student in HES. Gibson earned her B.S. in Biological/Agricultural Engineering and minor in Sustainability from the University of Arkansas, along

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 5 - Nurturing Well-Being and Promoting Awareness

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

as all aspects of ethics and confidentiality.Counseling Services provides individual counseling services, support groups, informativepsycho-educational groups, and meaningful and engaging outreaches both in-person andvirtually. The main treatment method is solution-focused to equip students with the neededskills to be successful as a student and in their future careers. Additionally, campuswide Well-Being programing with the Well-Being Wheel and frequently offers Well-Being Wednesdayprograms. Counseling Services contributes to the campuswide Well-Being newsletters.Counseling Services also serves on a committee of key stakeholders (the PreventionIntervention Team for Student Success (PITSS) Committee) on campus that assists strugglingstudents

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

, over 40% of whom are female, spread across 165 university/collegechapters [12]. Studies have found that participating in this organization supports the developmentof professional skills such as teamwork, leadership [13], project management [14], appreciationfor other cultures, and increased awareness of the role of ethics in engineering [15], while notdiminishing any technical competencies [16]. EWB-USA has also been found to serve as a multi-faceted retention tool for engineering students, particularly women [14]. However, previousstudies have not specifically investigated the views of the program’s alums, and a study of anothercommunity engagement program called EPICS found that alums of that program often developedsignificant new insights

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Warrner, Ball State University; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Anand Nageswaran Bharath, Cummins Engine Company

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

sciences and complemented by professional and graduate programs. Elon Engineering is aunique blend of a liberal arts education and a traditional engineering education. The mission andcommitment of Elon, emphasize “putting knowledge into practice” and the establishment of an“ethic of service.” This aligns with the first tenant of the engineering profession, servinghumankind; therefore, integrating service-learning projects into the engineering courses isembraced. Service-learning has been done in both introductory engineering and upper levelthermodynamics courses at Elon.Curriculum/Learning GoalsFirst-year engineering students facilitated an afterschool activity through a service-learningpartnership with a nearby elementary school. The aims of the

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Lupita D Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder; Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Paper ID #42408Work in Progress: Quality Indicators for Community-Engaged Education,Scholarship, and ResearchDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director of the Integrated Design Engineering (IDE) program. The IDE program includes an IDE BS degree accredited under the ABET EAC general criteria and a new PhD degree in Engineering Education. Bielefeldt’s research includes community engagement, engineering ethics, social responsibility, and

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; René Marie Rosalie Marius, Lipscomb University; Mark Sedek, Lipscomb University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

, and P. A. Ralston, “Why Engineering?: Students’ reasons forchoosing an engineering major,” 2017 ASEE Annual Conference, Columbus, OH.[22] M. K. Watson, S. T. Ghanat, D. Michalaka, K. Bower, and R. W. Welch, “Why DoStudents Choose Engineering? Implications for First-Year Engineering Education,” 7th FirstYear Engineering Experience Conference, August 3-4, 2015, Roanoke, VA.[23] G. A. Rulifson, A. R. Bielefeldt, and W. Thomas, “Understanding of Social Responsibilityby First Year Engineering Students: Ethical Foundations and Courses,” 2014 ASEE AnnualConference, Indianapolis, IN.[24] A. R. Bielefeldt, “Disengaged or Disappearing? Losing the most Socially MotivatedStudents from Engineering?” 2017 ASEE Annual Conference, Columbus, OH.[25] E. H

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Lynn Morano, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew L. Cole, Lawrence Technological University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

work in teams Understand the motivations and perspectives of others Communication Convey engineering solutions in economic terms Substantiate claims with data and facts Character Identify personal passions Fulfill commitments in a timely manner Discern and purse ethical practices Contribute to society as an active citizenIn order to provide undergraduates with ample opportunities to exercise their EM and to practicethe 3 C’s, a curricular thread was developed and is woven through our core engineeringcurriculum at

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

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

needs to be combated at primary levels of prevention by nurses,” Nurs. Open, vol. 7, pp. 678-679, 2020. 3. S. Oerther and D.B. Oerther, “The ethical challenges of antimicrobial resistance for nurse practitioners,” Nurs. Open, vol. 7, pp. 904-906, 2020. 4. H. Kosiyaporn, S. Chanvatik, T. Issaramalai, W. Kaewkhankhaeng, A. Kulthanmanusom, N. Saengruang, W. Witthayapipopsakul, S. Viriyathorn, S. Kirivan, W. Kunpeuk, R. Suphanchaimat, A. Lekagul, and V. Tangcharoensathien, “Surveys of knowledge and awareness of antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in general population: A systematic review,” PLoS One, vol. 15, no. e0227973, 2020. [Online] Available: https://doi.org/10.1371

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Poster Session - Exploring the Transformative Power of Service, Engagement, and Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

research and design (i.e. apprenticeship style) projects have naturally been theprimary avenues for student research, as they remain the major modes of quantitative explorationin STEM professional and academic fields [12]. However, there are other presumed merits to theresearch interview approach utilized here in the STEM environment: ● It forces students to confront the impact of science and engineering on a broad population. ● It can “humanize” STEM work, connecting data to people. ● It strengthens soft skills like communication, socialization, and ethics. ● It provides additional training beyond lab or workshop attributes. ● It familiarizes students with government policies that intersect with their