research that aims to advance water justice and sustainability, as well as sociotechnical engineering education research. She previously served as the project manager and lead editor of the NSF-funded TeachEngineering digital library (TeachEngineering.org, a free library of K-12 engineering curriculum), during which she mentored NSF GK-12 Fellows and NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) participants on the creation and publication of their original engineering curriculum. Dr. Forbes is a former high school physics and engineering teacher and a former NSF GK-12 Fellow.Prof. Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego Dr. Gordon D. Hoople is an assistant professor and one of the founding faculty members of integrated
Paper ID #43141Addressing Societal Challenges through Graduate-level Community-engagedDesign Projects (Traditional Research Paper) ˜ George Mason UniversityDr. Samuel A Acuna, Samuel Acu˜na is a research professor in the Department of Bioengineering at George Mason University. He is a biomechanical engineer interested in rehabilitation engineering and human-centered product design. He develops new technologies to address movement disorders that develop after injury, such as stroke, amputation, or traumatic brain injury. He is particularly interested in solving engineering problems for the hospital &
equity and inclusion topics. She primarily teaches thermal-fluid sciences as well as introductory and advanced design courses.Ms. Ren´e Marie Rosalie Marius, Lipscomb University Ren´e Marius is an undergraduate student at Lipscomb University. She is studying Software Engineering with a German minor. Ren´e has been working with Dr. Dodson to research the connections of humanitarian engineering projects affecting views of diversity, equity, and inclusion.Mark Sedek, Lipscomb University Mark Sedek is an undergraduate student at Lipscomb University studying mechanical engineering with a minor in applied mathematics. Looking forward, he plans on gaining more experience within the research field and pursue graduate school
Paper ID #44281[Traditional Research Paper] Engaging Students in Hands-On Experiencesthrough Neighborhood Revitalization ProjectsMiss Paula Alvarez Pino, University of Alabama, Birmingham Paula Alvarez Pino is the Associate Director of the Sustainable Smart Cities Research Center at University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB). Paula is in charge of monitoring the progress of research, outreach and training activities in the center, as well as to set short and long-term goals to ensure the continuous progress of the SSCRC. Paula collaborates with the City of Birmingham as liaison in several projects related to the built
Paper ID #46282Bridging the Gap: Integrating Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Coursesinto University CurriculaDr. Pierre Rahme, Lebanese American UniversityDr. George E Nasr, Lebanese American University Dr. George E. Nasr has been Provost at the Lebanese American University (LAU) since 2018, following his tenure as Dean of the LAU School of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky and has published extensively on energy modeling and engineering education. He is an active member of IEEE and ASEE and serves on various international educational committees.Dr. Abbas A. Tarhini
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
Paper ID #46176[Traditional Research Paper] Integrating Service-Based Learning in EngineeringEducation: Enhancing Social and Professional Skills through CommunityProjectsProf. Jose Manuel Fuentes-Cid, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile Jos´e Manuel Fuentes-Cid is the Academic Secretary of the Construction Engineering program at the School of Engineering, Universidad Andr´es Bello in Santiago, Chile. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Construction Engineering, a Master’s in Project Management, and a Master’s in Higher Education Teaching. Jos´e Manuel has a strong background in academic management, teaching, and the
, computer architecture, full-stack development, and cryptography and networks security. Her research interests lie at the intersection of security and distributed systems. Marian has received several awards during her career for teaching, mentorship, excellence in research, and for her contribu- tions in building the Computer Science and Cyber Engineering programs at the College of Science and Engineering at HCU. She enjoys mentoring students and building connections and partnerships with the community and industry to bring real-world problems for her students to work on. She is currently leading the AR development group in the department, as well as multiple academia-nonprofit students projects
towards increasing student sense of belonging. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Engagement in Practice: Engineering Solutions for a Local Organic Egg FarmAbstract This engagement in practice paper summarizes the development and implementation of acollaborative partnership between a local organic egg farm and Western WashingtonUniversity’s Engineering & Design program. The objective is to engage students in a project-based design experience while fostering meaningful community involvement. Over the past 18months, this collaboration gave students the opportunity to apply technical and businessmanagement skills to improve the farm’s economic success. Student teams, in directcollaboration
and supervisory experience. Areas of expertise include performance improvement and reengineering initiatives, systems analysis, and Project Management. She has a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from the University of Miami. Nina also has a DBA in Information Technology from Nova Southeastern University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Civic Engagement in Engineering – Creating the Civic-Minded EngineerCivic Engagement is a cornerstone of our democracy and engineers must play a part in thatengagement. Engineers use math and science to solve today’s problems through design anddevelopment of a variety of items. The Engineer’s Council also expands on the definition byincluding
influence studentˆa C™s experience, affect retention rates, and the factors that determine the overall long term succesDaniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A Program to Engage Undergraduate and High School Students in Community-based ResearchAbstractCommunity-based research (CBR) is a practice that engages researchers in collaborative,change-oriented, and inclusive projects in the community. One common example of CBR isuniversity-community collaboration in which students and researchers come up with ideas,perspectives, and knowledge at each stage of the project with the goal to address communityneeds. The community is
Paper ID #38359Community-University Relationships in Environmental EngineeringService-Learning Courses: Social Network Vectors and Modalities ofCommunicationHannah Cooke, University of Connecticut Hannah Cooke is a doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Science Education at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include critical, antiracist science teaching that works to dismantle systems of oppression. Currently, she is a research assistant on the DRK12 project COVID Connects Us: Nurturing Novice Teachers’ Justice Science Teaching Identities, which uses design-based research to
Curriculum Through the VIP+ Program Michel Khourya, Georges Nasra, Abbas Tarhinib, Evan Fakhourya, Pierre Rahme*,a a School of Engineering, Lebanese American University, Lebanon b Adnan Kassar School of Business, Lebanese American University, Lebanon *Corresponding Author: pierre.rahme@lau.edu.lbAbstract: The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) model offers a transformative approach to highereducation by bringing together undergraduate and graduate students with faculty in interdisciplinaryteams to tackle complex, long-term and large-scale projects. At the Lebanese American University, thismodel has evolved into the VIP+ program, an
determined as an “engineering”.Developing Collaborative PartnershipsAn increasingly interconnected global economy demands collaborative opportunities andpresents unique challenges, compounding the need for broadly educated engineers that are well-versed in intercultural competency. OSU’s Humanitarian Engineering program equips graduatesto meet these challenges through community-engaged learning and high impact educationalexperiences.In preparation for equity-minded and ethical collaborative engagements, the partnership structureand relationships have been carefully and thoughtfully established over multiple years inresponse to past project and partnership challenges. At times, well-intentioned university-forgedrelationships with partner communities
Context for Children with motor-impairmentsbackgroundService-learning experiences provide a rich platform for students to refine their technical skillswhile addressing real-world challenges, particularly in the area of assistive technology forchildren with disabilities. Engineering students often seek practical, hands-on experiences thatnot only enhance their technical competencies but also connect them to impactful projects withintheir communities, thereby enriching the educational experience and fostering empathy amongfuture engineers [1-2]. Organizations such as Tikkun Olam Makers and Makers Making Changematch people with assistive technology needs with makers in the community. Student chaptersof these organizations have been established on
serves as the Faculty Lead of the Humanitarian Engineering Program at The Ohio State University. In this role, he leads high-impact experiential learning programs, conducts engineering education research, and instructs courses related to Engineering for Sustainable Development. He is passionate about developing engineers’ sociotechnical competency to prepare them to address complex global sustainability challengesDr. Kristen Conroy, The Ohio State University Dr. Kristen Conroy has a PhD in Biological Engineering from Ohio State University. Her main area of focus is sanitation. She has worked with partner organization, UNiTED, to teach courses where engineering students focus on collaborative projects in Kpando, Ghana
applied to two case studies. In theeducationally-focused CE case study, a senior capstone design course in environmentalengineering worked on a project defined by a community partner. The rubric did a good jobrevealing where improvements in the project could have been realized and demonstrating that thenon-profit facilitator was instrumental in engaging the community. In the second case study, acommunity sub-contracted an academic partner to explore residential indoor air quality. Theproject was at a higher level of the rubric for most criteria compared to the educationally-focusedcase study. Use of the rubric at the start of a project will open important conversations, therebycontributing to the community and academic partners more fully meeting
and Spring 2023, the issue of redlining was used in two first year civil engineeringcourses to highlight the role of civil engineers in addressing societal issues. In our first semester, firstyear course (CIVE 101 Introduction to Civil Engineering), redlining was addressed as an example of howpolicies affect not only social justice issues but also how and where infrastructure is delivered. Buildingon this introduction to redlining, our second semester first year course (CIVE 102 Geomatics for CivilEngineers) course incorporated work for the Omaha Spatial Justice Project by digitizing georeferencedimages from 1955 to help quantify what was lost in redlined areas of Omaha, Nebraska when USHighway 75 was constructed. Students in both classes
thermally sprayed coatings, he explores innovative AI-driven approaches to enhance student engagement in the classroom. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 A New Narrative: The Power of Story in Retaining Underrepresented Populations in EngineeringAbstractTo increase the diversity of the student population in undergraduate engineering programs,institutions of higher education need to find ways of appealing to the motivations of differentdemographic groups. This study examines survey data from participants in an internationalhumanitarian engineering project across a five-year period. The objectives of the study were todetermine whether underrepresented student
. She primarily teaches thermal-fluid sciences as well as introductory and advanced design courses.Amelia Elizabeth Cook, Lipscomb University Amelia Cook is an undergraduate student in the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering at Lipscomb University. Amelia is studying mechanical engineering and, following her graduation, will be starting her career in engineering consulting as an EIT. She is currently researching the connections of humanitarian engineering projects affecting views of diversity, inclusion, equity, and professional development.Lewis Ngwenya, Lipscomb University Lewis Ngwenya is an undergraduate student at Lipscomb University. He is studying electrical and com- puter engineering and plans to get some
: Theyparticipants are likely to face in their professional careers, thus explore IBM Cloud Services [2] . Programming interfaces:enhancing their experience and skills in a practical, hands-on They work with Node-RED [3]. Artificial intelligence: Theymanner. engage with IBM’s AI Watson. The Hack-a-Thon not only focuses on technical skills devel-opment but also emphasizes the cultivation of soft skills such ascommunication, teamwork, and time management. By the end ofthe event, participants are expected to present their projects toa panel of industry experts and faculty, demonstrating not onlytheir technical prowess but also their ability to communicatetheir ideas effectively. This
Service-Learning. He was a co-recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engi- neering and Technology Education and the recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers’ Educational Excellence Award and the ASEE Chester Carlson Award. He is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers.Mr. Ashish, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Ashish had been working with RuTAG IIT Delhi as a P.A. Tech. for the past five years. He has conducted extensive research on rural problems and worked on community-based projects aimed at improving the livelihoods of marginalized people. Ashish’s commitment to
at a university in Indiana. This summer, the MODEL developed from thispilot was adapted and replicated at two other universities. Over 50 students (high school andcollege) participated in the three regions in the Midwest in a community engaged internshipexperience during the summer of 2022. Students worked on project teams of 4-6 students on acommunity-identified project for 8 weeks. Local high school teachers managed projects andcommunity partners served as technical mentors as students completed their paid internship,which culminated with a formal presentation and product to their community partner. The largerresearch effort uses mixed-methods data collection, including surveys and interviews, to examinea variety of outcomes, including
Greenway’s reimagined engineering curriculum, which centers sustainability and project-based learning.Rebecca HolcombeDr. Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College Dr. Sara A. Atwood is the Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science and Professor of Engineering at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. She holds a BA and MS in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College, and PhD in Mecha ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Engagement in Practice: Promoting Engineering Work Experiences in Rural Sustainability ContextsBackground In engineering, there have been continued calls for higher education institutions topartner with industry on high-impact
students in education major. Results of thestudy demonstrated that cross-disciplinary collaboration and interaction effectively enhanceengineering soft skill development, particularly in Presentation, Teamwork, and Leadership.Based on the challenge and findings from the pilot study, the program structure has evolved eachyear for the ensuing two academic years to further strengthen the interaction among the mentors.For example, the second phase of the mentorship program was redesigned to accommodate theteam project approach for the high school robotics club where mentors had more opportunities toguide and support the high school students. In this paper, we describe the approach to ourprogram revision beyond the pilot study and identify the issues
. Additionally, a strong relationshipwas observed between households’ confidence to recover and households’ belief in thecommunity’s recovery. The findings of this research have implications for the development andimplementation of community-based, sustainability-focused engineering projects and outreachefforts.IntroductionCapacity and resiliency are stapling parameters in understanding the development of acommunity, despite their abundance of definitions in the literature. While capacity is defined in amultitude of ways, it can be thought of as a community’s ability to counteract vulnerability andsusceptibility brought about by adverse circumstances (Amadei, 2020). Resiliency, on the otherhand, can be thought of as changes in capacity and the ability
locally led development: Methods and strategies for Colombia and beyond.AbstractPart of the movement represented by Engineering for Change (E4C) and Engineering to Help(ETH) [1], humanitarian engineering (HE) education programs have grown in the US for morethan 20 years and exist in different forms such as majors, minors, certificates, courses, projects,field trips, study abroad opportunities, EWB-type volunteering activities, and graduate programs[2]. One of the most salient challenges that these programs face is avoiding colonizing andextractive practices by building relationships with communities and universities abroad that arelong-lasting, trusting, effective, reciprocal for all parties, and attentive to
Paper ID #38004Advancing Student Perspectives through Bi-Institutional HemisphericCollaboration in Humanitarian EngineeringProf. Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver 1st author: Aaron Brown is a professor and program director at Metropolitan State University of Denver in the Department of Engineering and Engineering Technology. He has directed much of his work towards a focus in the areas of Appropriate Design, Humanitarian Engineering and Humanitarian Technology. Dr. Brown has worked on projects that help marginalized or vulnerable people all over the globe in such locations as Costa Rica, the Dominican
Carle Illinois College of Medicine. His research focuses primarily on engineering design/Bio Design collaboration in transdisciplinary teams. He has used and developed tools to study the alignment of products and services with organizational processes as an organization seeks to address needs and bring new products and services to the market.Dr. Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University Sirena Hargrove-Leak is a Professor of Engineering at Elon University. The mission and commitment of Elon University have led her to explore the scholarship of teaching and learning in engineering. More specifically, her current engineering education interests include entrepreneurial mindsets, user-centered design, project-based
; Urban Design, CU Boulder d. Engineering Management Department, CU Boulder INTRODUCTION PROJECT DESCRIPTION 3 Action Research (AR): CONCLUSION Involves a systematic process of acting, observing, reflecting, and re- PALAR is a valuable framework for engineering