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)

expertise are valuable.‬ ‭Ultimately, the virtual workshops included 10-15 participants each; the in-person workshop had‬ ‭22 community participants. We were hoping for closer to a 1:1 ratio with our class of 38‬ ‭students.‬‭ till, the inaugural run of the course has been completed with much success and many lessons‬S‭learned. As we plan to rerun this course in Fall 2024, we anticipate several changes. Initially, we‬ ‭aim to develop two new virtual reactor models and provide more time for students to explore‬ ‭those models. One goal would be to hold a community open house in the VR lab, where students‬ ‭would host the participants on virtual tours of the reactors in person. These tours could be a‬ ‭starting point for interviews

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)

at the university.Planned Next StepsContinuing to work with academic advisors across the college of engineering on approvingcommunity-engaged courses as technical electives and capstone design courses is important forimproving access to the HE program. Using the IDI as an assessment tool may help to provideinsight into the impacts of the program related to intercultural competency growth. Furtherqualitative assessment metrics are in development and planned for implementation.References[1] Jacoby, B. 2014. Service-Learning Essential: Questions, Answers and Lessons Learned,Edition 1. Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education, A Wiley Brand.[2] Greene, H. L., & Eldridge, K., & Sours, P. J. (2019, June), Engagement in Practice

Conference Session

Community and Industry Collaboration for Sustainable Development

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jasmine N Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nathan W. Hartman, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PWL) (COE); Alisa Deck; Roxanne A. Moore Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

thegrowing need for industries to be proactive in workforce planning. A major takeaway is thatcompanies should prioritize upskilling and reskilling to remain competitive in an evolvingindustry landscape. There are opportunities to address these challenges by broadeningrecruitment efforts to underrepresented groups and expanding outreach beyond local areas.Additionally, retaining employees can be achieved by offering internal growth opportunities,making them feel valued and invested in the organization’s success. Leadership also plays a rolein employee development and team success. Leaders should create opportunities for growth,whether through partnerships, internal programs, or encouraging other leaders to invest in theirteams. As individuals

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice: Bridging Engineering Education and Community Impact through Collaborative Design and Construction

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

includes: transportation infrastructure planning and design, infrastruct ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Engagement in Practice: A Case Study in Construction Engineering Practicum Course at The CitadelIntroductionSuccessful Construction Engineering programs engage students in meaningful projects thatmotivate them to exceed minimum expectations. Undergraduate capstone projects, ofteninvolving real clients, site visits, and milestone briefings, prepare students for professional roles.However, students sometimes overlook the community impact of their work. Beyond estimates,schedules, analyses, and design, hands-on construction experience is essential. While

Conference Session

Lightning Talk - "Innovating for Impact: Community-Engaged Education, Technology, and Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy Mackenzie, The Aula Fellowship; Laxmaan Balaji; Kayli Heather Battel; Rosa Y. G. Paccotacya-Yanque; Animesh Paul, University of Georgia; Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida; Leslie Salgado, University of Calgary; Beyza Nur Guler, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Rubaina R Khan, University of Toronto; Natalie Perez; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Private Corporation; Debarati Basu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Peer Herholz, Northwestern University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Rhetoric in AI Conference Mission Statements This paper proposes that examining AI conference mission statements is essential forunderstanding the evolving boundaries of the field. Our analysis can support and extendprior research (4; 5; 11) by identifying persistent overemphasis or underemphasis on techni-cal aspects, the marginalization of non-technical or cross-disciplinary engagement, and thelack of coherent or clearly communicated objectives. These issues can lead to misalignedexpectations and limit a conference’s broader societal impact. By surfacing patterns, the larger research can inform more deliberate strategic planning,helping conference organizers design events that promote interdisciplinary dialogue, engagebroader communities

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)

Conference Session

Community and Industry Collaboration for Sustainable Development

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

] back home. So I do identify. I know that I have a background and an understanding of how the system works that allows me to communicate and inform these communities to increase awareness. But I'm not that arrogant to think that I have all the knowledge, right? There's a lot of things that I don't know. So I do rely a lot on community knowledge to even design my sampling. And I feel like they feel comfortable talking to me. I work with them a lot. So in every project that I have, I involve communities and train them to collect samples. And then I share the data. … We do annual community conferences where we share this information, but the plan is to have a follow up with stakeholders to see how we can strategize and implement

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connor Becerril; Joanna D. Kinsey, Quinnipiac University; Courtney McGinnis, Quinnipiac University; John E. Greenleaf, P.E., Quinnipiac University; Kimberly DiGiovanni, Quinnipiac University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-020-02468-0[22] L. S. Sadler et al., “Community-university partnerships in community-based research,” vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 463–469, 2012, doi: 10.1353/cpr.2012.0053.[23] S. E. Curwood and M. Mackeigan, “Building Effective Community-University Partnerships: Are Universities Truly Ready?” American Psychological Association (APA), 2011.[24] R. E. Pizarro, “Challenges of implementing sustainable urban design plans through community– university partnerships: lessons from Colombia, China, and Germany,” vol. 17, pp. 48–56, 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2015.11.005. [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343515001402[25] N. O. Jelks, T. L. Hawthorne, D. Dai, C. H. Fuller

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ping-Chuan Wang, State University of New York, New Paltz; Wenyen Huang, State University of New York, New Paltz; Graham Werner, State University of New York, New Paltz ; Darren Wang, Stony Brook University ; James M. Amodio, John Jay High School, Wappingers Central School District

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

variety of engineering fields, and their proposals and budgetary plan were reviewedby the senior club members for revision and final approval. Accordingly, as will be discussedlater, the second implementation of the mentorship program was modified to provide effectivesupport and to leverage for enhancing mentoring experience. Engineering and education mentors: Voluntary student mentors from both theengineering and education departments in the State University of New York (SUNY) at NewPaltz were selected to participate in the mentorship program. Engineering students, majoring inelectrical, computer, or mechanical engineering, were at different years of their 4-year degreewith varying experience in robotics. As an ABET-accredited

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)

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

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)

engineers’ moral obligation to scab in this context[28].The BER begins their analysis by claiming that an engineer’s participation in collective actionNSPE deems coercive would normally conflict with an engineer’s duty to protect the health andsafety of the public in addition to the aforementioned canon regarding being a faithful agent oftheir employer. They make this claim of a duty to protect health and safety with no supportingevidence of how that applies in this case. It is conceivable that there may be situations where asudden lack of personnel could cause safety concerns, but there was no indication of this in thecase description. On the contrary, strikes require significant planning that the companyexecutives would have some awareness of

Conference Session

Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micaha Dean Hughes, North Carolina State University; Aaron Arenas, North Carolina State University; Latricia Walker Townsend, North Carolina State University; Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Saturdayprogramming and a summer camp experience.There are two curricular developers for the course: (1) a retired engineer, and (2) a former K-12STEM teacher, both of whom now work to create STEM outreach opportunities for children. Withinput from industry partner representatives and the two program teachers, the curriculum developerscreated a dynamic curricular guidebook that includes engineering content, a variety of activities, andcomprehensive lesson plans that are used by the teachers. All information can be customized to meetspecific school and student needs, within the pace of a traditional nine-week class time frame (shownin Figure 1 below). Specialty materials needed to conduct lessons (e.g., Arduino boards, mousetraps,materials for 3D printing

Conference Session

STEM Education and Intercultural Competence

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Leanne Petry, Central State University; Elizabeth Generas, Wright State University; Amy Anderson; Marjorie Langston Langston; Douglas Picard, Greene County Career Center; Camryn Lanise Justice, University of Dayton

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

International Programs (CIP) at the University of Dayton. The CIP provides coordination, strategic planning and administrative support forMrs. Marjorie Langston LangstonMr. Douglas Picard, Greene County Career Center Doug Picard is an engineering and manufacturing instructor at the Greene County Career Center in Xenia, Ohio. In 2023 and 2024, he participated in the Global STEM RET, facilitated by University of Dayton and Central State University, with in- and pre-service teachers from Dayton and surrounding area. He traveled to Banagalore, India, to observe and research how solar and other renewable energies are incorporated into developing areas and developed/published classroom curriculum. As part of this research