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)

Discover Camp in Hawthorne, NY. He also volunteers as the Dutchess District STEM Coordinator for the Greater Hudson Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America, running several STEM workshops a year. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Robotics Mentorship as a Cross-disciplinary Platform to Foster Engineering Soft SkillsAbstractAn interdisciplinary robotics mentorship program was initiated in the Fall of 2019 to study softskill development in undergraduate engineering students. The primary objective of this programis to design and implement an effective learning model to foster engineering students’development of soft skills through collaboration with

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)

, we were only planning to engage students in simple linear conditionals, but students pushed themechanics of Bitsy beyond our expectations and created cyclical game loops (returning to game levelsmultiple times). In addition to mechanical skills, students were also introduced to “soft skills” through thedesign/feedback/iteration process we integrated into the workshop, which also adhered to a standard (CSTA2-IC-22; [8]).Workshop Design The workshop, entitled "Designing Games for Change" leverages the user-friendly game engine,Bitsy, to make computer science accessible to students with no prior programming experience. The gamescreated in Bitsy have a pixel-art style, with a limited color palette and small resolution, and provide youth

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marian K. Zaki, Houston Christian University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

-learning projects to evaluate the impact onstudent learning and partners benefits, we have received great feedback from both Crime Stoppersand our students.One of the students who worked on the project reported her experience by saying: “Working on this project has given me the opportunity to develop my technical and non-technical skills. I was able to practice some of the skills I learned in my courses at HCU and improve upon my soft skills - such as communication, problem-solving, 4 and self-motivation - through working together with my co-workers, having meetings with my supervisor and working on the projects assigned to me. Overall, I can see how the things I learned

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

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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