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- 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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projectsIntroductionEngineering students will often complete design projects to solve a problem for an identifiedpopulation in need, resulting in an engineered product such as a novel medical device or newassistive technology [1]. However, adequately addressing major societal problems (e.g., opioidaddiction, mental health disorders, physical disability, etc.) will require more than just anengineered product or device, it will require solutions that span individual, community, andsocietal systems across many different disciplines [2]. The next generation of leaders chargedwith addressing these complex challenges must know how to work across traditional academicdisciplinary boundaries and meaningfully engage with stakeholder individuals, communities, andpolicymakers [3
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- Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers
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- Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University
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community engagement programs for understanding the value propositionfor each stakeholder group. Such investigations can help researchers and practitioners betteroptimize programs to more closely meet their full potential.IntroductionLeading institutions in engineering education have been focusing on integrating experientiallearning into the undergraduate experience in recent years [1], which is a pedagogy that involveseducators purposefully engaging learners in direct experience and focused reflection [2]. Onesubset of the experiential learning approach is community-engaged learning, which is intended toincorporate the five elements of engagement, academic connection, reciprocal partnerships, mutuallearning, and reflection [3]. In engineering
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- Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners
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- 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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potential funding is important incase one source of funding ends.K-12 Outreach Program ExamplesThis paper highlights six K-12 outreach programs that educate students about STEM disciplines.The outreach programs are facilitated by undergraduate programs at three higher educationinstitutions and one STEM related employer. Institutional context, an overview of each program,a description of the program’s curriculum and learning goals, program outcomes, and challengesencountered are discussed for each outreach program.Programs #1 and #2Institutional ContextElon University is a selective, mid-sized private university known for engaged undergraduateinstruction and experiential learning. The curriculum is grounded in the traditional liberal artsand
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- 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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differentinstitutions.As described in [1], US graduate engineering research remains focused on preparing students fora shrinking pool of academic jobs and most students are dissatisfied by the lack of socialrelevance of their research. An article detailing the state of graduate education points out, “mostgraduate programs will, in fact, fail to deliver the training that students desire and societydesperately needs. Graduate training remains focused on preparing students to addressdisciplinary knowledge gaps valued in a shrinking pool of faculty positions. While we invitestudents to apply for degrees based on their motivations to change the world, once they arrive,we do not prepare them to be successful change-makers. Current students report beingdiscouraged from
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- George A Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Elizabeth G. Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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redlinedcommunities today.Redlining occurred in most American citiesincluding Omaha, Nebraska. The 1935 OmahaHome Owner Loan Corporation map (Figure 1)designated neighborhoods in North and SouthOmaha as yellow and red, while neighborhoodsin West Omaha are designated green.The topic of redlining was introduced in a seriesof introductory courses to help studentsunderstand from of the beginning of theireducation as a civil engineer about both positiveand negative consequences to society that civil Figure 1. Redlined map of Omaha, Nebraskaengineers can have. We believed this was an (Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, 1935)important topic to introduce early in
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- Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement
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- Tiffany Smith, NASA; Zachary T. G. Pirtle, NASA
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scholarly disciplines to participate in a dialogue on ethical considerations for Artemis and theMoon to Mars initiative. At this event, participants identified a set of challenges in engaging theethical and social implications of these missions. This paper seeks to further explore thoseconcepts from the workshop report and provide insights on how to discuss the designimplications of engineering leadership decisions and to elicit meaningful engagement on thesetopics. This analysis can inform future research and educational approaches and help ethics andsocial science researchers to engage engineering and project leaders in constructive dialogue. 1. IntroductionThe engineering education research community has developed a broad swathe of case
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- Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University ; Joey Valle, Purdue University
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engineer within society byupholding an alignment of industry over engineering reflective of a hegemonic adherence tobusiness professionalism [1, 2, 3]. The ideology of business professionalism, described in moredetail to follow, advances beliefs that engineers are, and should be, unshakably beholden tocapitalist corporate owners and the industries they extract profit through [3]. In this paper, weexamine the historically anti-union attitudes and actions of the National Society of ProfessionalEngineers (NSPE), and their adherence to the ideology of business professionalism, throughanalysis of ethics case studies published by their Board of Ethical Review (BER). As an advocateof professional engineering licensure and as leaders in engineering ethics
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- 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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were given the chance to participate. All interns were paid and worked between 10-20hours/week for 10 weeks. The teams consisted of students from all major areas: manufacturingengineering, industrial design, and polymer materials engineering. All students who participatedMotivation The faculty advisors working with DCOF were motivated to use this collaboration togenerate enthusiasm and build engineering skills in students who are in the early stages of theirstudies. Similar community engagement projects [1] have identified that “service learning”,where students learn skills through projects based on community engagement, is attractive tostudents who are drawn to the prospect of engineering as a real-world practice and achieves ameaningful
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- Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement
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- Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis; Seema Mukhi Dahlheimer, Washington University in St. Louis; Sandra Payton Matteucci
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. Toooften, educational institutions uphold hegemonic norms and the status quo. Howard et al.describe that “education has reinforced structures of disadvantage rather than challenging suchstructures,” adding that “education appears to maintain rather than change broad social andeconomic structures” [1, p. 2]. Carpini and Keeter describe service learning as “a collaborativeeffort to address a community problem” [2, p. 635]. Building off of Gervasoni et al.’s [1] andCarpini and Keeter’s [2] social justice lens—though they use the language of service learning—we have chosen the term community engagement rather than service learning to emphasize themutual benefit of the community and the students and to avoid the more deficit-basedperspective that
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- Katie Snyder, University of Michigan; Aditi Verma, University of Michigan
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speculative fiction, and experimenting in the kitchen. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 [ Engagement in Practice] eople-first engineering: building community engagement into a P first-year design-build-test course ngineers design technologies for people and communities, but the history of communityEengagement in the design process is limited. Reasons for this lack of engagement are many, ranging from logistical challenges (how do we gather feedback and from whom?) to cultural assumptions about knowledge and expertise [1]. Digital communication has eased the former, but we have yet to make significant progress on the
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- Community Engagement Division (COMMENG) Poster Session
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- Jessica Rush Leeker, University of Colorado Boulder; Marlene Sulema Palomar, University of Colorado Boulder; Lyndsay Rose Ruane, University of Colorado Boulder
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tinkering with theory for eco-social justice. Canadian Journal of 1 Participatory Research: Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 18, 187-192. Metro-Roland, D. (2015). Knowledge, power, and care of the self: The Facilitates deeper engagement and investment
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- Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers
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- Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; René Marie Rosalie Marius, Lipscomb University; Mark Sedek, Lipscomb University
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design andrevision as well as the iterative participant selection process. As next steps, the research teamwill be interviewing a mixture of engineering students and alumni from Lipscomb University.From these interviews, the team will build a model which may be utilized by other engineeringorganizations to create inclusive engineers and increase diverse representation in the field.Background:This paper is part of a larger study on the impact of humanitarian engineering projects on studentprofessional formation and views of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) [1-3]. The studybuilds on a wealth of research around the lack of diversity in engineering [4-7] and the positiveimpacts of service learning in higher education [8]. Various programs have
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- Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning
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- Cindy Hua, Southern Methodist University; Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University
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Sustainability and Development Program in the Lyle School of Engineering at SMU. Working across the boundaries of urbanism, landscape mapping, and public engagement, Zarazaga explores ways to connect culture and community to site. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 On Community-Based, Environmental Justice-Oriented Curriculum for STEM Learning Cindy Hua, Dr. Jessie Zarazaga Southern Methodist University, Lyle School of EngineeringIntroductionChallenges of the 21st century are interrelated: global environmental threats, binary thinking,polarizing discourse, and the erosion of caring for our places and others [1], [2], [3
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- Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University; Sukrati Gautam, Purdue University; Peyman Yousefi, Merck Group; Nuela Chidubem Enebechi, Purdue University; Andrew Pierce, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University
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research underscores theimportance of recognizing and addressing GTA’s' unique needs within service-learning programevaluation. By identifying GTA expectations and experiences, the study also highlights theacquisition of multidisciplinary skills, promoting individual growth. The evaluation frameworkintroduced can serve as a model for other institutions and programs, emphasizing the significanceof an empathetic, user-centric approach in academic settings. 1. BackgroundIn recent years, service-learning programs, including those focused on engineering design, havebecome increasingly widespread in higher education 1,2, recognized for their academic promise andpotential to enhance student professional development 3. Such experiential programs
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- Anindya Debnath, University of Arkansas; Suman Kumar Mitra, University of Arkansas
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Fort Smith, Arkansas 3 Anindya Kishore Debnath1, Suman Kumar Mitra2 4 5 1. PhD Student, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas-72701, 6 Email: akdebnat@uark.edu 7 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Arkansas, 4190 Bell Engineering 8 Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, Email: skmitra@uark.edu 910 1. INTRODUCTION11 Affordable-accessible housing for working families is increasingly scarce in the U.S., in12 particular for small and mid-sized cities in rural areas. As many small and mid-sized cities offer13 only limited public transportation options, low-income residents living in those areas may14 struggle to access jobs
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- Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers
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- Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; xinquan Jiang, The Ohio State University
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HumanitarianEngineering as potentially an effective pedagogical process to prepare engineers to addresssustainability related challenges. 1IntroductionThe most urgent global sustainable development challenges—from adapting to climate change tocreating affordable housing to providing safe and accessible water—are complex problemswithout clear boundaries. Because they defy simple resolution, such challenges have come to beknown as wicked problems [1]. One of the difficulties of addressing wicked problems is theunderlying complexity that stems from fundamental disagreements among stakeholdersconcerning both the root of the problems and best potential approaches to tackling them.Addressing such challenges requires
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- Charles Perry Weinthal, Florida Atlantic University; David Jaramillo
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: djaramil@fau.edu Abstract—In preparation for the upcoming FAU Hack-a-Thon, I. I NTRODUCTIONwe have implemented extensive support structures to ensurethat all participating teams are thoroughly prepared for the For the past six years, the Hack-a-Thons [1] at Florida At-competition. This preparation includes the provision of online lantic University (FAU) have offered Outcome-Based Learningsupport from a variety of programming experts from IBM andexperienced Hack-a-Thon participants. This support is accessible opportunities, enabling participants to rapidly develop their24/7 in the three weeks leading up to the event, aimed at ensuring knowledge and skills within a supportive setting
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- Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers
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- 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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both community partner and student outcomesIntroductionEngineering service learning or humanitarian engineering in the university setting has only beenaround since the early 2000s [1]. The many potential benefits of efforts by students andinstructors to apply engineering directed at improving the wellbeing of marginalizedcommunities are evident - communities receive valuable contributions while students gainpractical hands-on experiences and apply theoretical knowledge to solve real-world problems.However, as pointed out in [2] [3] [4] without careful facilitation and being mindful of historicalinjustices, patriarchal philosophies, and power dynamics, service learning can unintentionallyperpetuate a dynamic of
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- 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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partners toward the development of new partnerships, as well asa hopeful demonstration of how SUCCs can shift the mindset of participants to potentially reducerural flight.Keywords: school-university-community collaboration, rural cultural wealth, research-practicepartnership, community engagement, rural engineering education, middle grades educationIntroductionRural flight or rural outmigration is a commonly-referenced phenomenon in sociology and ruraleducation literature. The term refers to the outmigration of people from rural areas to urban orsuburban areas, specifically for the purpose of finding better economic opportunities, improved livingconditions, and access to amenities [1], [2]. People from rural spaces may choose to leave
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- Emma Sophie Stine, University of Colorado Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado Boulder
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Humanitarian Engineering (HE) field are increasingly interested in addressing the systemic causes of infrastructure service disparities. Humanitarian Engineering (HE) programs often have missions that center on the systemic causes of inequality, such as training graduate engineers to “concern with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and shelter, and (who) place emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants, and solutions toward increasing equitable access to reliable services''[1]. Further, HE scholars have encouraged HE students and faculty to focus their efforts on understanding and dismantling the systems that
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- Heidi Lynn Morano, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew L. Cole, Lawrence Technological University
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, thereby fostering empathy in design.Amidst the pandemic, the shift to remote interactions offered a distinctive lens to evaluateempathy development in three cohorts of students (N = 118) who completed the 40-itemEmpathy Quotient (EQ) self-report questionnaire pre- and post-course. Results compare EQscores from students who received virtual service-learning experiences (cohorts 1 and 2) versusstudents who received in-person service-learning experiences (cohort 3).Results at pre-course found female engineering students had higher EQ compared to males,seniors had higher EQ compared to juniors and sophomores, and biomedical engineeringstudents had higher EQ compared to civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrialengineering, and mechanical
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- Paula Alvarez Pino, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Andrew J. Sullivan, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Mona N Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham
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. Theultimate goal is for this initiative to serve as a model and inspiration for universities andcommunities alike, highlighting the transformative power of collaboration between highereducation institutions, industry, and community partners to drive meaningful improvements inour communities, fostering growth, innovation, and social well-being.1. IntroductionOverview of Community Engagement in Engineering EducationIn recent years, the field of community engagement in engineering education has been growing,reflecting a shift towards a more holistic approach that extends beyond theoretical knowledge.Building sustainable and resilient communities is a core purpose of civil engineering andeffectively engaging with communities is vital. Such engagement is
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- Gianina Morales, University of Pittsburgh; Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Emily C. Rainey, University of Pittsburgh
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-centered engineering design for 1) supporting and engaging students with community needs asthey learn disciplinary practices and 2) advancing social change through the teaching andlearning of engineering.IntroductionDesign is recognized by practitioners and educators as an essential attribute of engineering [1],[2]. In recent decades, human-centered design (HCD) has arisen as a method for developingdesign thinking in engineering. This approach to design places human needs at the center ofdesign processes, valuing users’ experiences and perspectives as fundamental for the solutionscreated [3], [4]. Barlow and Levy-Bencheton describe HCD as “the opposite of the mad scientistscenario, in which a solitary genius working in a laboratory comes up with a
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- Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Lupita D Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder; Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University
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their needs.BackgroundThere is a long history of engagement of academics with communities [1-4]. Historically someof this work was termed service-learning (SL) where the goal was for students to reapeducational benefits from credit-bearing activities through a process of reflecting on their work,while community partners also benefited from the collaboration. SL work often faced challengeswith equitable benefits and power sharing. SL in engineering is now often being framed underthe larger umbrella of community engagement (CE). CE is a broader idea that encompassescommunity partnerships in co-curricular activities (such as Engineers Without Borders studentchapters). CE work can also be focused on scholarship and research, termed CommunityEngaged