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Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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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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the students and the community partners.Course background and evolutionThe first offering of Engineers in the Community centered on an intensive curriculum overSpring Break 2016 in Ferguson, Missouri, one of the flashpoint cities of the Black Lives Mattermovement. We selected speakers that embodied leadership in the community and explored broadthemes of ethics. In this course, we exposed undergraduate engineers to systemic problems in theSt. Louis region, encouraging them to apply their engineering skills to these challenges. Before2020, this course was community-connected, and students found it impactful to (1) get outside ofthe “campus bubble” by visiting locations around St. Louis, and (2) meet people from ourcommunity. The Covid pandemic

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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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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, we sought to identity engineering teachers in rural schools to teachthe curriculum we developed. However, teacher attrition became a problem. Over time, two “digitalliteracy coaches” at the school – one who was a prior history teacher and another who was a priorcareer and technical education teacher – became the primary engineering design course teachers ateach school. As they taught the engineering curriculum as an elective course, they also bothcontinued to serve their schools as digital literacy coaches.Data Collection and AnalysisFocus groups were conducted with student participants (n=8) and served as an opportunity for us toschedule conversations with multiple participants at one time in order to not take up too muchinstructional time

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Selvin Yovani Tobar; Bara Maisara Zalloum; Anna N. Le; Yessenia Nicacio-Rosales; Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College- One of the City Colleges of Chicago

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aptitude [2]. When community service is integrated into a school’s curriculum, it hasbeen found to increase students’ enjoyment of learning, academic motivation, and performance[2-3]. In adults, reports have shown that volunteering improves physical and mental health,boosts self-esteem, and increases overall happiness [4]. Students who support communityengagement initiatives such as volunteering related to their discipline, gain applicable experienceand advocate for their careers [5].Service learning is one type of community service in which projects are assigned within astudent’s curriculum [6]. Within the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM), [7] research has been conducted on how to improve student retention

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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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years.Dr. William ”Bill” C. Oakes, Purdue University William (Bill) Oakes is the Assistant Dean for Experiential Learning, a 150th Anniversary Professor, Director of the EPICS Program, Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and a registered professional engineer. He is one of the founding faculty in the School of Engineering Education having courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering and Curriculum and Instruction. He was the first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning and a co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Irma Livier De Regil Sanchez, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, Guadalajara, Mexico

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Republic, Mexico, India, China, Peru, and Nepal, often involving students in these activities. He also has taught seminars on best methodologies for humanitarian engineering projects in the U.S. as well as Mexico, India, Germany, Spain and Hungary.Dr. Irma Livier De Regil Sanchez, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, Guadalajara, Mexico Ph.D. in Administration Sciences in Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, Cum Laude. Thesis: Productive Integration Model for Community Development. Master in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Valencia, Universidad de Salamanca and Universidad de Oviedo. Master in Global Marketing from the Instituto Tecnol´ogico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente Degree in

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

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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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forEPICS students to work on international projects and enable these experiences by incorporatingthem into their design challenges. The Purdue faculty is dedicated to working with otheruniversities to support their goals and implement an infrastructure similar to that of EPICS.Actionable changes for leveraging strengths - Between partnerships:Partial incentives for students on each partnership were to engage internationally. Overall, a centralfocus would be to create more opportunities for bidirectional international engagement for bothteams. Currently the EPICS students get both the experience to interact with international peers,and learn about community members in India by centering them in design missions. Creating anew integrated design team

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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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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universitypresentations and one conference presentation to share his research strategy and findings (1.3).The interdisciplinarity of his work also made it relevant for a variety of practitioners, leading himto share his findings with an engineering firm, a gold trading company, a small-scale goldmining consultancy, a lawyer specialized in small-scale gold mining, an NGO that empowersstudents to carry out community-development projects in vulnerable communities, and a numberof national government agencies (the Colombian Defensoría del Pueblo, Agencia Nacional deMinería, Ministerio de Minas y Energía, and Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje). (2.3)Rojas’ experiences translating his research for diverse audiences illuminated barriers forsystematically integrating

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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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healthengineering (dual-level graduate and undergraduate, elective); and 3) biologicalprinciples of environmental engineering (graduate only, required course). These courseswere offered at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and through MissouriOnline distance education. The primary audience included students of environmentalengineering as well as students of civil engineering and architectural engineering andstudents of nursing. The module included an overview of community engagement,gathering community information, co-identification of a problem and a solution, andtesting the solution.While many forms of community engagement often aim to unearth problems and co-design solutions in a partnership between the researcher/scholar and

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khalid Oladeji Bello, University of Louisville; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Hazel Marie, Youngstown State University ; Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame

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studentsthe methodology for psychology research and the impact on students’ learning. Costigan (2020)discussed the use of two CBR projects to advance student learning in research and courseworkand illustrate to students what it means for research to have an impact. Mello-Goldner (2019)described the integration of CBR in a two-semester course and its impact on undergraduatestudents. Through the engagement with external community organizations, students wereprovided with a larger and more varied data set. In addition, students completed a conference-style poster and learned how to present results to the college community.Despite the rewards that come with adopting or implementing CBR, it can be challenging tomeet community needs and university

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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inneighborhood revitalization projects, students gain real-world experience, develop practicalskills, and build meaningful relationships with the community and with professionals andorganizations involved in the project. Furthermore, students have the opportunity to see thetangible results of their efforts, motivating them to pursue careers in civil engineering with acommitment to make a positive impact on society.This paper describes the framework developed for neighborhood revitalization projects,emphasizing the community engagement initiatives and student involvement efforts.Additionally, we discuss the methodology developed to assess the success of this program andhow we plan to integrate community-based projects into the engineering curriculum

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Bishop, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Rebecca Kenemuth

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unique opportunities topartner and integrate the GOAL programming into the public school system curriculum. Theschool system integration provides a consistent platform for the GOAL programming whichensures longevity of the program and its ability to reach intended audiences. Post launch, therehas been interest from other school systems to utilize GOAL, but logistics of implementation(e.g., disconnection between administrators and in-classroom implementers) creates a lot ofinertia toward getting relationships started. This factor has kept collaborations from expanding tothe scale of PGCPS or MCPS. While the COVID pandemic created a lot of chaos, it alsoprovided a unique opportunity where action was necessary. An additional aspect that

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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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

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

opportunity for the agency to gather insightsfrom experts in an array of fields, and it also challenged NASA participants to consider how theymight introduce the ideas shared to colleagues who could benefit from and apply these insightsdirectly. Some of these challenges have been long discussed by the engineering ethicscommunity: at what level are engineers responsible for their products? How can projectmanagers and engineers effectively integrate societal considerations in workaday efforts? Otherswere more unique to the Artemis mission, including space sustainability, balancing access tolocations on the moon, and sharing the benefits of space activities. 3. Workshop Concepts in Dialogue with Engineering Education and Ethics ResearchAs stated

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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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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. Communicate effectively with stakeholders and broad audiences. 5. Work productively on diverse multidisciplinary teams.This training involves an individualized interdisciplinary curriculum, scaffolded by laboratoryrotations and hands-on workshops, a year-long community-engaged design project, and trainingin entrepreneurship, communication skills, and team science. Individualized curriculums aretailored to trainees to comply with the requirements of their home graduate degree programs.Our traineeship program began in the 2019-2020 academic year as a result of a National ScienceFoundation Research Traineeship award. This traineeship program is meant to prepare at least100 STEM graduate students to address major societal challenges within our local

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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, no. 1, p. 189, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1057/s41599-021-00871-1.[8] G. Bixler, J. Campbell, R. Dzwonczyk, H. L. Greene, J. Merrill, and K. M. Passino, “Humanitarian Engineering at The Ohio State University: Lessons Learned in Enriching Education While Helping People,” IJSLE, pp. 78–96, Dec. 2014, doi: 10.24908/ijsle.v0i0.5545.[9] K. Conroy and P. Sours, “Engagement in Practice: Better preparing students for community-engaged engineering by restructuring an academic program, minor, and curriculum,” presented at the ASEE Annual Conference, 2023.[10] A. Parkinson, J. Harb, and S. Magleby, “Developing Global Competence In Engineers: What Does It Mean? What Is Most Important?,” in 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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very‬ ‭relational. How can we prioritize very meaningful relationships over projects that come and go?‬ ‭And how do we base (projects) on our very local cultures and ways of knowing?‬I‭ n this passage, the student underscores how discussions on decolonization within humanitarian‬ ‭engineering class often remain confined to improving power imbalances and relationships‬ ‭between community members and HE practitioners. However, these initiatives tend to be‬ ‭top-down or centralized changes across the sector, which fall short of addressing the goals of‬ ‭decolonization as articulated in Indigenous studies. Indigenous studies emphasize dismantling‬ ‭central control as an integral piece of decolonization, making this