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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bridges or dockse.g. Figure 2. Sample bottles were attached to the swing sampler pole which was lowered intothe river. Sample bottles were rinsed two times using the river water at the sampling locationbefore a sample was taken. Samples were collected at a depth of approximately 0.5 m consistentwith the methodology presented in [34, pp. 2477–2486]. As specified in ASTM D5175-91, 75µL of sodium thiosulfate (0.04 g/mL) was added to each sample. Samples were stored in a cooleruntil they were returned to the laboratory and stored in a 4°C refrigerator for extraction andanalysis. A total of 48 samples were collected from the Mill River on eight sampling expeditionsduring June and July 2021. Samples were taken during wet-weather and dry conditions and

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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only one semester. A goal is to expand to fall and springwith the same cohort of university students, but that seems to be a constraint as some studentscan only take the class one semester. Another challenge is when to start the engagement in theelementary school. The local school district has teaching time and materials requirements andaligning the best day for the outreach engagement can be a challenge. Working with the schoolson designated outreach days has been successful; however, the schedule may not always alignwith the university students’ schedules. Some of the more positive opportunities are to bringmore elementary students to campus to participate in hands-on learning at the design studio laband to visit research laboratories. This

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Perry Weinthal, Florida Atlantic University; David Jaramillo

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] Weinthal, C. P. (2018). Remote Labs: A Method to Implement a Portable FAU Hack-a-Thon? Logic Design Laboratory Infrastructure and to Provide Access to Mod- • Poor ern Test Equipment (Master’s Thesis, Florida Atlantic University). • Fair [9] Weinthal, C.P., Larrondo-Petrie, M.M., Zapata Rivera, L.F., (2017, July). Evolution, Design and Implementation of a Modular Portable • Good Lab Kit for Logic Design. LACCEI 2017. Retrieved from URL

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Lupita D Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder; Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University

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Scholarship (CES) or Community Engaged Research (CER). Ultimately, high qualityCE can span all of the traditional faculty activities of teaching, research, and service. While thisis a win-win in terms of beneficial impacts, it can also pose challenges in the faculty promotionand tenure process where academia traditionally compartmentalizes these activities and research-intensive institutions place outsized weight on the importance of research. In STEM fields,fundamental research (including laboratory experiments and numerical modeling) is oftenviewed as more scholarly than applied research. CES/CER is at risk of being devalued undertraditional academic standards [5-6] given its dual purpose of real-world benefits forcommunities.CES is increasingly