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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highlighted the application of AI in robotics, enhancing the The following year, participants combined the Raspberry interactive experience by teaching participants to constructPi with an Arduino Nano to create sophisticated IoT sensors hardware and data sets for their knowledge databases, Figuresand subsystems. Projects featured a baby minder that reported 8 and 9. Fig. 8. 2018: Building TJBots Fig. 10. 2019 Survey Data Recording Helmet Fig. 11. 2019 Smart Watch Fig. 9. 2018: Laser Cut TJBotsI. 2019: An International FAU Hack-a-Thon Event: IOT

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

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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Paper ID #39377Community-University-Government Partnership to Advance EnvironmentalJustice and Address River Water Quality ConcernsConnor BecerrilJoanna D. Kinsey, Quinnipiac UniversityCourtney McGinnis, Quinnipiac UniversityDr. John E. Greenleaf, P.E., Quinnipiac University John Greenleaf received his Ph.D. from Lehigh University in 2007 and is a licensed professional engineer. In 2013 he joined the faculty of Quinnipiac University to lead the development of a new Civil Engineering program within a newly established engineerDr. Kimberly DiGiovanni, Quinnipiac University Kimberly DiGiovanni, PhD, PE is an Associate Teaching