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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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environment and to improving the overall quality of life of the communities. Paula plans international research experience programs for undergraduate and graduate students in collaboration with international partners. She has helped organize and develop international workshops in the field of sustainability and smart cities. Paula has also developed outreach programs that educate the youth about the principles of sustainability. Paula received a Bachelors and Master’s of Science in Civil Engineering from UAB.Dr. Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham Dr. Fouad H. Fouad, Ph.D., P.E., is Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Alabama at

Conference Session

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

combustion engines through Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations to improve fuel economy and emissions. He is currently a senior engineer in Combustion Research at Cummins Inc., where in addition to his primary role in developing future engine systems, he leads a planning team of Cummins engineers in organizing an after-school STEM Outreach Program at Girls Inc. to encourage girls to pursue STEM Careers. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Development and Implementation of K-12 STEM Outreach Programs in Industry and Academia: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons LearnedIntroductionAccording to the U.S. Department of Labor (2022), the number of job openings in STEM(science

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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PIECES: AN INFORMAL FRAMEWORK TO ENCOURAGE MULTIFACETED ENGAGEMENT a b c d a. Aerospace Engineering Department. CU Boulder J. Rush Leeker, L. MacDonald, S. Roudbari, L. Ruane, M. Palomar b. Global Engineering, CU Boulder c. Architecture, Sustainable Planning &

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Perry Weinthal, Florida Atlantic University; David Jaramillo

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

, and Canvasas the Learning Management System (LMS). Additionally, E. Session 3: Final Preparations and Strategyparticipants learn how to interact with their IoT devices,including initial setup, connectivity, and basic programming. The final session before the marathon event allows teamsThis session ensures teams are equipped with the necessary to refine their strategies and address any remaining technicaltools and understanding for effective collaboration and project or conceptual challenges. Participants review their progress,management. Figure 3 finalize their project plans, and ensure all components are fully

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

in decision-making representation in decision- decision-making making Shared Funding • Undercompensating the • Provide fair & equitable • Set up a sustainable funding community partners funding to community for system for the future • No plan for long-term duration of project • Community can generate operations & • Funding is centered around value after the project has maintenance

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George A Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Elizabeth G. Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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City of Omaha proposed a $2. 5-million north-south expressway through the oldest parts of Omaha,including all North Omaha (Fletcher, 2020). Proposed as an economic development project, the NorthFreeway was intended to speed cattle to the Omaha Stockyard. Targeting the Near North Sideneighborhood, the new freeway was planned to cut through historic black and poor neighborhoods.Construction was nearly completed by 1963. In 1977 the City of Omaha announced plans to extend thehighway and as late as 1981 an additional 57 housing units were demolished to make way for anextension to the highway. In total, more than 2,000 homes, churches, businesses, and other buildingswere demolished over 34 years of construction.As a final course activity to prepare

Conference Session

Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Hua, Southern Methodist University; Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

network of educators who were interested in testing newways of learning in their STEM-adjacent classrooms, specifically career and technical educationcourses in urban planning and architecture. The teachers co-developed and integrated acommunity-based learning project focused on local neighborhood contexts into existing curriculaover a year. Neighborhoods of focus included those identified as infrastructure deserts in theexisting literature. Both teachers identified as women and were second-career teachers. They hadtransitioned into teaching from different professions and obtained teaching certifications whenemployed as classroom teachers. Both teachers departed public school teaching and transitionedinto advancing their studies as education

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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schedulingavailability. They used the structure of the quarter-long class projects experienced in ENGR 115to base their planning, research, and design work on. This process helped promote “self-starting”skills in the students by giving them the responsibility of identifying an engineering problem ontheir own and leading their own task accomplishment such as team formation, work distribution,and work plan development. One of the teams focused on automating bedding distribution to the rooms of the hen houses.They began by researching different types of bedding materials suitable to chickens in small tomedium scale egg farms and created a summary of the pros and cons to each potential materialbased on purchasing cost, ease of distribution, functionality in

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; xinquan Jiang, The Ohio State University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

development of qualitative tools to investigate the impact that these opportunitiesmay have had had. Further studies should investigate and isolate external factors such asdemographic or educational experiences beyond the courses., and in-course experiences, thatmay be related to intercultural competency development among engineers. 12 Bibliography[1] H. Rittel and M. Webber, “Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning,” p. 16, 1973.[2] M. Moritz and N. Kawa, “The World Needs Wicked Scientists,” Am. Sci., vol. 110, no. 4, p. 212, 2022, doi: 10.1511/2022.110.4.212.[3] M. T. Hora, R. J. Benbow, and B. B. Smolarek, “Re-thinking Soft Skills and Student

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gianina Morales, University of Pittsburgh; Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Emily C. Rainey, University of Pittsburgh

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Example from data (main code) (sub-code) * Framing human Generating Creating a problem “Problem statement: Young students who problems problem statement that guides are visually-impaired struggle to gain a statements research and ideation strong foundation in music because the current music education system caters too much to the able and lacks individualization” (Students artifact) Inquiring contextual Outreaching Planning

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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—instead ofas a final step once results have been obtained and analyzed”, RT is more effective for use bypolicymakers and communities.[3], [8] The third finding (2.3) is that “effective community-level translation methods place an emphasis on using a variety of interactive and participatorystrategies aimed at soliciting, valuing, and engaging with community.” [8] These could go fromauthentic participatory action research (PAR) strategies in the planning of research, tocommunity-owned workshops, to k-12 education modules to inform local teachers and studentsof the effects of research, to name a few. [15] Based on our experiences, the fourth finding (2.4)is that while RT-committed researchers might suffer from lack of trust from communities asresult

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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require further investigation, with planned follow-up interviews to better identify factorscontributing to changes in confidence. The proposed framework is expected to evolve as more datais analyzed, with additional forms of outcome to illustrate the system of the GTA Experience.4.2 Generalizability and LimitationsThough the framework components were developed for this specific context and style of classes,we expect that the categories will be generalizable to other teaching assistant programs, whilediffering in the specific examples. As the surveys used are not infallible, we will also suggestinformation that would have been helpful to collect to better assess individuals’ experience andsystematize consistent data gathering and support

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiffany Smith, NASA; Zachary T. G. Pirtle, NASA

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

report describes using brainstorming sessionsas a way to get more structured dialog across the participants and other attendees. NASA alsoprepared for the workshop by providing background information to the speakers about the natureof NASA’s Moon to Mars plans, helping to make discussion of the workshop - be it critical ornot - was connected to NASA’s current thinking and plans. 5. Concept Interpretations at the BoundaryThe first element that this paper seeks to explore is the variety of interpretations whenengineering professionals encounter concepts from the social sciences and humanities, andespecially when those engineers are considering the broader ethical and societal impacts of theirwork. The concept of boundary objects and boundary

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

ever but on the other not having a long-term plan for the implemented systems can lead to non-functional systems and take on a more traditional service-learning approach. Also, having students work on projects for only 1 semester during the year is not ideal. At OSU an attempt is currently being made to involve capstone students who are part of the global capstone program who have more time to start working on these projects in the previous semester and thus offering some continuity.g. A never-ending course for the faculty - While community-based learning courses are typically only offered for a semester, effectively maintaining the relationship and the projects is a yearlong commitment. The off-semester work is often not

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Lynn Morano, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew L. Cole, Lawrence Technological University

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Music and Eastern Michigan University, holds a PhD in Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology from Wayne State University. Cole teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in human resource management (HRM), principles of management, and business statistics. Cole is an NSF grant recipient and has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters on the science of teams, team conflict, team leadership, entrepreneurship, research methods and models, the neuroscience of the self, positive organizational scholarship, Appreciative Inquiry, SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results), SOAR-based strategic thinking, planning, and leading, and engineering education. Cole is the Associate Editor for the

Conference Session

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katie Snyder, University of Michigan; Aditi Verma, University of Michigan

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expertise are valuable.‬ ‭Ultimately, the virtual workshops included 10-15 participants each; the in-person workshop had‬ ‭22 community participants. We were hoping for closer to a 1:1 ratio with our class of 38‬ ‭students.‬‭ till, the inaugural run of the course has been completed with much success and many lessons‬S‭learned. As we plan to rerun this course in Fall 2024, we anticipate several changes. Initially, we‬ ‭aim to develop two new virtual reactor models and provide more time for students to explore‬ ‭those models. One goal would be to hold a community open house in the VR lab, where students‬ ‭would host the participants on virtual tours of the reactors in person. These tours could be a‬ ‭starting point for interviews

Conference Session

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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Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; René Marie Rosalie Marius, Lipscomb University; Mark Sedek, Lipscomb University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

equity and inclusion topics. She primarily teaches thermal-fluid sciences as well as introductory and advanced design courses.Ms. Ren´e Marie Rosalie Marius, Lipscomb University Ren´e Marius is an undergraduate student at Lipscomb University. She is studying Software Engineering with a German minor. Ren´e has been working with Dr. Dodson to research the connections of humanitarian engineering projects affecting views of diversity, equity, and inclusion.Mark Sedek, Lipscomb University Mark Sedek is an undergraduate student at Lipscomb University studying mechanical engineering with a minor in applied mathematics. Looking forward, he plans on gaining more experience within the research field and pursue graduate school

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University ; Joey Valle, Purdue University

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

engineers’ moral obligation to scab in this context[28].The BER begins their analysis by claiming that an engineer’s participation in collective actionNSPE deems coercive would normally conflict with an engineer’s duty to protect the health andsafety of the public in addition to the aforementioned canon regarding being a faithful agent oftheir employer. They make this claim of a duty to protect health and safety with no supportingevidence of how that applies in this case. It is conceivable that there may be situations where asudden lack of personnel could cause safety concerns, but there was no indication of this in thecase description. On the contrary, strikes require significant planning that the companyexecutives would have some awareness of

Conference Session

Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

Collection

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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Saturdayprogramming and a summer camp experience.There are two curricular developers for the course: (1) a retired engineer, and (2) a former K-12STEM teacher, both of whom now work to create STEM outreach opportunities for children. Withinput from industry partner representatives and the two program teachers, the curriculum developerscreated a dynamic curricular guidebook that includes engineering content, a variety of activities, andcomprehensive lesson plans that are used by the teachers. All information can be customized to meetspecific school and student needs, within the pace of a traditional nine-week class time frame (shownin Figure 1 below). Specialty materials needed to conduct lessons (e.g., Arduino boards, mousetraps,materials for 3D printing