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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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Paper ID #43141Addressing Societal Challenges through Graduate-level Community-engagedDesign Projects (Traditional Research Paper) ˜ George Mason UniversityDr. Samuel A Acuna, Samuel Acu˜na is a research professor in the Department of Bioengineering at George Mason University. He is a biomechanical engineer interested in rehabilitation engineering and human-centered product design. He develops new technologies to address movement disorders that develop after injury, such as stroke, amputation, or traumatic brain injury. He is particularly interested in solving engineering problems for the hospital &
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- Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; René Marie Rosalie Marius, Lipscomb University; Mark Sedek, Lipscomb University
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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
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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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Paper ID #44281[Traditional Research Paper] Engaging Students in Hands-On Experiencesthrough Neighborhood Revitalization ProjectsMiss Paula Alvarez Pino, University of Alabama, Birmingham Paula Alvarez Pino is the Associate Director of the Sustainable Smart Cities Research Center at University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB). Paula is in charge of monitoring the progress of research, outreach and training activities in the center, as well as to set short and long-term goals to ensure the continuous progress of the SSCRC. Paula collaborates with the City of Birmingham as liaison in several projects related to the built
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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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Paper ID #41379Engagement in Practice: Innovating a Project-Based, Community EngagedCourse for Engineering Students that Fosters Ethical ThinkingProf. Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis Tucker Krone joined the faculty in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. He teaches statistics, ethics, publication writing, communication, and community engaged courses. Tucker emphasizes engineering and statistics as forces for equity and social justice. Tucker Krone’s current passion focuses on integrating community engagement, social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into
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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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towards increasing student sense of belonging. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Engagement in Practice: Engineering Solutions for a Local Organic Egg FarmAbstract This engagement in practice paper summarizes the development and implementation of acollaborative partnership between a local organic egg farm and Western WashingtonUniversity’s Engineering & Design program. The objective is to engage students in a project-based design experience while fostering meaningful community involvement. Over the past 18months, this collaboration gave students the opportunity to apply technical and businessmanagement skills to improve the farm’s economic success. Student teams, in directcollaboration
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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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serves as the Faculty Lead of the Humanitarian Engineering Program at The Ohio State University. In this role, he leads high-impact experiential learning programs, conducts engineering education research, and instructs courses related to Engineering for Sustainable Development. He is passionate about developing engineers’ sociotechnical competency to prepare them to address complex global sustainability challengesDr. Kristen Conroy, The Ohio State University Dr. Kristen Conroy has a PhD in Biological Engineering from Ohio State University. Her main area of focus is sanitation. She has worked with partner organization, UNiTED, to teach courses where engineering students focus on collaborative projects in Kpando, Ghana
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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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applied to two case studies. In theeducationally-focused CE case study, a senior capstone design course in environmentalengineering worked on a project defined by a community partner. The rubric did a good jobrevealing where improvements in the project could have been realized and demonstrating that thenon-profit facilitator was instrumental in engaging the community. In the second case study, acommunity sub-contracted an academic partner to explore residential indoor air quality. Theproject was at a higher level of the rubric for most criteria compared to the educationally-focusedcase study. Use of the rubric at the start of a project will open important conversations, therebycontributing to the community and academic partners more fully meeting
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- George A Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Elizabeth G. Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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and Spring 2023, the issue of redlining was used in two first year civil engineeringcourses to highlight the role of civil engineers in addressing societal issues. In our first semester, firstyear course (CIVE 101 Introduction to Civil Engineering), redlining was addressed as an example of howpolicies affect not only social justice issues but also how and where infrastructure is delivered. Buildingon this introduction to redlining, our second semester first year course (CIVE 102 Geomatics for CivilEngineers) course incorporated work for the Omaha Spatial Justice Project by digitizing georeferencedimages from 1955 to help quantify what was lost in redlined areas of Omaha, Nebraska when USHighway 75 was constructed. Students in both classes
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: Theyparticipants are likely to face in their professional careers, thus explore IBM Cloud Services [2] . Programming interfaces:enhancing their experience and skills in a practical, hands-on They work with Node-RED [3]. Artificial intelligence: Theymanner. engage with IBM’s AI Watson. The Hack-a-Thon not only focuses on technical skills devel-opment but also emphasizes the cultivation of soft skills such ascommunication, teamwork, and time management. By the end ofthe event, participants are expected to present their projects toa panel of industry experts and faculty, demonstrating not onlytheir technical prowess but also their ability to communicatetheir ideas effectively. This
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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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Carle Illinois College of Medicine. His research focuses primarily on engineering design/Bio Design collaboration in transdisciplinary teams. He has used and developed tools to study the alignment of products and services with organizational processes as an organization seeks to address needs and bring new products and services to the market.Dr. Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University Sirena Hargrove-Leak is a Professor of Engineering at Elon University. The mission and commitment of Elon University have led her to explore the scholarship of teaching and learning in engineering. More specifically, her current engineering education interests include entrepreneurial mindsets, user-centered design, project-based
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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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; Urban Design, CU Boulder d. Engineering Management Department, CU Boulder INTRODUCTION PROJECT DESCRIPTION 3 Action Research (AR): CONCLUSION Involves a systematic process of acting, observing, reflecting, and re- PALAR is a valuable framework for engineering
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, this pedagogy often takes a form illustrated by a Modelof Project-Based Community Engagement [4] and has been growing in popularity for capstonedesign courses and other applications [5,6]. Previous findings have shown significant benefits fromcommunity-engaged learning experiences in developing a broad range of skills that are critical forengineers [7], including teamwork and communication [8], becoming self-directed and life-longlearners [9], and developing design skills [10]. However, there have also been calls for additionalresearch on the perspectives of community partners as well as holistic assessments of programs[11].Within this space, Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA) is one of the largest players, with5,600 student participants
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- Anindya Debnath, University of Arkansas; Suman Kumar Mitra, University of Arkansas
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Paper ID #43792Work in Progress: Designing a Community-led Bike Share Program for aSmall U.S. City: Evidence from Fort Smith, ArkansasMr. Anindya Debnath, University of ArkansasDr. Suman Kumar Mitra, University of Arkansas Dr. Suman Kumar Mitra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Prior to join the University of Arkansas, Dr. Mitra worked as an Assistant Project Scientist at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). His primary research interests include travel behavior analysis of special population group
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solutions. ourse OverviewCTherefore, this project seeks to bring community members into a first-year engineering course to establish community engagement as a best practice in engineering design. This course is required of all first-year engineering students at the university, and it uses a design-build-test framework. All sections feature two weekly Lectures, one 2-hour Lab, and one 1-hour Discussion. In most sections, students work to build products or processes as they learn key concepts about a specific engineering discipline (an electrical engineering section might have a project that centers on solar panels; a mechanical engineering course might have a project that centers on rovers). tudents are also asked to
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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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Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Gibson contributes to multiple NAE and cross-Academies initiatives, focusing primarily on the Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering program. Gibson completed her M.S. from the Colorado School of Mines as a member of the inaugural cohort in Humanitarian Engineering and Science (HES). In the HES program, Gibson specialized in Environmental Engineering and conducted research under the NSF-funded ”Responsible Mining, Resilient Communities” project in Colombia. She was named Outstanding Graduate Student in HES. Gibson earned her B.S. in Biological/Agricultural Engineering and minor in Sustainability from the University of Arkansas, along
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provide learning opportunities that aim to developsuch capacities in students [4]. These programs have a range of foci and use a variety of differentterms to name their fields of study, including ‘Humanitarian Engineering,’ ‘Global Engineering,’‘Engineering for Good’, and ‘Engineering for Sustainable Development’ [5]. A significant aimof these programs is the development of global sociotechnical competency, conceptualized tohighlight that the social and technical aspects of an engineering project cannot be separated andmust be considered as such [6]. As a wide range of perspectives are required to address thecomplexities of wicked problems [7], engineers with global sociotechnical competency arepoised to make critical contributions to global
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- Gianina Morales, University of Pittsburgh; Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Emily C. Rainey, University of Pittsburgh
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project-basedengineering course grounded on human-centered design. We focus on the engineering literaciesenacted by a team of focal students who collaborated with a local school for visually impairedchildren to address the problem “How might we increase the accessibility of music to visuallyimpaired people?”. Through the qualitative analysis of students’ interviews and artifacts,recordings, and observational notes from team meetings, we examine the students’ engineeringliteracies learning. Findings show how students used literacies of human-centered engineeringdesign as tools for centering the perspectives of the recipients of the designed products,unseating traditional top-down design approaches. The paper discusses the potential of human
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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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Students and Teachers (ITEST) project,DeSIRE is a school-university-community collaboration (SUCC) with goals to broaden participationin engineering and strengthen the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) identityof minoritized middle school students and teachers in a rural southeastern state. Operating in twomiddle schools since 2020, DeSIRE features a formal, three-part manufacturing engineeringcurriculum that was designed around the commodities of local industry partners in the areas ofbiopharmaceuticals, food process engineering, and energy systems. Through collaboration withcompanies including Pfizer, Cummins, Kaba Ilco Corporation, LS Cable & System, Hitachi, andPoppies International, students were exposed to project
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- Tiffany Smith, NASA; Zachary T. G. Pirtle, NASA
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Paper ID #43419Engineering a Bridge Across Cultures: Insights to Support Dialogue withEngineering Professionals on Ethical and Social Design ConsiderationsMs. Tiffany Smith, NASA Tiffany Smith serves as NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) and Director of the Office of the Chief Engineer’s Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL). Ms. Smith is responsible for managing NASA’s APPEL Knowledge Services learning and development program, providing strategic communications and continuous learning to project management and systems engineering personnel, and overseeing knowledge services across the agency in
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- Emma Sophie Stine, University of Colorado Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado Boulder
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education programs found that engineering educators often attribute engineering project failures to technical, communication, or cultural issues and overlook the oppressive systems that could contribute to a pattern of failures across projects.I nstead, students have expressed frustration with only being shown cases of failure[21]and wanting examples of success stories. HE students have expressed “just wanting to know what to do" when encountering complex ethical and ambiguous questions. Further, without clear answers, they express frustration and disengagement from discussion topics around systematic oppression[5]. Other scholarship has shown studentsdropping out of engineering spaces when
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frequency should these educational contextsbe woven throughout an already overloaded curriculum?Community-engaged service learning has the dual goal of enriching student learning andgenerating value for communities [11] . Students that participate in community-engaged learningoften benefit from a number of additional learning opportunities, including increased criticalthinking and intercultural skills, increased communication skills, ability to engage with a varietyof stakeholders during the design process, identifying unmet user needs, integrating informationfrom many sources to gain insight and assessing and managing risk. Because of the complexitiesof students learning through projects engaged with real-world communities, faculty aresometimes
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- Cindy Hua, Southern Methodist University; Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University
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result in content areas beingtaught in silos. Technical skills are decontextualized [13]. Even when there is a focus onreal-world problem-solving in STEM education practices, what is often missing is the space toground knowledge from the culture of a related community, the place of the problem, or thepeople who seek to solve it [7]. The authors of this study aim to understand and reflect on thesenotions central to community-based learning (CBL) practices within a STEM classroom.This case study was part of a broader educational project developed to integrate CBL as alearning context for STEM or STEM-adjacent classrooms, leveraging the contexts of localenvironmental injustices and community infrastructure inequities. To authentically engage inreal
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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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, and has been honored practice advising undergraduate EPICS service-learning teams. Having community-oriented discussions at Purdue, working with human-centered design in her own research, and mentoring student teams inspirited her drive to center community member and partner voices within academic discussions. She is excited to continue learning from leaders in EPICS and partnering institutions while applying to industry and academic positions.Sukrati Gautam, Purdue University I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Computational Environmental Technology at Purdue University. I am experienced Teaching Assistant at Engineering Projects in Community Services (EPICS). I am exploring human decision making behavior using ML
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- Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University ; Joey Valle, Purdue University
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employees involved in a construction project,” [20]. In 1976 NSPE funded adecertification drive for engineers employed by the Leeds & Northrop Company. 1980 NSPEweighed in as a ‘friend of the court’ in the US Supreme Court case regarding Yeshiva University,which did not have an engineering faculty, to support the notion that teaching and professionalstaff had sufficient supervisory authority to bar them from unionizing. The Supreme Courtdecided in favor of this position, with the far-reaching effect of barring the faculty at all USprivate higher education institutions from unionizing.It is within this historical context that we analyze NSPE’s use of the codes of ethics to furthertheir anti-union actions and the ideology of business