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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

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Marissa H. Forbes, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego

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we hoped to develop in thestudents. However, the reflections also highlighted challenges and shortcomings of our currentmodel. For this work-in-progress paper, we share our salient findings from each theme, as wellas instructor observations and lessons-learned from this community project capstone model.IntroductionCapstone design is a critical culminating experience in the academic trajectory of allundergraduate engineering students. At the University of San Diego (USD) senior engineeringstudents across three disciplinary majors (electrical, integrated, and mechanical engineering)collaborate on transdisciplinary teams during their year-long capstone design course experience.Teams work on traditional industry-sponsored projects

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roneisha Wynette Worthy, Kennesaw State University; Amy Borello Gruss, Kennesaw State University

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research team to acquire hands-on models that professional studentorganizations could use as a tool to increase engagement. This factor was also studied toascertain any insights into how the models enhanced the experiences of the event. Collegestudents wrote reflections after their interactions. This paper shares how community-engagedactivities not only change attitudes and outreach self-efficacy in all students but also might becritical in self-efficacy and motivation for minority women engineering students.I. IntroductionKennesaw State University (KSU) is thriving with nearly 43,000 students on two metro Atlanta,Georgia campuses. The adoption of strategies like providing incentives, such as scholarships andfinancial aid, for minority

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ezequiel Aleman, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Ethan Paul Ruchotzke; Michael Brown, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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player choice determines the outcome of the game. Our learning outcomes focused on increasing student awareness and interest in computer sciencecareers, fostering moral and inter-personal development by providing students an opportunity to think aboutpurpose and their role in social change, and encouraging students to use games to explore place-basedchallenges in their own lives.Learning Outcomes and Conceptual Framework The conceptual framework links youth development and foundational learning outcomes incomputer science and computational thinking through the program activities. As all of our participants are‘middle school aged’, and we expect that they would be in the process of exploring potential identities,reflecting on

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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plan to carry out study abroad opportunities, having community partners in eachlocation also allows for justification for travel for students in both the U.S. and India.Actionable changes for leveraging strengths - within or between teams, or in curricula:In addition to questioning short-term interactions and dynamics, and with the intent of challengingunjust systems toward “critical service learning,” [11] it may be helpful to establish social justiceand global relationship-based reflections [6], [7] toward systemic change. It is well establishedthat students cultivate empathy through partner interaction in service-learning projects, which isassessed by regular reflections [12]. Currently, students on the U.S. team are asked to reflect

Conference Session

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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achievingcommunity engagement long-term goals. To use TOC, the long-term change needs to beidentified and the conditions necessary to achieve the change should be established. The TOCapproach has been used in a wide range of CBR projects, including those focused on healthpromotion and environmental sustainability. However, the difficulty of measuring intangibleoutcomes and the power dynamics between university and community partners can make theevaluation of community engagement challenging (Stoecker et al., 2010).An effective community-university partnership positively impacts students and CBR projectquality. Students involved in CBR engage in active learning. They engage in some activity thatforces them to reflect and think about what they are doing

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 5 - Nurturing Well-Being and Promoting Awareness

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gianina Morales, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Mauricio Reyes Gallardo, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

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be defined as: A credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs and reflects on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility [10, p. 222].Although primarily associated with disaster recovery, several examples show the potentialities ofservice learning methodology in disaster education [11]–[13].Guided by the service learning methodology, we designed a course in which students graduallymove from players to facilitators of the DIG. The course starts with the theoretical and empiricalaspects of

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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

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame

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dispositional changes in STEM self-efficacy and identity.Students completed surveys and reflections at multiple points throughout their internship,including a retrospective pre/post survey capturing dispositional shifts during the experience.The results of the internship experience on student intern participants educational andprofessional plans at the 3 sites are evaluated in this paper. Results show significant gains onitems related to professional discernment (desire to work in a STEM field, use technical skills,on open ended problems for the betterment of society) for participants at all sites. Additionally,there are differences by gender.OverviewBeginning in 2015, the College of Engineering researchers and staff at UNIVERSITYdeveloped, piloted

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Community Engagement Division 5 - Nurturing Well-Being and Promoting Awareness

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University

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the department showing care for the wellness of its students even if theydid not attend the events. A linear trend emerged across the academic year amongst thestudents with the senior cohort engaging the most (likely because the organizer was aninstructor of senior design) and the first-year cohort engaging the least. The year of WellnessWednesday events impacted 28% of the engineering student population and 41% of theengineering faculty and staff population. These percentages correlate to a student, faculty, orstaff member attending at least one Wellness Wednesday event. Repeat attendance of senior,junior, and sophomore students and faculty occurred but is not reflected in these percentages.When polled between semesters about the wellness

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; Amelia Elizabeth Cook, Lipscomb University; Lewis Ngwenya, Lipscomb University; Hannah Grace Duke, Lipscomb University

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engineering as a professional wayof being [9] whereas Huff et al. discusses the importance of identity development in early careerengineers [10]. Initial findings from the open-ended questions from the questionnaire fromthematic analysis of the responses are analyzed fully in [2].Though not necessarily foundational to this work, the authors find inspiration from three otherstudies with similar objectives. First, Cech discusses an idea that beliefs of professional work canimpact intra-profession activities in the workplace [11]. Cech reflects that the engineeringideology of technical/social dualism may have a role in the gender wage gap in the field. Inrelation to this study, could involvement in HEPs cause students to reconsider their

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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to those published on the TeachEngineering Digital Library(https://www.teachengineering.org/). One of the modules – Surface Tension in Water has beenpresented twice to different community partners. Evidence of engagement in our service-learningactivities can be found on our website (https://publish.illinois.edu/service-learning/).As we reflected on the experience of expanding our service-learning effort, one importantstakeholder that has been absent so far is K–12 educators. Although we have partnered with severallocal schools, direct contact has always been with the administrators. In order to produce STEMmodules that fit the needs of K–12 students in their classrooms, we believe it is of paramountimportance to

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sydney Donohue, University of New Mexico; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico

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ultimately help facilitate more effective interactions betweenacademia and community.One major limitation is evident within the body of outreach literature. The vast majority ofoutreach literature has historically addressed outreach in a top-down manner where academia isdelivering knowledge in a one-way exchange to recipients. Relatively recently, the research hasbeen reflecting the validity of the knowledge and expertise non-academic communities alreadyhold and that outreach should be a two-way exchange of knowledge. [8], [9]Additionally, most outreach studies focus on outcomes surrounding the recipients of outreachevents. [10] We aim to focus on the other side of outreach: those who participate in facilitatingthe outreach. This will act as a first

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ping-Chuan Wang, State University of New York, New Paltz; Wenyen Huang, State University of New York, New Paltz; Graham Werner, State University of New York, New Paltz ; Darren Wang, Stony Brook University ; James M. Amodio, John Jay High School, Wappingers Central School District

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robotics competition. To execute, thementors engaged in alternating weekly activities throughout the semesters, comprising (1)internal development meetings where they gathered to brainstorm on subjects that include basictechnical skills (CAD, 3D-printing, microcontroller, coding), additional topics relevant to thecompetition (engineering notebook, fundraising, outreach), as well as to reflect on the lessonslearned from the previous workshop at the high school, and (2) workshop series where theyvisited the high school robotics club to deliver the workshops. At the end of the firstimplementation, the outcome of soft skill development for the mentors was evaluated throughsurveys and interviews. Among the ten soft skills assessed, four were identified

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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

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Marian K. Zaki, Houston Christian University

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including proper custom software solutions.This paper describes the approaches taken by the Computer Science program at HoustonChristian University to engage the students with Project Based Service Learning throughpartnerships with Crime Stoppers of Houston. The paper will present the details of how thiscollaboration started, the challenges encountered, the outcomes, and the lessons learned. Thepaper will also reflect on the general incentives and challenges that are associated with ProjectBased Service Learning.IntroductionOver the years universities have been looking for creative ways to create more engaging STEMprograms to increase admissions into these programs, increase diversity, retention, and graduationrates, and produce graduates who are

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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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these participants. We will also enhanceour recruiting strategies and assess what prevents students from volunteering. We will continueto expand our data size and we will continue to collaborate with more local community partnersand student organizations within Wright College to organize volunteering opportunities. Withmore activities and larger data size, we will compare the impact of all terms on the STEMidentity and STEM efficacy of volunteers.V. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.DUE-1832553. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience

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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

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Kristen M. Conroy, The Ohio State University; Patrick Sours, The Ohio State University; Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University; Rachel Marie Tuttle

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Humanitarian Engineering CourseDesignAn introductory Humanitarian Engineering course was developed and incorporated into theminor. This course focuses on contextualizing skills [9], empathy building, and fostering studentself-awareness regarding their positionality in colonial contexts and power dynamics as it relatesto community-engaged design work [12], [13].The initial course covered content on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals,global lifestyles and assumption making, global natural resource and technology distributions,colonization, valuing ways of knowing, traditional ecological knowledge, participatorydevelopment practices, career paths in HE, social impact companies, supply chainconsiderations, reflection techniques, and several

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Cooke, University of Connecticut; Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, University of Connecticut; Todd Campbell, University of Connecticut; Chester Arnold; Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut; Byung-Yeol Park, University of Connecticut; Peter C. Diplock

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through avariety of roles and organizations. By using multiple survey items in our analysis, we are able tooffer a more sophisticated map that better reflects the complex array of nodes through whichvaluable resources like E-Corps become accessible to communities. Then, our interpretation ofqualitative items informed on the specific ways the flow of information worked through thenetworks. This offers an informed point of departure for other, more sophisticated analyses tomap the complex array through which people come to take part in consequential resources,including environmental remediation programming available through Project Local. A limitation on interpretation, the composition of the sample does not necessarily meanthat the

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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

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in understanding potentially unaddressed historical and contemporary flooding issues, andprovide potential solutions for mitigation efforts to solve problems. It was necessary tophysically travel to these locations to ensure participation. For more details on the study, pleasereview the Appendix.Student post-assessment activitiesApproximately six months after the completion of the flood study, the students were invited toparticipate in post-assessment activities. These activities were conducted between mid-Octoberand mid-November 2022. Two instruments were distributed to the students. First, an anonymoussurvey in Qualtrics consisting of a series of 25 questions that reflected on the overall studentexperience such as hiring, training, and the