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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Paula Davis Lampley Esq., University of Cincinnati; Krizia Leonela Cabrera-Toro, University of Cincinnati

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Pacific Islanders) in STEM fields and the STEM workforce [1]. STEM ispredominantly white, with more than 50% enrollment in post-secondary institutions conferringundergraduate and graduate degrees as of 2014 compared other an ethnic and racial groupcombined [1][2][3]. Lower representation can be contributed to numerous factors, including alack of institutional commitment, a lack of representation throughout students’ upbringing,inappropriate cultural recruitment/outreach efforts, educational discrepancies throughout PK-12,and social expectations among others [4]. In addition, it is observed that females pursue STEM ata lower rate than males, especially females of color, and it is disproportionate in engineeringfields [1]. For the United States to

Conference Session

Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

addition to thestudents in the program, family members were invited to participate in the activities so that itbecame more of a family affair than simply a student-only program. Twelve students participatedin the program that was remotely delivered over a period of two months. A pre-program survey ofthe participants was performed before the start of the program and a post-program survey wasconducted after the program. Additional details of the program, the surveys, and the measuredlearning outcomes will be presented in this paper along with plans for program expansion.IntroductionPhiladelphia has the highest poverty rate among the largest 10 cities in the country[1]. Reflectiveof the high poverty rate, Philadelphia residents are more likely than

Conference Session

Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bob Schaffer, Mission College

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

community, (iii) to promote STEM to under-served communities close to SCU. In additionto the ELSJ learning objectives, this course was designed with the hope that students would also:• Develop educational materials and hands-on STEM activities as a service to the community• Develop project/time management, organizational, and leadership skills.• Develop effective listening/collaboration skills while working with community partners.• Recognize and understand ethical responsibilities of engineers.In the lecture component of the class, students are introduced to concepts that can help themwhen performing their outreach. Specifically, there is a nine-lecture sequence where thefollowing material is discussed:Lecture 1: Introductions, Course

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Camille Velarde, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Estike Kokovay Gutierrez

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

learning curve for an organizationseeking to start such work is steep. Additionally, it is important to evaluate to what extent worktypified as community engaged work actually creates a participatory space of community-centered perspectives regarding roles, interests, worldviews, actions and outcomes. To this end,we developed a formative assessment tool using previously identified domains [1]. This tool,created in partnership between a university and an outreach group affiliated with the Air Force,allows organizations to evaluate existing projects and explore ways to develop on a path towardstrue community-engagement. The outreach group in this case undertakes significant STEMeducation within New Mexico, but in the past, a majority of the work has