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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

inquiry tool will be administered tocamp participants throughout high school to measure their interest in engineering, intent to majorin STEM and overall college readiness. In this paper we will describe how the program wasimplemented, the experience of the participants and share the data from the pre-post survey.Keywords: pre-college, gender, race/ethnicity, engineeringIntroductionCreating equitable access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)education and career opportunities should begin at a pre-college level in order to reduce gendergaps and racial/ethnic disparities. The United States government has invested in STEMdisciplines to address the low presence of URMs (African Americans, Hispanics, and NativeAmericans

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

to electricity 2. Energy generation, transmission, and distribution 3. Energy and electric circuits 4. Energy efficiency 5. Introduction to renewable energy 6. Fundamentals of Solar Electric Circuits 7. Economics of Renewable Energy & Career Path in Renewable Energy 8. Social, Environmental, and Political considerations for Renewable Energy SystemsSeveral materials have been sent to the students including: an electric circuits kit, solar cells, adigital multimeter, energy-efficient bulbs, and an energy monitoring device. The contentpresented during the workshops followed the best practices for energy education includingcontent from the US Energy Information Administration[13], US Department of Energy[14], andthe National

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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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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

resource was through a volunteer program that was also created within SCU. TheSociety of Women Engineers (SWE) chapter had recently created the cleverly named SWE++program where members of SWE teach programming to local 7th grade girls who had notpreviously been exposed to computers or the world of programming. This outreach puts femalecollege students in teaching positions in front of their younger counterparts. This works to shiftimplicit gendered stereotypes that can hinder a pathway to a STEM-related career [6]. SWE++transitioned to online in Spring 2020 and hosted weekly Zoom sessions. Students from theSTEM Outreach class supported these SWE++ lessons by joining the virtual sessions and goinginto Zoom breakout rooms to work with smaller

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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

Academy of Educa- tion / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions, specifically on design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Mrs. Estike Kokovay Gutierrez American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Tool for Informing Community-Engaged ProjectsAbstractWhile research suggests that community-engaged projects can be particularly effective, suchwork is notoriously time consuming and not scalable. The