Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

can lead to lasting, socially just change ineducational access and economic outcomes for historically marginalized communities. This workinvolves praxis—confronting oppression and injustice through learning, action, and repeatedreflection on the ways actions reverberate into society [11]. Anti-oppressive practices stem fromself-reflexivity and introspection that aims to align actions with the values and ethics of thework.Community engaged work enlists those who are most affected by a community issue. This canbe in collaboration or partnership with others who have particular skills or resources with thegoal of devising strategies to resolve it. Community engaged work adds to or replacesprogramming done on community members with programs done

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bob Schaffer, Mission College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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