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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

activities. They identify learningneeds, plan and implement the activity or curriculum, assess the learning outcomes, and makedecisions about how and to whom outcomes are reported, whereas the organization providessupport when needed or invited. Full community control demonstrates a great degree of equityand power sharing, with the community as the authority.Fourth, the community has agency over the outcomes, while acknowledging that educationaloutcomes are influenced by social, economic and structural factors. Thus, mature projectsinclude interventions also address social, political or economic barriers to participation. In suchprojects, community members collect and control their own data, and their own narrative, andthe data are used in ways that

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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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

. The stories shared in the classroom are impactful. Depending on the narrative, aparticular story could convey a message that people of color do not belong in the engineeringfield. In addition, such narratives may create stereotypes that educators continue to perpetuate.WOCSEC provided a safe place for female engineers of color to act as storytellers as they sharedtheir experiences while in college and in their careers. Their stories were impactful and provideda space for counter-narratives that were rich with authentic discussions regarding the realities ofmatriculating as a female of color in engineering.University InitiativeIn 2018, the University of Cincinnati adopted a strategic plan with three major platforms:academic excellence, urban

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

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