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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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Community Engagement Division

. Page 24.293.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Community Engagement in the Developing WorldIntroductionBaylor University has a long standing program doing service projects in the developing world.Our engineering program has been involved with this since 2005.We have done projects in Kenya, Rwanda, Honduras, and Haiti. In each of the countries ourengagement with the local community in the area has been different. The level of engagementhas had a significant impact upon the sustainability of the projects. Our model for how best todo this engagement has changed as we have learned from experience.We have learned that for our projects to be sustainable there needs first to be a

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut (Beirut); Mohamad K. Naja

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Community Engagement Division

the cataclysmic effectsof such disaster, effective mitigation and response strategies relying on government resources,community engagement and volunteering programs are essential. The objective of this study is toassess the willingness of engineering college students to serve as volunteers in earthquakevolunteer programs initiated and led by universities and to determine their motives behind suchengagement. Lebanese senior and graduate engineering students (n = 332) were surveyed. Thefindings revealed a strong tendency of Lebanese engineering students to participate in suchvolunteer programs, and that learning and altruistic factors are the leading predictors behindparticipants’ motivation. This study emphasizes the role of universities and

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Swan, Tufts University; Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; Timothy Henry Hellickson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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Community Engagement Division

Education, 2014 Engineering Pathways Study: Lessons Learned in Its Development and ImplementationAbstractThe Engineering Pathways Study focused on measuring how desired attributes of futureengineers are impacted by a student’s involvement in service or community engagement (CE)efforts and how these attributes develop over the time of a students’ undergraduate education.The three-year project consists of a sequential, but staggered, study of engineering students;primarily from four institutions. Cohorts were developed based on students’ level ofinvolvement in curricular and extracurricular service-based activities; i.e., ranked from none tohigh. The project has used various quantitative and qualitative

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura M. Patterson, University of British Columbia

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Community Engagement Division

Progress] Community Engagement in a First-Year Engineering Communication Course: Increasing Student Numbers from Handfuls to Hundreds.AbstractEngaging first-year engineering students in their mandatory, first-term, communication coursecan be a challenge when some may not yet understand how these communication skills will beused in their day-to-day professional interactions. However, adding a real client with real needswhere the students’ work can have real impact adds immediacy and interest. To those ends, acommunity service learning team proposal project was created in 2011 for 60 students of a firstterm, first-year engineering writing course, which is a part of a common first-year engineeringcurriculum. In this

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Victoria Louise Graf; Shawna Leigh Draxton, WISH Charter

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Community Engagement Division

. Page 24.1119.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Student Perceptions of Design Projects That Involve Developing Assistive Devices for Elementary School Children with DisabilitiesAbstractOne of the major goals of the engineering profession is to improve the human condition. It istherefore important for engineering educators to introduce the idea of public service so thatstudents can recognize the potential impact their profession can have on society. One uniqueapproach to engaging engineering students in service-based learning involves the design anddevelopment of assistive devices for persons with disabilities. Some previous papers specificallydiscuss incorporating design projects

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Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut (Beirut)

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Community Engagement Division

Lebaneseengineering institutions and an active engagement of the engineering community in planning andpreparing for future earthquakes. Senior students attending engineering colleges in Lebanon(n=378) were surveyed to: assess their awareness and preparedness to earthquakes, to ascertainwhether there is a link among their awareness and preparedness, and to determine howengineering educational programs have affected their current awareness and preparedness.Although the findings indicate satisfactory seismic risk awareness across the majority ofparticipants, a poor level of earthquake preparedness was revealed. The role of engineeringinstitutions and organizations has insignificant influence on both awareness and preparedness ofparticipants. This article calls

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerardo J. Pinzon PE, Texas A&M International University; Jaime Rene Huerta

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Community Engagement Division

Page 24.817.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Introduction to STEM Fields through Robotics: A Synergetic Learning Experience for Students and Their ParentsAbstract This work demonstrates the success of an initiative to promote Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in 19 school districts that are predominantly Hispanic andhave high numbers of students who come from low income households. An innovative methodof community involvement as part of the program’s Community Engagement strand, thisprogram provided a unique opportunity for both students and parents while developing STEMawareness. Through a synergetic summer learning experience, students and parents

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindsey A Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

should undertake community engagement. I will nowdiscuss each program’s philosophy of how engineers should undertake community engagement.The Design for Extreme Affordability course at Stanford University uses design thinking todevelop products and services for people making less than $4/day.3 Students work in teamssupervised by different businesses already operating in target communities. In addition todeveloping a working prototype, student teams author business plans to strategize how to serve alarge customer base. Several projects focus on increasing the incomes of smallholder farmers orproviding assorted low-cost health care products suited to rural environments. Philosophically,the Design for Extreme Affordability course conceives poverty

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Kubicki, The Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership; Laura Lynn Lynch, Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership; Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #9309Bringing Healthcare to Rural Ghana: The Impact on EngineerinANDREA KUBICKI, The Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership As a senior pre-medicine student at Michigan Technological University, I traveled to Ghana this summer through the Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership. Before traveling, I worked with a team from the International Business Venture Enterprise and engineering senior design team to create a mobile health clinic. While in Ghana, my team introduced the mobile health clinic and went into the field to collect data on the use of the vehicle and ideas for improvement in

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carlos German Montoya Rodriguez, Ohio State University; Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, The Ohio State University; Roger Dzwonczyk, The Ohio State University; John A Merrill, Ohio State University; Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University; Miriam Cater, Ohio State University

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International Service-Learning Engineering ProjectsAbstractThere is a strong interest in the contemporary generation of engineering students to accomplishproject work that will give them the possibility to improve the lives of people in developingregions of the world. Engineering service-learning focuses on identifying the necessities of acommunity and developing solutions based on the community’s existing limitations andconstraints. Service-learning projects are an opportunity for students to learn about whytechnology is essential to society and how it impacts the people, culture and environment;service-learning education helps enhance important skills such as communication and teamwork.Since 2005, the College of Engineering

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

organizations may have relative to partner motivations. Based on this research theauthors suggest that engineering programs increase emphasis on learning about the communityorganization within their stated learning objectives, since it is deemed important by thecommunity partners and critical for effective relationship building and joint project work.IntroductionEngineering community engagement can be seen as part of a wider movement across academiato create both curricular and extracurricular experiences where students have opportunities toserve local and/or global stakeholders. Such programs allow students to practice engineeringproblem solving in context while being a part of a larger community and providing service toothers, thereby helping to

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

number of community engagement efforts increase, it is important to understand theimpact of these experiences to inform best practices and to ensure that the efforts are positivelybenefitting all of the stakeholders. Although our program, EPICS, is well-established and hasintentionally focused on long-term partnerships, research suggests that immersive experiencescan help develop more comprehensive ways of understanding of the community partners. Thispast summer, our service-learning design program offered a local immersive design experienceto a group of 13 students from a variety of majors in a camp for children with disabilities. Thispaper describes the immersive experience and examines its impact on student learning throughanalyses of the

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiago R. Forin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

particular way ofinterpreting, which prevents further reflection. Boud states that if learner experiences feelings 5that prevent further reflection, then the learner must find some way to regain flexibility (p. 29).A common detraction from using reflective practices in engineering is that the students willfocus too much on the emotional aspect of the project, such as complaining about the amountof work to be done or the dysfunction of the team. To help avoid this issue, reflective promptscan be worded to address discoveries and anticipations. This would allow the analysis to focuson how the projects and student work would be impacted by new information

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SD Technical Session: Tricks of the Trade

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gurlovleen K. Rathore, Texas A&M University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Student

with the recent decline in ASEE professionalmembership (7% decline since 2007) that ASEE and its divisions consider new ways to engagethe growing population of ASEE student members in an effort to encourage these students topersist as professional members. The following paper will not provide evidence that positiveexperiences for students will equate to continued membership beyond their student membership.Instead, it will suggest ways to meet student professional development needs as one mechanismto increase engagement of the student members of ASEE. We believe these efforts couldultimately have a positive impact on retaining student members as professional members

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill B. Elmore, Mississippi State University

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #9871Integrating Community Engagement, Freshman Chemical Engineering, andan AIChE Student ChapterDr. Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University Bill B. Elmore currently holds the Hunter Henry Chair and Associate Directorship in the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. In his twenty-fourth year of engineering education, Bill focuses on project-based learning at all levels of the undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum and undergraduate research in energy and micro-scale reactor studies

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Scott Bates, University of Utah; Karen J. Krapcho, University of Utah; Crystal Orantes, University of Utah

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Community Engagement Division

found that students are more likely to beretained and graduate if they have a supportive peer group, social involvement, a good attitudetoward engineering, and pre-college analytical skills1-4. The Engineering Ambassador Programaims to provide retention and more engineering graduates through all of these means. It does soby creating a community of engineering students who work together to recruit high schoolstudents to the field of engineering by providing them with awareness of engineeringopportunities, academic advice, and analytical skills through hands-on activities. This programalso benefits the ambassadors as it engages them in a learning community experience, which isknown to provide their participants with practical competence, personal

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aimee S. Navickis-Brasch, University of Idaho, Moscow; Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho, CDA; Fritz Fiedler, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jillian Rae Cadwell, University of Idaho; Laura Laumatia, Coeur d'Alene Tribe; Kathy C. Haynie, Haynie Research and Evaluation; Christine Meyer, Coeur d’Alene Tribe Department of Education

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Community Engagement Division

students1-2. In an effort to increase the number of American Indians in technical andleadership positions, local tribal communities are pursuing opportunities for their youth toconnect with STEM education that is relevant to their community and honors the Tribe's values.Community engagement and support for education is a recommended approach to inspire andincrease academic achievement in American Indian students3-5. This approach is also critical tovalidate theoretical research, which recommends culturally relevant curriculum and pedagogiesas a method for making STEM education more accessible to American Indian students however;empirical research on these practices is missing6-7. A challenge with validation is that Tribalcommunities generally

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University

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Community Engagement Division

, each withdifferent consequences for the students, the faculty, and the community partners. Throughnarratives of project partners, faculty and students, we contrast the experiences of two types ofCE projects and their impact on participants. From this two-year case study involving 88freshmen, 16 faculty members and 15 community partners, we conclude that successful CElearning requires that all participants have an awareness of the type of CE project that isintended. This paper implies that appropriate choices in the initial phases of creating thecommunity-engaged collaboration are critical to a result that satisfies the participants.Background and motivationCommunity-engaged learning is often recognized as a high-impact practice in higher

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Greg Rulifson P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Community Engagement Division

Service-Learning outcomesDiscussion:Based on the analysis of the interviews from a representative sample of faculty from allengineering departments, the findings point to the fact that service-learning has been successfullyintegrated and widely accepted in the College of Engineering. The view of having anopportunity to work with people in the community was consistent among the faculty. Thisdemonstrates that service-learning has, in fact, had a positive affective impact on the faculty. Itillustrates that engineering faculty members value the connection it makes with members of thecommunities in which students engage in learning. By virtue of having the opportunity tointeract with numerous partners outside of the university, it has enabled faculty

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cathy Leslie P.E., Engineers Without Borders - USA

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Community Engagement Division

population is important to the future of the engineering field and seek tounderstand if EWB-USA helps contribute to this by including members with differentpersonality profiles.In a study of the impacts due to PBSL, Bielefeldt et al.14 included EWB-USA as an extra-curricular PBSL. Their review of PBSL programs notes that, “It has not yet been fullydetermined what differences exist in those that self-elect to participate in PBSL. But it isprobable that these students start at a different level of self awareness and possess differentattitudes" (p.5). The authors go on to include community service attitudes as a specific exampleof attitudes that may differ for self-elected PBSL students. Therefore, we have included ameasure of such attitudes in our

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Community Engagement Division

instructors and students, reviews of course documents,contextualization within the literature on design, and our own reflections on lived experiencesworking with design students. In diverse institutional and course settings, each of the authorshas over 10 years of experience working with engineering design students.II. Engineering design strategiesIn each of the design types above, assuming community engagement contexts, what criteriaare in—and not in—the (implicit or explicit) decision matrices students typically are taught touse when weighing different design alternatives? That is, how does each regard“optimization”—what is being optimized, why, and for whose benefit? What does eachapproach to design emphasize, de-emphasize, and altogether omit?A

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Joann M. Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Jeffrey Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Tyrone Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Ricardo Maldonado; Cristina Rivera-Vélez, GREAT IDEA; Davis Chacon-Hurtado, University of Connecticut; Pablo Jose Acevedo, UPRM

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Community Engagement Division

research projects combine most research interests and is based in the concept of appropriate technology. The project title is ”Graduate Research and Education for Appropriate Technology: Inspiring Direct Engagement and Agency (GREAT IDEA)” and it is funded by the NSF (http://greatidea.uprm.edu/).Joann M Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Joann M. Rodriguez is currently a second year graduate student in Environmental Engineering at the Uni- versity of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). Her research is focused on the biological mechanisms in the biosand filter technology. Previously, in 2012, she completed a Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering and a certificate in Environmental Engineering at the UPRM

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Developing the Design Skillset

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

through a switch (e.g., puff and sip or joystick). The students completedone week on campus, then traveled to the camp for children with disabilities for a week. Duringthis week, the students ate meals and attended various activities with the campers and met withvarious stakeholders. They also involved the campers in the design of the tree house. After Page 24.690.2spending a week at camp, the students returned to campus to continue work on the designs.This paper briefly describes the immersive learning experience and examines the impact that animmersive community engagement experience has had on student learning of design, addressingthe research

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SD Technical Session: Tricks of the Trade

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Kathryn Ann Mobrand, University of Washington; Drew Paine, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington

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Student

education community about the most effectiveways for authors to craft implications for action statements in order to engage readers andmotivate action. In this paper, we introduce a procedure that we developed to do just that: helpreaders quickly identify, and critically engage with, statements researchers make about theimplications of their work and, at the same time, encourage scholars to be more intentional aboutthe ways in which they make visible the implications of their own research.Core to our procedure is an effort to operationalize what counts as an “implication for action” informal research publications. Heuristically, we focus on the idea that an implication for actionsentence is a sentence that promotes a particular action being done

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SD Technical Session: Tricks of the Trade

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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joshua jude heeg; Kyle Flenar, University of Cincinnati; Jordan Alexander Ross; Taylor Okel, University of Cincinnati; Tejas Abhijit Deshpande, University of Cincinnati; Gregory Warren Bucks, University of Cincinnati; Kathleen A. Ossman, University of Cincinnati

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Student

sections, feedback from the teaching assistants and performance data fromstudent assignments are analyzed to assess the effectiveness of each method. Some suggestionsfor training TAs who teach in similar classes are also offered. Page 24.455.4Data CollectionThe data presented in the following sections includes the scores on course assignments and finalcourse grades for several class sections of Engineering Models I offered in the Fall 2013semester. The students in the experimental groups (one group per method) consisted of thosewho were directly impacted by the TAs involved in this study. There were 9 students for method1, 7 students for method 2

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Tricks of the Trade

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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M.D. B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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New Engineering Educators

Paper ID #10921Improving Student Engagement in Online CoursesDr. MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi Dr. Sarder is an associate professor and program coordinator of the industrial engineering technology program at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). He is also an assistant director of the center for logistics, trade and transportation. At the USM, he revamped his program by developing as many as fourteen new courses, implementing hands on experience in courses, and delivering online courses for distant students. Dr. Sarder is very active in engineering and technology education research. He has

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FPD 3: Retention

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Warren Bucks, University of Cincinnati; Kathleen A. Ossman, University of Cincinnati; Jeff Kastner, University of Cincinnati; F. James Boerio, University of Cincinnati; Joni A. Torsella, University of Cincinnati

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First-Year Programs

electrical energy from the reaction of hydrogenand oxygen. Each of the experiments lasts for two weeks.In Engineering Foundations, students are also introduced to a number of professional skills, suchas technical writing, communication, engineering ethics, and the engineering design process.Technical writing is covered by requiring the students to prepare laboratory reports for each ofthe four hands-on experiments. Communication is emphasized through a group presentation thatrequires the students to research one of the fourteen Grand Challenges9 identified by the NationalAcademy of Engineers and to present their findings to the class. Ethics is covered during alecture that uses practical examples and role playing to emphasize the challenges in

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Eli M. Silk, University of Michigan; Meisha Nicole Berg, Iowa State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

’ cognitive styles. Our aim is to createguidelines and methods that will help engineers increase that flexibility by learning how todeliberately engage in ideation using different approaches. The project uses experimental studieswith pre-engineering and engineering students, at various stages in their educational programs,testing each factor’s impact on their approaches to solving design problems.In this paper, we focus on the development of a sustainable foundation for our investigations ofthe factors impacting ideation flexibility. We present our basis and vision for this foundation, andillustrate some of our preliminary findings through case studies.What is ideation flexibility and why is it important in engineering?Concept generation, or ideation

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Impacts on K-12 Student Identity, Career Choice, and Perceptions of Engineers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly A.S. Howard, Boston University; Jacob William Diestelmann, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Tsu-Lun Huang; Lauren E. Aneskavich; Kevin Cheng; Benjamin Bryan Crary, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jean DeMerit, UW–Madison; Tam Mayeshiba, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Amy K. Schiebel, Edgewood College; Susan C. Hagness, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Steven M. Cramer P.E., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy E. Wendt, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

toevaluate whether students’ self-reported social cognitive beliefs towards math and sciencediffered by membership in either the pilot curriculum or a comparison group. This study is partof a larger endeavor to understand the impact that engaging with the engineering-basedcurriculum has on student beliefs about, exploration of, and interest in STEM-relatedoccupations generally, and engineering-related occupations specifically. This paper will focus onsocial cognitive outcomes only, based on surveys completed by participating and comparisonstudent groups before and after instruction using the pilot curriculum during the 2012-13academic year.Theoretical & Empirical FoundationsEmerging from the application of Bandura’s social cognitive theory5,6 to

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FPD 2: Building Community

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha; Kody Varahramyan, IUPUI

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First-Year Programs

(Introduction to Engineering, Introduction toEngineering Profession, and Fundamentals of Speech Communication). TLC faculty membersclosely worked with each other to coordinate teaching and learning efforts that reflect the goalsof the developed nanotechnology track.This paper presents the components of the developed and implemented TLC program includingdetails of the courses and assessment data, showing the impact on freshman engineering studentsin nanotechnology education. Comparative assessment data show, 20% higher freshmanretention in the TLC cohort than the traditional group, which highlights the impact of the TLCprogram on freshman engineering students in nanotechnology education. Data also shows thatthe TLC (three courses) has guided over 75% of