SchoolDistrict actually visit the schools (Washington Elementary or Gardner Academy) with the BUGCoordinator. This exercise is meant to illuminate project parameters defined by the actual spaceand aid in determining critical customers for their project. For the BUG hub schools, projectscompleted are often aimed for K-5 children and can be used as part of curriculum for theteachers to enrich learning. This activity, along with reflective assessments geared towardunderstanding the social and civic realities of the targeted community, help the student designtoward community needs. By the end of the term, students will have designed and built a projectconforming to project specifications determined through this community partner/studentcollaboration, which
; suggestions to meet these obligations included initiatives such as cooperation withcommunity-based organizations that include learning opportunities for students. Martin et al. [3]point out that often societal concerns are too large to be solved by single entities, anduniversity/community partnerships increase the likely impact of any endeavors. Communityengagement may have impact beyond the local community level through state, regional, andinternational scales, but the grounding of all engagement and the core to creating any sustainableimpact is creating a foundation at the local community level [4].Numerous models for campus engagement in the community exist ranging from K-12 outreachin classrooms, student volunteerism, service provisions, faculty
Paper ID #27296Engagement in Practice: Some Do’s and Don’ts in Partnership Developmentfor a Successful Humanitarian Engineering Project.Shiyin Lim, Santa Clara UniversitySydney Thompson, Santa Clara University I am a senior mechanical engineering student at Santa Clara University, with a passion for implementing social justice through engineering.Dr. Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University Tonya Nilsson is a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering at Santa Clara University (SCU), where she regularly facilitates pedagogical training for other faculty. Prior to joining SCU, Tonya was an Associate Professor at CSU
Education, 2021 Beyond the Social License to Operate: Training Socially Responsible Engineers to Contend with Corporate Frameworks for Community EngagementAbstractThe “social license to operate” (SLO) has emerged as a key industry framework forconceptualizing the need to responsibly engage communities. The social license loosely refers topublic acceptance, but the term is usually invoked without clear definition [1]. Advocates for theSLO define it as “the level of tolerance, acceptance, or approval of an organization’s activities bythe stakeholders with the greatest concern about the activity” [2]. From its original use in thepulp and paper and mining industries in the 1990s, the term has since
, 2010.24. 2013 EPICS University Workshop Registration Opens. (2013). Retrieved January 7, 2013from: https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICSU/About/News/2013-workshop-information25. Engineering Learning Through Service (2013). Retrieved January 7, 2013 from: http://sites.tufts.edu/efeltsworkshops26. B. K Jesiek, A. Dare, T. Forin, and J. Thompson. “Global Engineering Design Symposium: Revealing the sociocultural aspects of engineering problem solving”. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, June 23-26, 2013.27. Antony. Why a small business that started so well, ended so quickly. AdmittingFailure. Retrieved December 8, 2012, from http://www.admittingfailure.com/failure/anthony/28. B. K. Jesiek, and S
communitypartner and university.1. Increase the effectiveness and reach of K-12 STEM programming through the integration ofthe FIRST Robotics Competition Team resulting in more city area students pursuing STEMcareers.We have moved the team out of its original high school to our partner, a STEM Outreach non-profit, so that the team is community based, to recruit students from multiple schools to the team.Our community partner is able to enhance its STEM outreach offerings by offering its studentsthe opportunity to participate in the nationally recognized FIRST robotics program.Our community partner is able to involve more college student mentors in its programs. Therobotics team moved into new workspace with enhanced shop capabilities at the UniversityThe
constraints. By contrast, human-centered design for users focuses on the desirability of the designed object, emphasizingusers’ needs, aspirations, and cultural locations, mainly through ergonomics and esthetics.3Although now a well-established concept and practice in design studies and some forms ofindustrial design, HCD has more recently evolved to incorporate community perspectivesthat exist beyond individual user’s desires and, of special significance to our analysis, designpractices that exist alongside typical commercial contexts. HCD for communities considerslow-income and underserved communities as users, challenging engineering design educationto incorporate listening to users; accommodation of human capacities, needs, and desires
AC 2012-3475: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODEL FOR THE REPRE-SENTATION OF LEARNING THROUGH SERVICE ACTIVITIES IN EN-GINEERINGDr. Susan McCahan, University of Toronto Susan McCahan is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Uni- versity of Toronto. In addition, she is currently the Vice Dean, Undergraduate for the faculty of applied science and engineering. She received her B.Sc. from Cornell University (1985) and M.S. (1989) and Ph.D (1992) degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in mechanical engineering.Prof. Holly K. Ault Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute Holly K. Ault received her B.S., M.S.M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1974, 1983, and
focused onassessing the impact of a volunteerism engagement on the skills and mindsets of workingengineers, who translate their knowledge of science and engineering in the creation of open-ended engineering design challenges that they subsequently teach to students and their familiesin community-based out-of-school programs called Family Science Nights.This skills-based volunteerism program is the result of a partnership between the GlobalCorporate Citizenship team – the community engagement arm of the company – and a nonprofiteducational organization to develop open-ended engineering design challenges that are intendedto bring aerospace engineering, technical, and scientific content to life for K-12 students andtheir families. Through this
descriptions, these theories and factsand observations become fundamental tools for the engineer as we work to create a betterworld.How do we inspire the next generation of engineers? Studies from the Journal of ScienceEducation and Technology have shown that the best ways to spark curiosity in the STEMfield is through hands-on activities. This K-12 STEM breakout session is gearedtowards generating interest in the field of civil engineering through the design of trusses.This rigid framework of straight, slender members joined at their end points and loadedonly at the joints is typically made of steel or wood members that are connected usingbolts, rivets, or welds. In this breakout session, students will apply simple math andscience to determine how
Paper ID #7429Community Outreach and Engagement through SustainabilityDr. Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University-Pueblo Jane M. Fraser is chair of the Department of Engineering at Colorado State University, Pueblo. She was formerly on the faculty at the Ohio State University and Purdue University. She has a B.A. in Mathematics from Swarthmore College and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley.Dr. Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, PuebloDr. Jude L. DePalma, Colorado State University, PuebloDr. Nebojsa I Jaksic P.E., Colorado State
Paper ID #26879STEM Engagement through Mentoring: Motivations of STEM MentorsDr. Jerrod A. Henderson, University of Houston (CoE & CoT) Dr. Jerrod A. Henderson (”Dr. J”) is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Cullen College of Engi- neering at the University of Houston. He joined the University of Houston after six years as a chemical engineering faculty member at the University of Illinois. He has dedicated his career to increasing the number of students who are in the pipeline to pursue STEM careers. He believes that exposing students to STEM early will have a lasting impact upon their lives and academic
Engineering Course Through a Critical Review over its Offerings Orner, K. , Prouty, C. , Naughton, C. , Manser, N. , Verbyla, M. , Trotz, M. and Mihelcic, J.R. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 University of South Florida Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1AbstractThe Sustainable Development Engineering course has evolved over its seven offerings at aresearch university in which interdisciplinary groups of graduate students engage in criticalthinking, problem solving, and collaborate with community partners. Students provide on-siteskilled labor, multi-media presentations, and project proposals for the community; in
Paper ID #9136Research Institutions’ Teaching Imperative: Rising to the Commitment ofService-Learning in Engineering EducationDr. Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Bowa George Tucker, Ed.D. is a Senior Research Associate for the National Science Foundation funded Engineering Faculty Engagement in Learning through Service, and Engineering for the Common Good in the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in Higher Education Administration in 2010. His dis- sertation research produced a rigorous
havecreated for our students.2. Schumacher’s Intermediate Technology as the Precursor to Appropriate Technology Appropriate technology is widely credited as an outgrowth of the ideas expressed by the“radical economist”1 Ernst Friedrich “Fritz” Schumacher in his book Small is Beautiful: A Studyof Economics as if People Mattered2, which is a compilation and synthesis of his writings andwork from the 1940s through 1960s in which he developed the concept of “IntermediateTechnology”. The origins of Intermediate Technology reside in Schumacher’s criticism ofconventional development practices, which assumed that the problems of the developing worldcould be solved by the transfer of capital-intensive, large-scale technologies from theindustrialized
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license K-12 #910. Hey is also a certified Health Education Specialist (CHES), CHES license #14359, through the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Organiza- tion. (http://www.nchec.org/). Since joining Cal Poly, he has been teaching numerous courses includ- ing: Healthy Living, Multi-Cultural Health, Drug Education, Health Behavior Change, School Health for Teachers, and Health Promotion Planning and Theory. His involvement with this paper was to qualita- tively evaluate the Senior Engineering Design Projects (specifically student’s ability to ”learn design”). Hey’s passion is sailing and long distance running
Tech Cheryl Carrico is a research faculty member for Virginia Tech. Her current research focus relates to STEM career pathways (K-12 through early career) and conceptual understanding of core engineering principles. Dr. Carrico owns a research and consulting company specializing in research evaluations and industry consulting. Dr. Carrico received her B.S. in chemical engineering from Virginia Tech, Masters of Engineering from North Carolina State University, MBA from King University, and PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Dr. Carrico is a certified project management professional (PMP) and licensed professional engineer (P.E.).Dr. Veronica van Montfrans Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of
Paper ID #23088Engagement in Practice: Infusing the STEM Pipeline Through CommunityEngaged LearningSara Jordan-Bloch, Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University Sara Jordan-Bloch is a sociologist and the Director of Leadership Research and Programs at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. She is a core team member of the Voice & Influence program, designed to help men and women be as effective as possible and create workplaces where all people can thrive. Jordan-Bloch also leads the Seeds of Change initiative, which aims to provide young women and girls with frameworks
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of the 8th grade teachers were contacted by the Page 23.909.4Strength of Materials professor through a campus contact with the Science in Motion program,whichoperates as part of Elizabethtown College’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement.Science in Motion provides a mobile lab with science equipment beyond the budget of mostschools along with science teaching support. At that point, the professor and 8th grade teachersarranged the logistics of the visit, and brought the other 8th grade science teacher on board. This outreach experience was awarded an internal faculty grant of $1000, but the totalcost of the experience was only
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Paper ID #12480Learning Through Service Engineering Faculty: Characteristics and Changesover TimeDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice
research papers. He is honored with Undergraduate Educator Award in 2012 and Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award in 2015 from the Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Georgia Tech.Dr. Carol J Thurman, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Carol Thurman serves as the Academic Assessment Manager for Georgia Tech’s Center for Serve- Learn-Sustain. She holds a doctorate in Educational Policy Studies with a concentration in Research, Measurement, and Statistics. Dr. Thurman’s professional experience includes higher education academic and program assessment, program evaluation, project management, teaching K-12 both in the U.S. and internationally, teaching university research and statistics courses
were sent the prompts in the Summer of 2016. The second setof stakeholders were secondary and pre-secondary students (collaborating schools/programs withOICP). There were a total of two prompts (incomplete statement that helped generate ideaspertaining to a topic [20] [29]) that were sent to each group of stakeholders (adults and students).The first was to gather ideas on positive attitudes towards STEM (I believe that some positiveattitudes (feelings, beliefs, likes, and dislikes) towards Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) that school students' (K-12) could have are…) and the second was togather ideas on persistence (I believe that some of the characteristics of a persistent (desire orpassion to stand firm through long
beyond grading andmeasurement of students’content-based knowledge.For faculty outcomes, assessment shouldinclude both professional development and self development aspects. From the professionaldevelopment side, faculty must be able to distinguish between assessment of LTS and LTS-related research. A good practice is to align assessments with university goals, and studentoutcomes that encompass both the ABET A-K and broader outcomes. Community assessmentwas believed to be one of the weakest elements of LTS activities.The ranked list of best practices in assessment (top = most important) were: Assess a variety of outcomes beyond ABET (a)-(k) and student learning Most of these were community impacts, assess social justice in service
Paper ID #30493Improving the Engineering Pipeline Through University &Community-Developed Museum- Based Educational KitsDr. Stacey V Freeman, Boston University Dr. Stacey Freeman is the Director of National Outreach for the College of Engineering at Boston Uni- versity. In this role, she is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing outreach and diversity programs and initiatives to promote Engineering and increase the K-12 pipeline for women and underrep- resented minority students. Specifically, she supervises staff and students to sustain and develop innova- tive and cutting edge approaches to K-12 STEM
knowledge, civic learning, civic reflection, and civic efficacy qualities inparticipating college students. The overall program has begun to expand across K-12, with linkstied to programs being introduced beyond elementary in middle school and high school.IntroductionWhile the importance of preparing for college while still in high school has been widelyrecognized both through research and through practice, much less is known about howintroducing students to college while still in elementary school will impact students’ aspirationstoward pursuing post-secondary education. In particular, this study seeks to determine how earlyexposure to college through a teaching and learning partnership called “Connected Classrooms”with Lafayette College will
largest engineering departments in the US, thousands of students have gone through EPICS, which is now adopted by over 30 universities and colleges as well as K-12 schools. Similar to EWB-USA, EPICS places students in direct contact with “the public” through community development projects and, therefore, represents both an early and a widespread perspective on LTS and