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Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen M. Conroy, The Ohio State University; Patrick Sours, The Ohio State University; Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University; Rachel Marie Tuttle

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

ensured that students would have twocommunity-engaged experiences throughout their minor curriculum. Students can pick fromseveral pre-existing HE courses to complete the minor coursework requirements. This creates amore scaffolded structure for students entering the HE space. Students can take the introductorycourse to gain theoretical skills, empathy, and frameworks. The skills acquired from theintroductory course prepared students for projects with long-term partner organizations in theU.S., Honduras, Tanzania, Guatemala, Guyana, and Ghana. This is supplemented by coursescovering content in human centered design, technology applications for low-resource settings,sustainable infrastructure courses, and global phenomena. Global Capstone allows

Conference Session

Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micaha Dean Hughes, North Carolina State University; Aaron Arenas, North Carolina State University; Latricia Walker Townsend, North Carolina State University; Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

ruralingenuity and resourcefulness, in order to address the community’s need to bolster the engineeringworkforce to prevent rural flight.The Role of the Industry Partners: School-University-Community Collaboration (SUCC)DevelopmentDuring the development of DeSIRE, one objective was to leverage existing community partnerships –what Crumb et al. refers to as “school-community-university collaborations”, or SUCCs – to bolsterefforts in building STEM workforce capacity in two neighboring rural counties [14, p. 8]. In theinitial stages of project development, school district-level administrators connected us with a localcommunity organization, which we will call Connect (pseudonym), whose mission is to improveeducational opportunities for students in the

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel A Acuña, George Mason University; Nathalia Peixoto, George Mason University; Holly Matto, George Mason University; Siddhartha Sikdar, George Mason University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

. Communicate effectively with stakeholders and broad audiences. 5. Work productively on diverse multidisciplinary teams.This training involves an individualized interdisciplinary curriculum, scaffolded by laboratoryrotations and hands-on workshops, a year-long community-engaged design project, and trainingin entrepreneurship, communication skills, and team science. Individualized curriculums aretailored to trainees to comply with the requirements of their home graduate degree programs.Our traineeship program began in the 2019-2020 academic year as a result of a National ScienceFoundation Research Traineeship award. This traineeship program is meant to prepare at least100 STEM graduate students to address major societal challenges within our local

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis; Seema Mukhi Dahlheimer, Washington University in St. Louis; Sandra Payton Matteucci

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

minimally helpful or not helpful at all. Further, wemust consider our impact on students from marginalized communities. We approach this workwith an aim to actively dismantle systems of injustice, or with a lens of what Coles-Ritchie et al.[4] describe as critical community-engaged pedagogy. Coles-Ritchie et al. further explain that“well-intentioned, or ‘benevolent’ service-learning projects can be more insidious [than] overtbigotry” [4, p. 3]. Considering Paulo Freire’s idea of true dialogue [5], we approach communityengagement—discussions between instructor, student, and community partner—by questioningourselves, encouraging students to see community knowledge and ways of knowing as just asvalid as traditional educational structures, and sharing

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

service-learning project, and9 STEM modules were shared with the middle school via cloud storage.Recognizing the potential to impact additional K–12 students, we formed a multi-disciplinaryservice-learning team with two instructors from the teaching and leadership course, a facultymember from another engineering unit, an education specialist, and a media specialist. Through acampus-level outreach unit, we connected with 4 local community partners (2 elementary schools,and 2 organizations serving K–12 students) during Academic Year 2021–2022. Thirty-five GTAsparticipated in the service-learning project, and 13 STEM modules were delivered via variousmethods (cloud storage, Zoom, or in-person visit) (Chen et al., 2022). Modules are similar informat

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gianina Morales, University of Pittsburgh; Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Emily C. Rainey, University of Pittsburgh

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Activities in the First Year,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 409–419, 2008.[41] C. B. Zoltowski, W. Oakes, and S. Chenoweth, “Teaching Human Centered Design With Service Learning,” presented at the 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2010, p. 15.1175.1-15.1175.13. Accessed: Jun. 28, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/teaching-human-centered-design-with-service-learning[42] A. Ruth et al., “Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in High Schools: Subtle but Potentially Important Student Gains Detected from Human-Centered Curriculum Design,” Education Sciences, vol. 9, no. 1, Art. no. 1, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.3390/educsci9010035.[43] S

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Mateo Rojas; Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; Jaime Elizabeth Styer, Colorado School of Mines; Sofia Lara Schlezak, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

community, while recognizing that thiswould not have been possible without certain privileges not afforded to many graduateresearchers. Though the limitations of academia–namely time and academic incentives–werehindrances for immediately influencing decision-making and future actions, there are still manyways RT can be integrated into a project. Gibson found that RT–especially in the problemdefinition, research, and dissemination phases–had significant overlap with a community-basedresearch approach and shows promise for integration with CBR approaches.RT in Electronic Waste Recycling. The production and consumption of electrical andelectronic equipment is growing annually by 2.5 million metric tons, generating one of thefastest-growing waste

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Lynn Morano, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew L. Cole, Lawrence Technological University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

frequency should these educational contextsbe woven throughout an already overloaded curriculum?Community-engaged service learning has the dual goal of enriching student learning andgenerating value for communities [11] . Students that participate in community-engaged learningoften benefit from a number of additional learning opportunities, including increased criticalthinking and intercultural skills, increased communication skills, ability to engage with a varietyof stakeholders during the design process, identifying unmet user needs, integrating informationfrom many sources to gain insight and assessing and managing risk. Because of the complexitiesof students learning through projects engaged with real-world communities, faculty aresometimes

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

of thecommunity partner to viewing it more as something that significantly benefited them as studentparticipants. This suggests a need for additional focus on the reciprocal nature of partnershipswithin community engagement programs such as EWB-USA. We recommend more explicitlyaddressing the benefits across professional career paths of working on real design projects withreal people within community engagement programs. This may include facilitating structuredreflection activities and bringing alums back to the students to provide their reflections,perspectives, and experiences.Such a push to focus more on the dual and reciprocal nature of the experiences that benefit multiplestakeholders aligns with the recent finding from Delaine et al