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Community Engagement Division Poster Session - Exploring the Transformative Power of Service, Engagement, and Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame

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. She is a transdisciplinary researcher, with research interests including community engagement, evaluation in complex settings, and translational work at the socio-technical nexus.Dr. Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville Dr. Faisal Aqlan is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at The University of Louisville. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering form The State University of New York at Binghamton.Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023How a Civic Internship Impacts Student Professional DiscernmentAbstract:Researchers at UNIVERSITY developed, piloted, and examined a community-engaged STEMlearning environment

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; xinquan Jiang, The Ohio State University

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conduct multiple rounds of question reformation based on structured question of why they want the information. (Diversity of Stakeholders), (A)Community Survey Analysis Students review the results of a community survey to identified or understanding current conditions present within the community. (Diversity of Stakeholders), (A), (Stakeholder Dynamics), (U)Cultural immersion (with community and institutional partners) Students engage with local university instructors and students, community NGO members and community members throughout in-country trip/ communication prior. Multiple reflection sessions with students are held paired with journal reflections. This would also fall into Participant

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session - Exploring the Transformative Power of Service, Engagement, and Research

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research and design (i.e. apprenticeship style) projects have naturally been theprimary avenues for student research, as they remain the major modes of quantitative explorationin STEM professional and academic fields [12]. However, there are other presumed merits to theresearch interview approach utilized here in the STEM environment: ● It forces students to confront the impact of science and engineering on a broad population. ● It can “humanize” STEM work, connecting data to people. ● It strengthens soft skills like communication, socialization, and ethics. ● It provides additional training beyond lab or workshop attributes. ● It familiarizes students with government policies that intersect with their

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session - Exploring the Transformative Power of Service, Engagement, and Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Selvin Yovani Tobar; Bara Maisara Zalloum; Anna N. Le; Yessenia Nicacio-Rosales; Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College- One of the City Colleges of Chicago

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these participants. We will also enhanceour recruiting strategies and assess what prevents students from volunteering. We will continueto expand our data size and we will continue to collaborate with more local community partnersand student organizations within Wright College to organize volunteering opportunities. Withmore activities and larger data size, we will compare the impact of all terms on the STEMidentity and STEM efficacy of volunteers.V. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.DUE-1832553. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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to those published on the TeachEngineering Digital Library(https://www.teachengineering.org/). One of the modules – Surface Tension in Water has beenpresented twice to different community partners. Evidence of engagement in our service-learningactivities can be found on our website (https://publish.illinois.edu/service-learning/).As we reflected on the experience of expanding our service-learning effort, one importantstakeholder that has been absent so far is K–12 educators. Although we have partnered with severallocal schools, direct contact has always been with the administrators. In order to produce STEMmodules that fit the needs of K–12 students in their classrooms, we believe it is of paramountimportance to

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paula Alvarez Pino, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Andrew J. Sullivan, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Mona N Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham

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inneighborhood revitalization projects, students gain real-world experience, develop practicalskills, and build meaningful relationships with the community and with professionals andorganizations involved in the project. Furthermore, students have the opportunity to see thetangible results of their efforts, motivating them to pursue careers in civil engineering with acommitment to make a positive impact on society.This paper describes the framework developed for neighborhood revitalization projects,emphasizing the community engagement initiatives and student involvement efforts.Additionally, we discuss the methodology developed to assess the success of this program andhow we plan to integrate community-based projects into the engineering curriculum

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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is a fellow of NSPE and ASEE and elected to the ASEE Hall of Fame. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Alum Perspective Changes on Engineering Community Engagement Experiences in EWB-USAAbstractCommunity-engaged learning has grown rapidly in the past decades within the engineeringdisciplines. A large U.S.-based program in this space is Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA). Studies have shown positive impacts on student motivation and learning while participatingin these types of programs. However, previous studies have not specifically presented the viewsof this organization’s alums. As part of a larger QUAN QUAL explanatory sequential mixed-methods study

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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inthe IRI, specifically Fantasy and Personal Distress, did not appear to be aligned with thedimensions of empathy that the pedagogical strategies addressed. 2.3 Service Learning as a Pedagogical Strategy for Empathetic GrowthService learning is a high-impact community-engaged pedagogy that integrates meaningfulcommunity service with academic learning outcomes [18]. Students apply their knowledge andskills in hands-on, authentic experiences that address real community needs. Successful servicelearning experiences center on building a collaborative relationship with the community partnerto develop solutions that focus on the needs of the customer. Building this collaborativerelationship to the mutual benefit of the students and the

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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(for example, the expensive cost of a device) and, in oral presentations onevents with the general public (a First-year conference and an Engineering Exposition), anexplanation of the difficulties of learning braille music code supported by physical artifacts inbraille.The implementation of the literacies related to the communication of processes and solutions inHCD relies on examining and evaluating arguments and sustaining and communicating claims.Regarding the former practice, each week, course students engaged in the presentation of theadvances in their projects. After each group, Dr. Samosky facilitated a moment of feedback inwhich students and teacher assistants participated orally or through sticky notes. Those momentshad a positive

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Community Engagement Division 5 - Nurturing Well-Being and Promoting Awareness

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Rossi, Penn State Behrend; Sarah Lengel

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Paper ID #39753Community Reception of Student Developed App to Help Community Mem-bersin Mental Health CrisisMr. Thomas Rossi, Penn State Behrend Thomas Rossi is a lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Behrend. His research focuses on improving the post-secondary experience for students through the use of current com- puting tools and technologies. Thomas graduated with his MS in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire in 2016.Sarah Lengel ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Community Reception of Student Developed App to Help Community Members

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Lupita D Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder; Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University

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their needs.BackgroundThere is a long history of engagement of academics with communities [1-4]. Historically someof this work was termed service-learning (SL) where the goal was for students to reapeducational benefits from credit-bearing activities through a process of reflecting on their work,while community partners also benefited from the collaboration. SL work often faced challengeswith equitable benefits and power sharing. SL in engineering is now often being framed underthe larger umbrella of community engagement (CE). CE is a broader idea that encompassescommunity partnerships in co-curricular activities (such as Engineers Without Borders studentchapters). CE work can also be focused on scholarship and research, termed CommunityEngaged

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sydney Donohue, University of New Mexico; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico

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Environmental and Water Resources Engineering StudentsAbstractUniversities serve as a hub for the advancement of water science and engineering knowledge andinnovations. Communities outside of academia hold equally valid expertise on water andenvironmental topics. However, there is a lack of avenues for knowledge exchange betweenacademia and non-academic communities including homeowners, industry professionals, policymakers, and K-12 students and teachers. Many universities and research centers attempt toenhance knowledge sharing by organizing broader impact outreach events such as lab tours,demonstrations, hands-on activities, and public presentations. This work studies water-focusedstudents who we define to be students from all

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; René Marie Rosalie Marius, Lipscomb University; Mark Sedek, Lipscomb University

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excelled inintegrating service-learning into undergraduate engineering as summarized in the InternationalJournal of Service Learning in Engineering, Special Issue from 2015 [9]. Generally, programshave seen positive impacts on integrating service into engineering due to the complexity of thereal-world projects which require more than simple technical knowledge and skills [10-12].Though the terms engineering service-learning, community-engaged engineering, engineeringoutreach, and development engineering are all adjacent, the authors define humanitarianengineering as “developing sustainable, responsible engineering solutions to serve basic humanneeds.” For simplicity, the term humanitarian engineering projects (HEPs) will be utilizedthroughout this

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khalid Oladeji Bello, University of Louisville; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Hazel Marie, Youngstown State University ; Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame

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experience and contribute to the research process. Inaddition, students worked closely with their academic peers and community partners who servedas collaborators and mentors. The study reports on the impact of the program on student learningand tendency to stay back in the community. The program's collaborative nature and its effect onstudents' satisfaction while working on specific projects are also examined. Furthermore, theprogram helped develop and sustain university-community partnerships. The communitystakeholders participating in focus groups were satisfied with the process of identifyingcommunity projects and also expressed their satisfaction with the students’ work.Keywords: Community-based research, community engagement, project-based

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ezequiel Aleman, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Ethan Paul Ruchotzke; Michael Brown, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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computer science concepts. Gamejams are particularly well suited to engage youth in conversations about complex themes and social problemsand they provide a space where emerging adults can explore and affirm their social and vocational identities[2]. As such, organizers need to be particularly thoughtful about how they incorporate issues ofrepresentation [1,4]. As part of our efforts to engage a wide cross-section of students, the event communications did notfocus on the actual products the youth would create but on providing youth with tools to create games-foregrounding agency and students’ control over the process. Additionally, we emphasized that participantsdid not need any prior knowledge to participate.Partnership development

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Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emma Sophie Stine, University of Colorado Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado Boulder

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strength exhibited by marginalized communities, a sense of obligation to advocate‬ ‭for social justice, and a motivation to rectify the harm their own country has inflicted upon‬ ‭marginalized communities.‬‭ tudent Critique of Social Oppression‬S‭This research underscores that many (17/21) students had instances of critically engaging with‬ ‭social oppression, reflecting on norms, cultures, and policies that perpetuate the discrimination of‬ ‭marginalized populations. For example, one participant in the study voiced concerns about‬ ‭inequitable practices in her international development job, stating:‬‭ n many‬‭[international development]‬‭teams, you have a U.S. manager director and then you‬O‭have people from the other countries as

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Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katie Snyder, University of Michigan; Aditi Verma, University of Michigan

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to design with community members is less common‬ ‭– as co-equals.‬‭ roject Influences and Innovations‬P‭In nuclear engineering, we drew on research highlighting the history of inequity, lack of‬ ‭transparency, and environmental damage in nuclear technology development and design. For‬ ‭example, students watched recorded interviews of Black and Indigenous people impacted by the‬ ‭Manhattan Project and Japanese people who survived the World War II bombings of their‬ ‭country—and then engaged in a discussion about the implications of identity and power in the‬ ‭development of nuclear technologies. Drawing from the social sciences, students also learned‬ ‭grounded theory [6] and practiced coding sections of dialogue drawn

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Community Engagement Division 4 - Cultivating Engineering Excellence through Mentorship and Humanitarian Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Irma Livier De Regil Sanchez, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, Guadalajara, Mexico

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. As an emerging field though,approaches for best practice methodologies are still being established and studied. Along theselines, pedagogy that promotes best learning for students in this area is also being developed. Asan evolving topic, there is a natural drive to try new approaches. These conditions promoteresearch into new techniques and technologies targeted at improving the well-being of vulnerablepeople.Among the approaches that have shown success in local, small-scale context are designs that canbe classified as Appropriate Technology (AT). Appropriate Technology is a term for solutionswith the intention to meet the needs of communities based on their available resources, capacityand, significantly, the input of the people in the

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University; Sukrati Gautam, Purdue University; Peyman Yousefi, Merck Group; Nuela Chidubem Enebechi, Purdue University; Andrew Pierce, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University

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behavioral experiments, institutional analysis, and qualitative data collection. Through his work, Peyman systematically investigated the interplay of natural, physical, and institutional factors in coupled human-environment systems. He focused on understanding the prerequisites for building resilient communities at various scales, aiming to enhance adaptability in the context of climate change.Miss Nuela Chidubem Enebechi, Purdue University Nuela Chidubem Enebechi (Nuela) is a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. She is an international student from Nigeria and received her bachelor’s in Computer Science at Minnesota State University Moorhead.Mr. Andrew Pierce, Purdue University Andrew Pierce is the

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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professional skills necessary for interdisciplinary collaboration. Thesummer training is more about relationship building and reviewing literature surrounding theissues of the potential projects. We then conduct a formal panel review, similar to an NSF reviewprocess, to evaluate the potential community projects in terms of feasibility, impact, scope,relationships, and timeline. The highest-scoring projects are then chosen for student teams topursue, and relationships with the community partners are initiated. Student teams are chosenbased on student interests and an even distribution of necessary skills.Interdisciplinary community-engaged design coursesDuring the fall and spring semesters of the academic year, the student teams continue theirdesign

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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effective 3 1.3 If and when RT is done, it is 2.3 Effective RT use variety of interactive/ 3.3 Development/deployment of for policymakers and/or students participatory strategies for engaging effective RT products take longer communities time than available to one researcher 4 1.4 There are no consistent and 2.4 Researchers can re-establish trust from 3.4 If RT is initially done for clear definitions of RT communities if they show honest and robust policymakers/students, it can be

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roneisha Wynette Worthy, Kennesaw State University; Amy Borello Gruss, Kennesaw State University

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and self-determination [1]. Some studiesfocused on young women and found that students' participation in a community engagementprogram had a positive effect on women college engineering students' self-efficacy and self-determination [5]. While these studies have provided critical insights into overcoming thedissuasion minorities incur from opting into or persisting in the minority setting, little work isdone to explore the role intersectionality plays in the impact community engagement might haveon the sense of belonging for specific populations.By clarifying the differences in lived experiences across various genders and ethnicities,researchers can gain further insights into motivations for not just participation in community-engaged

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Community Engagement Division 5 - Nurturing Well-Being and Promoting Awareness

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gianina Morales, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Mauricio Reyes Gallardo, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

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earthquakes and tsunamis to soon focus on the conceptual and practical learning of thegame. After experiencing the game, students work in teams to prepare and lead a DIG workshopwith community members that allows participants to identify evacuation routes andvulnerabilities in the city.Although the literature on DIG suggests its effectiveness (e.g.,[4], [5], [8] ), the research on itslong-term impacts is limited [14]. Additionally, scarce attention has been given to its applicationsand results in higher education. Therefore, we designed a small qualitative study to answer thequestion: How might the experience in the DIG service-learning course have impacted students’tsunami and earthquake risk awareness? In this article, we present our findings from

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University; Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; Kristen Conroy, The Ohio State University; Kadri Akinola Akanni Parris, The Ohio State University

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for the critical multiyear HCD approach. Followingthis, a brief overview of the different community-based learning courses at OSU is included.Next, a comprehensive reflection on the journey undertaken by the authors is discussed. Itoutlines the strategies employed, the successful interventions, challenges faced, and thesubsequent modifications made to the HCD model. The authors aim to provide insights into whatworked and what didn't during the evolution of engineering service learning at OSU. In theoutcomes section, the authors make the case for using the Intercultural Development Inventory(IDI) as a tool to assess impact on student intercultural competence and provides data from oneof the courses.Challenges with the traditional service

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Connor Becerril; Joanna D. Kinsey, Quinnipiac University; Courtney McGinnis, Quinnipiac University; John E. Greenleaf, P.E., Quinnipiac University; Kimberly DiGiovanni, Quinnipiac University

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water quality concernsAbstractThis paper presents a community-university-government partnership to advance environmentaljustice and address river water quality concerns for the Mill River of south-central Connecticut(USA) through an undergraduate student research experience. Community engagement wasinitiated with the Fair Haven neighborhood of New Haven, CT (USA), an environmental justicecommunity, through a series of steering committee meetings. The meetings brought togetherover 50 different individuals, community groups, environmental organizations, universities, andmunicipalities. A concern of river water quality adjacent to a decommissioned power plant wasidentified. Ball Island is home to a retired power plant that is currently being

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Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

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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

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Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Ashish Dahiya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

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mentorship andmotivates students to continue project engagement. The EPICS India team identified a projectthrough discussions with IITD faculty leading their RuTAG, where they could add value aligningwith potential engineering expertise - by designing a more ergonomic tractor. While the studentteam operates solely at Purdue, IITD staff and faculty provide technical guidance and answercommunity questions, or revisit user criteria. Regular communication occurs online on an as-needed basis.During the pandemic, RuTAG initiated a series of online meetings when students in India werefully remote. For one of these, RuTAG and EPICS India teams started meeting bi-semesterly forWeLD-ER (“We learn through discussion - EPICS and RuTAG”), which have continued

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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

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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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part of a semester-long course toengage with community members and collaborate on the co-determined projects.There has been an active movement towards prioritizing community impacts as equally, if notmore, important than student outcomes [2]. In addition, there have been recent broader efforts toshift from “service” to “learning, partnership and community development” [3]. With ourcommunity-engaged engineering courses having been offered as stand-alone courses, severalinstructors were concerned with students’ lack of preparedness to work with community partnersand overall motivation, as well as the overall continuity among courses. Students struggled towork alongside partners to identify felt needs and design for low-resource settings in a

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Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University ; Joey Valle, Purdue University

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organize all workerswithin a particular industry. Following the passage of the 1947 Taft-Hartley act, some US laborunions have formed as business unions, unions oriented around a belief that labor unions shouldbe run like businesses while posing no threat to the state or corporations employing theirmembers. These business unions tend to be less democratic and engage in an advocacy model ofchange that does not center its base of power on the workers and their communities [10]. Part ofthe power labor unions have comes from labor strikes and other forms of direct action, actsindividuals or groups take to bring about social change rather than relying on intermediaries orrepresentatives to act on their behalf. As Valle, Bowen, and Riley have described

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Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George A Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Elizabeth G. Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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reflected on why understanding redlining andother social justice issues are important to their future careers as civil engineers. This paper describeswhat was done in both classes and reflections from both students and instructors.IntroductionService-learning and community-based learning are proven pedagogical approaches used across multipledisciplines and educational levels to bridge teaching and community engagement (Billig, 2000; Kuh,2008). Over the course of decades, research demonstrates the benefits of service-learning (SL) to studentlearning (Warren, 2012), satisfaction (Drinkard & Tontodonato, 2019), engagement, and retention(Bringle, Hatcher & Muthiah, 2010). This paper describes how information on redlining wasincorporated into a