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Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

developeda practical framework for sustainable community engagement. We will delve into the nuances ofcommunity collaboration, including challenges, strategies for fostering long-term relationships,and methods to prevent partner burnout. It is easy for students to get comfortable in their campus“bubbles”—we have a responsibility as educators to inspire students to see beyond theirimmediate environment, to encourage students to creatively apply their engineering skills to real-world problems, and to promote cultural competency and equity building.Community engaged pedagogyCommunity engaged teaching and learning, an asset-based approach to what is also referred to asservice learning, focuses on engaging with the community in a mutually beneficial way

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Hua, Southern Methodist University; Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Sustainability and Development Program in the Lyle School of Engineering at SMU. Working across the boundaries of urbanism, landscape mapping, and public engagement, Zarazaga explores ways to connect culture and community to site. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 On Community-Based, Environmental Justice-Oriented Curriculum for STEM Learning Cindy Hua, Dr. Jessie Zarazaga Southern Methodist University, Lyle School of EngineeringIntroductionChallenges of the 21st century are interrelated: global environmental threats, binary thinking,polarizing discourse, and the erosion of caring for our places and others [1], [2], [3

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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misconceptions:“We just reemphasize working with them from where they are, understanding their baseline, andgiving them respect, giving them time and never making them feel pressure.”Through careful PD sessions with the curriculum developers, the teachers on the project were able toscaffold their engineering content knowledge based around previous experiences with engineering orrelated concepts, creating new schemas for engineering teaching and learning. One of the projects inthe class required students to use Arduino boards and Tinkercad to model how stoplights would workwithin their rural community, with special attention to school traffic flow and community dis/abilityneeds. One teacher talked about how that activity led him to see engineering in a

Conference Session

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

Collection

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)

students tothen engage in a year-long design project with targeted scopes within larger community partnerco defined projects. Some students can build on their semester-long, community-engagedpractice course projects and carry these through the Capstone course-offering partners a studentteam with 1.5+ years of contextualization on the specific defined problem.ExecutionTable 1. New Humanitarian Engineering Minor Requirements Starting Autumn 2022. Required Curriculum Number of Description Components Courses Introduction to 1 (Lecture and Required introductory course covering Humanitarian Engineering Lab) general skills and knowledge for HE

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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

Authors

Ping-Chuan Wang, State University of New York, New Paltz; Wenyen Huang, State University of New York, New Paltz; Graham Werner, State University of New York, New Paltz ; Darren Wang, Stony Brook University ; James M. Amodio, John Jay High School, Wappingers Central School District

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University of New York, New Paltz Wenyen (Jason) Huang, huangj18@newpaltz.edu, is Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at SUNY-New Paltz. Jason has a particular interest in utiliz- ing technology for enhancing student’s understanding and improving teacher’s instruction in the STEM classroom. He is a former high school mathematics teacher.Graham Werner, State University of New York, New Paltz Graham Werner is an Assistant Lecturer, who teaches engineering labs and lectures for the Division of Engineering Programs at SUNY New Paltz. He primarily develops curriculum for mechanical engineering laboratory courses and is interested in promoting STEM education in local K-12

Conference Session

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering at Colorado State University and her MS and PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She is active in curriculum activities at UNL at the department, college, and university levels. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Engagement in Practice: Addressing Redlining in First Year Civil Engineering CoursesAbstractRedlining is the practice of systemic disinvestment of resources and services from residents of certaincommunities based on race and ethnicity. Even after the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, theeffects of redlining persist in the form of substandard infrastructure and services in areas that wereredlined. In Fall 2022

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)

Emily Rainey is an associate professor of literacy education at the University of Pittsburgh. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Community Voices in the Spotlight: Students’ Engagement in the Literacies of Human-Centered Engineering DesignAbstractHuman-centered design is an approach to design that places human needs at the forefront andvalues the thoughts and experiences of users as crucial elements of the design process. Themethod provides a framework for addressing wicked social problems, from environmental toaccessibility issues. In this paper, we present partial findings from an exploratory qualitative casestudy of disciplinary literacies teaching and learning in an undergraduate

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Graphic Design from the Universidad Aut´onoma de Guadalajara Speaker, lecturer, collaborator in national and international research networks; thesis director and postgraduate professor in education and human devel- opment sciences; expert in research project design and new products development process. Researcher in ”Community Development and Social Issues”, she collaborated with Dr. Aaron Brown from Metropolitan State University of Denver, in the design of the ”Humanitarian Engineering Program” and the ”Interna- tional Humanitarian Engineering Seminar” with an interdisciplinary approach. Is the Head of Research at UNIVA’s Guadalajara campus and is a promoter of maturity and technology transfer processes and

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

years.Dr. William ”Bill” C. Oakes, Purdue University William (Bill) Oakes is the Assistant Dean for Experiential Learning, a 150th Anniversary Professor, Director of the EPICS Program, Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and a registered professional engineer. He is one of the founding faculty in the School of Engineering Education having courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering and Curriculum and Instruction. He was the first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning and a co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He

Conference Session

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Warrner, Ball State University; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Anand Nageswaran Bharath, Cummins Engine Company

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

partnership were to boost retentionand durable skills development among engineering students and to encourage young people toconsider their potential for a career in engineering. The curriculum materials used weredeveloped by PBS and accompanied its television show Design Squad (now Design SquadNation). It is “high-energy, high-drama reality TV that lets kids show off their smarts as theydesign and build working solutions for real-world clients—people who are hungry for cleverideas from a new generation of innovators” (U.S. National Science Foundation, 2010). Thecreators also developed a companion website which features materials that may be used byparents to supplement at home, by educators as a teaching resource, or by mentors forcommunity outreach

Conference Session

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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

their RT activities (2.5). Rojas’ partial reliance onhis advisor and co-advisor, both renowned academics, to find audiences for which he couldpresent his research also influenced where his research was presented; out of the twentypresentations he delivered, eight were for universities. These university presentationsundoubtedly helped promote community-centered engineering practice, but it is possible thatRojas’ research collaborators would have preferred other outlets closer to communities if theirdesires had been equally prioritized in the RT approach from the outset of the project. (1.3) Theimbalance of power between Rojas and his research participants reinforces how challengesrelated to research extractivism can hinder equitable RT practices

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Cooke, University of Connecticut; Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, University of Connecticut; Todd Campbell, University of Connecticut; Chester Arnold; Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut; Byung-Yeol Park, University of Connecticut; Peter C. Diplock

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Campbell-Montalvo is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on understanding how a range of people (including women, historically excluded racial/ethnic groups, and LGBTQIA+ students) are served in undergraduate STEM contexts, with an emphasis on engineering and biology. She is a postdoc- toral research associate in the Neag School of Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Connecticut. In addition, Campbell-Montalvo is Co-PI on a $500,000 NSF grant that seeks to improve inclusion in biology education and biology education research through the Inclusive Environments and Metrics in Biology Education and Research network. Prior to her current role, Dr. Campbell-Montalvo was the

Conference Session

Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Bishop, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Rebecca Kenemuth

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provides hands-on physicalcomponentry and design challenge curriculum that engages middle and high school studentsfrom historically underrepresented and first-generation-college populations. The program wasinitially conceived during the height of the COVID pandemic, and over 5000 kits have beenmanufactured and distributed in the first 2.5 years. A major feature of the kit program areculminating events, the scope of which varies from large (600-700 participants) to small (60-100participants). Challenge events provide a venue to familiarize participants with the University ofUniversity of Maryland (UMD) and pathways toward higher education while buildingexcitement and school spirit in a team-based engineering competition.This paper discusses the

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

-size liberal arts focused university in the mid-Atlantic region ofthe east coast to address this need. The bi-weekly programming during the AY2021-22addressed the eight dimensions of wellness which include: physical, intellectual, emotional,spiritual, environmental, financial, occupational, and social. An asynchronous approach to theprogramming was used to accommodate students’ differing schedules. The WellnessWednesday programming impacted 28% of the engineering student population and 41% of theengineering faculty and staff population through 13 sessions. Following the success of theprogram, the idea was shared nationally at the Engineering Deans Institute, which resulted inadoption in an undergraduate-only school of engineering at Campbell

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

aptitude [2]. When community service is integrated into a school’s curriculum, it hasbeen found to increase students’ enjoyment of learning, academic motivation, and performance[2-3]. In adults, reports have shown that volunteering improves physical and mental health,boosts self-esteem, and increases overall happiness [4]. Students who support communityengagement initiatives such as volunteering related to their discipline, gain applicable experienceand advocate for their careers [5].Service learning is one type of community service in which projects are assigned within astudent’s curriculum [6]. Within the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM), [7] research has been conducted on how to improve student retention

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

, the Director of the EPICS Program and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has held courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He is a registered professional engineer and on the NSPE board for Professional Engineers in Higher Education. He has been active in ASEE serving in the FPD, CIP and ERM. He is the past chair of the IN/IL section. He is a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of Great Teachers at Purdue University. He was the first engineering faculty member to receive the national Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches from avariety of backgrounds and fields to navigate the complexities of stakeholder values anddynamics [2]. This requires that the next generation of scientists and engineers think andproblem-solve in new ways.As engineers play a significant role in addressing such challenges, they must be equipped withcapacities beyond the traditional technical focus. To fit this need, engineering educators havereexamined curriculum and have worked to create programs that provide students withopportunities to understand multidisciplinary perspectives, learning concepts from the socialsciences and developing critical design skills [3]. Programs with such foci have been growingand over 85 academic institutions worldwide

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Smith, NASA; Zachary T. G. Pirtle, NASA

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG), Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

engineering work, as was seen in what Cech researched with engineeringundergraduate changes over their curriculum 39; however, emotion and empathy are also36 Report page 3737 Report page 4038 Report page 4139 E.A. Cech, "Culture of disengagement in engineering education?," Science, Technology, &Human Values, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 42-72, 2014.recognized as necessary by practicing engineers40 . Following Puig de la Bellacasa’s concept of“re-affecting objectified worlds”41, how might the process of bringing affect and emotion morereadily to bear in assessing technological decisions or determining requirements changeoutcomes?Another possibility is suggested by Frigo, Milchram, and Hillerbrand’s “Designing for Care(D4C)” approach, which frames

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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

Marissa H. Forbes, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

design? • How have you approached learning new things when you did not have the knowledge you needed to solve the problem?The spring semester reflection prompts were as follows: • What did you learn about working on a team in capstone design that you think will help make you a successful engineer? • Describe an example of an engineering analysis in your design project that you were personally involved in conducting. • What societal, ethical, and professional issues did you consider in your capstone design experience? • Describe an example of an experiment and/or prototype you were personally involved in testing.We analyzed each community-partnered project team

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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

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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, professional development for graduate students, curriculum innovation in computing, and service-learning.Prof. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor and instructional laboratory manager in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, measurement science, engineering education, engineering leadership, and professional identity development.Mr. Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign I am currently the Associate Director of Assessment and Research team at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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, and NLP models to enhance human-in-the-loop sustainability solutions. Leading to an impact by implementing new policies for bridging the digital equity gap. I have a unique blend of expertise to build impactful experiences for enhancing education engagement.Peyman Yousefi, Merck Group Peyman is a senior User Experience Researcher at Merck Group. He specializes in using mixed methods to explore human-computer interaction and human-centered artificial intelligence. During his Ph.D. at Purdue University, Peyman adopted an ecological approach that integrates engineering and science concepts to address significant environmental challenges. His research methodology included agent-based modeling, crowdsourced human

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

this course – in a positive fashion (i.e., “I do not think I have had an instructorstimulate and motivate me more than Dr. Oerther has to become a better engineer … Iwill almost certainly remember that duty to the public I have with my profession as anengineer…”).DiscussionCommunity engagement is an important skill for engineers to acquire, and collaborationwith other healthcare professions, such as nursing, is one practical approach [15, 16].Ideally, engineers would learn through hands-on experience how to perform communityengagement following best practices as implemented in healthcare. This should includeidentification and recruitment of stakeholders, who work with the researcher to identifythe problem, brainstorming solutions, and select

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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, 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.Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame Associate Director for Research, Center for Civic Innovation Dr. Wood received her M.S.and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds her B.S. from Purdue University. She is a transdisciplinary researcher, with research interests including community engagement, evaluation in complex settings, and translational work at the socio-technical nexus.Dr. Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame Dr. Jay Brockman is the Associate

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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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prepare graduate-level students to address societalchallenges beyond their own scientific discipline.We find this training is especially useful for engineering students, who have expertise in thetechnical aspects behind new technology but may lack the experience of a social scientist. Thistraining gives students an extended opportunity to constantly think about engaging withcommunity members and end-users. This helps engineers transition from a technology-centereddesign philosophy to a human-centered design philosophy [12]. Along these lines, thisexperience can help an engineer to first examine the needs of users in their design process, whichmay not be their default approach when designing solutions [13], [14]. By having students workon real