Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Rossi, Penn State Behrend; Sarah Lengel

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

for improvement. Moreover, giventhe negative impact poor mental health can have on post-secondary education [2] as well as theincreased difficulties students have faced due to the COVID-19 pandemic [3], the need for thisinformation to be made available to everyone on campus and not just a select few was clear.Under faculty guidance these students created LionHELP with the explicit goal of correcting thedeficiencies listed above. In this paper, the development of the original tool will be discussed aswell as the adoption on campus over the two years after the app’s release.2.0.Background To be clear, the app discussed here is not the only app in this space. There are other apps thatlook to help with mental health concerns on campus. 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)

. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Engineering Technology Education. Her areas of expertise are innovative STEM curricula and DEI issues in STEM education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Engagement in Practice: Lessons Learned from Offering in Department Wellness ProgramsAbstractDuring the pandemic, reports from academic-focused sources emphasized the importance ofproviding services that address student well-being. A need to help students in the area ofmental health and wellness within an undergraduate only department of engineering wasrecognized. Wellness Wednesday programming for students, faculty, and staff was started atJames Madison University, a mid

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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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

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 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)

and formalized list of mission,vision, and student outcomes. The highly subjective approach of individual faculty noting howwell they felt their course met each outcome was replaced with a new process. The courselearning outcomes were acquired from syllabi for each existing HE course (some new since the2017 review). Two members of the HE Advisory Council mapped these learning outcomes, theirrespective Bloom’s taxonomy level, and their alignment with the newly drafted HE studentoutcomes. This both helped shape the student outcomes and helped to understand the currentstrength of the program in providing graduates with the intended abilities.One risk of having existing HE faculty and staff draft the mission, vision, and student outcomesfor the

Conference Session

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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

, 2023).[24] S. Donohue, “Student Water Scholars and Broader Impact Outreach: Motivations and Hindrances toParticipation,” University of New Mexico Shared Knowledge Conference, 2022.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/skc/2022/posters/25/ (accessed Feb. 14, 2023).[25] Lee, Y., Kothuis, B. B., Sebastian, A., & Brody, S. Design of transformative education and authenticlearning projects: Experiences and lessons learned from an international multidisciplinary research andeducation program on flood risk reduction. In 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019.AppendixDetails concerning the FNI flood studyFreese and Nichols (FNI) requested interviews to be conducted with residents using two onlineinstruments–an online survey that allows

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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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

, service-learning, and extension outreach to create a new model of community engaged scholarship at the University of Connecticut,” J. High. Educ. Outreach Engagem., vol. 25, no. 2, p. 17, 2021.[10] M. A. Boyer, “Global climate change and local action: understanding the Connecticut policy trajectory,” Int. Stud. Perspect., vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 79–107, Feb. 2013, doi: 10.1111/j.1528-3585.2012.00480.x.[11] B. Hyde and J. Barrett, “Municipal issues and needs for addressing climate adaptation in Connecticut,” University of Connecticut College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://clear.uconn.edu/publications/[12] Kellogg Commission, “Returning to Our Roots: The Engaged Institution

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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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

learning1. IntroductionThe growing criticism of higher education’s insensitivity to challenges faced by adjacentneighborhoods and communities, the perception that the intellectual work of professors is largelyirrelevant to society, and the growing concern that graduates leave institutions disengaged frompolitical issues have fostered community-engaged research (Strand et al., 2003). Community-based research (CBR), which is a form of community-engaged research, “is a partnership ofstudents, faculty, and community members who collaboratively engage in research to solvepressing community issues” (Strand et al., 2003). In traditional academic research, the researchquestion is developed from existing theoretical or empirical work and qualified

Conference Session

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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has been working with local schoolsand community partners to deliver service-learning STEM activities for K–12 students since 2020.These activities were developed by graduate students in engineering with guidance fromengineering faculty members, an outreach specialist, and an education specialist. It has been achallenge to interact with K–12 educators as part of the development process, largely due toeducators’ reluctance of taking on more work on top of their already heavy workload during theregular school year. To address this issue, the team offered a paid summer workshop to engagethem to provide feedback on the current process of developing and delivering service-learningactivities. More than twenty-five educators

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University ; Joey Valle, Purdue University

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

engineer’s right to a politicalopinion, and civic engagement, with an engineer’s duty to objectivity and truthfulness. The BERraises the question of whether the engineer’s statements about the working conditions of theplant violated their duty to issue statements in an objective and truthful manner, as dictated bythe code of ethics. Additionally, the BER argues that since this engineer is running for publicoffice, the political nature of their statement and the associated media attention must beconsidered when evaluating if the engineer acted in an objective or truthful manner.The BER acknowledges it is possible that Engineer A had a legitimate concern for worker safetybut criticizes the engineer for not speaking to management about the allegations

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

being recognized and promoted, and various groups have published guidingprinciples [7-9]. Different fields use different terms; for example, community based participatoryresearch (CBPR) is common in public health [10-11] and participatory action research (PAR) iscommon in education [12]. However, complexity, confusion, and sometimes misuse amongterms are concerns. A few examples of definitions from the literature follow: CE: “the application of institutional resources to solve problems facing communities through collaboration with those communities… leverages the capacities of all the participants to improve community well-being” [13, p. 59]. In some cases, SL may not fit this definition of CE, such as when faculty and/or students hold

Conference Session

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

from the NEA member countries, focused on bringing epistemologies from the humanities and social sciences to academic and practitioner nuclear engineering, thus broadening their epistemic core. At the NEA, Aditi also led the establishment of the Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology, and Policy. Aditi holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Nuclear Science and Engineering from MIT. Her work, authored for academic as well as policymaking audiences, has been published in Nuclear Engineering and Design, Nature, Nuclear Technology, Design Studies, Journal of Mechanical Design, Issues in Science and Technology, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Inkstick. Aditi enjoys hiking with her dog, reading

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)

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

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)

differentinstitutions.As described in [1], US graduate engineering research remains focused on preparing students fora shrinking pool of academic jobs and most students are dissatisfied by the lack of socialrelevance of their research. An article detailing the state of graduate education points out, “mostgraduate programs will, in fact, fail to deliver the training that students desire and societydesperately needs. Graduate training remains focused on preparing students to addressdisciplinary knowledge gaps valued in a shrinking pool of faculty positions. While we invitestudents to apply for degrees based on their motivations to change the world, once they arrive,we do not prepare them to be successful change-makers. Current students report beingdiscouraged from

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Humanitarian Engineering (HE) field are‬ ‭increasingly interested in addressing the systemic causes of infrastructure service disparities.‬ ‭Humanitarian Engineering (HE) programs often have missions that center on the systemic causes‬ ‭of inequality, such as training graduate engineers to “concern with the unequal and unjust‬ ‭distribution of access to basic services such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and‬ ‭shelter, and (who) place emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants, and solutions toward‬ ‭increasing equitable access to reliable services''‬‭[1]‬‭. Further, HE scholars have encouraged HE‬ ‭students and faculty to focus their efforts on understanding and dismantling the systems that‬

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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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

, 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