. 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
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
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
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
connecting students, faculty, and staff with NGOˆa C™s around the world for technical projects as part of immersions, teaching, and scholarly activity. She also is thDr. Amy Anderson Amy Anderson is the Associate Provost for Global and Intercultural Affairs and Executive Director of the Center for International Programs (CIP) at the University of Dayton. The CIP provides coordination, strategic planning and administrative support forElizabeth GenerasMrs. Marjorie Langston LangstonSharath Krishna ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Community Engaged Learning Projects on Enhancing Teachers’ Understanding of Engineering and Intercultural
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
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
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
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
. 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
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
. With Engaged Teaching Hub, Minju has designed TA training materials for oral exams and have conducted quantitative analysis on the value of oral exams as early diagnostic tool (Kim et al., ASEE 2022). Minju is interested in designing assessments that can capture and motivate students’ deep conceptual learning, such as oral exams and the usage of visual representations (e.g., diagrams and manual gestures).Marko V. Lubarda, University of California, San Diego Marko V. Lubarda is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He teaches mechanics, materials science, design, computational analysis, and engineering mathematics courses
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
-cohort surveys. Furthermore, the participants' scores on the Likertscale for the "Seven C's" increased by 33%, with the most significant increase observed in"Collaboration" at 68%. After the data from the third and fourth cohorts have been collected andanalyzed in May 2023, a more in-depth and meaningful analysis of the results will be conducted. Fig 1. Average pre- and Post-cohort survey results, with percent change, evaluating confidence in performing each objective.Fig 2. Average pre-and post-cohort survey results, with percent change, evaluating agreement on the Likert scale with the “Seven C’s.” The impact of the CoP program on community building was also monitored
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
able to practice their disciplines in an authentic,hands-on environment while developing their professional skills and bridging their academicexperiences toward workplace practice [12]. As the program has grown and expanded to morestudents, projects, and instructors, the students’ opinions on the programs impact has remained ata high level [20]. The community organizations likewise have benefitted greatly from thesepartnerships, benefitting from the university’s expertise in technology and the creation of newproducts and processes that support the organizations core mission [21]. The success of theEPICS program was recognized by other institutions who have integrated this model ofcommunity engaged design at the university and K12 levels [22
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
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
Paper ID #38860Analysis of Covid-19 Impact on Minority Students in Higher Education.Dr. Awatif Amin, Johnson C. Smith University Awatif Amin is an Assistant professor at Johnson C. Smith University in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering since 2001. She primarily focuses on programming and data analytics. She completed her Doctorate of Management in organizational Leadership and Information System Technol- ogySuryadip Chakraborty ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Analysis of Covid-19 impact on Minority Students in Higher Education.AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic has
Paper ID #38895Board 400: The impact of Oral Exams on Engineering Students’ LearningDr. Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego Dr.Huihui Qi is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engi- neering at the University of California, San Diego.Dr. Minju Kim, University of California, San Diego Minju Kim is a postdoctoral scholar at the Engaged Teaching Hub at the UCSD Teaching+Learning Com- mons. Minju received her Ph.D in Experimental Psychology at UC San Diego. With Engaged Teaching Hub, Minju has designed TA training materials for oral exams and have conducted quantitative
Paper ID #39219Board 311: Impacts of the ProQual Institute: Building Communities ofTechnical Stem Faculty for Long-Term Engagement in Educational ResearchDr. John Ray Morelock, University of Georgia Dr. Morelock is an Assistant Professor of Practice with an emphasis on engineering education research, and the Associate Director of Educational Innovation and Impact for UGA’s Engineering Education Trans- formations Institute (EETI). In addition to coordinating EETI’s faculty development programming, Dr. Morelock conducts research on institutional change via faculty development, with an emphasis on innova- tive ways to
for implementation the best solution.Ultimately community engagement includes the researcher working with the communityto implement, co-own, and disseminate the results of the solution.In the current study exploring the results of a case study of a new module on antibioticresistance, the United States Department of State served as the primary stakeholder –identifying the major problem and selecting the solution for implementation. None theless, this project provided an opportunity for students of engineering to engage in realworld learning (i.e., problem-based / serving learning).Thus, while many forms of community engagement often aim to unearth problems andco-design solutions in a partnership between the researcher/scholar and thecommunity
traditional engineering casestudies, which tend to be generalized and focused on community impacts, and personalnarratives as told by both the engineers and individuals impacted by the scenario. Others haveused documentaries or reports to help students contextualize real events or challenges or to givebackground to case studies. More recently some faculty have created narrative based games thatexplore ethical considerations inside a professor-generated story based on the science of spaceexploration and colonization [11]. When considering narrative pedagogy, students and professorsmay share their personal experiences through essays concerning particular engineering problems[12]. Narrative ethics uses stories to explore ethical issues and possibly
Columbia, 2016.[2] A. P. Carnevale, N. Smith, and M. Melton, "STEM: Science Technology Engineering Mathematics," Georgetown University, Center on Education and the Workforce, 2011. [Online]. Available: https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/stem/[3] L. Cancado, J. Reisel, and C. Walker, "Impacts of a Summer Bridge Program in Engineering on Student Retention and Graduation," Journal of STEM Education, vol. 19, no. 2, 2018.[4] D. Wood, A. Gura, and J. Brockman, "Critical Findings in the Development of the Community-Engaged Educational Ecosystem," in American Society for Engineering Education proceedings: ASEE, 2020.[5] D. Wood, A. Gura, J. Brockman, A. Rayna Carolan-Silva, S. Boukdad, and J. C. Alarcon
these high impact experiences, intentional marketing and participant recruitment wasused. Strategies included engaging students already a part of other URM in STEM programssuch as the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), as well as participants inan on-campus program for men of color called BRIDGE. These communities not only acted asready populations to recruit from but were also asked to share the experience with their peers,further enlarging the recruitment efforts. Additionally, a review of all STEM and/or racial/ethnicminority-centered student organizations was conducted, and information was shared with thoseofficer groups to share with their respective students. This snowball method of recruitment wassuccessful in
recruitment and retention. Community engaged researchprojects have also been shown to strengthen institutional partnerships with surroundingcommunities through collaboration and action. [5] The objective of this work is to share a Fellowship program that provides early-stageundergraduate students an opportunity to participate in community-engaged research in aninformal, ad-hoc manner. Herein, we discuss goals, logistics, and outcomes of the first year ofthe fellowship program. Additionally, we introduce a survey instrument that will be utilizedduring the second year of the program to understand the impact of the fellowship on students’research identity and self-efficacy.1.2. The University of New Mexico Grand Challenges Program Grand
the lab after receiving a corporate donation, or sizable funding through a variety of waysincluding alumni, internal grants, and direct donation solicitation. All interviewees describedfilling a gap that existed at their institution because they had lacked a space or opportunity toprovide students with EGD-related experiences. Communicating the value of EGD research andlearning opportunities to industry partners was therefore highly recommended.Implementation and Research CapabilitiesThe aspirations of the space were to: • Provide students appropriate space, resources and tools to develop hands-on skills and act as a piloting ground for service-learning and community engaged learning projects that have a global impact
collaboration skills among students. The students learn the theories while simultaneously applying them using hands-on projects. This approach has been very effective across the borders of different STEM and engineering disciplines [3, 4]. • Flipped Classrooms Learning: This approach reverses the traditional teaching and learning processes by having students watch videos and complete readings before class using class time to complete hands-on activities, problem-solving, and discussions [5]. 1 • Project-Based Service Learning: This approach has also been referred to as Community Engaged Learning. Through this learning approach, the students work alongside organizations
stakeholder engagement,end-user testing, mass-manufacturing, and assembly. More importantly, GOAL presents anopportunity for UMD students to actively work toward equitable educational access, a complexproblem providing impact experienced directly within the students’ own local communities, bothgeographic and professional. This involvement grants our engineering undergraduates directagency toward solving a local “grand challenge”, empowering them to utilize their skills toconnect with their communities and engage with social challenges.In addition to the teacher involvement during implementation, fifteen (15) teacher partners weredirectly involved in the design process of the version two kit. Undergraduate student classesworked closely with teacher
-- from tinkering with their own teaching innovationsand practices to evaluating their impact on learning and engagement to then sharing the resultswith the community-- CEE could offer more support for faculty related to DEI. With adevelopmental trajectory in mind, we suggest the following DEI supports, though also anticipatethat additional feedback and evaluation will expand and refine this list: ● A curated set of papers that provides accessible frameworks about power and explanations for currently preferred terms, whether published in CEE or elsewhere [6, 13, 15]. ● Exemplar papers that are not about DEI, but that treat DEI as omnirelevant, such as by explaining the limitations of a study sample that does not include students