Conference Session

Socio-cultural Dimensions of Community Engagement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Anne Elizabeth Dare, Purdue University; Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tiago R Forin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, comput- ing, and the social sciences to advance understanding of geographic, disciplinary, and historical variations in engineering education and professional practice.Miss Anne Elizabeth Dare, Purdue University Anne Dare is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering at Purdue Uni- versity, and holds a joint appointment with the Global Engineering Program (GEP) as its Global Design Team Coordinator. She received her B.S. in 2008 and M.S.E. in 2010 from Purdue University and was a member of GEP’s pilot Global Design Team. As an undergraduate, Dare spent several summers work- ing with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service as an

Conference Session

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haley Margaret Gardner

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Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

climate change effects their motivations and agency to solve complex global problems for a sustainability in their career.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

INTERACTIVE SESSION – Measuring the Impact on Communities

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Julie P Martin, Clemson University; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Tamara Floyd Smith, Tuskegee University

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Community Engagement Division

quantitative and qualitativemethods requires expertise in many areas and can be a challenge on its own. One way to addressthis is to have experts with a variety of experience associated with project. On one‘s owncampus, experts in statistics for qualitative work or interviewing and data coding for quantitativework can be a treasure for supporting work in engineering education research.ResourcesInstruments from Study 1 are available throughhttp://www.ee.washington.edu/research/community/Community/Home.html.Instruments and models from Study 2 can be requested through Dr. Julie Martin(jtrenor@clemson.edu).SummaryIn Study 1, the role of community as it is associated with student engagement in academicendeavors can range from negative to negligible to

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mariam Manuel, University of Houston; Ricky P. Greer, University of Houston; Jerrod A Henderson, University of Houston (CoE & CoT); Virginia Snodgrass Rangel Rangel, University of Houston

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

intervention aimed at exposing underrepresented fourth and fifth grade boys to hands-on, inquiry based STEM experiments and activities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #23043 Henderson is a part of the first year engineering experience team and he was recently appointed by the Dean of the College as the Director of the Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies (PROMES), a program aimed at increasing engineering student achievement, engagement, and graduation rates. His research interests are in engineering identity formation and persistence among underrepresented students

Conference Session

Civic Engagement and Volunteerism in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Deepa Gupta, The Boeing Company; Timothy Kieran O'Mahony, University of Washington, College of Education LIFE Center; Laura E. Meyers, City University of Seattle; Fabian Zender, The Boeing Company; Danielle LoVallo Vermeer, The Boeing Company

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

Education, 2015 The Business Case for Engineering Skills-based Volunteerism in K-12 EducationAbstractSkills-based volunteerism programs can provide technical employees effective and meaningfulopportunities to utilize, develop, and transfer their skills while contributing to their companies’community engagement objectives in K-12 education. While many companies encourage theiremployees to engage in education-related volunteerism, these efforts are often one-off eventsrelated to student outreach or recruiting, rather than opportunities for employees to utilize theirskills to not only give back to community, but also develop professionally and personally. Thisstudy focuses on assessing the impact of a pilot