Conference Session

Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Paula Davis Lampley Esq., University of Cincinnati; Krizia Leonela Cabrera-Toro, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in-person face to face experience to a virtualexperience. Online learning is an effective method of instruction, provided that devices andtechnology platforms are accessible and screen time is monitored and limited. WOCSECincludes workshops for standardized testing, the college application process, scholarshipresources, shadowing opportunities, summer internships and the required high school coursesrequired of most collegiate engineering programs. Students were given a pre-survey the first dayof the camp to assess their attitudes and perceptions towards entering STEM fields. In an effortto measure student’s change in perception, students completed a post survey. In addition to thepre-post survey, a semi-annual quantitative and qualitative