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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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Paper ID #37600Board 54A: Student Impacts from Outreach-based Flood Risk Research inRural Texas, USADr. Erick Butler, West Texas A&M Dr. Butler has graduated from Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio with a BS in Environmental Science (2007), an MS in Environmental Engineering (2009), and a Dr. Eng. in Civil Engineering (2013). Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, an institution he has been working for since August 2013. He is a registered P.E. in the state of Louisiana. His research interests include geographic information

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

example, teams can gothrough multiple rounds of ideating, prototyping, and testing their designs to iteratively developa solution that is co-created with community members. As another example, during producttesting the teams may learn more about the users and the community that may support anupdated definition of the problem statement. Thus, teams must document their design process tocreate a compelling set of evidence to support their design decisions and tell an impactful designnarrative.Community stakeholder participation is crucial for a successful design project. Students aretaught to use a stakeholder map to identify how individual community members are involved inthe design process. For example, some community members are highly involved

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sydney Donohue, University of New Mexico; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Paper ID #39784Motivations and Barriers to Participation in Community Outreach andEngagement among Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Stu-dentsSydney Donohue, University of New Mexico Sydney Donohue is a graduate student in the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico. She works as the Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Water and the Environment and the Intermoun- tain West Transformation Network. She holds a B.A. in Ecology from the University of Georgia.Dr. Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico Dr. Anjali Mulchandani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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have meaningful impact and benefit the most from. Student projects vary depending on the level of involvement whether they are doing an internship, capstone project, thesis projects, or registered in a class. 2. Student Recruitment: Attract a diverse group of students who are interested in community engagement and solving challenges close to home. We employed a combination of strategies to engage students including hosting information sessions, presenting our work in front of student organizations, and encouraging faculty members to refer interested students. 3. Training and Orientation: Provide students with training and orientation sessions, explain the goal of our neighborhood revitalization work, and

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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

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

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

some cases, they were personally impacted by them. For example,one student hadn’t previously considered engineering as related to social justice. She wasn’tinterested in pursuing a career in the technical-focused engineering field, but after seeing theconnections between engineering and social justice, she had a change of heart and wasreconsidering that decision: I also learned that engineering can involve social justice issues as well. Before, I did not think I would end up pursuing any sort of career in engineering because I never enjoyed the technical aspects of what was previously required. Once introduced to our project, I was intrigued to not only address modern sustainable food systems through methods

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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

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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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awarenessof soft skills in the educational community and effort by policymakers [3], the soft skills gapcontinues to occur for the engineering graduates [4]. Students and faculties devote more attentionto academic success due to the orientation of school curriculum and assessment [5], lackingopportunity for students to learn the necessary soft skills in a traditional class setting. Mentoring has been one of the most effective pedagogical approaches and has beenwidely adopted in education and related fields [6]. In addition, social interaction plays a criticalrole in how learners construct knowledge and skills through the social constructivism lens [7].Thus, we designed an interdisciplinary robotics mentorship model, where the

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

during Fall Semester, the last Monday of the month during SpringSemester). In the Fall Semester, attendees participated in a fun activity (origami, outdoorgames, 3D puzzles, and Christmas cookie decorating) and enjoyed a snack. Faculty and staffwere welcome to attend and a number of them stopped by. Activities were planned and staffedby two graduate assistants, under the supervision of the Director of Student Success. In theSpring Semester, in addition to an activity (crafts, meditation and reflection, scavenger hunt,outdoor games) and snack, students were provided with a wellness resource (emotionalwellness, spiritual wellness, intellectual wellness, and physical wellness), targeting a differentdimension of wellness each month. Use of posters