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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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engineering at the University of San Diego. He is passionate about creating engaging experiences for his students. His work is primarily focused on two ar ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Iterating Eco-Social Justice Learning Experiences Through Community-Partnered Capstone Design ProjectsAbstractCapstone design is a critical culminating experience in the academic trajectory of allundergraduate engineering students. At the University of San Diego, each year a handful ofengineering capstone design teams out of the several dozen across the college work oncommunity-partnered projects. The projects are seeded and nurtured by efforts from a formalizeduniversity initiative, the

Conference Session

Lightning Talk - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University

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Paper ID #45623Engagement in Practice: Lessons Learned from Partnering with a LocalRegenerative Farm in a Mechanical Engineering Capstone CourseMs. Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University Shoshanah Cohen is the Director of Community Engaged Learning for Engineering at Stanford University, working with faculty to incorporate community-engaged projects in their courses. She co-teaches Stanford’s mechanical engineering senior capstone course sequence. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Engagement in Practice: Lessons Learned from Partnering with a Local

Conference Session

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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participated in our neighborhood revitalization program. Students can beinvolved through various avenues, including internships, capstone projects, thesis projects, andby registering in a civil engineering elective course titled “Principles of SustainableDevelopment”. Regardless of the pathway chosen, it's essential to provide students withmentorship, guidance, and support throughout their involvement in the program. Faculty mentorsoffer supervision, feedback, and resources to help students navigate their roles and maximizetheir impact on community projects.To successfully engage students in this initiative, we established a program with the followingsteps: 1. Develop Student Projects: Identify specific tasks for each project where students can

Conference Session

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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teachingsocial scientists to think like engineers, which will better prepare all of them to develop solutionsfor major societal problems.Community-engaged design projectsThe integrative capstone experience is the yearlong design project, where multidisciplinaryteams work together with community partners on problems at the intersection of health, society,and technology (Fig. 2). Teams are composed of 4-5 graduate students from different disciplinesand local community partners invested in solving big societal challenges. Graduate students areimmersed within community settings, challenging the traditional hierarchies between researchersand participants by engaging community stakeholders as full participants in the research process[10]. Over the year, these

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Lightning Talk - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jose Manuel Fuentes-Cid, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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essential for solvingcomplex problems and working in multidisciplinary teams. This study aims to evaluate howSBL projects contribute to the development of social and professional skills in engineeringstudents. It examines which specific skills are enhanced through community projects and howSBL influences students' social responsibility and professional ethics. The research isconducted within the “Capstone Portfolio” course in Construction Engineering as part of aninstitutional initiative. In this project, students collaborate with women participating in the“Mujeres Jefas de Hogar” program, an initiative led by municipal public entities in Chile thatseeks to enhance women's access to personal and professional development opportunities.Over its four

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Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick Sours, The Ohio State University; Cherish Vance, The Ohio State University; Tylesha D. Drayton, The Ohio State University

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. The purpose of this collaboration is the development anddissemination of tailored low carbon footprint water treatment plants to further global access tosafe drinking water using gravity-powered technology. The AguaClara Reach partnershipleverages projects across undergraduate research, courses, and capstone. With futureopportunities that will pair with community engaged learning courses providing multipleavenues of engagement across the collaboration.Establishing the Humanitarian Engineering LabNeed and IdeationOver the last twenty years, the Engineering for Sustainable Development field has been growingacross the academic domain. Many universities are offering programming and courses in thespace. Establishing labs and programs to prepare

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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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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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Paper ID #39229Engagement in Practice: Better Preparing Students for Community-EngagedEngineering by Restructuring an Academic Program, Minor, and Curricu-lumDr. Kristen M. Conroy, The Ohio State University Dr. Kristen Conroy has a PhD in Biological Engineering from Ohio State University. Her main area of fo- cus is sanitation. She has worked with partner organization, UNiTED, to teach courses where engineering students focus on collaborative projects in Kpando, Ghana. She also teaches the Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Capstone, Energy in Biological Systems, and the Introduction to Humanitarian Engineering

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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applied to two case studies. In theeducationally-focused CE case study, a senior capstone design course in environmentalengineering worked on a project defined by a community partner. The rubric did a good jobrevealing where improvements in the project could have been realized and demonstrating that thenon-profit facilitator was instrumental in engaging the community. In the second case study, acommunity sub-contracted an academic partner to explore residential indoor air quality. Theproject was at a higher level of the rubric for most criteria compared to the educationally-focusedcase study. Use of the rubric at the start of a project will open important conversations, therebycontributing to the community and academic partners more fully meeting

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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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Marian K. Zaki, Houston Christian University

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reasons, we chose to partnerwith and support nonprofit organizations to help them bridge their technology gaps by providingcustom-built software tools for their operational requirements.The remainder of this paper will elaborate on how the partnership started, the challenges we facedthrough the process, and how some of these challenges led to adjustments in our approaches.Some of the challenges are still to be looked into and would require some strategic and creativesolutions to solve in our future expansions of community-engaged learning.The Starting Point: Capstone ProjectsOur Computer Science degree program requires students to complete a series of two courses:Senior Project I and Senior Project II. During these courses, the students work in

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexa Renshaw, Western Washington University; Bree L Carpenter, Western Washington University; Kylea Assayag-Nodine, Western Washington University; Derek M Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University; Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University

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sponsor who was keen on engaging students in open-endedcommunity-oriented problem solving. The sponsor entered a partnership with the university tosupport the project for up to four years. The partnership also explored expansion to sponsorshipof capstone senior projects. Plans to expand and add automation to the farm operations wouldprovide a richer set of problems that would be more appropriate for seniors to take on and is agoal for our future work together.References[1] “Service-Learning-and-Community-Engagement.docx.” Accessed: Jan. 10, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vanderbilt.edu%2 Fvu-sub%2Fwp- content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F59%2F2011%2F03%2F19134023%2FService

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University; Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; Kristen Conroy, The Ohio State University; Kadri Akinola Akanni Parris, The Ohio State University

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. Specifically, theTanzania Maji Marwa project, an effort focused on water access for rural communities wasintroduced to students first as a capstone project option in the undergraduate civil engineeringprogram with a travel component course where students learn Kiswahili, historical and culturalcontext and then travel for experiential learning. The engagement typically spans as yearlongcapstone projects (AU and SP) with the complementary travel preparation course. Students haveengaged with nonprofit Kilimanjaro Hope Organization and the rural Masaii community ofMarwa to access their water related challenges. The first implementation of student drivenprojects related to rainwater harvesting, the initiative’s goal was to collaborate with in

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Engagement in Practice: Bridging Engineering Education and Community Impact through Collaborative Design and Construction

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel H Sangree, The Johns Hopkins University

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meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors (Student Outcome 2) an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts (Student Outcome 4)It is common practice for undergraduate engineering programs to use the senior capstone projectto assess the abilities of students to meet these ABET student outcomes [7]. Considering the mid-twentieth century definition of engineering as “applied science”, capstone projects are a logicalplace for students to

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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Azadeh Bolhari P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Eric Matzke Flaska, University of Colorado Boulder; Kenneth Stewart

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Paper ID #40314Board 52: Engagement in Practice: Role of Community Engagement inDisaster RecoveryDr. Azadeh Bolhari P.E., University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Bolhari is a professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Ar- chitectural Engineering (CEAE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her teaching focuses on fate and transport of contaminants, capstone design and aqueous chemistry. Dr. Bolhari is passionate about broad- ening participation in engineering through community-based participatory action research. Her research interests explore the boundaries of engineering and social

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Engagement in Practice: Bridging Engineering Education and Community Impact through Collaborative Design and Construction

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel

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includes: transportation infrastructure planning and design, infrastruct ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Engagement in Practice: A Case Study in Construction Engineering Practicum Course at The CitadelIntroductionSuccessful Construction Engineering programs engage students in meaningful projects thatmotivate them to exceed minimum expectations. Undergraduate capstone projects, ofteninvolving real clients, site visits, and milestone briefings, prepare students for professional roles.However, students sometimes overlook the community impact of their work. Beyond estimates,schedules, analyses, and design, hands-on construction experience is essential. While

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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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Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Ashish Dahiya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

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Service-Learning. He was a co-recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engi- neering and Technology Education and the recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers’ Educational Excellence Award and the ASEE Chester Carlson Award. He is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers.Mr. Ashish, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Ashish had been working with RuTAG IIT Delhi as a P.A. Tech. for the past five years. He has conducted extensive research on rural problems and worked on community-based projects aimed at improving the livelihoods of marginalized people. Ashish’s commitment to

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gianina Morales, University of Pittsburgh; Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Emily C. Rainey, University of Pittsburgh

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music to visually impaired people?” as part of the course’s capstone project. Wecollected data between March and May 2023. Data includes semi-structured in-depth interviews(5.4 hours with the instructor and 1.5 hours with each focal student), observational field notesand audio recordings of classes (including two external events where the students presented),observational field notes and audio recordings of focal students’ working meetings, focalstudents’ artifacts, coursework materials and supporting multimedia (pictures and videos).For our analysis, we followed standard procedures of qualitative case study research (e.g., [43],[44]). For question 3, we used a provisional code [45] based on the set of human-centeredengineering design

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Community and Industry Collaboration for Sustainable Development

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan J Ely, University of Southern Indiana; Matthew J. Ely, Indiana University-Bloomington; Milad Rezvani Rad, University of Southern Indiana

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activities which have been shownto enhance retainment of those individuals most likely to leave engineering career pathways.While EIA is only one of these experiences, future work could investigate the impact of otherextra-curricular activities, in addition to embedded experiences such as internships, co-ops orsenior capstone projects. Experiences which provide students with a connection to their peersand to communities, while reinforcing a sense of belonging to the engineering community arecritical to retain those at risk. The researchers continue to work with EIA investigating the on-going collection of data, as well as a deeper understanding of the qualitative responses.Additional studies will also compare responses to these survey questions by

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Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Bishop, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Rebecca Kenemuth

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mechanical engineering capstone projects, introducing non-profit partnerships related to designs for persons with disabilities, and founding the Social/Environmental Design Impact Award. He manages several outreach and diversity efforts including the large-scale Get Out And Learn (GOAL) engineering kit program that reaches thousands of local K-12 students.Jennifer Bishop, University of Maryland, College Park Jen Bishop is the Assistant Director - Outreach and Recruitment for the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering, where she draws upon her 10+ years of STEM and Maker education experience to inspire future engineers. Jen has a Bachelor’s degree in

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University

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(2nd ed.). Oxford Press. 4. Leidig, P. A. & Oakes, W. C. (2021-a). Model for Project-Based Community Engagement. International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship, 16(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.24908/ijsle.v16i2.14809 5. Howe, S., and J. Goldberg. (2019). Engineering capstone design education: Current practices, emerging trends, and success strategies. In Design education today: Technical contexts, programs and best practices, edited by D. Schaefer, G. Coates, and C. Eckert. Springer.6. Leidig, P. A., Khalifah, S. M. & Oakes, W. C. (2023). Capstone design in engineering community engagement course. Journal of Civil Engineering

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Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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undergraduate education including developing laboratories to enhance experimental design skills and mentoring and guiding student teams through the capstone design and a translational course following capstone design. In her Director role, she works closely with the departmental leadership to manage the undergraduate program including: developing course offering plan, chairing the undergrad- uate curriculum committee, reviewing and approving course articulations for study abroad, serving as Chief Advisor, and representing the department at the college level meetings. She is also engaged with college recruiting and outreach; she coordinates three summer experiences for high school students visit- ing Bioengineering and co

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; xinquan Jiang, The Ohio State University

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observation but less formal depending on the course. I.g. Student traveled to the river to collect water with community members. (Diversity of Stakeholders), (A) (Stakeholder Dynamics), (U)COURSE 4: Global Perspective CourseCurrently as structured within the minor the global perspective category is provided to allowstudents the opportunity to take courses focus on topics such as social/cultural,development/poverty, sustainability/environment, economics/international business/public policyand are meant to help engineers understand their users/clients and the context in which they live.COURSE 5: Global Capstone - Culminating Project workHofstede Cultural Dimensions Activity Students reflect on the Hofstefe cultural dimensions

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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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Gianina Morales, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Mauricio Reyes Gallardo, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

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event that struck the central region of Chile onFebruary 27th, 2010—a joint research project between Japan and Chile was established toadvance the development of technologies and resources to foster tsunami resilient communities.The SATREPS (The Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable DevelopmentProject) program [2] allowed the introduction of the Disaster Imagination Game (DIG) in Chile.DIG was created as a method for disaster drill in Japan [3] and has been used in differentcontexts since then (e.g., [4], [5] ). The game’s overall goal is to promote disaster risk awarenessand resilience. Its core is a teamwork exercise around a printed map, where people discuss andrecord information about the territory under study [6]. We