Butterfield, A., & Le, K. M. Q., & Kelly, K., & Goffin, P., & Becnel, T., & GAILLARDON, P. (2018, June), Citizen Scientists Engagement in Air Quality Measurements  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--30190

\bibitem{asee_peer_30190}
  Butterfield, A., \& Le, K. M. Q., \& Kelly, K., \& Goffin, P., \& Becnel, T., \& GAILLARDON, P. (2018, June), \emph{Citizen Scientists Engagement in Air Quality Measurements}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--30190

Anthony Butterfield, Katrina My Quyen Le, Kerry Kelly, Pascal Goffin, Thomas Becnel, and Pierre-Emmanuel GAILLARDON.  "Citizen Scientists Engagement in Air Quality Measurements".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/30190 Internet.  27 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_30190}
  Anthony Butterfield, Katrina My Quyen Le, Kerry Kelly, Pascal Goffin, Thomas Becnel, and Pierre-Emmanuel GAILLARDON.
  "Citizen Scientists Engagement in Air Quality Measurements".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/30190 Internet.  27 Apr, 2025

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title = "Citizen Scientists Engagement in Air Quality Measurements"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Citizen scientist efforts have been shown to effectively engage the public in STEM departments and result in valuable data, which are capable of answering worthy research questions. However, most citizen scientist efforts have been centered in colleges of science, and a limited number have crossed into research areas important to chemical engineering fields. In this work we report on the results of a project to recruit high school and middle school students across [Name of valley removed to preserve double blind review] as citizen scientists, working in partnership with chemical engineering researchers in an effort to create a distributed online network of air quality sensors. 
 
Undergraduate mentors trained middle and high school students to monitor and maintain their own air quality sensor. Through partnerships with a local community group concerned with air quality, teaching materials were co-developed to both reach middle and high school students. Students learned the science behind the research and about the difficulties common to physical measurements, using these tailored teaching modules, to better prepare them to analyze their data. Once trained, students are expected to become semi-independent researchers in charge of monitoring and maintaining their piece of a larger air quality map.
 
We describe in this work the hurdles inherent in such citizen science engagement, within a chemical engineering research program, and means to address them.  We describe successful means of engaging classrooms, training citizen scientists, obtaining faculty buy-in within the confines of state curricular demands, and addressing school administration concerns. 

AU  - Anthony Butterfield
AU  - Katrina My Quyen Le
AU  - Kerry Kelly
AU  - Pascal Goffin
AU  - Thomas Becnel
AU  - Pierre-Emmanuel GAILLARDON
CY  - Salt Lake City, Utah
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PB  - ASEE Conferences
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