Riddell, J., & Sala, A. L., & Spendlove, T. (2011, June), Work in Progress: Using Social Media to Build and Grow  an Engineering Community on a Small Campus    Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--18428

\bibitem{asee_peer_18428}
  Riddell, J., \& Sala, A. L., \& Spendlove, T. (2011, June), \emph{Work in Progress: Using Social Media to Build and Grow  an Engineering Community on a Small Campus  }
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--18428

James Riddell, Anca L. Sala, and Tom Spendlove.  "Work in Progress: Using Social Media to Build and Grow  an Engineering Community on a Small Campus  ".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://peer.asee.org/18428 Internet.  09 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_18428}
  James Riddell, Anca L. Sala, and Tom Spendlove.
  "Work in Progress: Using Social Media to Build and Grow  an Engineering Community on a Small Campus  ".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://peer.asee.org/18428 Internet.  09 Jan, 2025

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AB  -             Work-in-Progress: Using Social Media to Build and Grow                   an Engineering Community on a Small CampusBuilding a strong community among undergraduate students, faculty, and program alumni is oneof the important factors determining the success of an undergraduate engineering program. Aspart of this community, maintaining a connection with program alumni is vital for assessing theachievement of the program educational objectives. Even with a small engineering program suchas our Mechanical Engineering program, establishing an engineering community can becomplicated due to factors such as the very diverse student population, and the lack of an alumniassociation in the school. Many of the students in our program work full time, and most are parttime students. The students go through the program as non-cohort groups, making informationdissemination more difficult. This paper focuses on the use of social media including Facebookand LinkedIn in creating and growing our engineering community. While Facebook is morepopular with the younger population of students, and used mostly for social type of activities anddiscussions, LinkedIn is the preponderant medium for program alumni, as well as more maturestudents who are in professional positions and desire to widen their networks. We are also usingthese media in combination with more traditional activities such as student chapters ofprofessional societies. The paper will discuss features and statistics, and draw initial conclusionson the effectiveness of the above media in growing our engineering community. Future plans andrecommendations will also be outlined.
AU  - James Riddell
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