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Engineering and Community Engagement

Jay Gatsby — Mon, 25 May 2015 12:01:02 +0000

The webinar entitled ‘Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice‘, presented by Jon Leydens and Juan Lucena from the Colorado School of Mines, took place on Wednesday, May 20th – and may be available for viewing at ! At this same site, you may also find another webinar of interest: ‘Dean’s Panel on Scholarship in Engineering Service Learning and Humanitarian Engineering’ – featuring Dean Amr Elnashai (Penn State), Dean Leah Jamieson (Purdue), and Dean Stephen Silliman (Gonzaga).The ASEE Community Engagement Division’s Film Festival voting concludes at midnight, Saturday, May 30th. You are urged to visit the website and vote for your favorite videos (). The top five vote getters will be named finalists. In addition, a panel of ASEE CED committee members will also select five finalists. These ten finalists will be announced on May 31st and will then compete for the a) Best Video Award ($1000) and the b) Community Impact Award ($1000). Winners will be announced at the ASEE CED annual business meeting on Monday, June 15th.

ASEE Community Engagement Division Video Competition

Jay Gatsby — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 01:54:10 +0000

The ASEE Community Engagement Division is hosting a film festival – a video competition – beginning April 19th (please see ). Our goal is to document how engineering students from across the country are engaging communities. There will be a $1000 Best Video Award and a $1000 Community Impact Award.

For this effort, it is important that we stay connected in order to: a) help market the submitted videos, and b) to facilitate voting and provide updates on the status of the voting results. We invite you to:

1. Follow us on Twitter ()

2. Like us on Facebook ()

3. Subscribe to our YouTube channel ()

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact:

Thomas Colledge

ASEE Community Engagement Division

Call for Papers: University Engineering Programs That Impact Communities: Critical Analyses and Reflections

Jay Gatsby — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 01:47:49 +0000

The editors of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (IJSLE) are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a Special Edition of the Journal entitled:

University Engineering Programs That Impact Communities: Critical Analyses and Reflections

Purpose and Scope

The editors seek to promote the scholarship of engagement through the special issue. The goal is to provide readers a ‘snapshot’ of the structure, practices, and methods employed by the various existing programs around the country, including:

a) A description of the model employed by each university (curricular and/or extracurricular)

b) Lessons learned: hurdles, pitfalls

c) Best practices

d) Description of programmatic assessment efforts and the status of such.

Assessment data, research findings, critical analyses or reflections on current programs and/or future directions are encouraged as part of papers. A more detailed list of suggestions for possible manuscript outlines and content can be found by logging on to www.ijsle.org.

The target audiences for the issue are faculty, administrators, and others at universities who:

a) are interested in developing a program in service learning in engineering, learning through service, humanitarian engineering, community-based engineering, tech-based entrepreneurship, etc., or those that

b) seek to adapt/improve their current model of community engagement in engineering.

Manuscript submittal deadline is September 15th, 2014 – with publication planned for December, 2014.

IJSLE Special Edition: Opportunities and Barriers to Integrating Service-Learning into Engineering Education

Jay Gatsby — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:02:07 +0000

The editors of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (IJSLE) are pleased to publish this, our first Special Edition of the Journal, entitled “Opportunities and Barriers to Integrating Service Learning into Engineering Education“. To view the Special Edition, please log in to: .

The peer-reviewed publications in this Special Edition of IJSLE are as follows:

1. Assessment of Service Learning in Engineering

a. A Mixed-Methods Study of Cognitive and Affective Learning During a Sophomore Design Problem-Based Service Learning Experience

Olga Pierrakos, Robert Nagel, Eric Pappas, Jacquelyn Nagel, Thomas Moran, Elise Barrella, Mariafe Panizo

b. A New Method of Assessing the Effects of a Service-Learning Class on Engineering Undergraduate Students, Patricia Maloney, Lauren Dent, Tanja Karp

2. Scholarship of Service Learning in Engineering

a. Principles of Sustaining Partnerships Between Higher Education and Their Larger Communities: Perspectives from Engineering Faculty Engaged in Learning through Service,

Bowa George Tucker, David Owen Kazmer, Angela R. Bielefeldt, Kurt Paterson, Olga Pierrakos, Annie Soisson, Chris Swan

b. Designing Value into Engineering Learning Through Service Activities Using a Blueprint Model,

Angela R. Bielefeldt

c. Service Learning as Scholarship of Engagement and Its Relationship to the Academic Reward Structure,

Karinna M. Vernaza, Theresa M. Vitolo, Scott E. Steinbrink, Barry J. Brinkman

d. Scholarly Advances in Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship: A Typology of Research Publications

Rachel Dzombak, Khanjan Mehta

3. Interdisciplinary Engagement

a. Working Across Disciplines and Chipping Away at Silos with SLCE: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Educating Science and Engineering Students,

Robert John Swap, Kent A Wayland

4. Faculty-Led, Student Projects (An Example Case Study)

a. Kitchen 2.0: Design Buidance for Healthier Cooking Environments,

Mollie Ruth, Jarod Maggio, Kelli Whelan, Mark DeYoung, Jonathan May, Abram Peterson, Kurt Paterson

I join with the other editors and the reviewers of the IJSLE in hoping that you enjoy and benefit from the manuscripts in the Special Edition and that you continue to engage in the work that you do in Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering, and Social Entrepreneurship.

Sincerely,

Thomas H. Colledge, PhD, PE Editor-in-Chief, IJSLE