My interests in community engagement stemmed from a need to ensure that research is addressing real-world challenges in partnership with communities. My perspective as a systems engineering means that working with stakeholders to develop sustainable infrastructure for partnerships is a crucial part of my future vision for the success of my research. I seek to understand more about the organizational factors that enable and sustain partnerships (e.g. research-practice partnerships, school-industry partnerships, interorganizational partnerships broadly) in engineering education contexts, the role of community engagement in engineering, and leveraging participatory methods to engage community in research.
Community Engaged Engineering Education Research
Relevant Work and Examples
Schilling, M. R. & Grohs, J. (2022, June). Benefits, roles and tensions: Understanding the process of collaboration in rural engineering education contexts. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, Minneapolis, MN.