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Board 427: Work in Progress: ADVANCE Strategic Partnership for Alignment of Community Engagement in STEM (SPACES)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Portland, Oregon

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June 23, 2024

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June 23, 2024

End Date

July 12, 2024

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Diversity and NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Angela R Bielefeldt University of Colorado, Boulder

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Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director of the Integrated Design Engineering (IDE) program. The IDE program offers a BS degree accredited under the general criteria of the ABET EAC and a new PhD degree in Engineering Education. Bielefeldt's research focuses on sustainability, ethics, social responsibility, and community engagement. She is a licensed P.E. in Colorado.

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Lupita D Montoya University of Colorado, Boulder

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Lupita D. Montoya is Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder with courtesy appointment in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado Sc

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Andrea Ferro Clarkson University

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Cesunica E. Ivey University of California, Berkeley

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Cesunica Ivey is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the PI of the Air Quality Modeling and Exposure Lab at UC Berkeley. Ivey’s research focuses on the nexus of air pollution science and engineering and environmental justice. She is an emerging leader in the areas of regional air quality modeling and its applications and community-scale air pollution exposure assessment. Ivey works in partnership with community organizations across California to prevent the over-industrialization of already overburdened neighborhoods. She recently served on a panel at a public hearing for the congressional Environmental Justice for All Act, sponsored by the U.S. Democratic Natural Resources Committee to support the regulation of cumulative burdens in impacted communities. In recognition of her advocacy for frontline communities of the e-commerce supply chain expansion in inland Southern California, Ivey was selected as a member of the American Chemical Society Chemical and Engineering News Talented 12 2021 class and a 2022 Women in Science Incentive Prize winner by The Story Exchange.

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Shakira Renee Hobbs University of California Irvine

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Dr. Hobbs’ scholarship explores system approaches to environmental engineering, community engaged research, and life cycle thinking applied to the food, energy, and water nexus.

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Maya A Trotz University of South Florida

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Maya A. Trotz is Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Theater from MIT and MSc and PhD degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Trotz joined the faculty at the University of South Florida (USF) in 2004. She is the PI of a recently awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) National Research Traineeship, NRT – Systems Training for Research on Geography based Coastal Food Energy Water Systemsand has served as Director for NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers (Water Awareness Research and Education), and Research Experience for Undergraduates (Tampa Interdisciplinary Environmental Research), and Department of Education funded (Multidisciplinary doctoral graduate fellowship program at the water-energy-materials­human-nexus) programs. She also served as a co-PI on an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minority Ph.D. award from 2004-2012 designed to increase minority Ph.D. graduates from baselines of 0 in 2004, and has been the departmental program coordinator with 10 Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) graduates to date. Dr. Trotz is currently the President of the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP) and in 2014 received an AEESP award for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Engineering Science Education. Dr. Trotz served on the governing council of the Caribbean Science Foundation (CSF), receiving their Distinguished Service Award in 2013. She served as the CSF team leader on the Sagicor Visionaries Challenge for secondary school students designed to promote sustainability, innovation, & Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics across 12 Caribbean countries and currently serves as an advisor of a Green Engineering Syllabus for the Caribbean Examinations Council, offered in 16 Caribbean countries.

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Cliff I. Davidson Syracuse University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-6872-4094

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Wilmot Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
Former Director, Environmental Engineering Program
Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems
and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Susan J. Masten P.E. Michigan State University

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Susan J. Masten is a professor of environmental engineering at Michigan State University. She teaches a range of courses from the introduction to engineering course to the upperclass courses on water/wastewater treatment, air pollution engineering and sc

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Sheryl H Ehrman San Jose State University

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Chang-yu Wu University of Florida

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Professor Chang-Yu Wu received his BS from Mechanical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University and PhD from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. His teaching and research interests range fro

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Abstract

The Strategic Partnership for Alignment of Community Engagement in STEM (SPACES) is a collaborative research effort under the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program. The overarching goal of SPACES is to build an inclusive academic culture to address intersectional gender-race-ethnicity inequities in Environmental Engineering (EnvE) via the application of evidence-based strategies for systemic change. The two main thrusts of the project are to address systemic problems that cause: (1) underrepresented minority women faculty (URMWF) experiences of isolation in and/or departures from STEM academia and (2) the devaluation of research conducted by URMWF, especially community-engaged research (CER). SPACES is a collaborative effort of faculty and administrators from 11 universities with four leading professional societies. SPACES is adapting evidence-based practices to support women’s intersectional identities and catalyze an attitudinal change among individuals and institutional leaders. This process involves the pursuit of 12 objectives crossing the micro, meso, and macro levels and is being operationalized through 11 activities. An overview of the motivations for this project and activities to date is provided in the paper.

Bielefeldt, A. R., & Montoya, L. D., & Ferro, A., & Ivey, C. E., & Hobbs, S. R., & Trotz, M. A., & Davidson, C. I., & Masten, S. J., & Ehrman, S. H., & Wu, C. (2024, June), Board 427: Work in Progress: ADVANCE Strategic Partnership for Alignment of Community Engagement in STEM (SPACES) Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://strategy.asee.org/47017

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