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• W294219907 abstract "An approach to the problem of providing social awareness experiences to undergraduate engineering students is provided in this paper. Specifically, this report lists some of the developments surrounding the inception of a social fraternities and sororities program at the University of Missouri-Rolla and events' leading to these organizations doing social work in St. Louis. Originally started as a community improvements council, an organization of all sororities and fraternities, the collective efforts of all the groups have earned citations from the governor and legislature. (CP) *********************************************************************** Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available'from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by,EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. *********************************************************************** SOCIAL AWARENESS AND THE ENGINEERING STUDENT Richard W...'Stephenson, P.E., Ph.D.. Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, Missouri U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF -EDUCATION THIS DOCoMENT 'HAS DEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZAT!ON ORIGIN ATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE SENT OFFICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY During the late 1960's and early 1970's there arose in'lhe pub4c a loud, if not large, criticism that engineers possessed tunnel vision with/respect to human needs. It was charged that engineers and, by implication, engineering educators, were infinitely more concerned with products and profits than with the impact their technology breakthroughs were making on society. Engineers were listed among the perpetrators of air and water pollution, slum generation, and ecological degradation. This charge is, of course, not wholly without foundation. Like other se ments of our society, engineers in general were not attuned to the nontechnical consequences of their profession. Efforts to develop in engineering students awareness of the sociological and ecological repercussions of their endeavors hare taken many forms. Courses taught by humanists and sociologists are now available. Environmental impact statements are being required in senior level design courses. Team teaching, often interdisciplinary within departments or utilizing both a sociology and an engineering professor is providing humanities and engineering students insight to both sides of the social problems. However, a major problem with such in-curricula courses is the basic Tact that the engineering program provides little room for such frills. At t'he University of Missouri-Rolla, the engineering program consists of 132 semester credit hours. Of these only 6 are unrestricted electives. This fact has led to another approach to providing the much needed social awareness education for the UMR students. Under the guidance of Dr. Fred Lamar, formerly Protestant Campus Minister at UMR, now University Chaplai'l at DePauw_University, UMR has developed a unique program of social action-social awareness as off-campus', extra curricular activities. The program, under the United Ministries in Higher /Education (UMHE) banner, as developed, has four 'vehicles through which student involvement is.generated: 1) classical campus student religious groups (Wesley, Ne'man, etc.); 2) student service organizations (Theta Tau, Intercollegiate Ynights, Circle K, etc.); 3) student professional societies (American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, etc.); and4) a social fraternities ard sororities program. This paper will outline the fourth program. In the spring of 1966, a group of twenty-five University of Missouri-Rolla students went into the St. Louis inner city to study the problems of the Inner city poor. Their campus chaplain arranged four days,of sit-down and listen seminars for engineering students who had been doing that all semester. At the end of the first day the students had had their fill of sitting and listening. They were turned on by the problems discussed, filled with ideas and ready to put their ideas into action. In short, the engineering students were reacting as they were taught; as problem solvers and activists, not passivists. During the next three days, the students surveyed building code violations in the SarahPage area, built a stage for a Head Start center in the Goodfellow-Wells community and completed a housing inspection in the Easton-Belle neighborhood. That trip was followed the next month by UMR's first student work projecta repair program at Cabanne Methodist Church. The next fall two church camps were added to the list of service projects, and the following spring another mission church was repaired. Also, the 1966-67 school year saw the organization of the Chaplain's Fraternity Program. The first participating houses were Kappa Alpha, Lambda Chi Alpha, Acacia, Pi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Phi Epsilon. During the following school year the program increased. More projects and 'house discussion programs were organized, and the fraternitiorganized themselves as the Community Improvements Council. The organization was officially accepted by the University of Missouri-Rolla in the spring of 1968 as Gamma Alpha Delta. The years 1968-70 were years of great growth for GAD. The organization grew to eighteen fraternities (Acacia, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Phi Alpha,oBeta Sigma Psi, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Theta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Pi, Theta Chi, Theta Xf and Triangle). During this period the organization averaged placing 1000 men per year in service projects throughout the State of Missouri and as far away as the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Projects included engineering work. at three c.iurch camps, the rehabilitating of 18 buildings in St. Louis for use as Head Start, nursery daycare, tutorial, and community centers, and the initiation of home repair and woodchopping programs in Rolla. The projects brought the organization honor and the funding for its first great challenge. The Danforth Foundation and the Department of Housir.g and Urban Development invited GAD to totally rehabilitate one block of deteriorating housing in the St. Louis Inner city and to construct a series of vest-pocket parks in the Tandy-Cody Brilliant district of St. Louis. Both projects were successfully completed. In the midst of these efforts, the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex suffered a total mechanical failure during the winter of 1970. The buildings froze, water mains broke in the walls, causing the water to cascade down the stairwells, which became ice coated. The water reached the basement of the structures shorting out electricity service, and eliminating heat, water, sewage and elevator service to buildings which then housed 25,000 persons. 'After enduring two days of desperation, Mr. Richard Fulton, president of the St. Louis Junior Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Elmer Hammonds, president of the Pruitt-Igoe Tenants'' Council called for UMR student help. For an entire week (the week before final exams) students from the campus poured into St. LOuls. UMR students restored the utilities to the buildings and led the rescue operations which were responsible for saving many lives. As a result of these outstanding efforts, awards were showered on the pro gram. Gamma Alpha Delta was recognized by the St. Louis Urban League, St. Louis Human. Development Corpora:don, Shrine Clubs of Missouri, the White House Committee on Student Unrest, the Missouri Junior Chamber of Commerce, the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, the National Center for Voluntary ActiOn, the Easton-" @default.
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