Mark Henderson
There is a pent up demand among this generation's college students to give back altruistically. We should do what we can to help give them opportunities to work globally and locally and bring in their energy and creativity to find solutions to the big problems facing the world. This has several benefits. First, it can provide solutions to these problems. Furthermore, it establishes a habit of giving back and, even more, can make the world a safer place by encouraging connections with people around the world. We can create global citizens who replace feelings of fear of the world with empathy and enthusiasm.
Web: globalresolve.asu.eduMy Schedule
7:30 AM
to 8:00 AM
Breakfast
29 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Type Conference Events, Meals
Enjoy a complimentary breakfast in the main stage area.
8:00 AM
to 9:00 AM
Opening plenary with Tina Seelig and James Barlow
34 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Join us for the kickoff session of the NCIIA annual conference, designed to ignite innovation. Come prepared for an experiential exercise that will get your creative juices flowing and stimulate spirited collaboration. You will get a chance to work with your colleagues on a fast-paced challenge focusing on strategy, team work, and creative problem solving.
9:00 AM
to 10:30 AM
Guiding Principles for Sustainable Humanitarian Engineering Projects
6 Attendees
Location
Montgomery
The engineering profession must embrace a new mission statement: to contribute to the building of a more sustainable, stable, and equitable world. Recently, engineering students and professionals in the US have shown more interest in directly addressing the needs of developing communities worldwide. That interest has taken the form of short- and medium-term international trips through Engineers Without Borders-USA and similar organizations. There are also several instances where this kind of outreach work has been integrated into engineering education. This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with balancing two goals in engineering for humanitarian development projects: (i) effective sustainable community development, and (ii) meaningful education of engineers. Guiding principles necessary to meet those two goals are proposed.
Tags Thurs 1A1
9:00 AM
to 10:30 AM
PIET: Building a heuristic, interdisciplinary program focused on commercializing clean energy technologies in the developing world
8 Attendees
Location
Montgomery
In 2008, the University of California, in partnership with NCIIA, created the Program for International Energy Technologies (PIET) in order to accelerate the dissemination of low cost, clean energy, energy efficient solutions into the market in developing countries. The main objectives of this initiative are to: build an on-going program that will educate and engage UC Davis students in energy-related issues in developing countries; bridge the current gap between the need and existing technologies by creating market-based, entrepreneurial dissemination strategies; and allow student teams to create an impact on partner communities. The program's founder, Kurt Kornbluth, will talk about the PIET approach as well as curricula, the challenges and successes in development of the program, and highlights the current projects.
Tags Thurs 1A3
9:00 AM
to 10:30 AM
The Twig Light: Ultra low-cost lighting in Ghana
2 Attendees
Location
Mason II
This session describes the development of a new, low cost, sustainable light source for poor villagers in developing countries called the Twig Light. The light makes use of a compact thermoelectric generator sandwiched and providing a thermal bridge between two pieces of ten-centimeter aluminum channel approximately fifteen centimeters in length. The lower section is cooled by sitting it in a small amount of water, while the upper section serves as a combustion chamber in which small pieces of wood or other combustible materials are burned. The subsequent temperature difference across the thermoelectric generator results in enough power to light a bank of LEDs sufficient to illuminate a small room. The technology was distributed in the rural Ghanaian village of Domeabra in the summer of 2009, and the performance will be evaluated during a return visit in 2010.
Tags Thurs 1C1
9:00 AM
to 10:30 AM
Teaching Entrepreneurship Using Design Pedagogy
13 Attendees
Location
Jackson
This workshop introduces the pedagogy for the Babson College course Social Entrepreneurship by Design (SED). The course integrates stakeholder collaborative design and entrepreneurship for the purpose of developing new products or services that contribute to the solution of a social problem. Attendees of this workshop will participate in small teams to experience facets of designing new social entrepreneurship ventures driven by stakeholder insights. Stakeholder collaborative design is a five-phase process designed to help students create and co-create opportunities. Different from a traditional new product development course, SED emphasizes idea generation and opportunity creation using a structured creativity toolkit grounded in design thinking and principles found in such disciplines as architecture, product design, and engineering. SED is designed to develop the entrepreneurial thinking skills of students where empathy and creation take precedence over analysis and planning.
Tags Thurs 1B
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Building Startup Businesses through Commercializing Student Capstone Project Outcomes
7 Attendees
Location
Mason I
Michigan Technological University, in collaboration with MTEC SmartZone, has developed a program for targeted development of student-led startup companies based on outcomes of engineering capstone design projects. Under the SmartTrac program, student teams that include a cross-section of business, engineering, and communications skills form companies who conduct the necessary business and technical development activities to commercialize capstone project outcomes. In addition to basic underwriting funding for student stipends, the partners work together to find grant and investment capital from various sources. The SmartTrac model will be presented as well as experiences to-date in commercializing a hospital mattress that substantially improves the effectiveness of CPR. The technology was developed in a capstone project, has been patented by the university, and is licensed to a student-led company, CPRM Inc., which to-date has attracted nearly $200k in funding from various sources.
Tags Thurs 2E1
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Social Entrepreneurship
6 Attendees
Location
Montgomery
This study examined social entrepreneurship in the context of the academic field by looking at forms of implementation at universities across the country. Thirty-two universities were selected to be contacted about their respective programs. The goal of contacting universities was to create an easily viewed and comprehensive database featuring key information about each SE program. The included universities were chosen based on various sources, including Ashoka rankings, AACSB information, national university program rankings and articles on the subject. The surveys of the universities provided insight into established SE curricula and program structures. The findings of this study have shown that many universities have varied programs in both offerings and size, and while the programs are typically popular with students from a wide variety of majors, popularity is impacted by the way the university defines SE.
Tags Thurs 2C1
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Build-It Modules: A hands-on approach to teaching appropriate technologies and manufacturing techniques
12 Attendees
Location
Jackson
Amy Smith, Kofi Taha, Gwyn Jones, Benjamin Linder, Nathan Cooke, Jessica Huang
Build-It modules are designed to give students experience with a variety of tools and manufacturing techniques while at the same time exposing them to simple, elegant appropriate technologies. These modules show both rapid prototyping equipment as well as techniques that are used in workshops in the developing world. Basic shop safety training is incorporated into all modules and, in the spirit of sustainability, the final product from all modules is a useful item that can be disseminated to community partners in future trips. Successful Build-It modules include a hacksaw made from bicycle parts, a corn sheller for removing kernels from dried corn cobs, a press for making charcoal briquettes from agricultural waste, a simple PVC water pump, and a solar light. The Build-It module format can accommodate a variety of products and can easily be adapted to demonstrate use of different tools, equipment, and techniques.
Tags Thurs 2B
12:30 PM
to 2:30 PM
Lunch and keynote speaker Doug Richard
28 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Type Conference Events, Meals
Doug Richard is a leading proponent and practitioner of entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom and the US. In this keynote address, Doug will discuss entrepreneurship, its importance in the modern economy, and the role of government and universities in catalyzing entrepreneurship. Doug will talk about: Why the public interest is best served by self-interest; Why the most successful enterprises are all social enterprises; Why entrepreneurs are never born, only made; Why the US must learn to export entrepreneurship not merely to the rest of the world but the rest of the nation; Why governments can only create playing fields; Why capital is not what limits the rate of entrepreneurship; and Why universities are our best hope for cultural change.
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
OPEN for Review: Differing approaches to student performance assessment in entrepreneurship courses
5 Attendees
Location
Sansome
Type Assessment, Panels
Lisa Getzler-Linn, Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Howard Davis, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Angela Shartrand
Over the last several years, programs that teach entrepreneurship have found and/or developed a variety of ways to assess student performance. Although assessment has been discussed in many forms at the NCIIA conference and other national meetings, it should be an ongoing topic--one in which new and emerging programs can learn from those with more experience. This panel/discussion will focus on tried and true methods of assessing student performance in entrepreneurship-focused courses as well as novel methods that are being introduced by both new and established programs. The discussion will not focus on empirical assessment data, but rather on entrepreneurship course learning objectives and different methods used to assess them.
Tags Thurs 3E
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Collaborative Innovation Program: A creative conspiracy for cross-college collaboration at the Rochester Institute of Technology
9 Attendees
Location
Mason I
The 2007 inaugural address of RIT's ninth president, William Destler, highlighted the breadth and diversity of curricular offerings at RIT from business, engineering, and computing to design, fine art, and craft. In his address, Dr. Destler included this challenge: "What if RIT students had the experience of working on complex societal problems with students from different majors on teams in...a cross-disciplinary effort to find real solutions?" The authors of this paper took that challenge to heart. In the 2008-09 academic year, we created a collaboration curriculum that was hosted by the RIT Honors program. The outcome of the program is an integrated "innovation suite" comprised of the following components: 1. innovation activities, 2. collaborative learning environments 3. collaborative technologies 4. learning outcomes and curricular models for innovation and 5. community-university partnerships. This integrated suite of innovation components will continue to grow in the new Center for Student Innovation at RIT.
Tags Thurs 3C2
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Organic Development of a Student Run Accelerator at University of Michigan
5 Attendees
Location
Mason I
The nearly exponential growth of the entrepreneurial community at University of Michigan (U-M) is largely attributed to the students themselves. In January 2008, U-M launched the Center for Entrepreneurship to support these students. Through these and other similar efforts, students of like mind on a campus of nearly 40,000, can network, share ideas and pursue their passions. By January 2009, seven students actively involved in their own ventures joined together to find ways to share resources and ideas to accelerate the launch of their ventures.This resulted in the launch of a student run business accelerator, TechArb (techarb.org), in the Summer of 2009. The seven founders secured real estate in downtown Ann Arbor and invited 30 entrepreneurial-minded students, representing seven companies in the music, technology, and biotech industries. This paper discusses the genesis and results of the first U-M student accelerator.
Tags Thurs 3C3
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Are You Innovative?
7 Attendees
Location
Jackson
This workshop is a result of an on-going NCIIA-sponsored project for the design and development of an innovation-focused event (Ideation to Innovation, I2I). In this hands-on, interactive workshop participants will learn about: (a) the traits of innovative individuals, and (b) enhancing individuals' innovative skills. Innovators share some common traits, many of which can be learned and enhanced. Quick literature survey shows some commonalities between Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, and many others, some of which will be discussed. In particular, the workshop will present traits such as observing, thinking, experimenting, teaming, dreaming, persisting, having fun, and being passionate about the work. Hands-on exercises and teasers will allow participants to experience most of the discussed innovators' skills, and to use them in a classroom setting.
Tags Thurs 3A
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
A Simplified Method of Fermi Estimation for the Student Innovator
2 Attendees
Location
Mason II
Type Tools and Resources, Papers
During the innovation process, it is often necessary to make quick estimates such as market size. The Fermi estimate is a quantitative tool that produces a quick, rough estimate of a quantity, which is either difficult or inconvenient to measure directly. Although numerous worked-out solutions to Fermi questions are available in the literature, a systematic approach to solving them is not. To meet this need, the authors developed a solution methodology, to be used in their invention course, which could be easily implemented in a traditional business course as well. The methodology employs a graphical approach that assists students in identifying the network of key factors leading to the final estimate. The authors have found that practice with the methodology leads to clearer thinking, more accurate estimates, and greater confidence in making estimates, especially those that initially seem impossible.
Tags Thurs 3D3
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Using Live Cases in Entrepreneurship Problem-based Learning
6 Attendees
Location
Mason II
Type Tools and Resources, Papers
One challenge of learning entrepreneurial skills and knowledge is that the classroom is an academic setting (silo knowledge delivery, controlled time tasks, tests to evaluate knowledge gained), not a business setting (use of broad knowledge bases, non-predictable tasks and time, success based on overall project execution). One way to bring the realities of entrepreneurship into the class is to have an entrepreneur bring his/her business challenge into the classroom as a live case. Student teams are handed open-ended business challenges to develop a solution in roughly nine days. Live cases help build students' tolerance for ambiguity, build skills in identifying and filling information gaps to make decisions, and deliver a quality pitch. In the paper and presentation, examples of live cases will be provided, as well as Live Case Outline (to be provided to the entrepreneur) and grading rubric.
Tags Thurs 3D1
9:00 AM
to 10:30 AM
L-RAMP Presentation and Discussion
2 Attendees
Location
Mason II
Villgro (formerly Rural Innovations Network) is a social enterprise established in 2001 and based in the Chennai District of Tamilnadu State in India. Its mission is to identify and incubate grassroots technological innovations that can have a significant impact on rural lives and enable these innovations to reach rural markets. Villgro identifies these innovations and helps to develop and market them. Villgro believes that many rural innovations can be successfully commercialized as micro-enterprises benefiting rural consumers and contributing to sustainable wealth creation. Once a model is established to transform ideas with potential into reality, a virtuous cycle comes in to operation, encouraging further innovation and wealth creation in rural areas. As an incubator, Villgro impacts all aspects of this cycle: innovation, rural enterprise, rural users and wealth creation. The panelists are interested in sharing their experiences with innovation, enterprise and development with attendees, with an aim to initiate a dialogue on technology, creativity and the synergies needed to enable the rural poor to overcome poverty.
Tags Fri 1C
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Preparing Students to Travel Overseas: Experiences from MIT's D-Lab
6 Attendees
Location
Washington
Type Student Development, Workshops
Nadia Elkordy, Gwyn Jones, Kendra Leith, Ariel Phillips, Amy Smith, Kofi Taha
For many students, addressing challenges faced in developing countries is the most rewarding application of their education. Over the several years of their existence, D-Lab courses at MIT have been taken by many students, most of whom travel to developing countries as part of their project work. Instructors and students alike frequently face interesting and surprising challenges before and during trips. Often, what we have prepared in university classrooms and workshops looks very different when we arrive in the field. For example, it's easy to forget simple things, like making personal introductions before launching into project questions in a new village. This workshop will provide an overview of the history and development of MIT's D-Lab family of courses, as well as perspectives from former D-Lab students and trip leaders about such challenges as advance communication with community partners, design obstacles, and difficult team dynamics. We will also share stories of successful practices and lessons learned the hard way, both before and during trips. We will include opportunities for attendees to discuss their experiences and knowledge about preparing students for travel.
Tags Fri 2C
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Design With the Majority: The collaborative design of a cargo bicycle for Uganda
6 Attendees
Location
Mason II
This session describes the exciting and rewarding process of designing a bicycle that was created in collaboration with Ugandan bicycle couriers. In Uganda, many residents use low cost, poor quality bicycles for their primary means of transportation. The design process started with a connection to an American resident of Uganda. This mediator formed a "design team" of Ugandan couriers who gathered regularly and discussed the ideas the designer had for a new cargo bike design. After several iterations on paper, and communication through email, a design was finalized and an initial prototype was made. The designer then traveled to Uganda to meet the couriers and to have the bike tested and critiqued. Through the successes and failures, valuable lessons were learned regarding the design of products for people in developing nations.
Tags Fri 2A3
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Lead Battery Manufacturing Certification in the Developing World: Applying BEST standards in India and Vietnam
5 Attendees
Location
Mason II
The lead battery industry in developing countries is growing rapidly as a result of rapid motorization, increases in off-grid power technologies, and requirements for backup power supplies. Unfortunately, sustainable collection policies and recycling practices have not been adopted by most nations. As a result of the lack of formal recycling infrastructure and relatively high values of lead, lead batteries are often recycled in informal backyard smelters, creating high levels of environmental and occupational pollution. This paper discusses the Better Environmental Sustainability Targets (BEST) certification for battery production. BEST is a voluntary certification that battery manufactures can opt for, ensuring that they meet minimum requirements for occupational safety and used battery recovery. BEST certification has been initiated in India and Vietnam. This paper discusses the potential for BEST certification to reduce lead exposures in the developing world.
Tags Fri 2A1
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Sustainable Design for Sub-Saharan Africa
7 Attendees
Location
Mason II
This presentation describes a multi-year collaboration between Malian and American schools of engineering, business and agriculture in the design of an evaporative cooler to efficiently cool a small building in sub-Saharan Africa. Highlights include an innovative water delivery system that can simultaneously cool beverages, easy-to-use pad holders designed to fit indigenous pad materials, and a decorative, culturally inspired exterior. Technical work included fan sizing,water usage, Solid Works drawings,an extended field test, and analysis of the in-country manufacture and assembly of the unit. A revised design will be installed in a classroom at the National School of Engineering in Bamako Mali this year to encourage diffusion of the low energy cooling technology. A business plan and market analysis were also performed.
Tags Fri 2A2
12:30 PM
to 2:30 PM
Julia Novy-Hildesley, Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation
11 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Type Conference Events
12:30 PM
to 2:30 PM
Olympus Innovation Awards luncheon
12 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Recognizing faculty excellence and innovation in higher education.
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Integrating Sustainable Community Development in Engineering Education
5 Attendees
Location
Mason II
In 2004, we received a grant from NCIIA to develop a new graduate course in development engineering. It went through four iterations based on feedback received from students and faculty. The final iteration was offered in academic year 2008-09 as a six-credit hour course titled Sustainable Community Development I (SCD I, fall) and II (SCD II, spring). SCD I emphasizes a public health perspective and participatory models, with an overview of development and global health concepts and issues. SCD II covers the principles, practices and strategies of appropriate technology as part of an integrated and systems approach to community-based development. This latest version of the course will be offered for the foreseeable future. This session describes challenges faced in developing the different course iterations and how to include social entrepreneurship and public heath in engineering education.
Tags Fri 3C1
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Implementing a Design Value Matrix for the Industrial Design Process
5 Attendees
Location
Montgomery
Type Tools and Resources, Papers
This session presents a new design user value-measuring matrix that can be highly beneficial in the industrial design educational environment. This value-measuring matrix provides a system to analyze user and market characteristics to direct appropriate design solutions. Developing a successful product is the key goal in any design development process. This innovative new value matrix enables students and beginning design practitioners alike to make informed decisions in design development phases, particularly in initial planning. The matrix will help them identify important design variables prior to starting a new design or redesign for a different market and user. The matrix addresses important aspects of a successful product: language/design semantics, functional requirements, the user experience, and environmental responsibility. Initial trials of the matrix have proven to be effective in improving design efficiency in student projects.
Tags Fri 3B2
9:00 AM
to 10:30 AM
Tinkering, A Vehicle for Teaching Innovation in the University Industrial Design Studio
5 Attendees
Location
Mason II
One of the inherent dilemmas regarding the teaching of innovation is that if we, as teachers, become too prescriptive or recipe-oriented with our assignments and lectures, we run the risk of missing the very essence of innovative thinking. How do we teach a subject that really can't be taught in the same formal manner as a language or science course? The answer lies in the teacher's ability to not be overly restrictive and create an environment conducive to innovative thinking. What is this environment and what kind of tools and activities help students tap into the part of their brain that allows for innovation? The author describes various tools and activities he has used in his industrial design studio to promote innovation amongst his students. The most powerful of these is the activity of tinkering, and is the focus of this session.
Tags Sat 1A2
9:00 AM
to 10:30 AM
Creating Supply Chains for New Ventures in Developing Countries
3 Attendees
Location
Montgomery
Supply chain development is critical in starting up new business ventures in both the developed and developing worlds. Supply chain modeling can help optimize profits and product quality. However, several modeling assumptions must be re-defined for developing countries. In the process of starting a business in Ghana, it became obvious that supply chain modeling is not the same as it is in the US and a study to model and optimize supply chains has uncovered several specific differences: economic bargaining, discrete even modeling using a different concept of time as a metric and communication using cell phones instead of computers.
Tags Sat 1D2
9:00 AM
to 10:30 AM
Project Management Techniques for BoP Student Enterprise Projects
4 Attendees
Location
Montgomery
A specific example from Colorado State University's Global Social Sustainable Enterprises Program demonstrates the creation and execution of student projects targeting Base of the Pyramid customers with triple-bottom-line business enterprises. This paper provides an overview of project process and discusses one particular project in depth. The Running Water International team created a successful enterprise selling biosand water filtration systems in Kenya. The RWI team found four key factors to their success: 1) Multiple dimensions of diversity among team members; 2) Strong motivation of team members to create measurable impact; 3) Team value of choosing people over project; 4) Active project partner in-country.
Tags Sat 1D1
9:00 AM
to 10:30 AM
Systems Approach to the Development of a Code of Ethics for an Entrepreneurial Telemedicine Venture in Africa
2 Attendees
Location
Montgomery
Students at Penn State University are working on a social entrepreneurial venture in Kenya called Mashavu: Networked Health Solutions for the Developing World. Mashavu is a telemedicine system that enables medical professionals to connect with patients in rural communities. The Mashavu kiosk operators, medical practitioners, website administrators and other individuals connected to the Mashavu network are expected to adhere to the highest principles of ethical conduct. We developed Code of Ethics for Mashavu based on universal health policies and guidelines, but our observations and lessons learned while conducting field research in Kenya have forced us to rethink our approach to developing and ensuring compliance with our Code of Ethics. This study explores the realities of privacy, liability, trust, hygiene, quality, business practices and social customs in developing communities and presents the systems approach applied by our team to develop the ethical, policy and compliance framework to roll-out the Mashavu venture.
Tags Sat 1D3
9:00 AM
to 10:30 AM
What's Your Problem? Designing Questions that Lead to Creative Solutions
13 Attendees
Location
Jackson
Some people call it Need Finding, others call it Point of View, and others call it Problem Definition. Whatever you call it, crafting a thoughtful question is key to finding a valuable solution. Without a well-thought-out problem, the resulting solutions are apt to be mundane or meaningless. This workshop will focus on framing problems in ways that lead to the most creative solutions. Participants will be introduced to powerful techniques that facilitate the process of finding innovative solutions to challenging problems in all areas, including design, research, business, teaching, and in their personal lives.
Tags Sat 1E
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
UC Davis D-Lab Activity: Build a small wind generator in two hours!
8 Attendees
Location
Sansome
Type Clean Energy, Workshops
The WindBelt wind generator is a example of a "confluent technology": a design that grows out of the highly constrained energy landscape of developing countries with far-reaching applications worldwide. This hands-on workshop, adopted from the UC Davis D-Lab curriculum, will teach participants the basic theory behind power generation and walk them through the steps to build one. Each group will build a working prototype from scratch and test it in the NCIIA "wind tunnel." The workshop will include: basic theory behind power generation; an overview of the need for small-scale power generation in the developing world; the use of basic hand tools; the use of jigs and fixtures; and the basics of wind power.
Tags Sat 2B
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Self Reliant and Carbon Free: Developing an economically and environmentally sustainable community in DR Congo
3 Attendees
Location
Montgomery
An economic model based on self-reliance introduced in the Democratic Republic, Congo has in three years transformed a community of 4,000 people from abject poverty into one of Congo's largest rice producers. Our class series develops "leapfrog" technologies, allowing developing countries to bypass the carbon-rich step taken by the West. Our goal is a high standard of living that neither damages the environment nor subordinates the community to conventional energy supplies. We offer this model to faculty working to bring technical solutions to global problems for people at the base of the pyramid. We will discuss the economic model as well as the development of renewable energy technologies with a strong emphasis on efficiency and restraint of excess. In particular we will discuss several different kinds of solar technologies, ox power, and the use of biomass, including building materials, fuel for burning, and methane gas.
Tags Sat 2C2
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Sustainable Design Projects in Capstone Design Courses
5 Attendees
Location
Montgomery
Experiential learning has been emphasized in the School of Engineering at the University of Dayton for over twenty-five years. The evolution has gone from individual projects to team projects and from single discipline to multidisciplinary teams. Industry-sponsored projects were formalized in 1996 with the formation of the Design and Manufacturing Clinic. Further, innovation and entrepreneurship were better integrated in 2004 with the formation of the Innovation Center. The percentage of projects related to design for the environment, design of thermal systems and renewable energy systems reached about one-third of the capstone design projects. Simultaneously, emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship has increased in the same proportion. The purpose of this paper is to share the experiences of entrepreneurship and sustainability over these last five years. Thus, this session covers the applied aspects of sustainability and entrepreneurship in design education.
Tags Sat 2C3
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
The Co-design of Eco- and Culturally-inspired Housing with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation
4 Attendees
Location
Montgomery
The Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN) of Ukiah, California and the Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) have formed a partnership to design eco-friendly buildings that utilize sustainability best practices and renewable energy technology, as well as reflect the long-standing culture and traditions of the PPN. We present the yurt-style house design created by this partnership and illustrate how Native American tribes can partner with universities and other organizations to utilize engineering expertise to develop solutions that address the needs of the tribes. As a result of this partnership, the yurt-style house design created can be used to create centralized housing and office buildings in Ukiah that will aid in the unification and economic advancement of the PPN. The buildings will also let members take advantage of job training and other educational services provided by the PPN. Construction of the design began in July 2009.
Tags Sat 2C1
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Creating Socially Aware Innovators: Using project-based service learning in engineering education
6 Attendees
Location
Jackson
Project-based service learning (PBSL) has become an emergent opportunity for engineering education. There are now a number of national and university-grown programs that provide opportunities to incorporate PBSL into engineering and other fields. Despite their rapid adoption, one problem persists with PBSL programs: the scant findings on their impacts. Yet preliminary observations are encouraging, and suggest that PBSL: 1) retains students; 2) increases female representation; and 3) offers an opportunity to fulfill a variety of critical learning outcomes. A PBSL Summit, supported by the National Science Foundation, was held in early 2009 to gather, summarize, and leverage the expertise of participants to identify desired outcome metrics, quality assessment methods, and key next steps needed in understanding the impacts of PBSL. The goals of this session are to engage attendees in a review of both curricular and extracurricular community service activities and their features, share outcomes observed from such programs, identify existing gaps, and create tangible next steps for beneficial change. The session leaders hope to build off the discussion initiated in the 2009 Summit, adding the views and experiences of session participants to reports and e-books prior to international dissemination.
Tags Sat 2A
