Work in progress - service learning opportunity: a university and community partnership in creek restoration

Empathy and Caring as Conceptualized Inside and Outside of Engineering: Extensive Literature Review and Faculty Focus Group Analyses

“…35,36 Local residents can be involved in the projects by participating in surveys and interviews conducted by engineers. 37 Prior work indicates that community involvement can happen "at all levels of the product-development process",(p39) 38 from "needs-identification process to brainstorming to concept evaluation to prototype testing, and then to the evaluation and iteration processes". (p.39) 38 The absence of community participation would result in the loss of "opportunities for working towards social justice".…”

“…36,56 Such projects can provide students with experiences that "complement and reinforce classroom and laboratory learning" and "serve to demonstrate social and environmental impacts of engineering solutions". (p.F3E-16) 37 Overall Findings from Literature Review The research team was not able to find explicitly literature that put engineering in light of being a "helping profession", nor did we find literature on "user's needs" and "humanized" in the domain of engineering education. It's interesting to note that we are using the term "helping profession" to attract females to engineering, but then not using this language within engineering literature.…”