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Engineering for Humanity, an interdisciplinary engineering design and anthropology course at Olin College of Engineering, is a semester-long service-learning partnership between the college and nearby Councils on Aging. This paper examines the effects of this service learning on our students and their partners. Our research suggests that this experience has positively impacted students' and elder...
A novel partnership with community organizations serving older adults creates the opportunity for engineering students to practice design in a meaningful and unfamiliar but local service learning context. Students benefit from contextualization and user-centered design lessons typical of foreign design projects. Community members gain significant relationships and pride through these interactions.
A hands-on special session at the Frontiers in Education conference introduces an experiential exercise in empathy. Participants will use prostheses to simulate some of the physical disabilities that often accompany aging, then attempt everyday activities to better understand how engineered artifacts — and engineering design choices — can facilitate or hinder these tasks. The “empathy exercise” introduced...
The engineering student experience is understood to differ for male and female students; gendered interactions affect the development of academic and professional role confidence, as well as engineering identity. The purpose of this session is twofold. First, we aim to introduce participants to concepts of gender schemas, privilege, and identity using a range of interactive activities, including brainstorming...
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