The Effect of Humanitarian Engineering on Female Learning and Confidence

Abstract

is a graduating undergraduate student of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering at The Ohio State University. For the past six semesters, she has worked as a teaching associate for OSU's fundamentals of engineering honors program -a first year, introductory course required for all honors engineering students. She also spent two semesters working as a teaching assistant for the Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering Department's thermodynamics class. She worked in a chemical engineering laboratory for four semesters studying separation of human red blood cells from whole blood. After that, she spent four semesters studying engineering education, resulting in four publications. She also volunteers at a free clinic called Physicians Care Connections, the Dublin Food Pantry, and Sandlot Children's Sports Camp. This fall she will begin her masters in Biomedical Engineering at Wright State University. Dr. Derek Breid, Saint Vincent CollegeDerek Breid is an assistant professor of Engineering at Saint Vincent College. His interests include integrating active learning techniques into classic engineering courses, and studying the mechanical behavior of soft materials.

Educating Future Agricultural Engineers at the University of Burgos, Spain, through a Service-Learning Project on Rural Depopulation and Its Social Consequences

“…It is important to note that the approach of the S-LP was only hypothetical, looking for students to find social utility in the design of agri-food buildings that would motivate their learning and involvement in the course, and their sense of social service. This hypothetical approach of an S-LP has been used in different studies regarding this type of teaching activity in the engineering field, including agricultural engineering, due to the economic resources necessary for the implementation of the solutions proposed through the S-LP [25,29]. Therefore, economic investment for the construction of the agri-food buildings was clearly beyond the teaching approach reported in this study.…”

“…In relation to the question referring to the overall assessment, the teachers stated that they were very satisfied. Their reflection focused on the idea that most engineers would play an active role in the improvement of their surrounding area, if they could, and agricultural engineers might therefore consider playing active roles to improve the rural environment in which they work, an aspect that could be instilled in the students through S-LP experiences and which is the final objective of this type of teaching experience in engineering [24,29]. The teachers also highlighted the social awareness achieved through the S-LP.…”

“…Within this field, the S-LP experiences developed by The Ohio State University stand out [26][27][28], which have allowed, among other aspects, the improvement of energy and water supply in agricultural plantations in Honduras [28]. Some S-LP experiences have also been developed in the field of thermodynamic agricultural engineering, in which it was concluded that this teaching methodology has improved the motivation and retention of concepts among students [29]. However, the number of S-LP experiences related to agricultural engineering is very low and, as indicated above, agricultural engineering is of immense social utility, so further projects could reinforce this teaching methodology [30].…”

Student Opinion on Teaching Thermodynamics Through Synchronous and Asynchronous Distance Learning

“…A semester-long team design service-learning project was introduced to the course in 2017 and has been incorporated in all subsequent offerings. During the 2018 offering, CATME was added to help structure student team formation [13] and peer evaluation [14] [15], [16].…”