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Social Innovation ‘Mortar’. Teaching. Research. The ‘Mortar’. 13-credit Certificate Fall semester: Social Entrepreneurship Cultural Elective Spring semester: Projects in Community Service Engineering Design for Developing Communities Summer semester: Travel and Implementation
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Social Innovation ‘Mortar’
Teaching Research The ‘Mortar’ • 13-credit Certificate • Fall semester: • Social Entrepreneurship • Cultural Elective • Spring semester: • Projects in Community Service Engineering • Design for Developing Communities • Summer semester: • Travel and Implementation • Fall semester: • Scholarship & Research Publications HESE @ Penn State • IJSLE:Int’l Journal for Service Learning in Engineering: Humanitarian Engineering & Social Entrepreneurship • HESE • eplum Assessment • Systems Thinking • Cultural Anthropology • Social networks & trust • Indigenous Knowledge and Sticky Info • Appropriate Technologies • Invention 2 Venture Conference • Milking the Rhino: ISS • TED Talks • AcademIK Connections • K-12(Center for Science in the Schools) • Int’l Humanitarian Projects Law Clinic • Schreyer Business School • Honors College • Center for Sustainability • Entrepreneurship/Leadership Integration • Fellows Program • Global Programs • Agricultural Sciences • Eplum Model • SHESE, EWB, ESW, Innablue
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HESE Best Practices • Institutionalization of the ‘program’ • Vertically integrated • Ultra-Multidisciplinary • Horizontally integrated (eplum) • Convergence • Learning/Teaching • Research/Scholarship • Service • Outreach • Entrepreneurship • Alignment with University, College, Industrial Strategic Priorities • Innovation • Global Awareness and Engagement • Teamwork/Leadership • Breadth of Options: Low and High Value Addition • Low Cost/High marketability
HESE Challenges & Opportunities Challenges • Faculty Engagement • Tenure process • Endowments/Funding • Doctoral Research Program Development • Liability Issues • Encouraging Student Publications • Locating Quality ‘Partners’ Opportunities • Growing student interest in all aspects of HESE: • Engagement • Learning • Research • Program Replication • Domestically (K-16) • Internationally • ASEE Community Engagement and Engineering Education Division