Social Innovation
‘Mortar’
HESE @ Penn State
The ‘Mortar’
• 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
Research
Teaching
• IJSLE:
Int’l Journal for Service
Learning in Engineering:
Humanitarian Engineering &
Social Entrepreneurship
• 13-credit Certificate
• HESE
• eplum Assessment
• Systems Thinking
• Cultural Anthropology
• Social networks & trust
• Indigenous Knowledge and
Sticky Info
• Appropriate Technologies
• Spring semester:
• Projects in Community
Service Engineering
• Design for Developing
Communities
• Fall semester:
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Cultural Elective
• Summer semester:
• Travel and Implementation
• Fall semester:
• Scholarship & Research
Publications
eplum Model
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509
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Design
Course
Design for
Developing
Communities
Ind
Study
TZ
ENGL
202C
US
Industry Experts
IN
ME
440W
HESE Best Practices
• Institutionalization of the ‘program’
– Vertically integrated
– Ultra-Multidisciplinary
– Horizontally integrated (eplum)
• Convergence
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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