Community Service Engineering

Explore human centered design, participatory design, and inclusive design to solve problems by starting with people and applying design thinking across four phases: problem definition, ideation, selection, and presentation.

Master communication by balancing verbal and nonverbal cues, avoiding the curse of knowledge, and focusing on the receiver through active listening, questioning, storytelling, and pitching.

Explore appreciative inquiry as a strength-based method for change in human systems, bridging inquiry and relational practices, guiding community service engineers to co-create futures through discovery, dream, design, and destiny.

Define culture as the shared values, beliefs, and practices a group creates and transmits. Develop intercultural competence to design in diverse communities and collaborate across disciplines.

Empower youth through a social work–driven stock car racing project that blends empowerment, participation, and inclusion with community collaboration and practical engineering skills.

Explore patents, trademarks, copyrights, and design rights, and understand patent criteria, licensing, and consortium strategies balancing private investment with public access.

Technology for the social domain enables live tracking of a child with Down syndrome from daycare to home, sending text messages and e-mail alerts to parents and coaches, supporting independence.

Explore how technology empowers social domain organizations to improve lives of people with disabilities, aging individuals, and other vulnerable groups through assistive tech, online learning, and inclusive work environments.

Explore assistive technology from a European perspective, highlighting accessibility of the built environment, inclusive design, and standardization efforts by the European Commission and design-for-all initiatives.

Improve accessibility in cities through engineering design and technology. Use automated rule checking for building performance and assistive apps and robotics to boost mobility for people with limited movement.