A cross-cultural collaborative design project among Cornell and Tuskegee University students
Both Cornell and Tuskegee University are land-grant institutions embedded within rural communities with significant healthcare and socioeconomic challenges. In this project, students from the two universities are teaming up on an engineering design project that addresses a community health problem.
Engineering students from both schools will come together to share cultural literacy, share access to stakeholder communities, identify a community-health problem and engineer a solution. In parallel, the faculty team will study the team engagements to test hypotheses that community engagement through diverse teams fosters purpose in engineering identity.
A cross-cultural collaborative design project among Cornell and Tuskegee University students
Both Cornell and Tuskegee University are land-grant institutions embedded within rural communities with significant healthcare and socioeconomic challenges. In this project, students from the two universities are teaming up on an engineering design project that addresses a community health problem.
Engineering students from both schools will come together to share cultural literacy, share access to stakeholder communities, identify a community-health problem and engineer a solution. In parallel, the faculty team will study the team engagements to test hypotheses that community engagement through diverse teams fosters purpose in engineering identity.
- Jonathan Butcher, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Nate Cira, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
- James Antaki, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Alexandra Werth, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Anthony Burrow, Department of Psychology, College of Human Ecology
- Community partner: Tuskegee University
Funding to increase and sustain undergraduate involvement in community-engaged research