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Eva Miller
Editorial Director
e.miller@asee.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Washington, D.C. – June 28, 2024
The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is excited to announce the 18 awardees of its third cohort in the Engineering for One Planet Mini-Grants Program (EOP-MGP). Teams of educators from diverse engineering programs are each to be awarded $8,000 and mentorship to pursue new ways to integrate social and environmental sustainability learning outcomes into their programs. ASEE received more than 120 applications for this initiative this year.
The ASEE grants are supported by
The Lemelson Foundation as part of its
Engineering for One Planet (EOP) initiative, which seeks to establish sustainability as a core tenet of the engineering profession by equipping all future engineers with the skills and knowledge to support the health of the planet and the lives it sustains by reducing greenhouse gases, pollutants and toxins, and other environmental degradation. The program leverages the
EOP Framework, a faculty-vetted menu of ABET-aligned student learning outcomes co-developed with hundreds of academic, industry, nonprofit and public sector stakeholders. The EOP Framework offers 93 learning outcomes reflecting social and environmental sustainability topics, such as systems thinking, social responsibility and life-cycle assessment, and related professional skills such as communications, teamwork and critical thinking.
The 18 new awardees join the
14 awardees from the 2023 EOP-MGP cohort and the
13 awardees from the 2022 EOP-MGP cohort that infused sustainability learning outcomes from the EOP Framework into their programs. The success of the 2022 EOP-MGP led to a two-year extension grant from The Lemelson Foundation as well as longitudinal evaluation and equity training for the award selection committee. The success of the 2023 EOP-MGP led to an additional two-year continuation grant from The Lemelson Foundation, which will support fourth and fifth EOP-MGP cohorts in 2025 and 2026, respectively. Notably, the future cohorts will be larger—welcoming 24 awardee teams per year.
EOP recognizes the importance of including people from historically marginalized and low-income communities who are disproportionately negatively affected by climate and environmental degradation as partners in creating change. As such, a key goal of the EOP-MGP is to engage and elevate diverse faculty and institutions. Six of the 18 grants were awarded to Minority-Serving Institutions (*) as follows: four Hispanic-Serving Institutions, two Historically Black College and Universities, and one Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution. The teams are geographically dispersed and represent a mix of institutional sizes and programs, including engineering and non-engineering disciplines. Faculty are also ethnically and racially diverse.
The Awardees (Institutions—Principal Investigators):
Brown University—Louise Rosanna Manfredi
Carthage College—Kathryn Hasz
George Washington University—Royce Francis
Illinois State University—Matthew Alderman
Norwich University—Nadia Al-Aubaidy
Old Dominion University*—Dalya Ismael
North Carolina State University—Corey Kiassat
Saginaw Valley State University—Rajani Muraleedharan-Sreekumaridevi
Santa Clara University*—Sharon Ihan Hsiao
Seattle University*—John Wesley Lauer
SUNY Cortland—Jeffrey Radloff
SUNY Maritime College—Robert Kidd
Texas A&M University*—James K. Nelson, Jr.
University of Central Florida*—Yan Arthur Huang
University of Delaware—Haritha Malladi
University of Kentucky—Diana Byrne
University of Texas at Dallas—Nandika D’Souza
Virginia Union University*—Terrell Strayhorn
For more information about this program, visit
https://eop-mgp.asee.org or contact the ASEE project team at
eop-mgp@asee.org. For more information about Engineering for One Planet, visit
https://www.engineeringforoneplanet.org.
About ASEE
Founded in 1893, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is a nonprofit organization of individuals and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology. ASEE develops policies and programs that enhance professional opportunities for engineering faculty members and promotes activities that support increased student enrollments in engineering and engineering technology colleges and universities. ASEE also collaborates with national and international organizations to advance its mission.
About The Lemelson Foundation
Based in Portland, Oregon, The Lemelson Foundation uses the power of invention to improve lives. Inspired by the belief that invention can solve many of the biggest economic and social challenges of our time, the Foundation helps the next generation of inventors and invention-based businesses to flourish. The Lemelson Foundation was established in the early 1990s by prolific inventor Jerome Lemelson and his wife, Dorothy. To date, the Foundation has made grants totaling more than $300 million in support of its mission. In 2020, The Lemelson Foundation launched Engineering for One Planet in partnership with VentureWell and with the collaboration of hundreds of stakeholders. For more information, visit
www.lemelson.org
and
www.engineeringforoneplanet.org.
