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Hoppy Hippos

Tom O’Neal, Derek Abrams, Lisa Bosman, Haritha Malladi,

Dauson Msumange

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Document Purpose

The EOP initiative seeks to transform the national engineering curriculum to include sustainability as a core value in the profession.

During this workshop, you and a diverse group of educators, engineers, and other stakeholders will explore, identify and help prioritize approaches for scaling the EOP initiative. The ideas you generate and the approaches you prioritize will guide the creation of a 5-year road map for scaling EOP.

You and your team will use this document to capture your recommendations for the 5-year road map. Your first task will be to create a personal introduction (see the prework page for more details). You can then expect to be prompted, throughout the convening, to complete the different slides in this document. The end result with be the recommendations that you pitch to all of the other workshop participants.

Table of Contents

Team Introductions
Rules of Engagement
Scratch Paper
Alpha Plan
Plan Revisions
Speed Dating
Final Plan and Pitch

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Team Personal Introductions

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Activity introduction

The EOP initiative seeks to transform the national engineering curriculum to include sustainability as a core value in the profession. As an EOP Scaling for Impact workshop participant we would like you to build on the professional bio you provided during registration, by sharing what connects you to this work, personally.

To that end, please create a 1 slide presentation (with images, not words), using the slide with your name on it. You will present this slide during Day 1 of the workshop (please plan for a 2 minute presentation):

The next slide is an example of a personal introduction, which includes:

My Home: What is the place (or places) and who are the people that you call home?
My inspiration: Who got you interested in and engaged with sustainability? Who are the people you are doing this work for?

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My Home

My Inspiration

Victoria Matthew

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My name is Victoria Matthew and I’m a Senior Program Officer at VentureWell. Originally from Littleborough, a small village in the rolling green hills of Lancashire in England, I now live in bucolic Guilford, VT, New England with Peter, with my glass artist husband, Emily, my 13 year old musician and dancer daughter, and 4 chickens and a cat.

[My home Photos left to right: My house in Guilford, VT; my husband and I on a winter walk near our house; me working at the picnic table outside my house; my daughter, my husband and I playing with glass in Peter’s studio, which is opposite our house; my daughter swimming in Weatherhead Hollow Pond, down the road from our house]

My inspiration: I grew up in the 70s believing backyard gardening, composting and recycling were the norm. It was only later in life that I realized not all dads were like my Greenpeace supporting dad (I still recall him proudly sporting his Greenpeace t-shirts). While I continued to support the environment in those kinds of basic ways, working at UMass and meeting with 2 key people there really helped to galvanize my commitment to sustainability. John Gerber who I worked with on developing an online Certificate in Sustainable Food & Farming (he also got me into backyard chicken raising) and Dee Boyle Clapp who headed up the arts extension service and ran a solar bnb - together Dee and I started the UMass green team. I of course can’t forget my dermatologist Rebecca Jones, a huge environmental activist who gets me all fired up for this work when I’m feeling powerless. And my daughter and my niece - I desperately want them to inherit a better world.

[Photos left to right: My brother my dad and I outside the house I grew up in, in Summit, Littleborough in England; Dee Boyle Clapp, Rebecca Jones, John Gerber, my niece, Olive and my daughter, Emily.]

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My Home

My Inspiration

Tom O’Neal

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My Home

My Inspiration

Derek G. Abrams

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On this side of the slide, please add images that capture the place (or places) and the people that you call home.

On this side of the slide, please add images that capture the people that got you interested in and engaged with sustainability and the people you are doing this work for.

Birmingham, Alabama, City Skyline

Boy Scouts of America

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My Home

My Inspiration

Lisa Bosman

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My Home

My Inspiration

Haritha Malladi

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Hello, I’m Haritha Malladi, an Assistant Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware. Here, I teach Introduction to Engineering, which is taken by all undergraduate students in the College of Engineering. I’ll have 700 students in the upcoming Fall semester. I’m a classic third-culture kid. I’m most at home when I’m traveling. The picture on the top left is a view of sunset in my car mirror at the end of a 14,000-mile road trip across the USA. I’m also at home when I’m outdoors, hiking or wading streams. The person who is “home” for me is my partner Scott, whose picture I’ve included here. My childhood in the lush, green state of Kerala in India, seen on the top left under “my inspiration”, made me a nature-lover. After moving to the US, numerous visits to national parks inspired me with the message of preservation and conservation of the public lands. I’m inspired by astronomer Carl Sagan in his words about how precious the Earth and every human life is. Lastly, I’m deeply inspired by the activism of indigenous peoples all over the world. The picture here from of rural women in the 1970s, who sparked the Chipko Movement. My work in sustainability is for my students, to enable them to make a difference as engineers.

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My Home

My Inspiration

Dauson Msumange

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On this side of the slide, please add images that capture the people that got you interested in and engaged with sustainability and the people you are doing this work for.

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Rules of Engagement

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Your goal and area of focus

Goal: The EOP initiative seeks to transform the national engineering curriculum to include environmental sustainability as a core value in the profession. During this workshop, every team will develop and share their recommended approaches for the creation of a 5-year road map for scaling EOP.

Process: To achieve this goal we have prepared a workshop that will engage you in:

Whole group presentations and discussions designed to inform your plans
Cohort-based team activities: Each team is assigned one of two areas of focus: institutionalization or propagation.

Area of Focus: Your team’s area of focus is propagation. For the purposes of the workshop, we define propagation of EOP as the action of action of widely spreading and promoting ideas or tools to foster systems change

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Your team process

Your team will be self-led (i.e. there will be no facilitator). To ensure you produce and capture the most robust recommendations, you will each be assigned roles for different parts of the process:

Timekeeper: Ensure that your team completes the assigned tasks on time.
Monitor: Ensure all voices are heard, paying particular attention to the scribe who will be hard at work capturing notes.
Scribe: Capture the ideas and decisions of the group in this document.
Participant: Everyone is a participant, even if they are assigned one of the above roles. As a participant you commit to:

Show up, be present and engaged
Share the airtime (step up or step back)
Speak human to human
Respect each others’ thinking and value all contributions

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Scratch Paper

Use the scratch paper page with your name on it to capture any new thinking about your recommendations/plan. This may be inspired by workshop presentations and discussions, or your own personal reflections.

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Tom O’Neal

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Derek Abrams

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Lisa Bosman

What is sustainability focused education? UN Sustainable Development Goals (17 focus areas pretty much encompass all higher education disciplines)
Perhaps latch onto entrepreneurship efforts
Perhaps use KEEN and Engineering Unleashed as a model
Many stakeholders to consider - faculty (teaching track and research track), students, employers, government, NGOs/non-profits
Things to consider: sustainability, incentives, metrics (SMART goals + assessment of student learning)

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Haritha Malladi

DEIJB
NSF RED awardees:

J. Turns, MechE: curriculum and pedagogy, industry member 8 hours per week, focus on practitioner language (like performance evals), inclusivity meter, teaming conversations
S. Schley, BME: focus on inclusive teamwork, train students who are capable of realizing the “inclusion dividend”, incubator course to allow new faculty to learn how to facilitate diverse teams
M. Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle, ECE&CS: Scrum as a change framework

Multiple surveys show that students are engaged with sustainability
What NAE Grand Challenges/UNSDG are students excited about?
ABET program criteria is set by the professional societies

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Dauson Msumange

UN SDGs

Sustainable consumption

Top down approach (student outcomes)

Changing of human behaviour

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Your Alpha Plan

Team Roles:

Timekeeper: Tom O’Neal

Monitor: Derek Abrams

Scribe: Lisa Bosman

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Part 1:List 20 different approaches or tools that might help propagate EOP (10 mins)

Faculty buyout to make changes in classroom.
Give people actionable activities to integrate into the classroom. Provide faculty with example assignment options.
Provide an awards/recognition program to show faculty appreciation.
Create a fellow program (engineering sustainability ambassadors, early adopters).
Provide content for making a case and obtaining institutional support.
Create a student organization.
Provide examples of industry case studies (whereby sustainability efforts have improved bottom line).
Implement sustainability-focused innovation challenges.
Create transcript notation.
Create a certificate program.

11. A design criteria for engineering projects should be sustainable/environment related.

12. Create new ASEE division focused on sustainability.

13. Work with journals to create special issues that are sustainability focused.

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Part 2: Describe 3 different ways to combine your ideas on the previous slide to propagate EOP (10 mins)

Approach 1 (Faculty Focused): ASEE Sustainability division + journal call for papers + fellow program + making a case

Approach 2 (Student Focused): Create venue for students to publish + design challenges + student organization

Approach 3 (Administration Focused): certificate/minor (Department level or college level or university level) + transcript notation + making a case

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Part 3: Select preferred approach from the 3 on the previous slide; revise and refine as needed (10 mins)

Preferred Approach: Faculty Fellow program whereby the cohort works on the following initiatives:

ASEE sustainability division establishment paperwork
Lead journal call for papers on sustainability
General strategic planning
Establish best practices for industry/government sponsored projects and industry/government partnerships

Gaps/considerations you need to consider as you revise your approach going forward

Funding
Resistance
Incentives for tenure track faculty (currently, teaching doesn’t provide much credit)
Culture change
Alignment with ABET accreditation

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Plan Revisions

Team Roles:

Timekeeper: Dauson Msumange

Monitor: Tom O’Neal

Scribe: Derek Abrams

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Revisions Part 1: What new ideas, approaches or thinking do you propose integrating into your plan? (10 mins)

Proposed Revisions (be sure to draw upon Food for Thought Speakers, Learnings from EOP Pilot Grantees and the Literature Review):

Preferred Approach: Faculty Fellow program whereby the cohort works on the following initiatives:

ASEE sustainability division establishment paperwork (5 year rotation, multiple roles)
Lead journal call for papers on sustainability (journal/conference with proceedings)
General strategic planning
Establish best practices for industry/government sponsored projects and industry/government partnerships
Resource Hub offering sustainability educational resources for faculty (like plug-in projects for established courses)
Faculty incentives for sustainability (i.e., stipend/course relief/awards/CV builders)
Help for alignment of sustainability into tenure-track, non-tenure track faculty in tenure-process and yearly evaluation process

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Revisions Part 2: Rewrite your plan to integrate your new thinking (15 mins)

Team Plan 1.0

Preferred Approach: Faculty Fellow program whereby the cohort works on the following initiatives:

ASEE sustainability division establishment paperwork (5 year rotation, multiple roles)
Lead journal call for papers on sustainability (journal/conference with proceedings)
General strategic planning
Establish best practices for industry/government sponsored projects and industry/government partnerships
Resource Hub offering sustainability educational resources for faculty (like plug-in projects for established courses)
Faculty incentives for sustainability (i.e., stipend/course relief/awards/CV builders)
Help for alignment of sustainability into tenure-track, non-tenure track faculty in tenure-process and yearly evaluation process)
Faculty fellows create language and recommendations report to integrate into tenure/promotion evaluation process
May tie sustainability into service/engagement component for tenure/promotion evaluation process

Gaps/considerations you need to consider as you revise your approach going forward

Getting information to right people
Funding for incentives
Sustainability/long-term buy-in of program
Creation of culture oriented toward sustainability
Buy-in of prestigious organizations like ASEE, CUR, journal reviews, grant proposal reviews

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Speed Dating

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Speed Dating Round 1: Hoppy Hippos and Quirky Quails�2 mins pitch, 7 mins of feedback plus 1 mins buffer per team (20 mins)

Hoppy Hippos

Roles:

Presenter: Haritha Malladi

Timekeeper: Dauson Msumange

Scribe: Tom O’Neal

Quirky Quails

Roles:

Presenter: Graig Marx

Timekeeper: Paula Rees

Scribe: Ravi Mani

Notes:

Certificate programs development, Incentives, have themes: include K-12, synergy, student-centered work in addition plug-in projects, having a student voice

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Speed Dating Round 2: Hoppy Hippos and Fabulous Flounders�2 mins pitch, 7 mins of feedback plus 1 mins buffer per team (20 mins)

Hoppy Hippos

Roles:

Presenter: Lisa Bosman

Timekeeper: Haritha Malladi

Scribe: Dauson Msumange

Fabulous Flounders

Roles:

Presenter: Jeff Engell

Timekeeper: Ian Goodine

Scribe: Kanika Vats

Notes:

Faculty incentives for sustainability (i.e., stipend/course relief/awards/CV builders) whereby Faculty fellows create language and recommendations report to integrate into tenure/promotion evaluation process

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Final Plan and Pitch

Team Roles:

Timekeeper: Derek

Monitor: Lisa

Scribe: Haritha

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Revise your plan and prepare your 2 mins pitch (20 mins)

Final plan/pitch:

We propose a national faculty fellow program that will be set up under a new ASEE Sustainability Division (with rotational roles to ensure a pipeline of future fellows). The Fellows will own and update EOP framework. Their advocacy efforts will include:

Call for Papers focused on Sustainability Education (journal/conference)
Best Practices Document:

(1) Industry/government sponsored projects and industry/government partnerships
(2) Alignment of sustainability education into P&T (i.e., stipend/course relief/awards/CV builders)

Resource Hub offering sustainability educational resources for faculty (like plug-in projects for established courses, PBL ideas)

In these efforts, the fellows program should be cognizant of sustainability of the EOP vision and how to incentivize the various stakeholders.

1 sentence overview: Write a 1 sentence (max 290 characters) overview we can include in slido for voting.

National faculty fellow program to drive strategic implementation of EOP mission

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