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UPDATES and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Olatunji Ajani

Announcing our EOP Network Manager: Olatunji Ajani

We’re excited to welcome Olatunji Ajani as the EOP Network Manager! Olatunji will bring EOP Network participants together, foster connections, and support collaboration to advance the network’s purpose. Olatunji has a passion for connecting people and bringing collaborative work to life through networks. He was previously the West Africa Regional Chapter Coordinator, based in Lagos, Nigeria, for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and is currently a consultant for ANDE's global membership and programs. He has fostered sustainable development by training young people to implement the UN Millennium Development Goals in their careers and communities, supported young people to develop social enterprises in his work with Mind the Gap, and founded the Student Innovators Club, a social enterprise in Nigeria that provided project-based coaching for high school students on sustainable development. Olatunji earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Ibadan in Wood Products Engineering and has an MBA from the University of Nebraska. Welcome, Olatunji!

Seeking Your Feedback on the EOP Framework

We need your help! Many of you contributed to the current EOP Framework which is available for download here. Thank you! We have committed to revising the EOP Framework to make it more useful and applicable and to reflect principles of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. We would love to receive your suggestions for improvements, clarifications, etc., on content and format. Please share your input by inserting comments directly into this shared document. We will be collecting feedback through July 31 and will be hosting video conference calls in the upcoming months to hear directly from you. Thank you for your support!

Engineering Change Lab-USA (ECL-USA) Climate Change Noble Purpose Statement

A “noble purpose” is intended to unite, energize, and motivate people within and across organizations and to fulfill their desires for meaning and purpose in their work lives. ECL-USA recently led the development of a noble purpose statement for the engineering community with input from a working group of 25 that included representatives from 16 engineering organizations and participants in the ECL-USA Climate Change Summit. A final version of the ECL-USA Climate Change Noble Purpose for Engineering Statement is now available for download…read more

Engineering for One Planet is Now on LinkedIn

Want to know the latest news and engage with other professionals about Engineering for One Planet? Follow Engineering for One Planet on LinkedIn.

GRANT OPPORTUNITY

New: EOP Faculty Mini Grants

With funding from The Lemelson Foundation and under the umbrella of the signature EOP Framework to equip engineers with skills, knowledge and understanding to protect the planet and the life it sustains, ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) will develop and deploy a Mini-Grant Program (MGP) aligned with transforming US higher education. The ultimate goal of the program is to incentivize faculty to take on and follow through on this EOP work by supporting them with a community of practice, mentoring and mini-grant funding. The bulk of activity will take place summer 2022 for course modifications in fall 2022.

Faculty interested in responding to the Request for Proposals for the EOP Mini-Grant Program (EOP-MGP) should express their interest by emailing eop.mgp@asee.org.

EVENTS

OPEN 2022 — March 15–17, 2022

VentureWell’s annual OPEN conference is happening online March 15-17. At OPEN you’ll discover trends, leading-edge strategies, and exciting new tools that will help move the field of innovation and entrepreneurship education forward. From advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in your programs to incorporating sustainable design in your curriculum, OPEN has just the sessions for you. Learn more about the EOP initiative, new EOP mini grants, and our K12 Invention Education efforts at the Conversation with Innovation Funders session with The Lemelson Foundation on March 14…learn more!

Engineering Change Lab-USA Summit 14: Augmenting the Engineering Workforce Through Technological Innovation - March 15, 2022

New demands for engineering work, driven by a growing economy as well as new programs such as the recently passed federal infrastructure bill, have the potential to create significant shortages in staff and talent within the engineering community. Explore these themes and more at this upcoming virtual summit…learn more

Mark Your Calendar: EOP Scaling for Impact Workshop

June 21-24, 2022, VentureWell and The Lemelson Foundation will be co-hosting a National Science Foundation-supported virtual event dedicated to identifying and recommending pathways for transforming engineering education to ensure all future engineers are well-versed in EOP learning outcomes. This will be the next step in a series of efforts to advance the EOP initiative. An application to join this event will open in the spring. Stay tuned for more information.

Minal Mistry

Recorded Talk: Well-being and Engineering for One Planet

In the context of advancing sustainable development, sustainability has focused heavily on economic activities and constructing ways to manage industrial and associated pollution. But significant omissions whereby people, places and their interactions are left out of the equation, diminishing the overall effectiveness of the so-called sustainability agenda. This talk highlights aspects of the sustainability agenda that could benefit by changing the discourse and approaches to include people, places and their lived experiences in the center of solution-finding. This work is championed by the Materials Management Program at Oregon Department of Environmental Quality as an emergent approach for the state’s 2050 Vision and the talk presented by Minal Mistry is available here.