Challenge-driven Social Entrepreneurship and High Impact Student Engagement Conference Paper

abstract

• 2016 IEEE. The Center on Conflict and Development (ConDev) and the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University are collaborating to bring real-world experiences to students and meaningful solutions to communities in developing countries. Our inaugural activity consisted of a 48-hour Aggies Invent Social Entrepreneurship weekend that attracted 197 students from 33 different departments. We collected challenges from communities, NGOs, and USAID Missions in Senegal, Ghana, Botswana, the DRC, and Guatemala. Students worked with mentors to create mitigation prototypes. Our next step was to bring students to the field to co-create solutions addressing human-elephant conflict challenges in Botswana with local university students and community member end users.

name of conference

• 2016 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)

authors

• Lagoudas, Magdalini
• Ruyle, Leslie

published proceedings

• PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH IEEE GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE GHTC 2016

author list (cited authors)

• Ruyle, L. E., Boehm, R., & Lagoudas, M.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Ruyle, Leslie E||Boehm, Rodney||Lagoudas, Magda

publication date

• January 2016

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH IEEE GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE GHTC 2016  Journal

keywords

• Conflict
• Conservation
• Elephant
• Engineering
• Epics
• Hec
• Human-elephant Conflict
• International
• Multidisciplinary
• Students
• Wildlife

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/ghtc.2016.7857295

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781509024322

start page

• 292

end page

• 295

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ghtc.2016.7857295