Empathic Design in Engineering Education and Practice: An Approach for Achieving Inclusive and Effective Community Resilience Academic Article

abstract

• In this paper, we argue that an inclusive and effective community resilience approach requires empathy as a missing component in the current engineering education and practice. An inclusive and effective community resilience approach needs to be human-centric, individual- and communal-sensitive, justice-oriented, and values-based consistent. In this paper, we argue that three kinds of empathy, namely cognitive, affective, and conative, play a central role in creating and sustaining an inclusive and effective approach to community resilience. Finally, we discuss empathetic education through learning theories and analytics skills to cultivate empathy in engineering education. Cultivating empathy in engineering education could help advance the impact and contribution of engineering to well-being.

authors

• Mostafavi, Ali

published proceedings

• SUSTAINABILITY

altmetric score

• 2

author list (cited authors)

• Afroogh, S., Esmalian, A., Donaldson, J. P., & Mostafavi, A.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Afroogh, Saleh||Esmalian, Amir||Donaldson, Jonan Phillip||Mostafavi, Ali

publication date

• April 2021

publisher

• MDPI  Publisher

published in

• Sustainability  Journal

keywords

• Community Resilience
• Empathic Design
• Empathy
• Engineering Education
• Engineering Practice
• Human Infrastructure Resilience
• Justice

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3390/su13074060

start page

• 4060

end page

• 4060

volume

• 13

issue

• 7

URL

• https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/7/4060/pdf

user-defined tag

• 4 Quality Education