Paper ID #33675Mask Effectiveness: A Project to Connect Air Pollution and MaterialsScienceProf. Jean M. Andino, Arizona State University Jean M. Andino is a faculty member in Chemical Engineering and Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, and a Robust Entrepreneurial Mindset Leader in the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Net- work (KEEN) program at Arizona State University (ASU). She also serves as the Director of the Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (a National Science Foundation Louis Stokes Alliance for Mi- nority Participation program) and as Interim Director of the ASU Hispanic Research
, need to have a basic knowledge of environmental issues and how to make designsmore sustainable. In the age of climate change and environmental disasters (e.g., 2019-2020bushfires in Australia, 2011 earthquake in Japan that caused a massive release of radioactivematerial, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico), it is important for allengineers to be aware of how they can help minimize, avoid, and/or solve these problems.Solving many of today’s environmental problems will require future engineers to be creative,cooperative, and have an entrepreneurial spirit3,4. This starts with learning about and working onsolutions to real-world problems in the classroom.The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) is a group of faculty