Board 323: Integrating Servingness in a Mini-Capstone Project: Resilient and Sustainable Emergency Housing Design

Carla Lopez Del Puerto; Humberto Eduardo Cavallin; Luisa Guillemard; Fabio Andrade Rengifo; Ruben Esteban Leoncio Caban

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Conference: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Location: Baltimore , Maryland
Publication Date: June 25, 2023
Start Date: June 25, 2023
End Date: June 28, 2023
Conference Session: NSF Grantees Poster Session
Tagged Topics: Diversity and NSF Grantees Poster Session
Page Count: 13
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--42913
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/42913
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Carla Lopez Del Puerto University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez orcid.org/0000-0002-0334-7208

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Dr. Carla Lopez del Puerto is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez (UPRM).

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Humberto Eduardo Cavallin University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-1431

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Experienced Faculty with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Strong education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Design Theory and Methods in Architecture from University of California, Berkeley, and

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Luisa Guillemard University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Luisa Guillemard is a psychology professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. She has a M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Caribbean Center of Advanced Studies in Puerto Rico [today the Carlos Albizu University] and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University, post-graduate training in evaluation at The Evaluators Institute (TEI) at George Washington University and the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. Besides teaching, she has worked as an evaluator in grants awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Currently she is the internal evaluator for the projects Recruiting, Retaining and Engaging Academically Talented Students from Economically Disadvantaged Groups into a Pathway to Successful Engineering Careers (PEARLS) and for Building Capacity at Collaborative Undergraduate STEM Program in Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure (RISE-UP). Both projects are funded by NSF.

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Fabio Andrade Rengifo University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez orcid.org/0000-0002-8859-7336

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Director of the Sustainable Energy Center (SEC) and associate professor in Power electronics applied to renewable energy in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.

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Ruben Esteban Leoncio Caban

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Abstract

Emergency housing has become a necessity in Puerto Rico due to the size and frequency of extreme natural events such as earthquakes and hurricanes that affect the island. The Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainability Education – Undergraduate Program (RISE-UP), funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) has developed an interdisciplinary curricular sequence to educate students to design infrastructure to withstand the impact of natural disasters. Three campuses of our university system collaborate in this interdisciplinary effort. Participating students, pursuing undergraduate degrees in engineering, architecture, and surveying, take courses together and participate in co-curricular activities (both online and in person through field visits). RISE-UP integrates servingness as a tool that contributes to the formation of students’ sensibility to social dynamics connected to the educational experiences. The final course of the curricular sequence was designed to integrate servingness by addressing aspects connected to the learning experience including leadership identity, critical consciousness, and civic engagement all in the context of Puerto Rico’s current infrastructural needs. During the final course, students apply the knowledge gained in the program to provide a solution to a design problem. The spring 2021 semester exercise was the design of a set of emergency houses based on a repeated unit. The houses' design requirements include environmental considerations, rainwater management, the use of natural ventilation, electric power autonomy during blackouts and structural stability of the units to face both seismic and wind loads. This paper discusses the semester project and presents the design solutions of the interdisciplinary groups of students who took part in the course. It also discusses the results of a survey whose goal was to explore the perception of the students about their achievements when taking part in the course and the dynamics seen in the course related to servingess and collaboration.

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Lopez Del Puerto, C., & Cavallin, H. E., & Guillemard, L., & Andrade Rengifo, F., & Leoncio Caban, R. E. (2023, June), Board 323: Integrating Servingness in a Mini-Capstone Project: Resilient and Sustainable Emergency Housing Design Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42913

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AB  - Emergency housing has become a necessity in Puerto Rico due to the size and frequency of extreme natural events such as earthquakes and hurricanes that affect the island. The Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainability Education – Undergraduate Program (RISE-UP), funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) has developed an interdisciplinary curricular sequence to educate students to design infrastructure to withstand the impact of natural disasters. Three campuses of our university system collaborate in this interdisciplinary effort. Participating students, pursuing undergraduate degrees in engineering, architecture, and surveying, take courses together and participate in co-curricular activities (both online and in person through field visits). RISE-UP integrates servingness as a tool that contributes to the formation of students’ sensibility to social dynamics connected to the educational experiences. The final course of the curricular sequence was designed to integrate servingness by addressing aspects connected to the learning experience including leadership identity, critical consciousness, and civic engagement all in the context of Puerto Rico’s current infrastructural needs. During the final course, students apply the knowledge gained in the program to provide a solution to a design problem. The spring 2021 semester exercise was the design of a set of emergency houses based on a repeated unit. The houses&#39; design requirements include environmental considerations, rainwater management, the use of natural ventilation, electric power autonomy during blackouts and structural stability of the units to face both seismic and wind loads. This paper discusses the semester project and presents the design solutions of the interdisciplinary groups of students who took part in the course. It also discusses the results of a survey whose goal was to explore the perception of the students about their achievements when taking part in the course and the dynamics seen in the course related to servingess and collaboration.
AU  - Carla Lopez Del Puerto
AU  - Humberto Eduardo Cavallin
AU  - Luisa Guillemard
AU  - Fabio Andrade Rengifo
AU  - Ruben Esteban Leoncio Caban
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Board 323: Integrating Servingness in a Mini-Capstone Project: Resilient and Sustainable Emergency Housing Design 
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/42913
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--42913
ER  -