Allada, V., & Kueny, C. (2022, August), Community-focused Senior Design Practicum Projects  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41813

\bibitem{asee_peer_41813}
  Allada, V., \& Kueny, C. (2022, August), \emph{Community-focused Senior Design Practicum Projects}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--41813

Venkat Allada and Clair Kueny.  "Community-focused Senior Design Practicum Projects".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/41813 Internet.  04 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_41813}
  Venkat Allada and Clair Kueny.
  "Community-focused Senior Design Practicum Projects".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/41813 Internet.  04 May, 2024

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AB  - Senior design practicum project is an important aspect for gaining undergraduate engineering accreditation. Most undergraduate engineering senior design projects are disciplinary focused with a relatively straight forward problem definition by the stakeholder. Some senior design projects may have a flavor of interdisciplinary thinking but for the most part they do not allow the students to address the problem from a larger socio-technical system perspective. We experimented with a new approach to design interdisciplinary continuity in senior design practicum projects that also address a strong community need. The unique partnership involves Engineering Management senior design students, Industrial-Organizational psychology masters students, and a regional rural healthcare system. Unlike traditional engineering discipline focused senior design projects, the project sponsored by the regional rural healthcare system has a broader socio-technical problem context. The project focused on developing internal and external programs to educate the local community on the opioid crisis facing rural America. Interdisciplinary communication methods used by student teams to engage various community stakeholders and the project sponsors are discussed. The challenges and lessons learned associated with connecting a large community project across three semesters in two different departments with different learning objectives are discussed.
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