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community impact did not match
their activities on-the-ground." The
problem was that many "...programs
were never designed for, and hence
never led to, long-term impact. Yes,
we were working with a community
and we had fun...but it was very
clear that the goal was a cross-cultural learning experience." We need
to stop thinking of engagement programs and the communities they
influence as sandboxes in which we
conveniently develop our students'
technical and soft skills. Both our
students and the partnering communities can sense that the activities are simply academic exercises,
and they deserve better.
In contrast, the rigorous integration of entrepreneurship opens
opportunities for long-term sustainable and scalable impact. More
importantly, it completely transforms
student perceptions, expectations,
and motivations. It makes students
realize the value that their education
could have, and for women students
in particular, can set the tone for the
rest of their career. As one female
put it,
As an Information Science
and Technology major, I've
always wanted to apply my
education in technology into a
career where I would be helping others in need. I feel passionate and motivated to
explore new opportunities
that coincide with my future
career plans.
An entrepreneurial approach
may appeal to women because they
are drawn to working with communities on real problems where
the metric of success is not how
well they learned the subject matter, but whether the problem was
solved or not. The assessment of
student learning outcomes related
to the subject matter becomes
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much harder in such settings - but
assessment of learning outcomes
related to design, entrepreneurship, leadership, and self-efficacy
becomes easier!
known how, but now I have
the ability to change lives in a
different part of the world. The
best thing about this project is
that it is built for sustainability,
which means that what I'm
doing will (hopefully) last forever. I think that's something
to be very proud of...
#3 Emphasize Impact
HESE emphasizes the importance
of sustainability and scalability as
soon as students enter the program.
With each idea generated and product conceptualized, students are
challenged to think about 1) how
can we build an independent selfsustaining system (organization) that
will address this problem without our
presence?, and 2) how do we ensure
that this system will grow and evolve
over time and solve the problem for
millions of people? HESE teaches
engineers about business operations
and financial models and liberal arts
majors about quality control and
design for manufacturing. All of our
students learn about cradle-to-cradle design and bio-inspired design
to ensure technologies and systems
meet the four hallmarks of sustainability. Ventures are designed to be
technologically appropriate, environmentally benign, socially acceptable, and economically sustainable.
This emphasis, or rather obsession,
on long-term impact stands in stark
contrast to academic programs and
student clubs that employ service as
a means of meeting student learning outcomes or developing their
soft skills. We found that women's
responses were very nuanced when
it came to describing their desire to
"make a sustainable impact" versus "helping out." The majority of
women in HESE see their engineering and entrepreneurship education
as preparation for careers in global
sustainable development. Reflecting
on time spent in the program, one
female HESE student wrote,
For female students in particular,
HESE projects provide a meaningful
and impactful leadership experience that builds their confidence
as they advance through the rest of
their education and career. In alignment with the knowledge base, we
have observed that men tend to have
higher self-efficacy and are more
comfortable talking up their HESE
experiences to potential employers.
Women benefit from mentoring on
1) how to list their experiences and
accomplishments on their resumes/
CVs, and 2) how to present their accomplishments to employers and
graduate/medical schools. The fact
that the women have a string of very
respectable and tangible outcomes
like venture successes, competitive funding, research publications,
and awards is particularly helpful
for women to get over the impostor
syndrome and feel like true leaders.
While engagement in such an open
inquiry- and impact-driven setting
contributes to an improvement in
agency and self-efficacy for men as
well as women, the sense of accomplishment that comes about with seeing the impact of their work first-hand
and sharing it with others at conferences and other professional forums
has a truly transformative effect on
the students' agency.
#4 Build an Inclusive Culture
and Inclusive Teams
To keep women engaged and interested in engineer ing and entrepreneurship programs, we need
to build cultures where everyone
Many times I have wanted to
make a difference but never
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