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This chapter introduces an in-depth understanding of community and how traditional engineering problem solving (EPS) methods limit rich community engagement. Throughout this chapter community is defined, approaches to effective community engagement are presented, and challenges to community engagement are explored, including engineering problem solving, engineering mindsets, curricular design, and engineers’ belief in development.
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs provides engineers a convenient framework to reduce and homogenize human needs, regardless of cultural diversity, to five categories: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Engineering ‘solutions’ tend to focus on the physiological (air, food, water, shelter, excretion) and on safety, when the context allows, but rarely address the other three categories (Maslow, 1943).
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Lucena, J., Leydens, J.A., Schneider, J., Temple, S. (2024). Engineering with Community. In: Engineering and Sustainable Community Development. Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, & Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48524-4_4
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