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Two Humanitarian Engineering Courses Offered via Ecampus Spring 2025
by MacCarty, Nordica 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

Greetings friends of humanitarian engineering, We are pleased to be offering two courses on ecampus Spring term - HEST/ANTH 201 "Innovation for Social Impact" and HEST 412/512 - "Multidisciplinary Case Studies in Humanitarian Engineering". Flyers with additional details are attached. I'd be very grateful if you could please help share this information with students and colleagues as appropriate. Feel free to reach out anytime. Kindly, ~Nordica Nordica A. MacCarty, Ph.D. (she/her) Associate Professor | Richard & Gretchen Evans Professor of Humanitarian Engineering | School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | Oregon State University Executive Director | Aprovecho Research Center Office: 312 Rogers Hall | Mailing: 204 Rogers Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331 | Office: 541.737.5927

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Evans Family Graduate Fellowship: Call for Proposals Due March 7th
by MacCarty, Nordica 17 Jan '25

17 Jan '25

Greetings friends of humanitarian engineering, Thanks to the generous support from Dick and Gretchen Evans, it is time for the annual Spring call for proposals for the Evans Family Graduate Fellowships. This opportunity can provide between $2k and $10k of travel or stipend support for graduate students working on humanitarian related projects (details attached). The submission deadline this term is March 7th. If you know of graduate students within or outside the College of Engineering who meet the criteria, please do consider inviting them to apply. And of course, feel free to reach out with any questions. ~Nordica Nordica A. MacCarty, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Associate Professor | Richard & Gretchen Evans Scholar of Humanitarian Engineering | School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | Oregon State University Executive Director | Aprovecho Research Center Office: 312 Rogers Hall | Mailing: 204 Rogers Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331 | Office: 541.737.5927

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Evans Family Fellowship: New Recruiting Opportunity and Impact Report
by MacCarty, Nordica 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

Greetings faculty and friends of humanitarian engineering, I hope you are well as we approach the close of another term. I appreciate the sense of gratitude that comes with this time of year, both for the gifts of the past and opportunities for the future. As a part of that gratitude, I've been reflecting on all that we have accomplished together through the Evans Family Fellowship<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fengineeri…> program since it began in 2016. I recently prepared an impact report for Dick and Gretchen, and wanted to share it with you (attached) to highlight the extensive value this program has had on our students, our faculty, and our local and global partners. In short, we've been able to support 40 graduate students (68% female) from 11 different majors in their travels to 21 different countries. These students used their time and training to work toward providing solutions to the world’s most pressing problems in water, energy, and health through hands-on, cross-cultural, immersive collaborations. I'm so thankful to you for making these transformational opportunities possible. To build upon this success, I'd like to announce a new opportunity to use the Evans Fellowships as a recruiting tool for potential incoming graduate students this cycle. It is my thought that offering an Evans Fellowship within offer letters to our top candidates might enhance the prestige of the offer, thereby increasing the chances of that student selecting OSU for their degree program. I hope this will also allow the nominating faculty member to better budget and plan ahead for the student’s research program. The brief application process for this will be similar to the existing request for proposals, including a 1-page nomination letter and inclusion of the student's application package. Please watch your inbox for this opportunity by mid-January, and feel free to reach out to me with any questions or suggestions for this or the humanitarian engineering program in general. Happy holidays, ~Nordica Nordica A. MacCarty, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Associate Professor | Richard & Gretchen Evans Scholar of Humanitarian Engineering | School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | Oregon State University Executive Director | Aprovecho Research Center Office: 312 Rogers Hall | Mailing: 204 Rogers Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331 | Office: 541.737.5927

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2024 Colorado WASH Symposium
by Hannah Cairney 28 Nov '23

28 Nov '23

Good Afternoon, My name is Hannah Cairney, and I am currently on the planning committee for the 2024 Colorado WASH Symposium. The symposium is an entirely-student run conference hosted as a hybrid event at the University of Colorado Boulder focused on providing a platform for sharing and expanding collective knowledge in the field of water, sanitation, and hygiene in both domestic and international contexts. Since its establishment in 2012, the symposium has brought together leaders and WASH practitioners in social enterprises, the private sector, NGOs, academia, and development agencies every year for a two-day conference filled with networking events, panels, presentations, posters, and interactive sessions. The Colorado WASH Symposium is deliberately small and intimate - designed around in-depth conversations and unrushed sessions where each individual’s contribution is valued. I noticed that your Humanitarian Engineering program seems closely aligned with our mission statement and is similar to our program here at CU and am reaching out to see if anyone involved in your program would be interested in submitting an abstract to be a presenter at our conference. This year’s symposium will be held both in-person and virtually on March 7th and 8th, 2024 and, in keeping with a tradition of accessibility and community engagement, the event is free and open to anyone interested in attending. Abstract submissions are due this Friday, December 1st, but registration will be opening by early January and will remain open until the symposium. I have the link to our website <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.colora…> as well as the abstract submission form <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…> attached here. If you could pass along this information to any students, researchers, or professors who might be interested in participating, I would greatly appreciate it! Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions. We hope to see some of you at the symposium this year! Thank you, Hannah Cairney

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Job losses, tuition increases, and budget cuts
by Sam Schwartz 30 Mar '23

30 Mar '23

Dear Oregon State University community, I hope you are having a great spring break! I'm Sam, a computer science graduate student at the University of Oregon with an interest in university finance and governance. I am writing to you because I am alarmed by our governor and state legislature. *Proposed budget cuts to higher education were unveiled last Thursday* by the chairs of the legislature's budget writing committee. In practice, this will mean some combination of tuition hikes, pay freezes/cuts, and job losses in Oregon's university ecosystem. OSU will be impacted if the proposals are passed by the legislature. *Take action: Add your name to this letter*, asking lawmakers to fund public universities instead of slashing the higher ed budget this next biennium. *https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1rH4sB-OO1PbuDaUeQhqkD6hfetdPMb-dIqD4Z1imAkA%2Fedit*&data=05%7C01%7Chumanitarian_engineering%40engr.orst.edu%7C627bea7f23bc4e51a65508db310b85a2%7Cce6d05e13c5e4d6287a84c4a2713c113%7C0%7C0%7C638157697774774599%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=1gqwH0etJIWFtgP4WfkXcWrlutVZf20XaUuZz6OfKwQ%3D&reserved=0 <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…> All of higher education in Oregon -- from university and community college support to scholarships for underrepresented or economically disadvantaged students -- is currently slated to get around 3% of the state budget. Compare Oregon's 3% state budget allocation to post-secondary education with Nevada at more than 6%, Idaho at ~7%, Washington at ~8%, or Utah and California at just over 10%. In fact, Oregon is state #45 in the nation when it comes to its support of public universities on a per capita basis. This is embarrassing. *Take more action: reach out to lawmakers yourself.* You can find who represents you by going to *https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oregonlegislature.gov%2Fcitizen_engagement*&data=05%7C01%7Chumanitarian_engineering%40engr.orst.edu%7C627bea7f23bc4e51a65508db310b85a2%7Cce6d05e13c5e4d6287a84c4a2713c113%7C0%7C0%7C638157697774774599%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vnEtD0fl7b2jxViNOT8qOXV%2FL1yLcHTNfTXrElco%2BTg%3D&reserved=0 <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.orego…> and clicking "Find your Legislator" on the sidebar on the right. Send an email or call your representative+senator. Thank you for your time, and for getting involved. I firmly believe that our democratic republic is strongest when we the people constructively engage with our government. Best, Sam Schwartz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Samuel David Schwartz PhD Candidate | Department of Computer Science

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Spring updates from humanitarian engineering
by MacCarty, Nordica 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

Greetings friends and colleagues, I hope these first few days of Spring are finding you well! I'm reaching out to share some updates from our program before we get away for Spring break. First, our ecampus undergraduate certificate is officially live! You can find information here: https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate/certificates/h…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fecampus.o…>. Ecampus does extensive marketing so I expect we'll start seeing enrollments in our courses increasing soon. We've also redone the program's website along with the College of Engineering's website redesign, so you may be interested in these links: General humanitarian engineering program: https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/humanitarian-engineering<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fengineeri…> Details on the certificate requirements: https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/humanitarian-engineering/academics/unde…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fengineeri…> List of upcoming courses: https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/humanitarian-engineering/academics/upco…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fengineeri…> The Evans Family Fellowship had some great applications again this term. We will be supporting student research in land use changes and food security in Uganda and healthcare in Argentina. We're always looking for news related to humanitarian engineering to share in the news feed, so please do send any news my way. Otherwise, please feel free to reach out with any updates or questions, and have a nice break! ~Nordica Nordica A. MacCarty, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Associate Professor | Richard & Gretchen Evans Scholar of Humanitarian Engineering | School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | Oregon State University Executive Director | Aprovecho Research Center Office: 312 Rogers Hall | Mailing: 204 Rogers Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331 | Office: 541.737.5927

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OSU Job Opportunity: DSI Multidisciplinary Program Administrator
by MacCarty, Nordica 14 Feb '23

14 Feb '23

Greetings friends and colleagues, As you may know, there is a new "Design for Social Impact/DSI" program being developed on campus. It may ultimately become the home for humanitarian engineering, which is an option in the DSI undergraduate certificate. The first of three job openings has posted for a 0.5FTE multidisciplinary program administrator. The posting is here: https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/131828<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjobs.oreg…>. It was a quick post with a short hiring timeline so priority consideration date was 2/13, but we'll be reviewing applications intensively for the next couple of weeks for sure. Please do share in your networks if you know of any good candidates. Academic director and external engagement manager postings will be forthcoming soon. I'm on the leadership team for this effort, so please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the program or position. Kindly, ~Nordica Nordica A. MacCarty, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Associate Professor | Richard & Gretchen Evans Scholar of Humanitarian Engineering | School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | Oregon State University Executive Director | Aprovecho Research Center Office: 312 Rogers Hall | Mailing: 204 Rogers Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331 | Office: 541.737.5927

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Humanitarian Engineering Updates Fall 2022
by MacCarty, Nordica 06 Dec '22

06 Dec '22

Greetings friends of humanitarian engineering, I'm delighted to announce that our ecampus certificate in humanitarian engineering was approved by the faculty senate last month. This online offering will allow us to expand our reach and our programming, and you can view the attached advising sheet for details. Once the certificate is added to the catalog, we'll be able to start promoting it in the Spring! Thanks to all of the faculty who have been working hard to develop their courses for the online platform. I'm excited to see the diversity in the students who will begin to participate. With that, we have two HEST offerings this winter on ecampus: HEST/ANTH 201 "Innovation for Social Impact" taught by myself (flyer attached), and HEST 320 "Engineering for Global Health Solutions" taught by Dr. Elain Fu. Please encourage your students to register for either if appropriate. In other news, humanitarian engineering will be a key them in the new "Design for Social Impact" program launching at OSU this Winter. An interdisciplinary undergraduate certificate was just approved by the senate that includes HEST/ANTH 201 as a core course, and a new general engineering major that incorporates significant arts and entrepreneurship content will be coming soon that offers humanitarian engineering as a specialty option. I'll share more details on that as they are available. We had some excellent applications for the Evans Family Fellowship this round. We were able to support student work with soil fertility in Chile and Oregon, sensor-based monitoring of household energy projects in Malawi, hydrology research supporting the Yakima Nation in Washinton, and participation in an OMSI science communication fellowship regarding work with more efficient wood heat in underserved communities in the Pacific Northwest. Another call for proposals will be sent out in early 2023. Finally, the College of Engineering web team has been working to update our website, so we'll have a sleek new interface with the world soon. You can get a sneak peek here: https://engineering.dev.oregonstate.edu/humanitarian-engineering. Please feel free to reach out anytime with questions and updates of your own, and have a joyful holiday season and relaxing break! Kindly, ~Nordica Nordica A. MacCarty, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Associate Professor | Richard & Gretchen Evans Scholar of Humanitarian Engineering | School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | Oregon State University Executive Director | Aprovecho Research Center Office: 312 Rogers Hall | Mailing: 204 Rogers Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331 | Office: 541.737.5927

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Evans Family Fellowship Call for Proposals Due November 15th
by MacCarty, Nordica 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

Greetings friends of humanitarian engineering, Thanks to the generous support from Dick and Gretchen Evans, it is time for the annual Fall call for proposals for the Evans Family Graduate Fellowships in AY 21/22. This opportunity can provide between $2k and $10k of travel or stipend support for graduate students working on humanitarian related projects (details attached). The submission deadline this term is November 15th. If you know of graduate students within or outside the College of Engineering who meet the criteria, please do consider inviting them to apply. And of course, feel free to reach out with any questions. Thank you and have a great academic year! ~Nordica Nordica A. MacCarty, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Associate Professor | Richard & Gretchen Evans Scholar of Humanitarian Engineering | School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | Oregon State University Executive Director | Aprovecho Research Center Office: 312 Rogers Hall | Mailing: 204 Rogers Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331 | Office: 541.737.5927

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Summer courses relevant to humanitarian engineering
by MacCarty, Nordica 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Dear humanitarian engineering faculty and students, Please note two exciting summer 2022 courses for both undergraduates and graduate student coming up including: HEST 462/562, SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELING FOR HUMANITARIAN ENGINEERING, 3 Credits. Introduces an accessible and practical framework for applying participatory system dynamics modeling to navigate the complexity of humanitarian engineering, projects and programs. Techniques highlighted include stakeholder-centric group model building, cross-impact analysis, causal loop diagramming, and stock and flow modeling. Culminates in a team project focused on a real-world global engineering intervention, where the team must model factors and subsystems that influence project success. This new Ecampus course is offered by Jeff Walters, professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Washington - Tacoma. There is also a new course GEOG 499/599 on wildfire disaster risk reduction, offered by Laura Peters. A flyer about this course is attached. Kindly, ~Nordica Nordica A. MacCarty, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Associate Professor | Richard & Gretchen Evans Scholar of Humanitarian Engineering | School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | Oregon State University Executive Director | Aprovecho Research Center Office: 312 Rogers Hall | Mailing: 204 Rogers Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331 | Office: 541.737.5927

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