Panel: An initial assessment of the Peugeot Center's completed projects and a look forward to the future

Abstract

Over the past 12 years, the Peugeot Center for Engineering Service in Developing Communities at Lipscomb University, in conjunction with Lipscomb University's Engineering Missions, has completed nearly 50 projects in 6 different countries and served over 10,000 people. The Peugeot Center has a vision of providing opportunities for engineering students and professionals to work alongside one other to address humanitarian challenges around the world. While the Peugeot Center strives to provide a holistic, sustainable solution to humanitarian challenges, some of the past projects have not accomplished that goal. Recently, the Peugeot Center created an initiative to better understand holistic solutions and how to achieve sustainability with respect to humanitarian challenges. A major goal of this initiative is implementing a common human-centered design process throughout all future projects. As part of this goal, the Peugeot Center will assess their past projects under the light of a human-centered design process based on engineering global development. In this panel, we will present an analysis and invite discussion of three case studies as initial steps toward completing the full assessment of the Peugeot Center projects. In addition, we will begin to formulate a step-by-step vision for improving the Peugeot Center's methodology for solution implementation.