Kajfez and Riter receives BETHA grant
Many engineering students struggle to connect engineering and societal impact. TAP meets this need by providing hands-on engineering experiences (workshops, labs, and community service sessions) that allow students to apply their technical knowledge while adapting electronic toys for children with disabilities. While the experiences for students allow them to connect concepts related to circuits, soldering, and reverse engineering to societal impact, the experiences themselves result in adapted toys that can be donated to toy libraries and families in need. These outcomes allow this program to not only benefit engineering students but also the community. The funded project involves a series of experiences for engineering students. While the goal of each experience is the same, the implementation is slightly different. Specifically, this project involves (1) workshops for Engineering Scholars (ES), (2) a lab for a section of the Fundamental of Engineering for Honors (FEH), and (3) community workshops. Through this structure, a variety of toys for children with disabilities will be adapted by a large number of engineering students here at Ohio State.
