Our education team is published in peer-reviewed journals to share our model and validate our work! Most of the publications below reflect the work of our staff, volunteers, or collaborators!

Bridge Program Publications

The mission of the EIA Bridge Program is the empower today’s students to become tomorrow’s global leaders by building bridges with underserved communities. This process is a unprecedented and invaluable learning experience, so we have made an effort to share this learning model with the engineering education community - aiming to collaborate, and inspire, other educators in the field. Furthermore, in order to remain as a top tier online engineering education program, we continue to read and publish work in engineering journals. The publications below are a comprehensive list of our peer-reviewed works!

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The Edlangeni footbridge: rural isolation in eswatini

This article was written by Jay Arehart, Bridge Builder and now Professor at CU Boulder, and published in the October 2019 edition of STRUCTURE Magazine. In this feature, the author uses the Edlangeni Footbridge example to describes the problem, solution, and impact of footbridge project. Click the image, or visit the feature article on the STRUCTURES website.

COMMENTARY: Educating global engineers through footbridges

This article was written by Jay Arehart; Bridge Builder and now Professor at CU Boulder, Ethan Gingerich; Bridge Program Director, and Wendel Sebastian; Professor at UCL. It was published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers in the Structures and Buildings Magazine. Also exemplifying the Edlangeni Footbridge as an a service-learning project.

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Reevaluating Traditional international service-learning during a global pandemic

This article was written by Jay Arehart; Bridge Builder and now Professor at CU Boulder, Kathryn Langenfeld; Doctoral Candidate at the University of Michigan, and Ethan Gingerich; Bridge Program Director. It was published in the Fall of 2020 in Advances in Engineering Education. This peer-reviewed article explores an international service-learning project - EIA Bridge Build - in the light of recent events involving the global pandemic.

Huaraca, Bolivia (2021) bridge built as a tribute to meredith. daughter of pcl executive and long time bridge builder, patrick malone.

This article was written and published in Engineering News-Record. It describes the impact and significance of the 52-meter “Merbear Memorial Bridge” serving over 1000+ people in rural Bolivia.

Aligning learning objectives and approaches in global engineering graduate programs: Review and recommendations by an interdisciplinary working group

This article was written and published in Development Engineering by fellow bridge builders and collaborators at the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering at CU Boulder. It elaborates on the results of a workshop aimed to develop contemporary learning objectives in the graduate field of Global Engineering.

Recommended Publications

Amongst other functions, the EIA Bridge Program primarily facilitates a Service Learning (also known as “Learning through Service” and “Experiential Learning”) experience for university students. The following recommended publications are from a variety of faculty and researchers in the field of engineering education. Not only do they motivate service learning as a highly successful tool for engineering education and developing professional skills as an engineer, but they recognize the globalization of engineering and make a call for more internationally and globally competent engineers in the field as a whole.

SERVICE LEARNING IN ENGINEERING

This article was written by Angela Bielefeldt (CU Boulder) and James Pearce (Michigan Technological University). It is a great resource to learn the terminology associated with “service learning” and explores a variety of research through the years in the application of service learning to the engineering education field.

GLOBAL ENGINEERING COMPETENCY IN CONTEXT: SITUATIONS AND BEHAVIORS

This article was written by Brent Jesiek (Purdue), Qin Zhu (Purdue), Sang Eun Woo (Purdue), Julia Thompson (Purdue), and Andrea Mazzurco (Purdue). It defines the dimensions of “global engineering competency”, breaking down the skillset that is necessary to be a successful, ethical global engineer. This article also discusses the globalization of engineering as a field and the necessity to address this in engineering education.

A TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING MODEL FOR SERVICE LEARNING: A LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY

This article was written by Richard Kiely (University of Georgia). It uses a case study that follows a group of students working in a service-learning program Nicaragua. The case study is used to better understand how participants in the study experienced learning and how this was different from traditional education.

DISTINGUISHING ENGINEERS OF THE FUTURE: COMPARISONS WITH EWB-USA MEMBERS

This article was written by Kaitlin Litchfield (CU Boulder), Amy Javernick-Will (CU Boulder), Daniel Knight (CU Boulder), and Cathy Leslie (EWB-USA). The study described compares EWB-USA participants and non EWB-USA participants at the undergraduate level. Simply comparing factors such as intrinsic motivation, personality type, ethnicity, retention in engineering, and more, to make assertions about the effects of service learning programs like EWB-USA.

LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND DIVERSITY: MISSED OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION TEAMS

This article was written by Susan Walden (University of Oklahoma), Cindy Foor (University of Oklahoma), Rui Pan (University of Oklahoma), Randa Shehab (University of Oklahoma), and Deborah Trytten (University of Oklahoma). This study focuses on the informal student competition team “Formula SAE”, but the lessons learned are potent and relatable across any informal student organization outside of traditional education (such as EIABP chapters!).