At the Good Drone Lab we have spent the last few years designing and implementing a course that brings together students from the Schools of Peace and Engineering here at USD. This project was made possible with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF EEC-1519453). We developed this course in order to bring students together to (a) talk about the role and impact of new technology, (b) think and talk about their disciplinary lenses, (c) work in teams to build drones, (d) develop a novel way of using drones for the greater good. This effort was well-received and has led to a number of publications in the scholarship of teaching and learning literature. Requests for our teaching modules has led us to develop a practical textbook for engineers interested in sociotechnical approaches to pedagogy.
- Hoople, Gordon and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick. 2020. Drones for Good: How to Bring Sociotechnical Thinking into the Classroom. Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, and Society).
- Reddy, Elizabeth, Gordon Hoople, and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick. 2019. "Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Reflections on Drones as a Classroom Boundary Object." Journal of Engineering Studies.
- Hoople, Gordon, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, and Elizabeth Reddy. 2019. “Drones for Good: Interdisciplinary Project Based Learning Between Engineering and Peace Studies.” International Journal of Engineering Education.
- Hoople, Gordon and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick. 2019. “Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Using Drones.” Advances in Engineering Education.
- Hoople, Gordon, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, and Beth Reddy. 2018. “Educating Changemakers: Cross Disciplinary Collaboration Between a School of Engineering and a School of Peace.” IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE).
- Lord, Susan, Gordon Hoople, Alex Mejia, Breanne Przestrzelski, Diana Chen, Odesma Dalrymple, Beth Reddy, and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick. 2018. “Creative Curricula for Changemaking Engineers,” in World Engineering Education Forum.
- Elizabeth Reddy, Gordon Hoople, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick. 2018. “Peace Engineering: Investigating Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Effects in a Team-Based Course About Drones,” in American Society for Engineering Education.
- Hoople, Gordon and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin. 2017. “Engineering Empathy: A Multidisciplinary Approach Combining Engineering, Peace Studies, and New Technology,” in American Society for Engineering Education, Cleveland, Ohio.