[Faculty] Fwd: Collaboration with Wales

[Garoma, Temesgen]

Dear Colleagues,

Please see below an opportunity for a collaboration with a university in
Wells. If you are interested, please reach out to Dr. Evashwick directly.

Garoma

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From: Connie Evashwick <evashwick at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 2:56 PM
Subject: Collaboration with Wales
To: <tgaroma at sdsu.edu>


Dear Dr. Garoma:

My name is Connie Evashwick. I am a professor emeritus and adjunct
professor for the SDSU School of Public Health. This Fall, I have a
Fulbright Specialist placement with Cardiff Metropolitan University (CMU)
in Wales https://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/about to explore ways that our
universities might work together. The intersection of health sciences and
engineering ranges from environmental issues (e.g., safe water provision,
air quality) to community design (transportation access, city planning,
bridge construction) to use of high tech (from personal health monitoring
devices to surgery with robotics to AI for concierge diagnosis and
treatment). CMU has a lot going on, including a goal of global outreach,
and  we want to explore collaboration of other disciplines as well as
public health.

Do you have any faculty who might be interested in learning more about
opportunities for faculty and student collaboration, such as guest
lecturers, joint research, thesis research, or other activities? I would be
glad to talk with faculty one-on-one to hone in on their interests.

One specific opportunity is to design a study tour. The SDSU offices that
oversee study tours have been particularly interested in study abroad
opportunities for students in Engineering (see last year's priority list).

Might your graduate students be interested in a 1-week, 3-unit, study tour
that would be relevant and interesting to engineering students? For
example, the study tour might include Roman aqueducts; the city of Bath
with aqueducts but also civic baths and other Medieval infrastructures
(Bath is just across the river from Cardiff); tin and slate mines in Wales;
Stonehenge; ancient and modern marine and cross-channel shipping systems; a
variety of ground transportation issues, from use of round-abouts to the
pros and cons of left versus right-side driving to early rail
transportation for the mines; sites with topics that merge environmental
public health with facets of engineering. In addition to civil and
mechanical engineering issues, CMU has a very sophisticated robotics
program, which might appeal to students interested in the intersection of
electrical engineering and computer science. Granted this might be a rather
eclectic overview of the different applications of engineering throughout
the centuries, but it could be quite fascinating! Students would also have
the opportunity to meet students from Wales and, assuming the study tour is
done with SDSU SPH students, to have interdisciplinary exchanges about what
affects human (health-related) behaviors.

The SPH tour will be targeted at graduate students (master's and those in
the new DrPh program), but open to upper class undergraduates. We would
assume the same advanced level of engineering students (unless a separate
tour were developed just for the School of Engineering).

I have worked with SDSU's SPH since 2016 to develop a study tour to
Vietnam. This year's tour  (January 2024) will be the third iteration. I
have a fairly good sense of how to construct a study tour that meets SDSU
requirements for student credit hours and appeals to students.

Please let me know if you would be interested in discussing the
possibilities for engineering students and faculty. I leave for CMU in
mid-September, so I am eager to get your input before I depart.

Thank you so much for your consideration.

Connie Evashwick, Sc.D.

P.S. There are other opportunities for collaboration with CMU, such as
remote lectures in both directions and individual student research
exchanges. Since Brexit, universities in the UK are all the more interested
in establishing relationships with universities in the USA. Like SDSU, CMU
emphasizes bringing high quality research to the level of practice and
application.


-- 
Dr. Connie Evashwick, FACHE, CPH, CAE
evashwick at gmail.com
(562) 673-1607
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