<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<br><br>Please see below an opportunity for a collaboration with a university in Wells. If you are interested, please reach out to Dr. Evashwick directly.<br><br>Garoma<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Connie Evashwick</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:evashwick@gmail.com" target="_blank">evashwick@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 2:56 PM<br>Subject: Collaboration with Wales<br>To: <<a href="mailto:tgaroma@sdsu.edu" target="_blank">tgaroma@sdsu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div>Dear Dr. <span>Garoma:</span></div><div><br>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 <a href="https://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/about" target="_blank">https://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/about</a> 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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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). </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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). </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your consideration.</div><div><br></div><div>Connie Evashwick, Sc.D.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><font size="2">Dr. Connie Evashwick, FACHE, CPH, CAE<br></font><a href="mailto:evashwick@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font size="2">evashwick@gmail.com</font></a></div>
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