Mines Capstone Design is seeking judges to review 10 student submitted Broader Impacts Essays.
Every semester, Capstone Design students are assigned to write an individual essay about how their area of engineering impacts the social, environmental, and/or economic lives of communities and individuals. The top 10 essays from this group of approximately 125 senior engineering students were chosen by faculty and now need final assessment. The top three essays will be determined by Mines alumni and external partners and the authors will be recognized at the Capstone Awards Breakfast.
The prompt for this semester’s essays is: Designed systems can impact the behaviors of people and environments. Develop a position that argues how an engineered system has positively or negatively impacted the behavior of society, the environment, and/or the economy. The essay should be either related to your project or your field of engineering and use contemporary, concrete examples in the arguments.
Sign up to be an essay reviewer by selecting the "Respond" button at the top, right corner of this page. Someone will then be in touch to provide you with the essays and instructions on how to submit your assessments. All essay reviews need to be submitted by Sunday, April 14.
The 10 essays that you will review are:
| 1 | Planned Obsolescence in Action |
| 2 | Wood: The Future of Sustainable Building |
| 3 | Electric Bikes: A Superior Form of Transportation |
| 4 | Charting the Celestial Frontier: The Profound Impact of Aerospace … |
| 5 | Electric Vehicles, Materials, and their Broader Costs |
| 6 | Additive Manufacturing and Today |
| 7 | Generative AI and its Pitfalls |
| 8 | Navigating the Water usage Concerns of Data Centers |
| 9 | Embracing the Reality of Automation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution |
| 10 | The Greater Purpose of the Seemingly Trivial |
