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Article

Empathic Design in Engineering Education and Practice: An Approach for Achieving Inclusive and Effective Community Resilience

by
Saleh Afroogh
1,
Amir Esmalian
2,*,
Jonan Phillip Donaldson
3 and
Ali Mostafavi
2
1
Department of Philosophy, The State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12203, USA
2
UrbanResilience.AI Lab, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA
3
Center for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA
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Sustainability 2021, 13(7), 4060; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13074060
Submission received: 13 March 2021 / Revised: 27 March 2021 / Accepted: 2 April 2021 / Published: 6 April 2021
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In this paper, we argue that an inclusive and effective community resilience approach requires empathy as a missing component in the current engineering education and practice. An inclusive and effective community resilience approach needs to be human-centric, individual- and communal-sensitive, justice-oriented, and values-based consistent. In this paper, we argue that three kinds of empathy, namely cognitive, affective, and conative, play a central role in creating and sustaining an inclusive and effective approach to community resilience. Finally, we discuss empathetic education through learning theories and analytics skills to cultivate empathy in engineering education. Cultivating empathy in engineering education could help advance the impact and contribution of engineering to well-being.
Keywords: empathy; community resilience; human infrastructure resilience; empathic design; justice; engineering education; engineering practice empathy; community resilience; human infrastructure resilience; empathic design; justice; engineering education; engineering practice

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Afroogh, S.; Esmalian, A.; Donaldson, J.P.; Mostafavi, A. Empathic Design in Engineering Education and Practice: An Approach for Achieving Inclusive and Effective Community Resilience. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4060. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13074060

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Afroogh S, Esmalian A, Donaldson JP, Mostafavi A. Empathic Design in Engineering Education and Practice: An Approach for Achieving Inclusive and Effective Community Resilience. Sustainability. 2021; 13(7):4060. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13074060

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Afroogh, Saleh, Amir Esmalian, Jonan Phillip Donaldson, and Ali Mostafavi. 2021. "Empathic Design in Engineering Education and Practice: An Approach for Achieving Inclusive and Effective Community Resilience" Sustainability 13, no. 7: 4060. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13074060

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Afroogh, S., Esmalian, A., Donaldson, J. P., & Mostafavi, A. (2021). Empathic Design in Engineering Education and Practice: An Approach for Achieving Inclusive and Effective Community Resilience. Sustainability, 13(7), 4060. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13074060

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