Outreach
Lives Improve Through Engineering (LITE) is a two-week residential program created by Kettering University to introduce 11th grade girls to engineering specialties. In the past, participants have learned how to design products that have a profound impact on people’s lives: air bags, crash test dummies, artificial limbs and organs, and car seats.
In the summer of 2007, Prof. Laura Sullivan and Prof. Ben Redekop introduced the LITE participants to "engineering for a sustainable society". Professor Redekop modified his previous development of Module 1 from IME540 for use in the LITE summer program. He utilized the environmental design of a t-shirt as an object lesson in the class. To close the program, he gave the LITE participants an environmentally-friendly light (lite) bulb to help them to remember and apply their experience.
University advancement has reported that these environmental outreach efforts helped lead to an individual’s grant contribution of $50,000. The donation was inspired in part because of the new sustainability focus of LITE.
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Project Information
Course Information
- Syllabus
- Historical, Social & Ethical
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Materials Selection
- Process Design
- End of Use
- Environ. Responsible Mgt
- Green Chemistry