Servant Engineering

Called to Serve

In the George Fox engineering department, we take seriously Christ’s call to use our God-given gifts and abilities to serve others. The Servant Engineering program was established in spring 2010 as a core curricular requirement.

This unique program brings engineering students and professionals together as a team to research, design, and deliver engineering solutions to address humanitarian needs. All third-year students work on interdisciplinary teams, creating solutions to significant technical challenges through a human-centered design approach. Read more

Projects

The types of projects the students have been doing include:

• A postural assist device for blind students at the Oregon School for the Blind
• Clean cook-stove technologies for meeting the basic needs of refugees, impoverished people and communities in the developing world (InStove)
• Augmentative communication and physical therapy devices for patients and staff at the Providence Center for Medically Fragile Children in Portland
• Design of a bridge at a ranch for fatherless youth in Yamhill, Oregon
• An auto-resistive enhancement to an exercise bicycle for use in focused physical therapy
• Ruggedized wheelchair designs for individuals suffering with cerebral palsy in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya

George Fox Journal Fall 2011 - Read more about past projects.

Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms. – I Peter 4:10