Patrick Sours

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

Early career · publishing since 2018Rising activity

Service-Learning and Community Engagement Engineering Education and Curriculum Development Biomedical and Engineering Education Sustainability in Higher Education Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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Publishing since 2018

Research summary

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Patrick Sours works in engineering education, focusing on humanitarian engineering programs, global capstone courses, and community-engaged learning partnerships in international development contexts. His work examines how engineering students develop intercultural competence and participatory mindsets through projects like water treatment initiatives and sustainable development curricula, often in collaboration with international communities.

Humanitarian engineering educationCommunity-engaged and service learningGlobal capstone and international partnershipsIntercultural competence developmentSustainable development in engineering

Publication output was sparse and irregular from 2017-2023 but increased sharply in 2024-2025, suggesting a recent growth in activity.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.8/year recently

Recent publications

A Model for Utilizing a Global Capstone Course to Strengthen International Humanitarian Engineering Programs
2025
Impacts of AguaClara OSU-Collaboration in the RIDE (Research, Innovate, Design, and Empower) Ecosystem Focused on Passive Gravity Water Treatment
2025
Engagement in Practice: Reflections on Remote Community-Engaged Learning in the Context of a Multilateral International Partnership
2024
Engagement in Practice: Evaluating and Enhancing the Global Capstone Course
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings · 2024
The Formation of Engineers to Address Wicked Problems (FEW) Model: Investigating Impacts of a Humanitarian Engineering Minor on Students' Intercultural Competence
2024
Advancing Sustainable Development: Emerging Factors and Futures for the Engineering Field
Sustainability · 2023
Engagement in Practice: The Vocabulary of Community Development as an Indicator of a Participatory Mind-set
2020
Engagement in Practice: Building Community Capacity and Relationships through Rainwater Harvesting Initiatives – Tanzania
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings · 2020
An Innovative Approach to Teaching Appropriate Technology for Developing Countries
International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship · 2018

Publishes in

Sustainability×1
International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship×1
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×1
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×1
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine×1

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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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