Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-24-2025
Abstract
Measurable results of efforts to teach empathy to engineering students are sparse and somewhat mixed. This study’s objectives are (O1) to understand how empathy training affects students’ professional development relative to other educational experiences, (O2) to track empathy changes due to training over multiple years, and (O3) to understand how and what students learn in empathy training environments.
Keywords
empathy, experiential learning, service learning, community encounters
Language
English
Publication Title
Biomedical Engineering Education
Rights
© The Author(s) 2025. This is an Open Access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Schearer, E., LaMack, C. & LaMack, H. How Engineering Students Learn and are Impacted by Empathy Training: A Multi-year Study of an Empathy Program Focused on Disability and Technology. Biomed Eng Education 5, 251–270 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-025-00179-5
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