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S&T Community Health, Education, Rural Health

Interdisciplinary Practicum & Community Organization Partnership

The Engineering Management senior design classes and Industrial-Organizational Psychology MS program partner with Phelps Health to help the organization address a community health issue. Undergraduate and graduate students provide consultation and data are collected by the instructors to study the effectiveness of this new practicum structure.

ongoing: This is a year-long project between Phelps Health, and the S&T I-O Psychology program and Engineering Management senior design classes. We believe we will start a new project with Phelps Health after this one completes in hopes of continuing the partnership.
Community-Engaged Research, Community-Engaged Teaching/Learning
Interdisciplinary Practicum & Community Organization Partnership

Thanks in part to an educational research grant from the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence, Dr. Clair Kueny, assistant professor of psychological science at Missouri S&T, and Dr. Venkat Allada, professor of engineering management and systems engineering at Missouri S&T, partnered with Dr. Casey Burton, director of medical research at Phelps Health to help the hospital better understand and take new directions in addressing the community's opioid epidemic. Engineering management senior design students helped identify community gaps in knowledge and resources available to combat the epidemic. This data was then provided to industrial-organizations psychology students who used the data to provide guidance to Phelps Health on how to change processes and interventions to better educate the community about opioids and opioid addiction.

During the fall semester students in Dr. Allada's engineering management senior design class will offer recommendations to Phelps Health on how to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of the recommended programs. This project received Institutional Review Board approval so that the instructors could study the perceptions and impact of this program on student learning and skill development as well as organizational perceptions related to the success of this partnership.

Impact

Thus far, this partnership has created an interdisciplinary practicum partnership that benefits both undergraduate and graduate students as well as Phelps Health and the Rolla community. Students gain real-world experience of addressing critical organizational problems and provide direct assistance to the organization and by extension the Rolla community. Future data analyses will provide specific information on the direct impacts on student development and organizational success/community impact as well.
Engineering Psychology

Contacts

Clair Kueny, assistant professor of psychological science
  kuenyc@mst.edu
  573-341-4732
  https://psych.mst.edu/
Venkat Allada, professor of engineering management and systems engineering
  allada@mst.edu
  573-341-4573
  https://emse.mst.edu/

Partner

Casey Burton, director of medical research
  cburton@phelpshealth.org
  https://phelpshealth.org/

Location

  Rolla, MO, USA

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