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The Renaissance Foundry Model (herein the Foundry) is an innovation-driven learning platform that has focused on collaborative opportunities and team-based learning approaches to engage students in the development of prototypes of innovative technology directed at addressing student-selected, complex, social challenges. Over the past five years, several outreach and educational programs at a mid-sized, rural, public, four-year university have been implemented using a Foundry-guided approach to curriculum development. These are programs supported by various State and Federal initiatives and aligned with larger efforts to facilitate the development of holistic engineers. All three programs leverage the Foundry as a way to facilitate the integration of diverse perspectives and build social frameworks into engineering designs. Using examples from the curriculum efforts of these programs, this contribution presents a work-inprogress that explores how Foundry-guided approaches to curriculum development in these programs provides potential opportunities for integrating inclusive engineering frameworks into students' overall learning experiences.
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Arce‐Trigatti et al. (2024) studied this question.