Faculty Perspectives on Service-Learning in Engineering Education: Challenges and Opportunities

Learning through Service (LTS) is an umbrella term that includes, both curricular and extracurricular activities, reflecting that there are many models that exist currently for how faculty use opportunities for students to learn while providing service to a community. Over the past decade, Learning through Service has proliferated in higher education as an effective teaching and learning method. As the pedagogy continues to gain momentum, and many colleges and universities in the United States have designed their engineering curriculum and extra-curricular activities to include experiential learning, including service-learning. Nevertheless, despite the curriculum overhaul and increase in the use of LTS in engineering, there have been limited studies to evaluate the reasons for faculty interest in LTS and their