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IDEAS: Interdisciplinary Design Engineering and Service

Author(s) -

Ruth Davis,

S. Krishnan,

Tonya Nilsson,

Patti Fylling Rimland

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

international journal for service learning in engineering humanitarian engineering and social entrepreneurship

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1555-9033

DOI - 10.24908/ijsle.v0i0.5546

Subject(s) - demographics , service learning , service (business) , engineering management , engineering , community service , medical education , engineering ethics , psychology , pedagogy , business , public relations , sociology , political science , medicine , marketing , demography

This paper describes the development of the IDEAS: Interdisciplinary Design Engineering and Service program. This program supports and promotes community-based projects as a vehicle for providing students with real-world experience working with clients to solve need-based problems. IDEAS supports senior design projects, an interdisciplinary course on community-based projects, as well as extra-curricular projects through various student organizations. A complete description of the course, common projects and challenges is provided. We describe the benefits of developing long-term community partnerships. Student self-assessments of skills gained shows the course to be successful in providing engineering design experience and soft skills as well as professional sense of the positive societal impact of engineering projects. Course demographics show these projects attract a higher percentage of underrepresented groups than in the overall engineering student population.

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