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Projects That Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering

Author:

Edmund Tsang

Author:

Edward Zlotkowski

Publication Date:

2000

Publisher:

American Association for Higher Education

Pages:

184

ISBN / ISSN:

1563770199

Projects That Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering

Abstract:

The purpose of this monograph is not only to serve as a practical guide for faculty seeking to integrate service-learning into an engineering course but also to examine larger issues of engineering education, the mission of higher education in an increasingly technologically oriented society, and the role of service-learning as a catalysis for program reform and educational enhancement. [editor]

Chapters:

What I Never Learned in Class: Lessons From Community-Based Learning

Chapters:

Service-Learning as a Pedagogy for Engineering: Concerns and Challenges

Chapters:

Service-Learning Reflection for Engineering: A Faculty Guide

Chapters:

How to Institutionalize Service-Learning Into the Curriculum of an Engineering Department: Designing a Workable Plan

Chapters:

Professional Activism: Reconnecting Community, Campus, and Alumni Through Acts of Service

Chapters:

EPICS: Service-Learning by Design

Chapters:

Service-Learning in a Variety of Engineering Courses

Chapters:

Integrating Service-Learning Into Computer Science Through a Social Impact Analysis

Chapters:

Service-Learning: A Unique Perspective on Engineering Education

Chapters:

Integrating Service-Learning Into "Introduction to Mechanical Engineering"

Chapters:

Service-Learning and Civil and Environmental Engineering: A Department Shows How It Can Be Done

Chapters:

Cross-Cultural Service-Learning for Responsible Engineering Graduates

Chapters:

Assessment of Environmental Equity: Results of an Engineering Service-Learning Project

Chapters:

Service-Learning in Engineering at the University of San Diego: Thoughts on First Implementation

Full Text Link:

http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED449730.pdf

Call Number:

150/C/TSA/2000

Series:

AAHE's Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines

Sector:

HE Sector

Electronic Availability:

Available online

Library Item Type:

Electronic resource - book/monograph

Library Item Type:

Print resource - book/monograph

Exemplary:

Exemplary - expert

Subject / Discipline:

Engineering

Topics: Theory & Practice:

Pedagogy