Service-Learning in Engineering

Posted by on July 25, 2003

SERVICE-LEARNING IN ENGINEERING
October 30-31, 2003
Tartan Park Clubhouse, 3M Club Facility, Lake Elmo, Minnesota

Co-sponsored by:
Minnesota Campus Compact
3M
The American Association for Higher Education
Campus Compact
The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Institute of Technology and Career and Community Learning Center

Engineering Criteria 2000, the accreditation criteria established by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), require engineering programs to demonstrate that their graduates have, among other competencies, an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams; an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; an ability to communicate effectively; and the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context. Thus the challenge facing engineering education today revolves around the development of pedagogical approaches not limited to the inculcation of technical knowledge and skills. Service-learning is an effective strategy for meeting these learning objectives in engineering. Service-learning is a type of experiential education that can effectively meet these learning objectives and real community needs by combining community work with structured reflection and analysis.

Whatever your engineering specialty and service-learning experience, this workshop will offer you and your colleagues a valuable opportunity to learn more about models and strategies for implementing service-learning, to discuss with peers the benefits and challenges of service-learning, and to develop ideas for further action. The workshop is designed to meet the following objectives:
? define service-learning in an engineering context;
? describe characteristics of successful service-learning programs in engineering;
? identify how service-learning can be used to meet ABET outcomes; and
? begin designing a service-learning project that could be integrated into an engineering course to meet both learning objectives and real community needs.

Featured Facilitators

Leah H. Jamieson, Ransburg Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-founder and director of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program at Purdue University; contributor to Projects That Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering.

Christine M. Maziar, Executive Vice President and Provost at the University of Minnesota; formerly Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Minnesota, and Vice Provost and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin.

William Oakes, assistant professor of Freshman Engineering and co-director of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program at Purdue University.

Edward Zlotkowski, professor of English and founding director of the Service-Learning Project at Bentley College; senior associate at the American Association for Higher Education and at Campus Compact; general editor of AAHE?s Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series.

Workshop Format & Content

The workshop will include a mixture of presentations, panels, and discussions in order to meet the stated objectives. Participants will receive Projects That Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering (AAHE, 2000) and a packet of additional resources.

Registration

All interested faculty, students, administrators, and others are welcome to participate in this workshop. Individuals are welcome, but ideally participants will come as part of a team, which might consist of:
? two or more faculty members,
? a department chair or campus administrator,
? a campus-based service-learning coordinator,
? one or more community partners, and/or
? one or more students.

Early bird registration deadline is September 30, 2003; final registration deadline is October 18, 2003.

Workshop cost for registrations received by September 30, 2003 (add $20 for registrations submitted between October 1 and October 18):
$95 individual from a Campus Compact member campus, a school, or a community-based organization
$65 member of a team (3 or more people) from a Campus Compact member campus, a school, or a community-based organization
$150 individual from a non-Compact campus
$120 member of team (3 or more people) from a non-Compact campus

Information on hotel accommodations in the Twin Cities is available with the registration brochure.

To request registration materials, please contact:
Lori Coutts Fraase
Office Manager
Minnesota Campus Compact
(651) 603-5082
info@mncampuscompact.org