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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 449 730 HE 033 730 AUTHOR Tsang, Edmund, Ed. TITLE Projects That Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering. AAHE's Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines. INSTITUTION American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC. ISBN ISBN-1-56377-019-9 PUB DATE 2000-00-00 NOTE 190p.; For other documents in this series, see HE 033 726-743. Initial funding for this series was supplied by Campus compact. AVAILABLE FROM American Association for Higher Education, One Dupont Circle, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20036-1110 ($28.50). Tel: 202-293-6440; Fax: 202-293-0073; Web site: www.aahe.org. PUB TYPE Books (010) Collected Works General (020) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *College Students; Curriculum Development; *Engineering; *Engineering Education; Higher Education; Intellectual Disciplines; School Community Relationship; *Service Learning; *Student Participation ABSTRACT This volume, the 14th in a series of monographs on service learning and academic disciplinary areas, is designed as a practical guide for faculty seeking to integrate service learning into an engineering course. The volume also deals with larger issues in engineering education and provides case studies of service-learning courses. The articles are: (1) "What I Never Learned in Class: Lessons from Community-Based Learning" (Gerald S. Eisman);(2) "Service-Learning as a Pedagogy for Engineering: Concerns and Challenges" (Edmund Tsang); (3) "Service-Learning Reflection for Engineering: A Faculty Guide" (Jennifer Moffat and Rand Decker); (4) "How To Institutionalize Service-Learning into the Curriculum of an Engineering Department: Designing a Workable Plan" (Peter T. Martin and James Coles);(5) "Professional Activism: Reconnecting Community, Campus, and Alumni through Acts of Service" (Rand Decker); (6) "EPICS: Service-Learning by Design" (Edward J. Coyle and Leah H. Jamieson); (7) "Service-Learning in a Variety of Engineering Courses" (John Duffy); (8) "Integrating Service-Learning into Computer Science through a Social Impact Analysis"(C. Dianne Martin); (9) "Service-Learning: A Unique Perspective on Engineering Education" (Marybeth Lima);(10) "Integrating Service-Learning into 'Introduction to Mechanical Engineering'" (Edmund Tsang);(11) "Service-Learning and Civil and Environmental Engineering: A Department Shows How It Can Be Done" (Peter T. Martin);(12) "Cross-Cultural Service-Learning for Responsible Engineering Graduates" (David Vader, Carl A. Erikson, and John W. Eby); (13) "Assessment of Environmental Equity: Results of an Engineering Service-Learning Project" (Richard Ciocci); and (14) "Service-Learning in Engineering at the University of San Diego: Thoughts on First Implementation" (Susan M. Lord). Each article contains references. An annotated bibliography of 12 sources is attached. (SLD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. AHE'S SERIES ON SERVICE-LEARNING IN THE DISCIPLINES 1 -e, o t ", 4, -fgotr tn 1t S a S , is- Concepts andModels\N 515 55% PERMISSION TO REPRODUCEAND DISSEMINATE THISMATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY rvice-Learning , ,,A,-,0, '.Ili_ Engineering 0 r 4', TO THE EDUCATIONALRESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER r-,,c',,,i,; (ERIC) ii`i i,,' V k:: ...: ,;:,,,t.,;.:,',.l ',,L,'',... ...... 1i .':,', ..:.-,,,,-1.,.- Eclin.,Und.'1$ang.,,.,editor. .,::,,,,,_ ,-",,,,-,,,,,.,,. U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) @/This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality °Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy A WA INEN MP1 2 AAHE'S SERIES ON SERVICE-LEARNINGIN THE DISCIPLINES Proj ectsThat Matter Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering Edmund Tsang, volume editor \ Edward Zlotkowski, series editor \ s, . , \ N \\,,, A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION 3 Projects That Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering (AAHE's Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines) Edmund Tsang, volume editor Edward Zlotkowski, series editor 42) 2000 American Association for Higher Education. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Opinions expressed in this publication are the contributors' and do not necessarily represent those of the American Association for Higher Education or its members. About This Publication This volume is one of eighteen in AAHE's Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines. Additional copies of this publication or others in the series from other disciplines can be ordered using the form provided on the last page or by contacting: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION One Dupont Circle, Suite 360 Washington, DC 20036-1110 ph 202/293-6440 x780, fax 202/293-0073 ISBN 1-56377-019-9 www.aahe.org ISBN (18 vol. set) 1-56377-005-9 Contents About This Series Edward Zlotkowski v Introduction Edmund Tsang 1 Part I Service-Learning in Engineering Education What I Never Learned in Class: Lessons From Community-Based Learning Gerald S. Eisman 13 Service-Learning as a Pedagogy for Engineering: Concerns and Challenges Edmund Tsang 27 Service-Learning Reflection for Engineering: A Faculty Guide Jennifer Moffat and Rand Decker 31 How to Institutionalize Service-Learning Into the Curriculum of an Engineering Department: Designing a Workable Plan Peter T. Martin and James Coles 41 Professional Activism: Reconnecting Community, Campus, and Alumni Through Acts of Service Rand Decker 53 Part ll Service-Learning Course and Program Models EPICS: Service-Learning by Design Edward J. Coyle and Leah H. Jamieson 59 Service-Learning in a Variety of Engineering Courses John Duffy 75 Integrating Service-Learning Into Computer Science Through a Social Impact Analysis C. Dianne Martin 99 Service-Learning: A Unique Perspective on Engineering Education Marybeth Lima 109 Integrating Service-Learning Into "Introduction to Mechanical Engineering" Edmund Tsang 119 Service-Learning and Civil and Environmental Engineering: A Department Shows How It Can Be Done Peter T. Martin 135 Cross-Cultural Service-Learning for Responsible Engineering Graduates David Vader, Carl A. Erikson, and John W. Eby 149 Part Ill Additional Resources Assessment of Environmental Equity: Results of an Engineering Service-Learning Project Richard Ciocci 161 Service-Learning in Engineering at the University of San Diego: Thoughts on First Implementation Susan M. Lord 167 Appendix Annotated Bibliography Edmund Tsang 175 Contributors to This Volume 181 About This Series by Edward Zlotkowski The following volume, Projects That Matter: Concepts and Models for Service- Learning in Engineering, represents the 14th in a series of monographs on service-learning and academic disciplinary areas. Ever since the early 1990s, educators interested in reconnecting higher education not only with neigh- boring communities but also with the American tradition of education for service have recognized the critical importance of winning faculty support for this work. Faculty, however, tend to define themselves and their responsi- bilities largely in terms of the academic disciplines/disciplinary areas in which they have been trained. Hence, the logic of the present series. The idea for this series first surfaced late in 1994 at a meeting convened by Campus Compact to explore the feasibility of developing a national network of service-learning educators. At that meeting, it quickly became clear that some of those assembled saw the primary value of such a network in its ability to provide concrete resources to faculty working in or wishing to explore service-learning. Out of that meeting there developed, under the auspices of Campus Compact, a new national group of educators called the Invisible College, and it was within the Invisible College that the monograph project was first conceived. Indeed, a review of both the editors and contributors responsible for many of the volumes in this series would reveal signif- icant representation by faculty associated with the Invisible College. If Campus Compact helped supply the initial financial backing and impulse for the Invisible College and for this series, it was the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) that made completion of the project feasible. Thanks to its reputation for innovative work, AAHE was not only able to obtain the funding needed to support the project up through actual publication, it was also able to assist in attracting many of the teacher- scholars who participated as writers and editors. AAHE is grateful to the Corporation for National ServiceLearn and Serve America for its financial support of the series. Three individuals in particular deserve to be singled out for their contri- butions. Sandra Enos, former Campus Compact project director for Integrating Service With Academic Study, was shepherd to the Invisible College project. John Wallace, professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, was the driving force behind the creation of the Invisible College. Without his vision and faith in the possibility of such an undertaking, assembling the human resources needed for this series would have been very difficult. Third, AAHE's endorsement and all that followed in its wake ZLOTKOWSKI V was due largely to then AAHE vice president Lou Albert. Lou's enthusiasm for the monograph project and

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