Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Without Borders and Engineers for a SustainableWorld, as well as university-specific opportunities. Student interest and involvement in theseprograms has been explosive. Yet, partly due to the grassroots development of many of theseprograms and to their rapid rise, there are scant findings on the impacts of these programs onengineering education. Preliminary findings suggest that students participating in PBSL early incollege are retained in engineering at higher levels, women participate in voluntary PBSLopportunities at higher levels than their representation in engineering overall, PBSL fulfills avariety of ABET learning outcomes, and PBSL enhances student preparation to practiceengineering design. The community impacts of these projects are

Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Ethan LaRochelle, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

major at Northeastern University. He has been involved with Engineers Without Borders since 2005 and was president of the NU student chapter from 2006 through 2008. Ethan has traveled with the group to the Yoro District of Honduras three times. In this time the group has partnered with a number of villages to improve the reliability of their water distribution systems. Page 14.597.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 EWB2 - Engineers Without Borders: Educationally, a World of Benefits Beverly K. Jaeger and Ethan Phillip M. LaRochelle