Conference Session

Perspectives on Service Learning: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Pierce, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); William C. Oakes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

University in West Lafayette, Indiana. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Changes in Student Perceptions of Course-Based Service-Learning at Large Scale: EPICS at 23 Years OldAbstractThe EPICS Program, founded at Purdue University in 1995, has grown where it is engagingmore than 1100 students per year collaborating with more than 50 local and global communityorganizations. The EPICS program has experienced a more rapid phase of growth in recentyears, doubling the enrollment from 292 in the spring of 2010 to 603 in the fall of 2017 and over700 in 2018. This phase of growth included shifts in the composition of teams, as more first andsecond year students enrolled in the design