Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura M. Patterson, University of British Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

began in 2011.2.2 The First IterationThe first iteration of the Community Service Learning Team Proposal Project (CSLTPP), wascreated in 2011 for 60 students of a first term, first-year engineering writing course, which is apart of a common first-year engineering curriculum.The not-for-profit community organizations were contacted through of the University of BritishColumbia, Okanagan campus’s Community Service Learning Program. Several local communityorganizations had a variety of needs that engineers and their unique skills could serve. Some ofthese organizations were scientific in nature, some had engineering/science-related problems thatengineers could address, and some simply needed the creativity and soft skills engineers possess.Because