scholarly journals Reflection-based assessment of service learning in undergraduate engineering

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Nihad Dukhan ◽  
Mark R. Schumack
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
The Body ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
The World ◽  
Societal Context

Virtually all engineering education organizations from around the world agree on the critical awareness of the societal context of engineering for graduating engineers. Service learning is one viable way that can bring about students’ awareness of their role in society. However, the body of literature addressing service learning as a pedagogy and strategic ways of implementing it in the already-full engineering curricula, as well as its assessment is relatively small. This paper describes a concise engineering service-learning component in a typical heat transfer course for mechanical engineering students. The service-learning component was used to probe the students’ ability to a) articulate the societal context of engineering, b) explain the importance of pro-active community service, and demonstrate an inclination to continue such service in the future, c) exhibit an appreciation of communication with non-engineers and finally, d) challenge some of the students’ stereotypes regarding other members of the community. Reflections were conducted by the students when answering a set of carefully-phrased questions addressing the above four issues. The responses of all students were analyzed as explained in this paper. The recorded benefits of service learning are described and can be expected from similar service-learning components in other engineering courses.

scholarly journals Nutritional Health Education during Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 042-046
Author(s):  
Novita Dewi ◽  
Wahyu Dini Metrikayanto ◽  
Supriyadi Supriyadi
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
The Body ◽  
Nutritional Intake ◽  
Precautionary Measure ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
Nutritional Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Provide Health Education

Covid-19 has been booming since December 2019, and is a serious concern in the world. The transmission of this virus is very fast, especially in patients who are hospitalized. So that as a precautionary measure of contracting this virus, actions can be taken in the form of enlightenment in terms of cognitive to the community, in this case in the form of Educational Interactive Communication in the form of Health Education. Health education for patients to meet adequate nutritional intake, so that it is hoped that the spread of this virus can be inhibited with high immunity obtained from varied, balanced nutrition, and all aspects of substances that the body needs can be fulfilled. The purpose of this community service is to provide health education to 15 patients. The method provided is in the form of service learning by providing health education to patients by visiting the patient one by one at each patient. The results of this community service were all participants who understand about nutritional intake, types of balanced nutrition, and things that increase immunity in preventing the transmission of covid-19

scholarly journals Evaluation Of Sustainable Engineering Education Via Service Learning And Community Service Efforts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary McCormick ◽  
Kristina Lawyer ◽  
Meredith Berlin ◽  
Chris Swan ◽  
Kurt Paterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Sustainable Engineering ◽  
Sustainable Engineering Education

scholarly journals Humanitarian Aspirations of Engineering Students: Differences between Disciplines and Institutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela R. Bielefeldt ◽  
Nathan E. Canney
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
The World ◽  
Environmental Materials ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Humanitarian Engineering ◽  
Motivating Factor ◽  
Attraction And Retention

This study explored the aspirations of undergraduate engineering students in regard to helping others, examining potential differences between disciplines and institutions. Over 1900 undergraduate students from 17 U.S. universities responded to a survey in spring 2014. In open-ended responses, 15.5% of the students included some form of helping people and/or the world as one of the factors that motivated them to select their engineering major; for 6.7% of the students this was the primary or only motivating factor listed. Helping as a motivation was not equally prevalent among different engineering disciplines, being much more common among students majoring in biomedical, environmental, materials, and civil and less common in computer and aerospace. Different disciplines also varied in the priority for helping people relative to other future job factors - highest in chemical/biological, moderate in civil and related majors, and lowest among electrical/computer and mechanical. Institutional differences were found in the extent to which students indicated an importance that their career would help people and the extent to which an ability to help others was a central message in their major. The results indicate the percentages of engineering students who are most likely to embrace humanitarian engineering; fostering these aspirations in students could help with attraction and retention.

scholarly journals The Impact of Service Learning at Kebontunggul Village for The Students of Heat Transfer Class

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 01009
Author(s):  
Ekadewi Anggraini Handoyo
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Rice Flour ◽  
Class A ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

Service learning is new for engineering students in PCU. When heat transfer class was adopting service learning methode last year, a small survey was done to know the students’ respond for this new methode. The survey was done via reflection they wrote in the end of the process. The students learn not only heat transfer itself, but they also learn how to apply it to an oven needed by a community in Kebontunggul, a small village in Mojokerto. The students in three groups visited the village, discussed with the villagers, and designed the oven used to dry crackers’ paste made from corn, cassava, and rice flour. Once the design was ready, the students went to workshop to manufacture the ovens. The oven was tested before sent to the village. They learned that it was difficult to make those cheap crackers. They learned a lot from the villagers in social interpersonal, social intrapersonal, emotional, and cognitive process. They are thankful to God for their being and grateful for this Service Learning class. A student even wrote, “I had changed motivation from just pursuing grade to seriously helping villagers”.

Experiences of Belonging in Engineering Undergraduate Education at Queen’s

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Buitenhuis
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering Education

The purpose of this study is to explore the role that the engineering undergraduate degree plays in the socialization process of professional engineers.  I will look at how exclusion is normalized through undergraduate education.  To do this, I will analyze the history and content of the Iron Ring Ceremony. This ceremony has symbolic significance to engineering students as it marks the completion of the undergraduate degree. It is also a ceremony unique to Canada, which will provide insights into the engineering profession in the Canadian context. I will also conduct interviews with 12 graduates of the Queen's undergraduate engineering program to gain insights into how engineering undergraduate education plays a role in shaping engineering identities. I will use my findings regarding the Iron Ring Ceremony to understand feelings of belonging and patterns of exclusion and inclusion throughout undergraduate engineering education.

Multiscale-Based Mechanical Engineering Education

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Karami ◽  
R. V. Pieri
Keyword(s):  
Finite Elements ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Multiscale Analysis ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Classical Mechanics ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Engineering Mechanics ◽  
Finite Elements Model

The classical engineering mechanics courses of Statics, Dynamics and Strength of Materials are taught to most engineering disciplines. With the advent of multiscale analysis and practice, reforms should be implemented in such classical mechanics courses to address the change so that they won't be limited only to continuum and macro-based level, but to include all the scales. This paper will suggest revisions that should be implemented in these courses. This includes introducing the concepts of multiscale engineering and the addition of new modules in the form of example problems in micro and nano-scales. Relying upon the framework of existing courses and using the existing physical and intellectual resources, an array of educational activities will be suggested to provide such an opportunity for undergraduate engineering students. The efforts will be substantiated and facilitated using the simulation capabilities of Computer Aided Engineering and Drawing (CADD) techniques as well as the analysis capabilities of Finite Elements Model (FEM) procedures.

Introduction of Nanotechnology in the Basic Energy Sciences

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kau-Fui V. Wong ◽  
Pablo A. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Past Research ◽  
World Market ◽  
Current Work ◽  
College Level ◽  
Synthesis Of Nanoparticles ◽  
The World ◽  
Nano Science

Nanotechnology is, according to some authorative sources, the new wave of the immediate future in science and technology. Many universities in the world do not have this topic taught at the college level in engineering. The objective of the current work is to prepare teaching materials in nanotechnology that could be used in a couple of lectures to be incorporated in a junior-level course of thermodynamics or other basic energy science course. The aim of preparing these modules is an effort to introduce our current undergraduate engineering students to some important concepts in nanotechnology. The modality of modules is so that many other college programs in the world can adopt these modules and incorporate in their curriculum easily; the result is that the education of our future engineers will be more complete and our engineers more competitive in the world market. The current work concentrates on the discussion and elaboration of the topics to be covered in nanotechnology in two one-hour and a-half lectures. Introductory items include the differences between nano-science and macro-science as well as atomic-level science theory. It cannot just be a survey of where nanotechnology has affected our modern lives. It should contain enough basics so that future courses/topics can build on these preliminary foundation lectures. The topics will tie in two existing lectures with nanotechnology applications. First, the principles of heat transfer relating to thermodynamics will be introduced. Second, an overview of nanotechnology will be presented. Third, students will be given an in-depth look at the various heat transfer processes. Finally, the nanotechnology applications relating to heat transfer shall be discussed, including a focus on nanofluids. This work will introduce some of the fundamental ideas regarding nanotechnology that relates to the energy sciences as it may be presented to a junior-level engineering class. This will include a discussion of some of the properties of nanoparticles, the synthesis of nanoparticles and the various materials used in fabrication, as well as the importance of nanofluids to complex thermal energy systems based on current and past research. After laying out the lesson plan integration in the current course curricula, several sample problems are presented in the appendix that would lend the students a greater grasp of the new material. An engineering upperclassman should understand the fundamentals of nanoscale engineering. Initial educational evaluation data based on a couple of lectures alone gave an average concept inventory, ([1] C.I., Foundation Coalition, 2007) score (geared for the two lectures) of 61.4% for a class of about twenty students (Spring 2007) in thermodynamics; the corresponding improvement in the average C.I. score for about ten students (Summer 2007) was from 43.7% to about 60%.

scholarly journals Service-Learning Case Study in Heat Transfer

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nihad Dukhan ◽  
Mark R. Schumack ◽  
John J. Daniels ◽  
Michael G. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Dollar Amount ◽  
The Impact

This paper describes the implementation and the impact of a service-learning project in a heat transfer course for undergraduate engineering students. The students visited low-income households in the Detroit area and installed insulation materials on doors and windows thereby conserving energy and reducing heating costs during the cold months. The students collected information about the materials, dimensions, and relevant engineering parameters. They used the information to calculate the resulting dollar amount of energy savings. There were interactions with a university office in charge of assisting the faculty in using service learning by developing course-relevant community-service projects. There was collaboration with a nonprofit organization that promotes the development of resource efficient homes through training and technical assistance. Data were first gathered about the students’ awareness and attitudes regarding the relationship between engineering work and society. Students rated themselves in leadership attributes such as empathy, awareness, conceptualization, and the community, and also in social justice interests such as the dignity of the human person, the common good, rights, responsibilities and poverty. After conducting the project, they reflected on their experience. Analysis of the students’ responses clearly showed that they became more aware and perceptive of their role as engineers in a societal context.

scholarly journals Pentingnya Menjaga Kesehatan Jiwa saat Pandemi Covid 19

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Dwi Kartika Pebrianti ◽  
Armina Armina
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
The Body ◽  
World Health ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The City

The case of the Corona Virus is known through a mysterious disease that paralyzed the City of Wuhan, China. The tragedy at the end of 2019 has continued until the spread of the Corona virus has spread throughout the world. Quoted from CNN, here are some things that must be known about the development of the Corona virus, which is commonly called the Corona virus or COVID-19, until it broke out and became a pandemic. Everyone needs to maintain mental health to avoid physical complaints that arise due to stress. Because when someone is stressed, the immune system in the body will decrease. This will cause the body to be susceptible to disease. Realizing that anxiety due to COVID-19 has pervaded many communities, the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020 released a guide for people to jointly maintain mental health. Through community service activities by directly interacting with the community while still implementing the COVID-19 protocol, socialization was carried out about the importance of maintaining mental health in the community during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Community service at RT 30 Recognize Besar, the community can know, recognize and overcome how to recognize mental health disorders including anxiety and depression, it is hoped that the community will always think optimistically in facing the Covid-19 pandemic, by implementing health protocols, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, regular exercise, always think positively, maintain communication with family and friends

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