Circles: Community and Industry Reaching into Computer, Lab & Engineering Sciences

（99）工程学院是在其5年的成功基础上建立起来的，该项目由几个国家科学基金会资助，重点关注整个工程学院（SLICE）的综合服务学习。目前的项目“社区和行业进入计算机、实验室和工程科学”（CIRCLES）正在将服务学习纳入课程。来自其他STEM学科的教师正在接触到服务学习的概念，并将基于社区的项目纳入他们当前的课程。学生从课程中提供的几个服务学习项目中选择一个，并由活跃在该领域的社区成员进行指导。目前，所有工程专业的学生都至少选修一门包含服务学习内容的课程。教师们看到学生对课程的参与度越来越高，工程课程中代表性不足的学生数量增加，学生将工程原理应用于工作场所问题的能力也在提高。该项目的一个目标是提高对工程决策的社会和环境后果的敏感性和认识，该目标正在实现，同时加强了未来工程劳动力的准备和多样性。

(99) The College of Engineering is building upon its five year success from several NSF funded projects focusing on Service Learning Integrated throughout a College of Engineering (SLICE). The current project, Community and Industry Reaching into Computer, Lab and Engineering Sciences (CIRCLES) is extending the incorporation of Service Learning into the curriculum. Faculty from other STEM disciplines are being exposed to the Service-Learning concept and are incorporating community based projects into their current courses. Students choose one of several Service-Learning projects offered in their course and are mentored by a community member active in that area. Currently, all engineering students take at least one course with a Service-Learning component. Faculty are seeing increased student participation in course work, an increase in the number of underrepresented students in engineering courses and an increased ability of students to apply engineering principles to workplace questions. One goal of the project, to promote sensitivity and awareness of the sociological and environmental consequences of engineering decisions, is being met while strengthening the preparedness and diversity of the future engineering workforce.