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

(99)工程学院是建立在其五年的成功，从几个NSF资助的项目，专注于服务学习集成在整个工程学院（SLICE）。目前的项目，社区和行业深入到计算机，实验室和工程科学（CIRCLES）正在扩展服务学习纳入课程。来自其他STEM学科的教师正在接触服务学习的概念，并将基于社区的项目纳入他们目前的课程。学生选择在他们的课程中提供的几个服务学习项目之一，并由活跃在该地区的社区成员指导。目前，所有工程专业的学生都至少参加一门带有服务学习组件的课程。教师们看到学生在课程工作中的参与度增加，工程课程中代表性不足的学生人数增加，学生将工程原理应用于工作场所问题的能力提高。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，目前正在实现这一目标，同时加强未来工程人员队伍的准备和多样性。

(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.