Collaborative Research: Engineering Faculty Engagement in Learning Through Service (EFELTS)

该项目侧重于通过服务学习（LTS），这是一种将学术学习与服务相结合的教学方法。该项目吸引了来自五个不同机构的研究人员，采用4D流程（发现、提炼、设计、传播）来评估对目前从事LTS工作的教师的影响，并授权其他教师实施LTS。正在进行的主要活动包括调查和采访聘任教师；召开LTS项目/课程设计、实施和评估专家会议；开展关于LTS的密集教师培训研讨会，在课程和项目层面开展新的LTS工作；并通过持续的传播来维持教师的参与。评估研究方法（发展和使用）正在贯穿这些活动。该项目通过系统实施和支持工程教育中的LTS来吸引教师。这些项目扩大了LTS在工程教育中的应用，并突出了LTS作为一项可行的研究努力和学术活动。该项目为不同的教师和机构类型确定了LTS面临的挑战和促进因素。

This project focuses on Learning Through Service (LTS), a pedagogical method that combines academic learning with service. Engaging investigators from five diverse institutions, the project are invoking a 4D Process (Discover, Distill, Design, Disseminate) to evaluate the impacts on faculty currently engaged in LTS efforts and to empower additional faculty to implement LTS. Major activities that are being undertaken include surveying and interviewing engaged faculty; convening a meeting of experts in LTS program/course designs, implementations, and assessments; conducting intensive faculty training workshops on LTS that lead to new LTS efforts at course and program levels; and sustaining faculty engagement via a continued dissemination of efforts. Assessment research methodologies (development and use) are being integrated throughout these activities. The project engages faculty through systemic implementation and support for LTS in engineering education. The projects expands the use of LTS in engineering education and highlight LTS as a viable research endeavor and scholarly activity. The project identifies challenges and facilitators to LTS for different faculty and institution types.