The Role of Service Learning: Improving Engineering Education and Engagement of Women in Engineering

Principal Investigator: Chris Swan
Co-Principal Investigator: Chris Rogers  and Linda Jarvin

Description: This project focuses on service-learning, which combines active citizenship with student learning as a real world approach with concrete results. A major component of service learning is that it serves to enhance the academic curriculum as an integrated feature. At the same time, the service projects meet genuine needs of the communities in which and with whom they take place. Our goal is to examine the outcomes of participation in service-learning in schools of engineering in attracting and retaining female engineers.

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
IRB Approval by: Tufts University Faculty of Arts and Science Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects
Funding Period: 2008 – 2011