Community Engaged Learning: Preparing Professionals, Enhancing Learning and Making a Difference
William Oakes, PhD
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Engineering, a 150th Anniversary Professor, Professor of Engineering Education
Purdue University
Community-Engaged Learning offers many benefits for Engineering and the other STEM fields that include connecting theory with meaningful contexts and broadening participation. It also allows students to make a tangible impact on our world while they are students. This presentation will provide an overview of the EPICS Program, a multidisciplinary community engaged design program that is celebrating 30 years of engagement along with research findings from EPICS and a national study of Engineers Without Borders.
| William (Bill) Oakes is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Engineering, a 150th Anniversary Professor, Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and a registered professional engineer. He is one of the founding faculty in the School of Engineering Education. He was the first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning and a co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He is a fellow of National Society of Professional Engineers and a fellow and Hall of Fame member of the American Society for Engineering Education. |