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CFP: Opportunities and Barriers to Integrating Service Learning in Engineering Into Engineering Education

CFP: Opportunities and Barriers to Integrating Service Learning in Engineering Into Engineering Education

IJSLE Special Edition Announcement

The editors of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (IJSLE) are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a Special Edition of the Journal. The special edition will be entitled ?Opportunities and Barriers to Integrating Service Learning in Engineering into Engineering Education?.

Manuscript submittal deadline is August 30^th 2013 - with publication planned for December, 2013. Website: www.ijsle.org

Purpose and Scope

The editors invite submission of high-quality manuscripts that explore: 1) assessment, 2) scholarship, and 3) interdisciplinary engagement related to Service Learning in Engineering (SLE) - both domestically and internationally. A few examples of potential topics which might be addressed are provided below:

1. Assessment of Service Learning in Engineering

a. Methods and results of assessment of student learning

b. Methods and results of assessment of community impacts

c. Methods and results of assessment of impacts on the University, College,
Department and Employers

d. How might SLE practices be changing what, and how, we assess in
engineering education?

2. Scholarship of Service Learning in Engineering

a. What is ?scholarship? as related to service learning in engineering?

b. P&T committees and the review process ? what is SLE ?value??

c. Comparison of publications valued by the SLE community and those valued by P&T committees

d. Other avenues to scholarship: conferences, books, grants, workshops, etc.

e. Comparisons with service-learning in other disciplines - what is the state of the art. What can engineering learn from other disciplines?

3. Interdisciplinary Engagement

a. Examples of technically rigorous engineering research with strong socio-economic context

b. Entrepreneurship and SLE

c. Curricular models of ?breaking down the silos? with SLE

Manuscript submittal deadline is August 30^th 2013 - with publication planned for December, 2013.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Thomas Colledge, PE at [email protected].

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