Community Engaged Learning: Enhancing STEM Learning While Making a Difference

Community-Engaged Learning offers many benefits for 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 this year. Other STEM project and placement-based models will also be discussed along with research data on student participants and graduates.

Bio:

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.

Duke Service-Learning will provide lunch. Please provide dietary restrictions and preferences on the registration form.