A Community Partner's Role During a First-Year Service Learning Project

Abstract

is an engineering lecturer at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada, where she teaches second-year dynamics and design courses. Concurrently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her background is in aerospace and systems engineering, specifically related to satellite design. She was a systems engineer on two of NASA Goddard's satellites: FERMI and LDCM. Her interests have shifted to studying active learning techniques in engineering education, specifically service learning and social justice.