Multi-University Partnership for Global Service Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa

Seay, Jeffrey; Lumkes, John

doi:10.24908/ijsle.v0i0.5558

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“…The enduring neglect of this important topic in scholarship is reflected in our review: only 14 articles included the perspectives of community partners. Most articles emphasized students' learning outcomes, personal development (Keshwani & Adams, 2017;Wallen & Pandit, 2009), course/project experience, and delivery of solutions or products (Marsolek et al, 2012;J. Seay & Lumkes, 2014), but the community perspective was largely ignored.…”

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Community engagement in engineering education: A systematic literature review

Natarajarathinam

Qiu

Zoghi

2021

J of Engineering Edu

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Background: Community engagement has recently become a focus in engineering education. However, systematic reviews that catalog best practices and identify research patterns and gaps remain scarce. Purpose: The purpose of this systematic review is to generate insights and findings by reviewing studies focused on community engagement programs in engineering education from 1980 to 2019. This review offers new findings for practitioners and researchers with a menu of proven ideas and provides directions for community engagement practice and future research. Method: Articles were obtained via keyword searches for "Engineering" AND "service-learning," "community engagement" OR "civic engagement" using available databases. Search constraints included the year of publication, peerreviewed articles, and articles written in English. The content analysis method was used to categorize, summarize, and evaluate selected articles. A total of 120 articles have been reviewed.Results: This systematic review identified recent trends in engineering community engagement programs. Undergraduate students were the main program participants. The vast majority of projects took place in the United States.Overall, community engagement projects increasingly recruited multidisciplinary students. Factors such as logistics constraints, cultural barriers, and disconnect issues were reported as major challenges to the success of engineering community engagement programs. Qualitative research dominated community engagement studies. The community partner remains a less-studied subject. Research focusing on engineering graduate students in community engagement was rare. Conclusions: To obtain a holistic understanding of community engagement in engineering education, additional research should focus on community partners' perspectives, graduate students in engineering, diversity, and holistic assessments.

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Section: Community Partners' Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community engagement in engineering education: A systematic literature review

Natarajarathinam

Qiu

Zoghi

2021

J of Engineering Edu

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“…In order for a course that includes an in-country service learning component to be successful, a local partner is essential 1,5 . To this end, a partnership was established with ODAM in Tiruchuli, India (see Figure 1).…”

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“…For the production of fuel oil, the students utilized the previously designed UKATS processor 5 . The UKATS processor is based on rocket stove technology and is constructed from locally sourced recycled barrels and scrap metal.…”

Section: Challenges Of Working In a Rural Region In Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing Cultural Challenges in a Global Service Learning Project to Reduce Plastic Waste in Rural India

Seay

Jeyaraj²,

Higgins

et al. 2016

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-In the summer of 2015, a group of chemical and mechanical engineering undergraduate students from the University of Kentucky Paducah Extended Campus Program participated in a Global Service Learning and Sustainability course focused on implementing a project to convert waste plastic into a sustainable liquid fuel in rural southern India. The successful construction, operation and testing of the liquid fuel in local diesel powered irrigation pumps will be described. Service learning projects conducted in other countries often face cultural hurdles that are quite different than in traditional study abroad programs. Working side-by-side with local people requires adapting to cultural practices that may be quite different from the students' expectations. To address this, cultural aspects and social sustainability were included in a lecture component of the service learning course as well as in the implementation of the service project. The learning outcomes for this course included providing students with clear understanding of the key issues of sustainability and sustainable community development in rural and underdeveloped regions and educating them as to how engineers must consider cultural factors when working in underdeveloped regions. This service learning project was conducted in collaboration with the Organization of Development Action and Maintenance (ODAM) in Tiruchuli, India.

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“…The principle objective of this project was to develop a low-cost, environmentally benign technology for producing biodiesel and the associated raw materials, i.e. methanol and base catalyst, from locally available resources available in rural Cameroon in sub-Saharan Africa (Seay, et al, 2014, Seay andLumkes, 2014). To achieve this objective, three tasks were required:  Design a low cost process for generating biochar and methanol by destructive wood distillation,  Design a low cost process for generating biodiesel from locally sourced feedstocks,  Complete the mechanical design and fabrication plans of a processor for producing biodiesel, biochar and methanol using locally sourced materials.…”

Section: Project 1: Developing a Novel Low Cost Biodiesel And Biochar...mentioning

confidence: 99%