Learning and Service in Engineering and Global Development

摘要: In Spring 2004, students in Smith College's new Picker Engineering Program teamed up with the community-based organization Nuestras Raices Holyoke, MA to address problem of wood-fired oven emissions posed by successful and expanding operation Nuestras' entrepreneurial project, El Jardin Bakery. This partnership between Program developed context a course, “Engineering Global Development,” which aimed achieve such pedagogical goals as: developing an understanding critical view globalization global development engineering; analytic implementation skills related design construction technological solutions settings; critiquing “expert” model learning relationships that operate both classroom community. Though overall perspective, course engaged multifaceted challenges engineering, economic human development. We found these challenges analogous across communities are similarly distressed pressures need, as those affecting low-income, poorly-resourced worldwide. also ambitious marriage among engineering education, studies, liberative pedagogies provide profound equaled pedagogical, educational, experiential rewards.