Mech Community Service Learning
Engineers don’t exist in a vacumn – the work they do serves society. Traditional education doesn’t always make this apparent to students and to prospective students. A Mechanical Engineering Department Community Service Learning (CSL) Pilot has been launched to integrate CSL activities throughout the program. Students will work with community partners and discover how their work changes the world we live in by finding solutions to challenges in their own communities.
Learn more!
http://www.students.ubc.ca/mura/communitylearning/index.cfm/faculty/csl-cbr/.
Strategic Partners: Faculty of Applied Science, Mechanical Engineering, Community Learning Initiative, UBC
Engineering 001 / Global Engineering
The Chair is working with the Faculty of Applied Science to create innovative new courses to put engineering into local and global contexts.
MECH 410E: Global Engineering Leadership &
MECH 410P: Global Engineering Leadership Practicum (optional)
Global Engineering Leadership is designed to introduce senior engineering students to concepts, theory and practice of engineering leadership in an international service learning context. The course will develop engineering leadership characteristics, understanding and respect for individual and cultural differences in team building, service and management contexts, managing change, conflicts, and crises; and understanding real-world ethics and core values.
MECH 410E: Global Engineering Leadership
- May – June 2012; afternoon classes on UBC Point Grey Campus
- Counts as a General List Technical Elective for Mechanical Engineering students (excluding those who came through the Camosun Bridge program)
MECH 410P: Global Engineering Leadership Practicum in conjunction with Go Global
- Pre-requisite: Mech 410E
- June – August 2012 in Tsomanotik, Chiapas, Mexico
- Counts as an Impact of Technology on Society elective for Applied Science students
A 7-week International Service Learning program in Mexico, working with our community partner Tsomanotik, an ego-agricultural centre for just and sustainable community development. Projects involved may focus on small clean energy development (solar panels and wind power), water and energy usage reduction in agriculture using appropriate technology.
Sign up for the ISL practicum portion (July/August) in Mexico is available at the UBC Go Global Website. Mech 410E can be registered for through the SSC – limited space is available.
For full course information visit: http://www.students.ubc.ca/global/learning-abroad/international-service-learning/current-programs/global-engineering-leadership/
1) Conflicts with other courses the Professor is teaching, including buffer zone or one-course-per-day considerations
1) Availability of special spaces – example, courses requiring the PACE lab
2) Other major academic commitments – example, TRIUMF obligations or part-time appointments
3) Learning Outcome-related reasons – example, course uses problem-based learning and therefore requires 1.5 hour blocks, or course uses place-based learning and therefore needs longer blocks or blocks at the end of the day to accommodate field trips.
4) Personal scheduling needs
a) child care based / family obligations
b) commute-based concerns (eg, problems with early mornings for people who live far away from campus)
c) personal preferences.
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