Engagement in Practice: Engaging Undergraduate Students in a Multidisciplinary Service-Learning Environment

Abstract

She has experience working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has published her research in Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and peer-reviewed proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Bridging Education and Engineering Students through a Wind Energy-Focused Community Engagement Project

“…Another project linked architecture and engineering students to redesign a field house for the local city [29]. Service-learning projects have also integrated more than just two disciplines, for example students from industrial distribution, technology management, and sociology students worked to address food disparity issues in their local region [30].…”

Board 212: An Engineering/Computer Science Project with Community Service Focus

“…The course incorporates experiential, problembased learning and active learning pedagogies to teach sophomore engineering students engineering design fundamentals. Lu et al (2018) [9] presented a paper involving their landgrant university and a created course encompassing three majors (distribution logistics, sociology, and technology management) who work together on a distance service-learning project to address food disparities. Canney et al (2018) [10] presented results from a CAD course (or drafting course) which engaged its students with local community partners through the university's own Center for Community Engagement.…”

Changes in Student Perceptions of Course-Based Service Learning at Large Scale: EPICS at 23 Years Old

“…Individual or small groups of faculty conduct most of the active models with relatively small numbers of students. Surveying the 2018 ASEE Community Engagement Division's papers on the practice shows that the vast majority of programs, courses or experiences are relatively small [39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]. The diversity of models should include those that can scale and demonstrate efficiency for large and medium sized programs.…”