Cross-cultural service learning for responsible engineering graduates

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1427-1436

  Vader, David ^a   Erikson, Carl A ^a   Eby, John W ^a  

^a MESSIAH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MATHEMATICS; PROFESSIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SERVICE LEARNING;

CURRICULA; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8644234202     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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22. Members of this team included Dr. David Vader, Chair of the Engineering Department, Dr. John Eby, Director of the Agape Center for Service and Learning, and Cindy Blount, Director of Student Outreach.
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24. That we were only missing one minor component was actually a positive result. We carried every tool and part, down to the last scrap of wire, to the installation site. The nearest commercial center was three hundred kilometers distant.