Budny, D. & Gradoville, R. T. (2011). International Service Learning Design Projects: Educating Tomorrow’s Engineers, Serving the Global Community and Helping to meet ABET Criterion. International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, 6.
This paper discusses the benefits of international service-learning projects for students, the international community, and the university. The year-long process of development and piloting of the first international humanitarian engineering service-learning project within the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh is presented. This pilot project was a collaboration between the senior design course, a local chapter of Engineers Without Borders, and various domestic and international entities. The benefits of international service learning projects are discussed, in the hopes of catalyzing development of similar projects in the future.