Thursday, November 6, 2008

Initiating action project

Goal: encourage engineering students to include service as a part of their education. I want to initiate action in the engineering program at virginia tech and encourage service learning.

Audience: Engineering student body.

Format: Currently im planning on creating a brochure that can be passed out to engineering students listing the service opportunities for engineers and descriptions of these programs. The opening page will contain a brief spiel about how engineering education can benefit from service etc., followed by pages listing the various ways to get involved.

I know that my community is not the engineering department but is EWB, but i feel that while researching EWB i saw the benefit of service learning as an engineer and hope to spread what EWB has done to other groups and to more students. I want to initiate action based on what EWB has already done

1 comment:

grete said...

This sounds great, Will. If you think your brochure might actually be helpful, you could contact someone in the university to see if they might be interested in using it. Then to add text to your project you could write them a letter explaining why you created the brochure and why you think it is necessary for them to hand out.