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Community engaged learning: A building engineering case study

Goggins, Jamie
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Hajdukiewicz, Magdalena
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/17307
 https://doi.org/10.13025/18292
Publication Date
2020-08-28
Keywords
Civic engagement, Community engaged learning, Service learning, Civil engineering, Engineering projects
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Conference Paper
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Goggins, Jamie, & Hajdukiewicz, Magdalena. Community engaged learning: A building engineering case study. Paper presented at the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland Conference (CERI 2020), Cork, Ireland, 27-28 August.
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ABSTRACT: Community engaged learning is a form of experiential education with a civic underpinning. Community engaged learning is embedded with the civil engineering curriculum at NUI Galway and is framed by a research orientation, commitments to civic engagement and building university-community partnerships, city-university partnerships and partnerships with other official agencies, so that community users can provide real learning problems and contexts for students and researchers and benefit from the results. This paper presents the positive experience of the authors in facilitating over 300 community engaged learning projects undertaken by undergraduate students in civil engineering at NUI Galway. The paper highlights how well the outlined approach fits with the ideas of engaged scholarship and civic professionalism. Students recognise the long-term value of engaging with community partners, understanding their future role in the community as engineers, reinforcing the idea that their work can respond directly to real needs in the community.
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Science Foundation Ireland
Horizon 2020
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Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland (CERAI)
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