Meeting the challenges of today requires different kind of professionals who are strong in their disciplinary knowledge, equipped with a broad set of professional skills and has the awareness and ability to apply these across socio-technical and cross-cultural contexts. Community engagement is a learning environment to equip graduates with these broad skills and to transform out institutions of higher education. This chapter provides four successful examples of community engagement in diverse contexts from the United States, South Africa, India, and Singapore. These diverse examples offer insights into how community engagement can be integrated into other contexts. Common lessons that have been learned from the experiences are summarized and shared.

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Increase Regional and Local Relevance of Engineering Institutions Through Community Engagement Aimed to Support Their Socioeconomic Development

  • William Oakes,
  • Lelanie Smith,
  • Rohit Kandakatla,
  • Wan Chin TAN

摘要

Meeting the challenges of today requires different kind of professionals who are strong in their disciplinary knowledge, equipped with a broad set of professional skills and has the awareness and ability to apply these across socio-technical and cross-cultural contexts. Community engagement is a learning environment to equip graduates with these broad skills and to transform out institutions of higher education. This chapter provides four successful examples of community engagement in diverse contexts from the United States, South Africa, India, and Singapore. These diverse examples offer insights into how community engagement can be integrated into other contexts. Common lessons that have been learned from the experiences are summarized and shared.