1. Faculty integrate community service projects into the curriculum
2. Students work on these projects, supplementing their knowledge on engineering design principles, ideas, and skills they learn in the classroom.
3. Communities in need are served by the student and faculty projects.

For example, students in SP.774 Welding are designing and building a safety gate for a local daycare which provides childcare for teen mothers. In another example, students in SP.721 D-Lab learn about international development and appropriate technologies, specifically how they apply to developing countries. (Previous field sites include Brazil, Haiti, Honduras and India.) Students work with community organizations in these countries, and develop plans for an IAP site visit. In addition, students learn about the culture, language, economics, politics and history of their target country.

For more information on MIT's International Development Initiative (IDI), please read the accompanying description here.

Service learning at MIT is a joint partnership between the Edgerton Center and the Public Service Center. For more information on service learning at MIT, please visit the PSC service learning website.