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Edgerton Center Academics Programs

Service Learning is a teaching method that meets three criteria:
  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.
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Service learning pic For example, students in EC.701 D-Lab:Design 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), check out the IDI website 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.