Thursday, January 15th
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Community Service and
Engineering
Kelly V. Beck
Stanford Haas Center for Public Service
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Abstract: At the heart of service-learning and
community-based research are the principles of ethical and effective service
and partnership. In this presentation I will invite students to explore the
commonly cited principles of ethical and effective service. We will debate the
application of these principles in engineering partnerships and projects
through a couple of in-class activities. Reflection is a critical component of
service-learning similar to the common engineering practice of analysis and
review. We will discuss ways in which to integrate reflection and engineering
analysis in relationship to the service and community partnership components of
the class.
Biosketch: Kelly V. Beck is the Science Outreach
Director at the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University. In this
role Kelly directs the Haas Center's Science in Service program, a community
science mentoring program in which Stanford science and engineering students
receive training in teaching science through mentorship then serve as science
mentors to children in after-school programs at the Boys & Girls Clubs of
the Peninsula. Kelly is also a member of the Engaged Scholarship team at the
Haas Center, through which she supports science and engineering service
learning courses. Kelly is a physicist at heart, completing her undergraduate
degree in physics and astronomy at Vassar College and her graduate degrees in
physics and education at the University of Wyoming.
- Contact information:
- Kelly V. Beck
- Assistant Director for Science Learning & Science
Outlook Coordinator
- Stanford University
- Haas Center for Public Service
- 562 Salvatierra Walk, Room 301
- Stanford, CA 94305-8520
- 650/723-8749
- 650/725-7339 fax
- Lecture Material:
- Slides - 125 Kb pdf
file
- Audio - 1:16:05 - 17.8 Mb mp3
file
- Principles for Ethical
and Effective Service - 85 Kb pdf file
- How do you define
service?
- Readings in Service
Learning
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