Engineering Projects in Community Servivce (EPICS) at Purdue University "teams of undergraduates are designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations." EPICS was founded at Purdue University in Fall 1995 and has completed more than 150 projects since that time.
Purdue University — Engineering Projects in Community Servivce
partners
websites
- National CBR Networking Initiative
- PolicyOptions.org
- PolicyOptions Wiki
- Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
- Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium
CBRnet listserv
Featured Resource
Community-Based Research & Higher Education: Principles & Practices
By Kerry Strand, Sam Marullo, Nick Cutforth, Randy Stoecker, and Patrick Donohue San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 2003.
"Guide to incorporating a new form of scholarship into academic settings. Presents a model of community-based research (CBR) that engages community members with students and faculty in the course of their academic work."
This initiative is supported by a three-year grant from the Corporation for National Service Learn & Serve America Program.
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