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The real world is teeming with opportunities for people, including engineers, to apply their expertise to helping others and improving our general and specific quality of life. This is the very nature of engineering. The work of engineers directly impacts the lives of people in their communities (shelters, playgrounds, water treatment plants, heating and cooling devices, bridges, medical devices, etc.). The associated activity examples engage students in designing prototype devices to help the authors' local community members. Still, the same approach applies more broadly to teams following the engineering design process steps as they come up with solutions to service-based engineering challenges that benefit specific people in their communities and/or society at large. This course describes a general approach to guiding students to complete service-based engineering design projects, with specific examples provided in detail as associated activities.
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