Date: January 2017
From the College Of Engineering and Informatics, 66 undergraduate students began working on 22 building engineering projects with community-based partners. These projects are being facilitated by the NZEB-RETROFIT project team members led by Dr. Magdalena Hajdukiewicz.
The projects are based around the student groups developing solutions for real-world problems identified by civil society organisations. These projects are framed by a research orientation, commitments to civic engagement and building university-community partnerships, city-university partnerships and partnerships with other official agencies. Such framing means that community users can provide real learning problems and contexts for students, and community partners can benefit from the results. Evidence has been collected, from the aforementioned projects, which shows that, by creating Service Learning, the students’ energy in learning can have a positive impact on the community and the students.
