Technical Design

Technical Design and Production Management Through a Service Learning Initiative

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Abstract

Service learning opportunities lend salience and external stakeholders to course projects. Further, they offer students an opportunity to participate in something that reaches beyond the classroom. Here, we describe a service-learning volunteer opportunity and course project conducted in collaboration with two all-girl orphanages, in India and Uganda. The collaboration stemmed from an observed opportunity to distribute the product of student projects to the under-served communities represented in the orphanages, and to provide an appropriate “consumer” target for developing student work. Structure, outcomes, and student response are outlined.

Keywords: service learning, Technical design, production management

How to Cite:

Dunne, L. E. & Gahring, S., (2013) “Technical Design and Production Management Through a Service Learning Initiative”, International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings 70(1).