Integrating Manufacturing, Management and Marketing into International Service Learning
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In this endeavor, hands-on engineering and business courses have been combined into a newly generated interdisciplinary course, which is called International Service Learning (ISL). Teaching and learning strategies were integrated into the community projects so that the topics covered in lectures are practiced and solidified throughout the service learning projects. Four faculty members from the Manufacturing, Management and Marketing (3M) fields offered this cross-disciplinary and hands-on ISL course in Spring 2012 and 20 students enrolled from the college of engineering and college of business of Tennessee Tech University (TTU). The course was offered with on-ground and on-line components, and it was managed using the Desire2Learn (D2L) and Turnitin course management systems. Faculty members covered the 3M topics during the semester and took their students to Celal Bayar University (CBU), Turkey for almost 20 days for the study-abroad component of the course. Four teams were formed to work on various service learning projects with components in design, modeling, manufacturing, marketing, testing and packaging. This paper reports the accomplishments and findings of this project from the manufacturing perspective.