Sunday 2 March 2025
The Foster Family Center for Engineering Service Learning connects student teams to nonprofit community partners to provide students with rewarding engineering challenges, and community partners with innovative solutions at no cost. Learn more about this program and the groups that made it happen on the About page.
You can see some of the ways we’ve been aiding our community through the recent projects to the left, or the full list on the projects page.
ENGR 096 is the conduit course for the program. Students, enroll in ENGR 096 to join an impactful project! See more details on the Join a Project page.
If you are a nonprofit organization interested in supporting the program and receiving an innovative, student-designed solution to your engineering challenge, request a project.
The Engineering Service Learning course is UC Merced's inaugural and premiere way to structure experiential learning. Through working on multi-disciplinary teams, UC Merced students from all majors and grade levels research, work side by side with non-profit agencies, government groups and educators to design and implement innovative engineering solutions to the meet real-world challenges faced by nonprofit community partners and develop professional skills needed in the job market. By capitalizing on the strengths of all disciplines represented at UC Merced, Engineering Service Learning teams are able to implement meaningful solutions that have lasting effects on their community and see professional contributions they can make to their community.
