
About Experiential Education
The UConn Engineering Experiential Education program is a teaching philosophy that provides different methodologies in which educators purposefully engage with students in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills, clarify values, and develop people's capacity to contribute to their communities. In essence, we help shape how students develop themselves through experience.
We provide different disciplines and settings utilize experiential education methodologies: internships, language based learning, place-based education, global education through our study abroad program, environmental education, student-oriented education, active learning in the classroom, co-ops, service learning, cooperative learning and expeditionary learning.
Why Experiential Education and Things That We Consider
Our student success is important and we take into account the following aspects of our Experiential Education Program:
- Students are engaged intellectually, emotionally, socially, soulfully and/or physically.
- The results of the learning are personal and form the basis for future experience and learning.
- The educator and student may experience success, failure, adventure, risk-taking and uncertainty, because the outcomes of experience cannot totally be predicted.
- Opportunities are nurtured for students and educators to explore and examine their own values through the college experience.
What's Happening @
Engineering
- Law School Could Lead to Rewarding Career Paths for Engineers March 28, 2025
- 19th MSI Research Day Draws Nearly 100 March 27, 2025
- Junbo Zhao from UConn College of Engineering Wins NSF CAREER Award March 27, 2025
- Four College of Engineering Faculty Elected to CASE March 26, 2025
- Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St. Lucia March 26, 2025
The University
- Connecticut DPH Commissioner to Headline UConn Health’s 54th Commencement April 1, 2025
- Career Successes of Recent Grads Underscore Strong ROI of a UConn Education April 1, 2025
- Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St. Lucia March 26, 2025
- UConn John Dempsey Hospital Recognized Among World’s Best for Fourth Consecutive Year March 25, 2025
- Research Day 2025 Highlights Medical and Dental Research Breadth March 25, 2025
The Community
- Mansfield Is Updating Its 10-Year Plan, and These Sophomores Want the UConn Community to Help April 1, 2025
- Strengthening Connecticut Farms with Risk Management Training and Tools April 1, 2025
- Podcast: Attacking Endometriosis With Awareness and Research March 31, 2025
- Sowing the Seeds of a New Community Resource March 31, 2025
- Reflecting on Progress: CIRCA’s Decade of Increasing Connecticut’s Climate Resilience March 28, 2025