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William Oakes

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1994
Engineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentService-Learning and Community EngagementEngineering Education and PedagogyBiomedical and Engineering EducationExperimental Learning in Engineering

Publications

224

Citations

2,978

Est. group size

~5

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

31

Publishing since 1994

Research summary
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William Oakes works in engineering education, focusing on how community engagement, service-learning, and humanitarian engineering projects can be integrated into undergraduate engineering curricula. His work often involves case studies of programs like Engineers Without Borders, examining student learning outcomes, ethics, reflection practices, and cross-cultural partnerships between institutions such as those in the USA and India. This research is aimed at understanding and improving how engineering students learn through hands-on, community-based projects rather than traditional classroom instruction alone.

Service-learning in engineering educationCommunity engagement and humanitarian engineeringFirst-year engineering programsCross-cultural and international education partnershipsEngineering education research methods

Publication output has been variable over the past decade, with a large spike in 2020 and 2024 surrounding conference proceedings, and lower activity in other years, suggesting an uneven but ongoing publication pace tied to conference cycles.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.6/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 6 publications182019: 1 publication192020: 68 publications68202021: 4 publications212022: 4 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 23 publications242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×4
  • 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×4
  • International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship×2
  • The FASEB Journal×2
  • Emerging Adulthood×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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