Engineering for Developing Communities - "The EDC program is a new educational, research and outreach program that fits under the new initiative, Earth Systems Engineering (ESE), in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. It presents a long-term solution and a unique opportunity for educating a new generation of engineers capable of contributing to the relief of the endemic problems afflicting developing communities worldwide."

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) - "EPICS is a consortium of universities across the country committed to and successfully practicing the EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) model founded at Purdue University in 1995. Community service agencies are increasingly relying upon the delivery, coordination, accounting, and improvement of the services they provide. They need the help of people with strong technical backgrounds. Undergraduate students are currently facing a future in engineering in which they will need to have more than a solid technical background. They will be expected to work with people of many different backgrounds to identify and achieve goals. They need educational experiences that can help them develop these skills. The challenge is to bring these two groups together in a mutually beneficial way."

Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities for Service (ETHOS) - "ETHOS is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to facilitate research and the development of appropriate technology by forming collaborative North-South partnerships between universities, research laboratories, engineers, and non-governmental organizations in foreign countries. By working together, these groups aim to create and then disseminate the best available appropriate technology to families in need."

Engineers Without Borders™ – USA (EWB-USA) is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to help developing areas worldwide with their engineering needs, while involving and training a new kind of internationally responsible engineering student.

Service-Learning in Engineering: A Resource Guidebook - By William Oakes, PE., 2004. This guide offers all of the material needed to conduct a service-learning workshop for engineering faculty and administrators. The text includes concepts and rationales, examples of current practice, and a guide to implementing service-learning in the classroom.

Service-Learning: Engineering in Your Community - By Marybeth Lima (LSU), William Oakes (Purdue). A new textbook from Great Lakes Press. "This exciting new Service-Learning textbook will help you teach integrated engineering design within a socially beneficial context. It can be used as a principal text or as a supplemental resource for addressing the service-learning component of either freshman design courses or upper level capstone design projects."