Impact Designs: Engineering and Sustainability through Student Service (IDEASS) is an upper-division service-learning program designed to empower students as change agents, preparing them to face the sustainability challenges that define the 21st Century. IDEASS takes an interdisciplinary approach to solution-driven collaboration, drawing from multiple disciplines to produce projects that combine
cutting-edge technology with responsiveness to the humanitarian, ecological, political and economic issues of our time. Teams of students working with professionals in the community learn what it takes to move proposed solutions from ideation to implementation. IDEASS gives students a hands-on introduction to potential career paths in the growing green-tech economy while expanding technical skill sets and student know-how in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.