We welcome practical engineering design and research projects, service learning pedagogy, and projects detailing implementation of appropriate technologies as well as more appropriate theoretical works. Original articles up to 6500 words (normally between 2000 and 6000) including captions, bylines, notes, and references are required to be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word documents pending review. Final submission (following review and acceptance) will be as ‘pdf’ files.

Appropriate articles should be based on design and/or research projects directed as service projects, entrepreneurial efforts in service, or related service learning pedagogy. Authors are advised to ensure that their work is appropriately grounded in a review of existing literature. Submissions are accepted with the understanding that they will be subject to review and editorial revision and that they neither have been nor will be published elsewhere.

Articles will be published under one of four categories:

a) Design Projects as Service
b) Research Projects as Service
c) Entrepreneurial Projects as Service
d) Pedagogy in Service Learning

When submitting your article, please identify the appropriate category for your article in the accompanying email.

Authors are advised to review the evaluation form to be used by the reviewers. This form is available for downloading by clicking here.

Note: The journal is meant to provide an outlet for the work of undergraduate and graduate students as well as practicing engineers. Faculty members are encouraged to publish in the Journal, but are asked to limit their submissions to articles related to service learning pedagogy. Faculty members may be co-authors of student-written, non-pedagogy-based articles.

For formatting guidelines, please go to Formatting Guidelines.

All manuscripts, materials, and letters of inquiry should be electronically sent to:

Manuscript Editior: Dr. Joshua Pearce ("Joshua M. Pearce" <pearce@me.queensu.ca>)
If the author/s do not have access to an email account, articles may also be submitted on a disk to:

Joshua M. Pearce, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Queen's University
60 Union Street
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6 Canada
ph:613-533-3369
"Joshua M. Pearce" <pearce@me.queensu.ca>

The Editor-in-Chief may decline to consider a manuscript for several reasons, including inadequate evidence that the method is substantially new and promising, poor preparation, an insufficiently clear and detailed presentation, and a lack of adherence to the journal’s guidelines for manuscript preparation. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to reject manuscripts not clearly about service learning in engineering, as space permits. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to make the final decision when conflicts of editorial opinion arise. Once a manuscript has been accepted for consideration, it will be assigned to the Manuscript Editor for distribution to reviewers. Articles will be reviewed blindly by two or three persons with expertise in the area.