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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1: Intercultural Competency-infused Teaching

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Inez Hua, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Environmental Engineering

and study abroad,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., vol. 2017-June, 2017.[3] S. A. McComb, L. Fedele, P. A. Brunese, and V. L. Simpson, “An Interprofessional, Intercultural, Immersive Short-Term Study Abroad Program: Public Health and Service Systems in Rome,” Front. Interdiscip. J. Study Abroad, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 148–168, 2019, doi: 10.36366/frontiers.v31i1.447.[4] J. Thompson, B. Jesiek, and D. Atkinson, “Assessing the intercultural competence of sophomore mechanical engineering students: Baseline data and analysis,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., 2010.[5] A. Dare, “Assessment of Global Engineering Competencies,” Purdue University, 2011.[6] M. G. Interis, J. Rezek, K. Bloom, and A

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Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

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Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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, BCES, CEng, CEnv, CEHS, and DAAS. Oerther’s schol- arship, teaching, service, and professional practice focus in the fields of environmental biotechnology and sustainable development where he specializes in promoting Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH), food and nutrition security, energy efficiency, and poverty alleviation. Oerther’s awards for teaching in- clude the best paper award from the Environmental Engineering Division of ASEE and the society-wide Robert G. Quinn Award from ASEE, the Engineering Education Excellence Award from the NSPE, the Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Educator award from AAEES, and the Fair Dis- tinguished Engineering Educator Medal from WEF. Due to his

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3: Teaching Environmental Engineering in the COVID-19 Era

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Shannon L. Isovitsch Parks P.E., University of Pittsburgh

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the lowestcounts of “worse”. Questions 6, 7 (Gain an ability to apply engineering design to producesolutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, aswell as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors), and 10 received thehighest counts of “worse” in the post-survey.Figure 2: Pre-Scenario Survey Results SummaryFigure 3: Post-Scenario Survey Results.F-tests and t-tests were performed comparing exam grades between the two exams given in theclass when the class was taught in 2019 vs 2020. The f-test indicated that the variances betweenthe 2019 and 2020 in-person Exam 1 grades (0.028 vs 0.030) do not differ significantly (P-value= 0.42) and so a two-sample t-test assuming equal

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Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder

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Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering

Backyards and BeyondAbstractThis paper presents three models for integrating environmental justice topics into environmental/ civil engineering courses. The first model utilizes a qualitative perspective, based on a videorecording of the community panel at the 2019 American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE) Annual Conference. This panel provides numerous examples of environmental justiceissues from the lived perspective of residents, including issues associated with industrial airpollutants from Tonawanda Coke in New York and drinking water in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,and Flint, Michigan. Segments of this video were integrated into a fall 2020 course for first-yearcivil engineering students, in relation to the assignments on ethics and

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3: Teaching Environmental Engineering in the COVID-19 Era

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David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh; Tony Lee Kerzmann, University of Pittsburgh; Claire P. Chouinard, University of Pittsburgh; Gregg P. Kotchey, University of Pittsburgh

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Environmental Engineering

Research and Outreach Center in the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science. In 2019, Dr. Kerzmann joined the Me- chanical Engineering and Material Science (MEMS) department at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the advising coordinator and associate professor in the MEMS department, where he positively engages with numerous mechanical engineering advisees, teaches courses in mechanical engineering and sustainability, and conducts research in energy systems. Throughout his career, Dr. Kerzmann has advised over eighty student projects, some of which have won regional and international awards. A recent project team won the Utility of Tomorrow competition, outperforming fifty-five international teams to bring

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1: Intercultural Competency-infused Teaching

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Javiera Constanza Jofré, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

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Diversity

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discrimination in Chile remain evident, aswitnessed by international organizations' different world rankings and studies. According toeconomic theory, the current engineering focus continues to be project assessment, often withoutconsidering any social and environmental impact.According to [3], the social crisis in Chile in October 2019 demanded equality and finishedabuses, an apposition of a hierarchical society in which a group has greater power or status. Thisdemand is directly related to the social sustainability indicated by the SDGs. Given this context,there is already an approach to equality for students who participated in this study.METHODOLOGYThis research work evaluates the impact of problem-based learning (PBL) on sustainabilitycriteria for

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3: Teaching Environmental Engineering in the COVID-19 Era

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Andrew Ross Pfluger, United States Military Academy; Michael A. Butkus, United States Military Academy; Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Mark Robert Read, United States Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

, to connect with students remotely. Fortuitously, West Point had justcompleted a multi-year information technology transition in 2019, which provided robust andresilient IT infrastructure capable of handling the demands of online instruction.Due to the widespread impacts of COVID19, most colleges and universities still find themselveson the recovery curve (Figure 1, Step 3) at the time of this study. In some ways, aspects of the‘new normal’ that institutions established in the COVID-19 environment will not be ‘temporary’ 4but will instead become routine. The COVID-19 recovery period provides us opportunity toreflect and rethink activities. As institutions begin to return to pre-pandemic