Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Angela Harris, North Carolina State University; Christina Martin-Ebosele, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering

intentions and destinations vary by students’ gender andrace/ethnicity? We examine students’ career pathways in other majors to contextualize patterns.Data come from the longitudinal, NSF-funded Engineering Majors Survey (EMS). The firstwave of EMS (EMS 1.0) was administered at a nationally representative sample of 27 U.S.engineering schools in 2015. A second wave was administered to 1.0 respondents in 2016, and athird wave, in 2017. Our baseline sample is maximally composed of 87 1.0 respondents whomarked that they were environmental engineering majors, 695 respondents marking civilengineering majors (our “peer” major), and 6,408 respondents majoring in other engineeringfields. Our longitudinal sample is smaller, requiring more of a detailed

Conference Session

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

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; Micah Iserman, Texas Tech University; Jessica C. Pittman, Texas Tech University; Nigel Yeo, Texas Tech University; Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University; Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University; Danny D. Reible, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

empathy into about design processes in me to get better at the skills I engineering can be a good engineering, you are writing a already use in my daily life. practice in reflective piece of your story. engineering. With how fast paced everything In my personal life, I think being Asking questions through each usually is, I get wrapped up in able to reflect on my behavior step in the process can also help routine without thinking about with my friends or family has in being more reflective and how I really feel about my helped me get to where I am in avoiding mistakes that can classes, my peers, or myself. my

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2: Innovative Approaches for Teaching Environmental Engineering

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sara Freix, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Yousef Jalali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Western Community College; Akshat Kothyari, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Foundation, with a $6.4 million research funding participation from external sources. He has been directing/co-directing an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering at VT since 2007. This site has 95 alumni to date. He also leads an NSF/Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site on interdisciplinary water research and have 10 alumni. He also leads an NSF-funded cybersecurity education project and serves as a co-PI on two International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) projects funded by the NSF. He has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. American c

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2: Innovative Approaches for Teaching Environmental Engineering

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Joe Dallas Moore, Carnegie Mellon University; Turner Cotterman, Carnegie Mellon University; James Wynn, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

questions have been posted by the moderator, the participants arerequired to write a 200-250 word response on the discussion board the night before class. Theyare also tasked with responding to the post of one other participant before the start of class. The online preparation for course discussion has a couple of important functions. First, itencourages the students to read the assigned materials. Though certainly students can try toimprovise their way through readings and discussions, having to post their thoughts publicly fortheir peers typically keeps them on task. They also recognize that they will be asked to orallyshare their thoughts in group discussion which similarly keeps them engaged. The onlinepostings help students

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering

right to live in a healthy environment… the issues addressed center onequity, fairness, and the struggle for social justice by black communities.” [11] Justice drawsattention to “equity, recognition, and participation” [8]. Participation and interactions that valuedifferent perspectives and avoid a deficit model are key conditions for social justice [13].The term ‘environmental justice’ appeared in 80 conference papers associated with the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education (ASEE), based on a search in the ASEE PEER system [14].The majority of the EJ conference papers were associated with the Liberal Education /Engineering and Society (LEES) division (11), Engineering Ethics division (11), andEnvironmental Engineering division (7

Conference Session

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

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

learning environment. Perhaps initially studentscould not imagine how complex engineering problems would be solved in an onlineenvironment, without the personal, face-to-face contact with their peers and the instructor. Also,while students had the same writing assignments in the online environment, presentations werecanceled. This could be a reason that students felt this learning outcome might suffer. Asfaculty became more accustomed to the online learning environment and available tools,presentations were required in subsequent semesters.After students experienced the online learning environment, more students felt they would atleast do the same in meeting all the objectives than worse. However, teamwork skills and solvingcomplex engineering