Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Inez Hua, Purdue University; Ernest Blatchley, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Page 15.773.2broader context of sustainability requires engineers, and by extension engineering students, tomove beyond traditional technical expertise, and incorporate complex aspects of political, social,economic, and environmental systems into engineering design.Within this broad framework, sustainability clearly moves beyond environmental engineeringand becomes a concern for all disciplines of engineering. Several professional disciplinarysocieties have recognized the importance of sustainability or sustainable development to theirfield by including them in their Codes of Ethics or similar policy statements. The AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers includes in the first “fundamental canon” of the Code of Ethics thatengineers “shall strive to

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

: Study Individual Our Stolen DW Time Future book Evaluation: Biofuel LCA management review Group Ethics Case Ethics: case studies, moral exemplar, student honor code vs. Ethics Study NSPE Code of Ethics Course plan to GraduationDrinking watertreatment plant Team Project: Solid Waste – LandGEM – Waste-to-Energy tour write-upGuest Speaker Guest

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary McCormick, Tufts University; Kristina Lawyer, Michigan Technological University; Meredith Berlin, University of Colorado - Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jonathan Wiggins, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic,environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, andsustainability…to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic,environmental, and societal context” 6.Many other organizations continually advocated this “educational reformation”. The AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Code of Ethics requires civil engineers to “strive to complywith the principles of sustainable development in the performance of their professional duties…[including] global leadership in the promotion of responsible, economically sound, andenvironmentally sustainable solutions that enhance the quality of life, protect and efficiently usenatural resources” 7

Conference Session

Engaging Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junko Munakata-Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Jennifer Schneider, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Environmental Engineering

engineering students often failto appreciate critical interrelations between technical and nontechnical aspects of sanitation. Toaddress this deficiency, a case-study module on sanitation for the developing world wasimplemented in a senior/graduate level onsite water reclamation course. The goal was to increasestudent awareness of the interplay between technical and nontechnical complexities whendesigning and implementing sanitation systems in both the developed and developing world.Learning objectives included increasing student familiarity with (1) perceptions and treatmentoptions of sanitary waste in developing countries and (2) nontechnical constraints and issues(such as economic, social, cultural, political, and ethical) associated with

Conference Session

Enhancing Environmental Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

body of the university. Page 15.211.24 11. Employer FeedbackSaxe talks about Peer Influence and Learning in a paper published in the Training andDevelopment Journal. O’Brien and Bennett also talk about The Building Blocks of the LearningOrganization in a paper published in a journal titled Training. Perry also talks about Cognitiveand Ethical Growth in several of his papers and publications (Perry, 1981). The departmentshould consider employer feedback to be an extremely valuable and effective assessment tool(Saxe, 1990). It is possible to obtain significant feedback data from employers who can assessand comment about students’ technical

Conference Session

Engaging Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College; Christopher Ruebeck, Lafayette College; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

AC 2010-1860: ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING A COMPUTERGAME TO BRIDGE A RESEARCH AGENDA WITH A TEACHING AGENDAKristen Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College KRISTEN L. SANFORD BERNHARDT is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College, where she teaches courses related to transportation, civil infrastructure, and engineering ethics and researches issues related to infrastructure systems modeling. Dr. Sanford Bernhardt received her Ph.D. and M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and her B.S.E. from Duke University, all in Civil Engineering.Sharon Jones, Lafayette College SHARON A. JONES is a Professor at Lafayette College in both the Department of Civil