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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla LoPiccolo; Amit Bandyopadhyay

Oregonrespectively, do not indicate sustainability within their online site planning course descriptions.Carnegie Mellon University (third ranking) - provides a sustainable design statement for theirwhole program: “Sustainable design rediscovers the social, environmental and technical valuesof pedestrian, mixed use communities, fully using existing infrastructures, including "mainstreets" and small town planning principles, and recapturing indoor-outdoor relationships.Sustainable design avoids the further thinning out of land use, the dislocated placement ofbuildings and functions.”University of Texas at Austin, (fourth ranking) - offers a graduate course titled “Topics inSustainable Development” which is orientated toward service learning: “This course is

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Raluca I. Rosca

race/ethnicity, butissues of age, nontraditional students, socio-economic status, first generation college students,and different styles of learning might need prompting from a facilitator to come into discussion.We can suggest a connection with the evolution from ‘design for the American with DisabilitiesAct’ to universal design. Indeed, teaching methods that ‘attract minorities’ are overall methodsthat engage and retain more of our engineering students.ConclusionsAs this author proved10, ETPP can be transferred to another institution, and it is a low-cost,good-impact way to prepare one’s engineering graduate students for the teaching aspect of theirfuture career. In particular, the participants reported that the diversity statement exercise