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Problem- and project-based learning in environmental engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Ross Pfluger, P.E., United States Military Academy; Matthew P. Baideme, United States Military Academy; Katie E Matthew, United States Army; Stephen A. Lewandowski, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke P.E., United States Military Academy; Michael A. Butkus P.E., U.S. Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

maintain a semester-long term project that examines real environmentalproblems, which our student teams (3-4 students of varying academic majors) observe or clients(such as the Department of Public Works or our student government) identify. Preparation forthe project requires student teams to develop a hypothesis and a basic sampling and evaluationprotocol. Students then use the protocol to conduct sampling in the local community and analyzeresults in light of their hypothesis. Students are required to submit a final written report. Thisterm project model also encourages interdisciplinary collaboration with non-STEM disciplines,such as the Marketing course in USMA‟s Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership.This cross-cutting educational

Conference Session

Sustainability and engineering education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University; James Jay Jaurez, National University

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Environmental Engineering

(SEM608)The innovative approach here is to have the teams design games, create and play them(demonstrate) game that would demonstrate one or more of the sustainability 3 Es.This approach served and supported multiple purposes. The project needed to be practicalenough to demonstrate in a game. As the teams developed the projects from concept and movedtowards implementation, they also needed to think about what and how to design anddemonstrate the project objectives in their game. In other words, teams were not designing agame totally independent of the subject matter involved in their project. Their project needed tosupport the course learning objective(s) – so this becomes an integrated approach. The gamesapproach also bring in some ‘randomness

Conference Session

Environmental engineering pedagogy and innovation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alison M Cupples, Michigan State University; Susan J. Masten P.E., Michigan State University; Weimin Sun, Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey

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Environmental Engineering

Engineering Education 93, 223-231 (2004).2. King, D. B. & Joshi, S. Gender differences in the use and effectiveness of personal response devices. Journal of Science Education and Technology 17, 544-552 (2008).3. FitzPatrick, K. A., Finn, K. E. & Campisi, J. Effect of personal response systems on student perception and academic performance in courses in a health sciences curriculum. Advances in Physiology Education 35, 280-289 (2011).4. Karaman, S. Efffects of audience response systems on student achievement and long-term retention. Social Behavior and Personality 39, 1431-1440 (2011).5. Draper, S. W. & Brown, M. I. Increasing interactivity in lectures using an electronic voting system. Journal of

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Sustainability and engineering education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas; TAHAR MESSADI, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS; John Henry Kester III, University of Arkansas

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Environmental Engineering

(Brundtland Report). Oxford: Oxford University Press.2 Blewitt, J., & Cullingford, C. (Eds.) (2004). The Sustainability Curriculum: The Challenge for Higher Education.Earthscan: London, UK.3 Shephard, K. (2010). Higher education’s role in ‘education for sustainability’. Australian Universities Review,52(1), 13-22.4 Corcoran, P. B., Walkerm K. E., & Wals, A. E. J. (2004). Case studies, make-your-case studies and case stories: Acritique of case-study methodology in sustainability in higher education. Environmental Education Research, 10(1),7-21.5 Groat, L., & Wang, D. (2002). Architectural Research Methods. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.: New York, NY.6 Wiek, Arnim; Ness, B.; Brand, F. S.; Schweizer-Ries, P.; & Farioli, F. (2012). From

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Environmental engineering pedagogy and innovation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sukalyan Sengupta, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Jeffrey A Cunningham, University of South Florida; Sarina J. Ergas, University of South Florida; Ramesh K. Goel, University of Utah; Dilek Ozalp, University of South Florida; Teri Kristine Reed, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Environmental Engineering

; Swackhamer G, 1992. Force concept inventory. The Physics Teacher, 30: 141–158. 3 Hestenes D & Wells M, 1992. A mechanics baseline test. The Physics Teacher, 30: 159–166. 4 Krause S, Birk J, Bauer R, Jenkins B, & Pavelich MJ, 2004. Development, testing, and application of a chemistry concept inventory. ASEE/IEEE 34th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, Savannah, GA. doi: 10.1109/FIE.2004.1408473 5 Klymkowsky MW, Underwood SM, Garvin-Doxas RK, 2010. Biological Concepts Instrument (BCI): A diagnostic tool for revealing student thinking. Available at: http://bioliteracy.colorado.edu (accessed 10 January 2012). 6 Stone A, Allen K, Reed-Rhoads T, Murphy TJ, Shehab RL, & Saha C, 2003. The Statistics Concept Inventory: A

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Sustainability and engineering education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Woolschlager, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

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Environmental Engineering

’’). 1987. Our Common Future. Oxford University Press, Oxford.16. Elkington, J., 1997. Cannibals with Forks: the Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, Capstone. Oxford.17. Sterling, S. 2004. Higher education, sustainability, and the role of systemic learning, in P. Corcoran and A. Wals (eds.), Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability Curriculum, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA.18. Ferrer-Balas, D., Adachi, J., Banas, S., Davidson, C.I., Hoshikoshi, A., Mishra, A., Motodoa, Y., Onga, M., Ostwald, M. 2008. An international comparative analysis of sustainability transformation across seven universities, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 9(3), 295-316.19. Zhang, Q., Vanasupa, L

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Environmental engineering pedagogy and innovation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

would not take the time towatch the videos before class near the end of the semester, when schedules were presumablybusier. One student noted: ““Online lectures were really good for learning material before class,but without quiz I feel students won’t keep up with lectures.”Table 7. Summary of Hand-Written Comments on the End-of-Semester Course EvaluationsType of Comments % of 14 Example quote(s) FCQs submittedGenerally favorable 50% “I appreciated having notes with audio – especially for studying for exams, but also for listening to before class…” “I liked to just

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Problem- and project-based learning in environmental engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lupita D Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

). Ms. Sandekian joined the Engineering for Developing Communities Program (now known as the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities) in spring 2004, just as the first EDC graduate track was approved. With MCEDC, her main duties have included student advising and academic program development. In ad- dition to her management role in the Mortenson Center, Ms. Sandekian has taught an Engineering Projects course around the theme of appropriate technology and conducted research on social entrepreneurship and sustainable community development in Nepal in 2008. Ms. Sandekian earned a Specialist in Education (Ed. S.) degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Northern

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Problem- and project-based learning in environmental engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Youngwoo Seo, University of Toledo; Kimberly Mary Coburn, University of Toledo; Donald V. Chase, University of Dayton

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Environmental Engineering

card for American’s infrastructurehttp://www.asce.org/reportcard/2005/page.cfm?id=24#policy3. NAE (National Academy of Engineering), How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Bransford, J.,Brown, A. L., Cocking, R. R. editors, National Academy Press, Washington, 1999.4. Qasim, S. R., Motley, E. M., Zhu, G. Water Works Engineering: Planning, Design & Operation., Prentice Hall,New Jersey, 2000.5. Reynolds, T.D., Richards, P. A., Unit Operations and Processes in Environmental Engineering, 2 nd ed, PWSPublishing, Boston, 1996.6. Hammer, M. and Hammer, M. Jr., Water and Wastewater Technology, 6 th ed, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2007.7. Davis, M., Water and Wastewater Engineering, McGraw Hill, New York, 2009.8. MWH, Water Treatment

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Sustainability and engineering education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandre David Wing, Colorado School of Mines; Cristal Hibbard, Colorado School of Mines; Jennifer Strong, Colorado School of Mines; Jörg E Drewes, Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata-Marr, Colorado School of Mines

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Environmental Engineering

January 3, 2013. 4. Kolpin, D.W., Furlong, E.T., Meyer, M.T., Thurman, E.M., Zaugg, S.D., Barber, L.B., Buxton, H.T. (2002). Pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams, 1999- 2000: a national reconnaissance. Environmental Science and Technology 36 (6), 1202-1211. 5. Richardson, S. (2003). Disinfection by-products and other emerging contaminants in drinking water. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry 22 (10), 666-684. 6. Denver Water (2012) Where your water goes. Retrieved from http://www.denverwater.org/Conservation/TipsTools/WhereWaterGoes/. Accessed January 3, 2013

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Problem- and project-based learning in environmental engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Cardenas, Harvey Mudd College; David Wayne Kelley, Department of Geography, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN; Warren Roberts

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Environmental Engineering

, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008.5.) R. Walters and Z. Gao, Strategy to Incorporate GIS and GPS Applications Into Construction Education, Proceedings of the Annual ASEE Conference, Chicago, IL, 2006.6.) S. Dahal, R.H. Hall, G. Morrison, S.P. Lamble, and R. Luna, A Web-based Learning Module for Teaching GIS Within the Context of Environmental Engineering, Proceedings of the Annual ASEE Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2011.7.) Sinton, D. and S.W. Bednarz, Putting the G in GIS, In D. Sinton and J. F. Lund (eds.) Understanding place: GIS and mapping across the curriculum. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 19-33, 2007.8.) Spatial Literacy Program. Retrieved January 5, 2013, from http://www.redlands.edu/academics/school-of- education/9762.aspx9