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Environmental Engineering Division: Curricula, Criteria, Student Performance, and Growth

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prahlad Murthy, Wilkes University

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Environmental Engineering

Paper ID #15870Satisfying ABET’s Program Criteria for Environmental Engineering: Expe-riences with a Laboratory-Based Course in Air QualityDr. Prahlad Murthy, Wilkes University Prahlad Murthy is a Professor of Environmental Engineering at Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania. He is currently serving as the Associate Dean of the College of Science & Engineering at the university. Since receiving his doctoral degree in civil & environmental engineering from Texas A&M University, he has been teaching courses in environmental engineering and science such as air pollution, water and wastewater treatment

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Willietta Gibson

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

Engineering Laboratory to increase student engagement, learning, and data analysis Case studies are innovative ways to increase student engagement in courses. Usedextensively in medical and law schools, case studies introduce real-world examples that can helpstudents readily see how theory applies to actual events, situations, and the end results. Thiseducational study began in 2010 to investigate the use of case studies in an environmentalengineering laboratory course. Four environmental engineering case studies combined withlaboratory activities were developed for a junior level environmental engineering course. Thecases were added to the laboratory course as a way to update laboratory content withcontemporary

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University

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Environmental Engineering

, mathematics and physics), scientific thinkingcan be very crucial in developing a deeper understanding of the subject matter. It seeks forclarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance, and fairness of thesubject of interest. This paper discusses student responses in an Environmental EngineeringLaboratory class, where they were given a set of questions formulated in “The Logic ofExperiment” format to promote scientific thinking. This research activity is based on thehypothesis that scientific thinking exercises provide opportunities for students to improve theirmetacognitive abilities by asking clear questions about scientific/engineering problems that areotherwise not addressed in regular laboratory experiments or setups

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenda Read-Daily, Elizabethtown College

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Environmental Engineering

: threesophomores, ten juniors, and two seniors. A few of these students expressed interest in pursuinga career in environmental engineering with the remaining having a general interest insustainability. The class counted for three credits with no laboratory component and met twice aweek for eighty minutes. This course was offered for the second time in the spring of 2015, andat that point, few pieces or equipment were available for conducting traditional water qualitylabs. Therefore, the lessons described in this paper were designed to be inexpensive and easy toimplement with minimal facilities. As at many other institutions, this marked the first time firststudents were presented water treatment technologies in a formalized setting.The series of lessons

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Environmental Engineering Division: Sustainability and Hands-On Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paula Alvarez Pino, UAB Sustainable Smart Cities Research Center; Andrew J. Sullivan; Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama - Birmingham

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

them in their home and in their everyday life. Hands on experiences areemphasized. Lessons are taught by UAB’s faculty, graduate students and staff.Regarding logistics, students meet each Saturday at 8:45 am, in their respective school. Theytravel in a school bus to each field trip location, escorted by 2 to 4 of their school’s scienceteachers. A light breakfast is served at 9:00 am and the activities take place from 9:30 am to11:30 am. Lunch is provided from 11:30 am till noon. Students are picked up from the school byparent or guardian upon return from our university at 12:30 pm. It is essential to have availablethe following resources to run this program: • Classroom • Laboratory • School bus to pick up and drop the students off

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Environmental Engineering Division: Curricula, Criteria, Student Performance, and Growth

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ran Du P.E., United States Military Academy ; Michael A. Butkus, U.S. Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke P.E., U.S. Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

students to explain the fundamental requirements associated with the RI/FSprocess as outlined by CERCLA including Risk Assessment applies. This course uniquelyblends reinforcement of the knowledge and skills previously introduced with the application torelevant to hazardous waste treatment and remediation case studies. The course design is a blockof four lessons with a dedicated laboratory period. The objectives from this block are: • Apply the concepts of Risk and stochastic modeling to analyze a public health scenario and inform environmental engineering decision making. • Reinforce the knowledge of calculating chronic daily intake (CDI) values. • Develop a Monte Carlo simulation to model the statistical and associated

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Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David C. Zgonc, United States Military Academy; Phil Dacunto P.E., United States Military Academy; Emily Arija Ezerins, United States Military Academy; Dalton Jefferson Alexander Combs, United States Military Academy; Jacob Neil Palmer, United States Army

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Environmental Engineering

, laboratory space, and materiel limit thebroad application of this approach, especially in larger programs. Additionally, individual studyrequires a high level of self-motivation that may not be present in all students. Individual studies are meant to put the student in the driver’s seat. However, facultymembers are not disengaged. They serve as project advisors. Since students necessarily arepushing the bounds of knowledge, faculty members must conduct a concurrent literature reviewto best direct the student and mentor their research efforts. The role of project advisor, from adepartmental perspective, is a duty additional to other everyday requirements. On average, thefaculty project advisor puts in five hours of work per project getting students

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division: Curricula, Criteria, Student Performance, and Growth

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Wayne T. Padgett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Andrew R. Mech, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

evaluation of an “Appropriate Technology” courseat RHIT, we have had many insights. In future years we plan to be more intentional towardsachieving both technical preparedness and social fluency for humanitarian engineering work. Wewill attempt to add quantitative elements to all qualitative aspects of the course. This may requireus to teach economic analyses for decision making by drawing parallels to environmentaleconomics. To augment, we will also continue to improve our collaborations with engineeringpractitioners, EWB, and aid groups to develop more case studies, particularly ones withquantitative analysis components.Additionally, our dream is to have permanent installations of the project demonstrations on ourcampus in an outdoor laboratory

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben D. Radhakrishnan, National University; Jodi Reeves, National University; Jeremiah Jack Ninteman, National University; Charles Hahm

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Environmental Engineering

Sustainability Practices, en- ergy management of Data Centers and to establish Sustainable strategies for enterprises. He is an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy efficiency of IT Equipment in a Data Centers. As a means of promoting student-centric learning, Prof. Radhakr- ishnan has successfully introduced games in to his sustainability classes where students demonstrate the 3s of sustainability, namely, Environment, Economics and Equity, through games. Students learn about conservation (energy, water, waste, equity, etc.) through games and quantifying the results. He has pub- lished papers on this subject and presented them in conferences. Before his teaching