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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

themes, real world examples, and new topics such as sustainability. The rationalefor implementing the cases within a traditional laboratory was to determine if the cases impactedstudent engagement; helped students to see the link between laboratory exercises and real worldapplications; increased student’s critical thinking levels above the lower levels of Bloom’sTaxonomy of knowledge and comprehension for their experimental data; and improved thequality of student laboratory reports. The new cases developed addressed: 1) E-waste to teachenvironmental ethics and statistical analysis of data, 2) the 2014 Duke Coal Ash Spill inDanville, VA to teach physical and chemical water quality and treatment; 3) a Confined AnimalFeeding Operations water

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University

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Environmental Engineering

-designed laboratory experiment. Journal of College Science Teaching, 269-270.21. Krivickas, R. V., & Krivickas, J. (2007). Laboratory instruction in engineering education. Global J. Eng. Educ, 11(2), 191-196.22. Paul, R., & Elder, L. (2001). The miniature guide to critical thinking: Concepts & tools. Foundation Critical Thinking.23. Bean, J. C. (2011). Engaging ideas: The professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom. John Wiley & Sons.24. ASEE Connections 2016. Female Enrollment by Discipline; Teaching Global Development, March 24, 2016. 14

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

community data tocalculate the mean and standard deviation for each, and then create a simulation to model thepopulation in the study. The final requirements are to analyze the data and prepare a writtensubmission. The laboratory material presented to the students is included as Appendix A.Assessment of student work and analysis of the Monte Carlo modeling lab will be completed in2016.ConclusionA preliminary survey of undergraduate environmental engineering courses was conducted toassess interpretation of risk and uncertainty criteria at different ABET programs. The majorityof hours within typical courses was dedicated to teaching topics of risk using the USEPA HHRA(BOK 5.1 and BOK 5.5). It was not surprising that courses allocate the least amount

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Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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 Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

-requisite for theircapstone engineering design course is self-limited. In addition to faculty advisor time, adequate laboratory space may not be available to supporta large number of concurrent individual study projects. Not only would individual studystudents be competing with each other for lab bench space but the academic department’smission to teach other lab-inclusive courses could be impeded. Some projects may require specialized equipment or samples that may be difficult to procure,stretching budgets or further limiting student hands-on time during the semester. Unlike a structured engineering design course, individual studies, by their nature, requirestudents to be diligent, dedicated, and self-motivated. Not all students are

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Environmental Engineering Division: Sustainability and Hands-On Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

public policy, to impact human interaction with the environment and to shift the paradigm ofurban infrastructure to one that is economically affluent, environmentally responsible, andsocially equitable.Describing a few of the training and outreach initiatives undertaken at our universityunder the framework of the center is the aim of this paper. Each of the initiatives ispresented in the following sections.Youth champions – Building Our Future Today!The Sustainable Smart Cities Youth Champions program targets middle school studentsattending inner-city schools for a first exposure to the concepts of sustainability. It combineshands-on learning activities with a field trip to teach some of the fundamental principles ofsustainable cities. Over 4

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Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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