Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Annalisa Onnis-Hayden , Northeastern University; Carolina Beatriz Venegas-Martinez, Northeastern University; Marissa P. Dreyer, Northeastern University

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Environmental Engineering

. Currently working as the Academic Operations Manager of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University. Her re- search interests are on Environmental Health and Water Remediation, mainly on biological treatment for wastewater and water reuse.Marissa P. Dreyer, Northeastern University Graduate student in Bioengineering at Northeastern University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integrating Engineering, Innovation, and Research at All Levels: An Educational Model for Water Reuse Design ProjectAbstractGrowing urban populations, increasing water consumption, and decreasing predictability ofclimate all point to an ever-increasing need to

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Ross Pfluger P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata Marr, Colorado School of Mines

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Environmental Engineering

developingcountries lesson was the most conceptual (i.e. contained no equations or problems). The carboncapture, transport, and sequestration lesson contained several topics that most students had notyet been exposed to in their environmental engineering education, and the acid rain sources andeffects lesson contained the most chemical reactions of the four lessons. All lesson materialswere posted to our university’s online Blackboard site at the beginning of the semester forstudent review and preparation prior to the flipped classes (see Appendix A).Table 2. Active learning interventions and flipped classes integrated into the course curriculum by week.Active learning interventions are annotated with an “I” (i.e. I1 – I16) and flipped classes are

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University

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Environmental Engineering

since his graduate school. He has been active with ASEE and educational research for over 10 years. He is particularly interested in en- hancing critical thinking skills among civil engineering students through various educational approaches. His research interests include water and wastewater treatment, desalination, and algal biofuels. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integrating Writing to Teach Engineered Environmental Systems Design – Learning and Teaching ExperiencesAbstractWriting in engineering courses provides a mechanism for processing scientific informationrelated to an engineering issue or problem and synthesize sound solutions through a

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo K. Cornejo, California State University, Chico

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Environmental Engineering

performed well in the class (average = 84%, standard deviation = 7%) andon the final group project report (average = 90%, standard deviation = 4%). Future versions ofthis course could be improved by introducing LCA software earlier in the curriculum andintegrating this course as a pre-requisite or co-requisite to a senior capstone. By teachingstudents an innovative approach to the conventional evaluation-of-alternatives, students wereable to propose designs that minimize environmental impacts (e.g., carbon footprint) and provideeconomically feasible solutions simultaneously. Consequently, this paper highlights a viableteaching model for other universities integrate sustainability into their curriculum.IntroductionCoastal regions in the United

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L. Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University; Simeon J. Komisar, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Environmental Engineering

Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Continuing Assessment of Sustainability Skills Within the Environmental and Civil Engineering CurriculumAbstractSustainability in engineering practice and design is increasingly important as an outcome forengineering education for Civil and Environmental Engineers. ABET criteria for bothEnvironmental and Civil Engineering stress sustainability, and the development of curriculumcomponents for these degree programs continues to evolve; efforts are directed at spreadingsustainability across the curriculum either in a modular fashion or in directed course sequencesspecifically focused on sustainability. To evaluate curricular sustainability outcomes, wecontinue a longitudinal study to

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Manoj K. Jha, North Carolina A&T State University; Gigi A. Richard, Colorado Mesa University; Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia; John Taber, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

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Environmental Engineering

  designed  as  an  integrated  module,  sufficient  information  and  guidance  is  provided to enable instructors to incorporate individual units, activities, and components  of activities into courses. And this was demonstrated by pilot testing individual and sets  of lessons.   Based on student feedback from the pilot tests, the team project was identified as the  most  important  element  of  the  module  for  helping  students  to  understand  the  interconnections among geosciences and engineering in water sustainability.  After additional reflection on the process, the professor team noted the following lessons learned about collaborative curriculum development:   Collaborative development

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Inez Hua, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

environmental engineering and science [10]. These authors call forand propose new paradigms, new practices, and new policies, as related to environmentalengineering and science. In this paper, we discuss the transformation of the EE undergraduate degree program atPurdue University. This program integrates a systems-based approach to studying anthropogenicimpacts on the natural environment, helps to embed themes of environmental sustainabilityacross different majors, and incorporates pedagogical innovation. In this paper, we discussspecific courses in the EE program that illustrate innovation of curriculum content. We alsopresent data demonstrating undergraduate engineering student participation and interest inenvironmentally-related courses

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Freya Willicks, IMA/ZLW of RWTH Aachen University; Kathrin Schoenefeld, IMA/ZLW of RWTH Aachen University; Valerie Varney, IMA/ZLW of RWTH Aachen University; Anja Richert, RWTH Aachen University; Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen University; Frank Hees, IMA/ZLW of RWTH Aachen University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

Engineers Without Borders Challenge: Implementing Sustainability in German Engineering Education Tags: Engineers Without Borders Challenge, Sustainability, Problem-Based Learning Abstract The twenty-first century is highly influenced by globalization, climate change and an increasing dependence on technologies. Education in general needs to foster these trends, but especially engineering education needs to impart knowledge about the necessity and the possibilities of sustainable development to students. The Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Challenge offers an innovative opportunity to integrate sustainability into engineering curricula. Although the EWB Challenge is well

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark H. Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

integrated the design process into the curriculum for each separate course, with specificfocus on certain stages of the design process in each course. Sustainability content in each coursefocused on energy, water, carbon, biodiversity, and food production in the context of global,regional, or local case studies. Design-based content includes project definition, exploration ofsolutions, proposal development, design validation, and reporting through oral and writtencommunication. To assess the first year of this new approach, we conducted pre- and post-surveysfor all students in the cohort. The surveys include content-based material to measure knowledgeattained, as well as perspectives on sustainability in engineering to observe any changes from

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon L. Isovitsch Parks P.E., University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown; Laura J. Dietz, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Environmental Engineering

integrated extensive oral andwritten communication practice, including writing, presenting, interviewing and networking withprofessionals, along with traditional engineering design skills. In addition, classroom lectureswere supplemented with a combination of on-site industry tours, guest lecturers, peer review oforal presentations, and a team design project from an actual consulting firm project. Studentsatisfaction measures on the various classroom activities as well as industry professional andfaculty measures on end of term student communication skills are presented.MethodsA senior level, undergraduate, civil engineering/technology elective on water and wastewaterengineering was designed to integrate oral and written communication skills

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley A. Striebig, James Madison University

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Environmental Engineering

weinhabit and leave behind for future generations.”12The course content is built upon the description of Earth Systems Engineering as described byMichael E. Gorman who developed an Earth Systems Engineering course in the department ofSystems Engineering at the University of Virginia and concepts promoted by Industrial EcologistBradden Allenby.1,2,10,11 Other influential work that contributed to the curriculum includes thecase study on the Florida Everglades Restoration Project, the NASA Earth Science EnterprisePlan, and course and curricula descriptions of Columbia University’s Earth and Environmental Engineering Program, The Center for Earth Systems Engineering

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University; Meliksah Demir, Northern Arizona University

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Environmental Engineering

responsibility for their own learning. Educators call this traditional method, “instructor-centered teaching.” In contrast, “learner-centered teaching” occurs when instructors focus on thelearner and authentic problems rather than on the structured analysis of the curriculum content(Blumberg 2008, Gunderman et al. 2003). If teacher’s primary focus is covering the content,students respond by memorizing the material with limited understanding. If the students are theones doing hard and messy work, then the understanding is deeper (Weimer, 2013). Learninginvolves active construction of meaning by the learner, who construct meaning by combining whatthey currently know with the new information that they are acquiring. Meaningful learning can befacilitated by