Conference Session

Emphasizing Communication and the Humanities in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Caleb James McCollum, United States Military Academy; Andrew Ross Pfluger, United States Military Academy; Michael A. Butkus, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

a course, the survey was completed by the lead faculty member(i.e., the course director)). Part I of the survey asked faculty to report the total number oftechnical communication events for their course. These were binned into the followingcategories: lab reports, technical reports (i.e., those ≤ 5 pages in length), full reports (i.e., those >5 pages in length), oral presentations, and other. Part I of the survey also asked whether eachevent was an individual or a team assignment, and the percentage of the total course grade thateach event contributed. Part II was a slightly more detailed examination of each graded event andwas only completed by the 11 required environmental engineering courses that are organic to ouruniversity’s