Conference Session

Emphasizing Communication and the Humanities in Environmental Engineering

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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

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Environmental Engineering

14assessment and improvement process. Additionally, our program could benefit fromcomprehensive relook and revision of grading rubrics for technical communication relatedgraded events in the near term.Second, our university’s environmental engineering program can explore the use of scaffoldingtechnical communication events across courses. Scaffolding centers on intentionally connectinggraded events (e.g., capstone projects or research papers) with technical communicationcomponents across courses, either within the same semester or longitudinally across semesters.Scaffolding events across semesters offers several advantages, to include the ability for studentsto benchmark against previous performance and continually add to a body of increasinglycomplex

Conference Session

A Focus on Sustainability

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Inez Hua, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

District of Columbia regulate electronic waste disposal. Moregenerally, it is estimated that industrial economies return much of the raw material to theenvironment as waste, within one year of extraction (8). There are technological and societalbarriers towards overcoming the conventional linear cycle of consumption. A societal challengeis the flow of electronic waste between countries, for example from the United States to China.However, the focus of the RET Site was to provide research projects based on the naturalsciences for the teachers, so the issue of electronic waste export was not explicitly addressed.Instead, teachers focused on characterizing and solve technical challenges. Engineers of all disciplines, including environmental

Conference Session

Innovative Development for Various Faculty Lines

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shannon L. Isovitsch Parks P.E., University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

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Environmental Engineering, Faculty Development Division

senior capstone project. While expectations are at 12 credit hours, the loadthese past few years has typically been larger - sometimes as high as 17 for this tenure track professor.While classes were historically less than 30 students they have risen to as high as 70 in recent semesters.No graduate student assistants are available at this campus.As summarized in Table 1, in addition to teaching excellence, professional development and service isalso required for all professors. Professional development includes peer reviewed journal publication,publication and presentation of scholarly work at industry conferences, and significant contribution toprofessional societies. Service should include volunteer work that supports the division, the campus

Conference Session

Best in 5 Minutes: Demonstrating Interactive Teaching Activities

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ruth Abigail Mower, United States Military Academy; Erick Martinez P.E., United States Military Academy; Landon M. Raby, United States Military Academy; John Boyle, United States Military Academy, West Point; Andrew Ross Pfluger, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering

Community Development, Environmental Science, and Environmental Engineering Technologies.Lt. Col. Landon M Raby P.E., United States Military Academy LTC Raby is an Engineer officer with experience within both US Army Corps of Engineers and within Combat Units at the battalion, brigade, district, task force and corps levels. His experiences include four operational engineer assignments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and one engineer assign- ment in support of Operation Joint Guardian. His research and teaching interests are in master planning, water resources, sustainable LEED design, program and project management. LTC Raby teaches EV450 (Environmental Engineering for Community Development) and EV481 (Water

Conference Session

Innovative Development for Various Faculty Lines

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jes Barron, U.S. Military Academy; Andrew Ross Pfluger, U.S. Military Academy; Kathryn K Pegues, United States Military Academy; Thomas Bazemore

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering, Faculty Development Division

. Specifically, allnew faculty participate in a ~6 weeklong initial summer training workshop run at the departmentlevel. Here, new faculty are given the opportunity to develop relationships with their facultycohort as they explore foundational teaching skills. New faculty members also completenumerous events designed to indoctrinate them into our university’s community. Beyond initialsummer training, our university maintains the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE), whichprovides numerous faculty development opportunities throughout the academic year. The mostintensive CFE offering is the Master Teacher Program, which is a two-year program consistingof teaching-related classes and a required capstone project. To graduate, faculty members mustcomplete a