Conference Session

Techniques to Enhance Environmental Engineering Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Ross Pfluger, U.S. Military Academy; Weimin Wu, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

of bacteria, i.e., methanotrophs. The laboratory study is conducted as follows:in sterilized serum bottles, methanotrophic bacteria in the exponential growth phase areinoculated in a Milli-Q water-based medium containing nitrate, other key nutrients (P, K, Na,Mg, Ca, etc.), and selected trace metals. The primary substrates, methane and oxygen, are thenintroduced and each bottle is placed on a shaker-table for incubation. Gas samples areperiodically withdrawn from the headspace of each bottle and manually injected into a gaschromatograph to measure the concentrations of methane, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. Thisallows students to monitor the amount of substrates consumed and the amount of end productproduced at different time points. Students

Conference Session

Introducing Sustainability into Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Brandes, Lafayette College, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

, Vol 21, No. 18. Amadei, B. and R. Sandekian, 2010. Model of Integrating Humanitarian Development into Engineering Education. ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice. Vol 136, Issue 2, pp. 84-92.9. Smith, J.H., and D. Brandes, 2010. Academic support for Engineers Without Borders-USA student chapters: The Lafayette College experience. ASEE Spring 2010 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference, Lafayette College10. Mihelcic, J.R., J.C. Crittenden, M.J. Small, D.R. Shonnard, D.R. Hokanson, Q Zhang, H Chen, S.A. Sorby, V.U. James, J.W. Sutherland, and J.L. Schnoor, 2003. Sustainability Science and Engineering: The Emergence of a New Metadiscipline. Environ. Sci. Technol., Vol 37, 23