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- Woo Hyoung Lee P.E., University of Central Florida
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microsensors for in situ investigation of physical and chemical dynamics in microenvironments (e.g., biofilm, corrosion, emulsions, or plant) by combining with nano and biotechnology. His other research interest is to develop renewable (bio)energy processes for environmental sustainability. He is currently a registered professional engineer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Promoting Undergraduate Research and Education through Extracurricular EPA P3 ProjectsIntroduction and ObjectivesThe importance of multi-interdisciplinary design experiences is well-highlighted in the ASCEBody of Knowledge [1] and the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission [2]. However
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- Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University; Sahar Razavi, Northern Arizona University; Nihal Sarikaya, Northern Arizona University
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girls do not perform well on tests. In 2009, male high schoolgraduates had higher National Assessment of Educational Process (NAEP) mathematics andscience scores than their female counterparts, completing the same curriculum level [1]. Thismight be correlated with the Arizona State University’s finding that “the average male studentthinks he is smarter than 66 percent of the class, while the average female student thinks she issmarter than 54 percent of the class” [2]. Stoeger et al. reported that STEM interest is almostthree times higher for boys than girls. The same study reported that female students think thatSTEM is not appropriate for them due to a perceived disconnect between the “real world” andtheir assignments; therefore, the girls
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- Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1
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- Sharanabasaweshwara Asundi, Old Dominion University; Gregory C. Bernard, Tuskegee University; Willard E. Collier, Tuskegee University
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. Collier and five other co-PIs were awarded a Seed Grant from Tuskegee University titled ”Engaging Agricul- ture, Biology, and Chemistry Students Through Interdisciplinary Medicinal Plant Research Across the Curriculum”. Dr. Collier and Dr. Chastity Bradford, a TU biology professor, were also awarded a grant titled, ”Investigating the Enhancement of Angiotensin 1-7 by Hibiscus sabdariffa as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for the Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension” from The Herb Society of America. Dr. Col- lier’s other grants have included ”Chemistry for the Future of Water Sustainability” from The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. (role as PI) and an NSF grant titled ”Targeted Infusion Project: Infusing
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- Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1: Intercultural Competency-infused Teaching
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- Inez Hua, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Short-Term Study Abroad: Engineers Gaining Intercultural CompetencyIntroduction Intercultural knowledge and competency encompass skills and personal characteristicsthat enable a person to interact successfully in a variety of cultural situations [1]. Universityintercultural programs include short-term study abroad, longer term exchange programs, researchexperiences, and service learning, among many others. Engineering students in the United Statesmay choose from a variety of program types [2]–[5], which have increased in number over thepast few decades. Short-term study abroad programs are more accessible to students and havedemonstrated
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- Javiera Constanza Jofré, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; Universidad Andres Bello, Chile
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supported by different instances of curricular advancement.This study's relevance rests on the fact that the management tradition in Chile only incorporatesthe economic dimension of problems, so this experience leads us to seek how to improve thecurrent engineering training by developing sustainable and equitable solutions to change the waycompanies currently operate.Keywords: sustainability, higher education, educational innovation, Sustainable DevelopmentGoals, future challengesINTRODUCTIONIn 2015, the United Nations (UN) world leaders committed to sustainability through 17Sustainable Development Goals, commonly known as SDGs [1]. The achievement of these goalsrequires a sustained planetary-level effort for a new development model to ensure
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- Jane Lu Hsu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Yu-Kang Lai, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Tzu-An Tzeng, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Yi-Hsuan Yu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
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Taiwan. Qualitative analysis demonstrated that Taiwanese students weremore familiar with ocean ecology and plastic product reduction, whereas US students paidgreater attention to meat consumption and energy waste via private transportation. Findings inthis study revealed strong pro-environment perceptions among the youth differentiated bynationality. Educational recommendations were provided based on the study findings.1. Introduction1.1 Research Background Environmental problems, such as pollution, climate change, depletion of natural resources,and biodiversity loss, are urgent global issues. The ongoing environmental problems can beattributed to increasing population, economic development and industrialization, pollution,urbanization, and
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- David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh; Tony Lee Kerzmann, University of Pittsburgh; Claire P. Chouinard, University of Pittsburgh; Gregg P. Kotchey, University of Pittsburgh
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regarding the effectiveness of this new educationalenvironment, especially when it comes to discussion-based courses [1]. Although studies arefew, preliminary research suggests due to COVID-19, higher education will see academicperformance suffer as well as increased dropout rates [2].Many educators around the world have been required to redesign their courses to accommodate afully online teaching environment. There is evidence that shows many academics encounteredchallenges in effectively facilitating the online classroom experience and lacked the necessaryunderstanding of information technology to provide a smooth transition to online learning. Manyeducators were also not well-versed in the online pedagogical understanding needed to design
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- Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality
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- Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder
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modified in the first year introductory civilengineering course in fall 2020, due in part to the COVID pandemic which required the course tobe taught online. One framing principle in the course was the idea of human centered design forinfrastructure, which allowed the diverse array of topics covered in the course to have somecohesiveness. As part of the ethics and sustainability modules in the course, students were askedto read assigned material and watch segments of the ASEE community panel video on their owntime, then answer a series of questions as part of the associated homework assignments. Becausethe course was 1-credit, the intent was for the assigned reading, video, and assignment to takeabout 2 hours of student time outside of class for
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- Azadeh Bolhari P.E., Angelo State University; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University; Kenneth Stewart, Angelo State University
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. They achieve this in ways that make effective use of naturalresources, enhance the environment, promote social cohesion and inclusion and strengtheneconomic prosperity” [1]. Further, this framework describes 7 main components of sustainablecommunities as: 1) governance, 2) social & cultural, 3) housing & the built environment, 4)economy, 5) environmental, 6) services, and 7) transport & connectivity. In sum, the EganReview is a visionary statement which brings together the time frames of sustainability byapplying two types of vision: 1) the ability to see things clearly in the present and 2) the ability toenvision a better future [2]. This future-oriented vision serves as the foundation of our research.Engineers are one of the core
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- Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Workshop Result: Teaching Structured Reviews to Environmental Engineering Researchers Daniel B. Oerther Missouri University of Science and Technology, 1401 North Pine Street, Rolla, MO 65409AbstractAs part of the 2019 biennial conference of the Association of Environmental Engineeringand Science Professors, a pre-conference workshop on the topic of structured reviewswas delivered to 22 participants. The workshop had three objectives, namely: 1) raisingawareness about the process of structured reviews; 2) demonstrating the process ofstructured reviews; and 3
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- Bradley A. Striebig, James Madison University
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- Sanjay Tewari, Missouri University of Science & Technology
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concepts and techniques.However, a major portion of teaching still takes places in classroom settings. Educators adoptvarious pedagogical practices, teaching-aids, and technologies to engage students in learningthe course contents effectively within the controlled environment of classrooms. In ideal classsettings, an instructor should be able to reach out to all students regardless of their learningstyles. These learning styles could be sensory, intuitive, visual, verbal, reflective, active,sequential and global as defined in the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) classification system[1] - [5].Active and hands-on learning in environmental engineering is not new. More recently, theauthor has been involved in multiple studies focused on promoting
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- Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Angela Harris, North Carolina State University; Christina Martin-Ebosele, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University
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absolute number of URM women pursuingenvironmental engineering degrees is small. Graduates enter the workforce against the backdropof environmental attitudes, actions, and career pathways that are neither gender nor race neutral.The severity of environmental decline intersects with gender and race, in addition to geographicregion, socioeconomic resources, and other markers of social location. In light of these factors,we consider how diverse groups of women majoring in environmental engineering are positionedfor leadership in the field.Our research questions are: What are environmental engineering students’ graduate school andjob intentions during college? What are their graduate school and job destinations 1-3 yearspost-graduation? How do
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- 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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Challenge at RWTH Aachen University was marked as “good”. Asides from that, the analyses also indicate that the students most benefit from a great amount of gained knowledge and their improved ability to adapt technologies depending on the situational context and the underlying social and cultural structures. Yet, the results show that there are also aspects of the challenge-concept that need some improvement. One of these aspects is to enhance the students’ awareness of the social responsibilities of engineers.1. Introduction The twenty-first century is highly influenced by globalization and an increasing dependence on technologies. Likewise, the global awareness about climate change and the importance of reducing greenhouse gas
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- Inez Hua, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University
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excellent example of this process [1]-[3], as is theevolution of related disciplines such as sustainability science [4]. The Body of Knowledge forEE programs has expanded considerably [5], there has been substantial growth in the number ofABET accredited degree programs over the past 25 years (Fig. 1) [6], and in the number ofstudents earning degrees in EE. Annually, in the United States, about 1,200 students earn ABET-accredited undergraduate degrees in EE, based on a survey of all accredited programs conductedin 2016 [7]. In 2014-2015, 1,124 bachelor’s degrees were awarded in the U.S., as reported byASEE [8]. In addition, professional engineering licensure (NCEES) in the U.S. recognizes EE asa distinct professional discipline [9
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- Alan S. Hoback, University of Detroit Mercy; Alexa Rihana Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy
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academic institutions, the current practices all seem well-warranted,despite the wide variation in the safety protocols followed.IntroductionAccreditation of civil and environmental engineering programs requires that students conductexperiments in at least two areas [1]. Out of concern for student safety, lab practices arereviewed. For accredited institutions, policies about safety in laboratories are documented inself-study reports to the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of the AccreditationBoard of Engineering and Technology (ABET) [1]. Therefore, all institutions have documentedsafety policies, but those may not be publicly available.Students should be trained in how to safely conduct experiments. One method proven to beeffective in
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- Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University; Nihal Sarikaya, Northern Arizona University; Adam Bringhurst
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machine), to improvestudents’ conceptual understanding of inversion and air quality problems. The expected studentoutcomes from the activity are as follows: (1) Define inversion as a natural and importantmeteorological phenomenon; (2) Articulate a deeper understanding of inversion mechanics; and(3) Relate inversion with high ground level air pollutant concentrations. A pre-activity quiz of thestudents’ understanding, from their reading, was used to establish a baseline. The same quiz wasdelivered as a post-activity quiz, following the demonstration. We compared the results from thepre-activity quiz scores with the post-activity quiz scores. The results indicated an improvementin students’ understanding of inversion and air quality. The correct
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- Pablo K. Cornejo, California State University, Chico; Kevin Orner, University of South Florida
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using rubrics to assess: (1)problem definition in a global context, (2) life cycle assessment skills, (3) life cycle cost analysisskills, (4) ability to integrate social and cultural implications of proposed solutions, (5) writtencommunication, and (6) oral communication. Students performed well in defining problems in aglobal context, conducting an economic analysis, and communicating via oral presentations.Improvements could be made in assessing environmental impacts, accounting for socialimplications of proposed solutions, and written communication via written reports. The self-efficacy questionnaire highlighted that increased communication between students andstakeholders in Costa Rica could improve understandings of social and cultural
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- Pamela McLeod, ReNUWIt at Stanford University; Junko Munakata Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Richard G. Luthy, Stanford University
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-surveys (quantitative and qualitative), as well as longitudinaltracking of participants (n=97 over 7 years). Assessment results suggest this multi-campus siteachieves participant-level and program-level impacts commensurate with those attained bysingle-campus REU Sites.IntroductionEngaging undergraduates in authentic science and engineering research experiences is widelyaccepted as a promising practice for promoting persistence in the discipline [1], increasingstudent interest in graduate school [2], and developing a student’s identity as a researcher [1].The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is a large supporter of such experiences through itsResearch Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site and Supplements Program. Almost 150REU Site
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- Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines
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retain studentswith a broad range of interests and motivations.BackgroundSome students have a high level of interest in environmental issues and want to make this thefocus of their academic studies and/or career. The disciplines with the most obvious focus onenvironmental issues are environmental studies (EnvS), environmental science (EnvSci), andenvironmental engineering (EnvE). An online search of programs in the U.S. that awardBachelor’s degrees in these areas identified 183 EnvS, 500 EnvSci, and 70 EnvE degrees [1].The number of Bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2014-2015 in these majors were: 6015 EnvS,5723 EnvSci, and 1414 EnvE [2]. (Note that the Integrated Postsecondary Education DataSystem (IPEDS) groups EnvE with Environmental Health
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students in a total of 24 separate offerings of five differentsemester-long courses. In prior publications, the results of anonymous student feedbackcollected at the end of the semester have been reported, including: quantitative results ofLikert-scale responses to five common questions; and representative comments to open-ended questions. These prior results suggest that at least two responses are predominant,namely: 1) rejection of mastery learning as “unfamiliar”/“unfair”, or “lazy on the part ofthe professor”; or 2) welcoming of mastery learning as “empowering”, or “an opportunityfor self-ownership of learning on the part of the student”. To improve our understandingof the attitudes of students towards mastery learning, a qualitative approach
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- Charles M. Ouellette, United States Military Academy; Luke Thomas Plante, United States Military Academy; Erick Martinez P.E., United States Military Academy; Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke, United States Military Academy
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environment, and they felt more strongly about the need for continuingenvironmental education to promote environmental stewardship.Introduction The need for an environmental ethic became evident in the 20th century due to a numberof high-profile environmental failures, including those documented in Silent Spring [1] andThomas Hardin’s paper on the tragedy of the commons [2]. The establishment of theEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) almost immediately following passage of the NationalEnvironmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the inaugural Earth Day of 1970 further increased publicawareness of the relationship between human activity and environmental quality [3]. This linkwas discussed as early as the 16th century by Malthus [4]. At the heart of
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- Bettina Jeanine Casad, University of Missouri, St. Louis; Monica Palomo P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Natalie Mladenov, San Diego State University
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research experience would increase students’ (1a) academic self-efficacy, (1b)research skills, (1c) research confidence, (1d) including confidence in leading and working witha team, and (1e) education and (1f) career intentions to pursue engineering. In addition, it washypothesized that the research experience would provide students with (2a) greater culturalawareness, (2b) global perspectives of water reuse challenges, and (2c) promote increasedinterest in pursuing an engineering career that can have a global impact.Methodology(1)ParticipantsBetween 2015 and 2017, a total of 14 students participated in the research experience. Allparticipants were recruited from two public, Hispanic Serving comprehensive state universitiesin southern California
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- Andrew Ross Pfluger, Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Gary Vanzin; Robert L. Siegrist, Colorado School of Mines
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spanning a period of four academic semestersbetween 2014 and 2017 were analyzed using two approaches. Projects were analyzed(1) for the degree of integration of non-technical considerations and (2) by term frequencymining and term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf). The integration of socio-economic and cultural considerations into the course project increased in 2016 and 2017,with five of twelve student teams in 2014 and eight of ten student teams in 2016 and 2017integrating non-technical considerations in their analysis. Gender demographics andgraduate standing were not correlated with the degree of integration of non-technicalconsiderations. Term frequency analysis and tf-idf showed that key terms in the “social”and “energy
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- Cara J. Poor, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Jeffrey Matthew Welch, University of Portland; Nicole C. Ralston, University of Portland
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completed during an 85-minute class session, and students spentadditional time outside of class summarizing their results in a technical memorandum. At the endof the semester, students completed a survey to evaluate the efficacy of the class activities. Toaddress the need to for civil engineering students to make connections between technicalknowledge gained in school and professional practice5, to use information beyond what is foundin the textbook1,2,3,4,5, and to learn environmental engineering in the context of real-worldproblems5,6,7, the following objectives were developed for the class activity: 1. Identify and evaluate sources of information 2. Connect life experiences with course content 3. Identify real world engineering
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- Sarah K. Bauer, Rowan University
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through student responses to a survey administered at both thebeginning and end of the course. Survey results indicate that the EHMs enabled students toincrease their perception of their understanding of environmental engineering and its effect onsociety’s environmental challenges.IntroductionAs our world continues to evolve, an increase in the development of technical solutions is criticalfor meeting society’s growing needs. Today, there are many environmental and social problemsfacing our world. Zero hunger, clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, Fig 1. 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations [1].sustainable cities and communities, and positive climate action are among several of the 17Sustainable
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- Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University; Nihal Sarikaya, Northern Arizona University; Roy St. Laurent, Northern Arizona University; Daniel'le April DeVoss, Northern Arizona University
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engineering education, students should have aclear understanding that the nature of their job is directly affecting the environment and theirpractices are governed by the code of ethics, which calls on sustainable development. How weteach or train students to develop their engineering skills, becomes an essential tool to nurturesustainability in their future practice, which was recognized as a pressing issue for educators [1]-[3]. Promoting sustainability as part of everyday practice could establish the missing link toenhance environmental attitudes of engineering students [4], [5].Many empirical studies reported that environmental education, either as a semester course or as asummer program, not only improves knowledge and awareness of environmental
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- Inez Hua, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Loring Nies, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lindsey B. Payne, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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graduate degree programs. Inthe U.S., during the 2017-2018 academic year, 2805 masters degrees were awarded inCivil/Environmental or Environmental Engineering (EE), and 457 doctoral degrees wereawarded (1). Over the decades, there has been discussion about needs, challenges and assessmentrelated to environmental engineering graduate programs (2-4), and development of an acceptedBody of Knowledge for Environmental Engineering (5,6). The challenges include graduatestudent cohorts that are comprised of students whose undergraduate training is drawn from avariety of engineering and natural science disciplines. This is in contrast to many otherengineering graduate programs, whose graduate students are comprised primarily of studentswho earned an
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- Matthew James Scarborough, University of Vermont; Katherine D. McMahon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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the underlying factors of student motivation is likely key to improvingstudent performance.Poor performance in undergraduate chemistry courses is largely the result of affective,motivational challenges [1-4]. There are four factors affecting student motivation: purpose,competence, autonomy, and community [5, 6]. To improve student attitudes towardschemistry, all four of these aspects should be addressed. While teaching chemistry toundergraduate students is known to be a challenge, student performance improves whenstrategies to implement active-learning are used [7, 8]. Case studies are useful tools for engagingSTEM students in active-learning [9]. For example, an undergraduate green chemistry coursesuccessfully used several case studies
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- Anand Raj, University of Texas at El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Scott A. Starks, University of Texas at El Paso; Luis Rene Contreras Sapien, University of Texas at El Paso; Suzan Aranda Luna, University of Texas at El Paso
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the Impact of the University on Sustainability in Far West TexasIntroductionThere was a time in history when economic prosperity was considered the only parameter forsocietal sustainable growth. As we developed, consumption of resources grew at a rate thatincreased faster than what nature could replenish. Now, the lack of natural resources has reachedan alarming point. The irony is that most resources are controlled by a few people and the majorpopulation has less access to it [1]. So, it has become important to change the way sustainablegrowth is viewed, and, along with economic prosperity, social mobility and environmentalprotection have also gained importance [2]. This perspective comes with the realization that