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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1: Intercultural Competency-infused Teaching

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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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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education at the Tecnologico de Monterrey. Her main research areas are faculty development, teaching methods, and gender issues in STEM education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Integrating Global Sustainability Challenges in an Organizational Management CourseAbstractPrevious studies indicate that there is a link between a country's engineering capacity and itseconomic development. Future professionals must be capable of integrating the social andenvironmental fields into their engineering solutions. Their vision of the world must answer anew development model that ensures resource availability and well-being for

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Paper ID #21960Learning Benefits of Integrating Socioeconomic and Cultural Considerationsinto an Onsite Water Reclamation Course ProjectLt. Col. Andrew Ross Pfluger, Colorado School of Mines Lt Colonel Andrew Pfluger, U.S. Army, is an active duty officer and an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy. He served in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering from 2010 to 2013 and is a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Life Science as of June 2018. He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from USMA, a M.S. and Engineer Degree in Environmental Engineering and Science from Stanford

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Emphasizing Communication and the Humanities in Environmental Engineering

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sarah K. Bauer, Rowan University

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engineering course typically taken inthe third year of the civil and environmental engineering undergraduate curriculum. This courseis an introductory-level course to the field of environmental engineering, which covers topics,such as solid and hazardous waste management, air pollution, and sustainability and greenengineering. The EHMs were developed for and integrated into this course during the Spring2019 and Fall 2019 semesters. These EHMs would allow students to explore variousenvironmental issues present in our society through learning about historical events that resultedin major environmental laws and regulations, growth of waste management technologies aroundthe world, and engineering advances in sustainable and green engineering practices

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Innovative Approaches to Improving Student Learning

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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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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Paper ID #28779Implementation of real-world class activities in an Introduction toEnvironmental Engineering ClassDr. Cara J Poor P.E., University of Portland Dr. Poor teaches many of the integral undergraduate civil engineering courses at University of Portland, including hydraulics, fluids, and environmental engineering. Dr. Poor is a licensed professional engineer with ongoing research in green infrastructure design, water quality, watershed management, and engi- neering education. She is currently developing new curricula for hydraulics, fluids, and environmental engineering labs, and conducting research on methods to

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Inez Hua, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University

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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

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Environmental Engineering Division: Sustainability and Hands-On Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paula Alvarez Pino, UAB Sustainable Smart Cities Research Center; Andrew J. Sullivan; Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama - Birmingham

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, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and the Director of the UAB Sustainable Smart Cities Research Center. Dr. Fouad is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Dr. Fouad’s research interest is in the area of infrastructure design, maintenance, and rehabilitation with a focus on sustainable green building design and construction. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Sustainability Education in a Global EraAbstractWe live in an era of expanding globalization. The interconnectedness of the world has beenincreased in all aspects of life. The

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharanabasaweshwara Asundi, Old Dominion University; Gregory C. Bernard, Tuskegee University; Willard E. Collier, Tuskegee University

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Experimental Research Station capacity via USDA funding and faculty team collaboration.Dr. Willard E. Collier, Tuskegee University Dr. Willard E. Collier is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Tuskegee University (TU). He is actively involved in Molecular Farming education and research as a transdisciplinary platform that enhances re- cruitment and persistence of undergraduate STEM majors. Along with Dr. Mortley from Agricultural Sciences at TU, he helped establish the Tuskegee University Medicinal Plant Garden. Dr. Collier has organized and hosted Medicinal Plants: A Healthy Supplement to the Chemistry Curriculum workshops at Tuskegee University that have drawn college chemistry professors from across the nation. Dr

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Environmental Engineering Division: Engagement, Experiential Learning, and Balance

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Willietta Gibson

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are an integral part of many engineering curricula due to theopportunity to provide hands-on experiences for students to learn how to collect and analyzedata. While laboratory experiences diverge from a formal classroom lecture to allow students toconduct experiments related to real-world disciplinary concepts, many engineering laboratoriesuse a “cookbook” and procedural based structure. These traditional laboratories, however, havebeen proven to only address the lower levels of knowledge and comprehension of BloomsTaxonomy as opposed to reaching the higher levels of application, analysis, synthesis, andevaluation.1-3 Therefore, even though students are engaged in hands-on activities during labinstruction, educators can question several key

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Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder

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courses.Examples are provided, but have not yet been used by the authors. These examples present ideasto spur the integration of environmental justice topics into civil and environmental engineeringcourses, while also inviting programs to more broadly consider an intentional across-the-curriculum approach.BackgroundDiversity, equity, and justice issues have garnered increased attention in 2020 as public outrageover the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others exploded. This led to broaderacknowledgement of systemic racial bias and inequalities in society at-large and within highereducation. In 2020 a number of institutions newly required the integration of justice, equity,diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) issues into students’ education, via

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pablo K. Cornejo, California State University, Chico; Kevin Orner, University of South Florida

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Volunteer in Panama. In December 2011, he completed his M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. Kevin is an E.I.T. with engineering consulting experience. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Life cycle thinking and engineering in developing communities: Addressing international sustainability challenges in the classroomAbstractIntegrating sustainability issues into engineering curriculum can be used to exposeundergraduates to complex global challenges related to the food-water-energy nexus. This paperexplores the integration of engineering in developing communities and life cycle thinking forcivil, mechanical, and mechatronic engineering

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Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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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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field) (Section2.1.1). Environmental engineering education may involve more interdisciplinary, community-and society-focused approaches than we might see in other engineering majors, although it is notyet clear how topics relating to gender and race are integrated into the curriculum (Section 2.1.2).In the broader social landscape of work, culture, and practice, femininities have strong culturalcasting in environmental spaces; women face challenges to being recognized as experts, holdingleadership roles, and having political (public sphere) representation than men do not face,challenges that are deepened for non-white women, and challenges despite bearingdisproportionate weight of the consequences of environmental degradation (alongside men

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan S. Hoback, University of Detroit Mercy; Alexa Rihana Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy

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chemistry curriculum is arranging student lab teams so that each person has a turninvestigating and monitoring the safety issues specific to a lab session [2]. Other appropriatepractices that include training teaching assistants in safety protocols [3], organizing a lab spacewith safety in mind [4], or making use of a virtual lab.In civil and environmental engineering, there can be many types of lab spaces. It depends on thefaculty members’ areas of interest and program emphasis. However, various types of labs can begrouped into three major categories based on the particular hazards they contain. In laboratoriesthat involve construction, materials and machinery, students encounter hazardous physicaldevices. In environmental and biological labs

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Inventive Opportunities for Research and Exposure

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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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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and 2017focused groups collected feedback from students participating in the modules (n=14 and n=16,respectively). Additionally, the EEE faculty completed an online, open-ended survey in Februaryof 2017 (n=12). Most recently, in November 2019, twenty students completed an online, open-ended survey focused upon the effectiveness of team teaching and the integration of a themetying all modules together. Results from the April 2016 and 2017 student focus groups, as wellas the February 2017 faculty survey were presented at two EEE faculty retreats in May 2016 andMay 2017.Student Focus Groups FindingsThe focus group interviews were semi-structured and organized to investigate the followingcategories: expectations, organization and structure

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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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

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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into focus later. As Melissa progresses through the NASASpace Grant and her future capstone, she will build her research skills, practice engineering andbe recognized as an environmental engineer. In turn, she may add engineering as a dimension ofher identity [50]. There may also be a reciprocal relationship between a sense of belonging in thefield and the integration of “engineer” into her core identity. If an individual feels that theirchosen profession is a place in which their contributions are valuable and welcomed, it followsthat they will be more likely to see themselves as meaningfully connected to their professionalcommunity. In turn, this could foster a greater sense of self-efficacy and identification with theirfield of

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Sustainability and Hands-on Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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combination of EWB attributes is attracting student interest.1-2EWB at its core involves helping others in primarily global settings through sustainable Page 26.1449.2development in an interdisciplinary context. Other organizations embrace similar ideals,including Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW)3, Engineering World Health (EWH)4, andBridges to Prosperity (B2P)5, as well as efforts at numerous individual institutions.6-11 Dostudents and professionals involved in these activities have values and interests that align to anequal extent with all four of these attributes -- sustainability, global, interdisciplinary, andconcern for others? Are

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Problem- Project- and Case-based Learning in Environmental Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University; Maeghan Marie Brundrett, Texas Tech University; Dylan Christenson, Texas Tech University; Kevin A. Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

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is an area they plan to focus on during thesecond semester of the capstone design course. Students were asked questions from Figure 2regarding their perceived strengths and areas for improvement. Responses to how studentsdescribed their strengths in areas related to their discipline are reflected below. “Due to the curriculum, I have strengths in water and wastewater, air pollution, and groundwater contaminants.” Page 26.678.17 “Resource accumulation and cost analysis on treatment units, water flow and regulations.” “Working in a team, equalization basins, headworks and tertiary treatment”Student responses when

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Enviromental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos; Bahram Asiabanpour, Texas State University; Semih Aslan, Texas State University, San Marcos; Jesus Alejandro Jimenez, Texas State University; Yoo-Jae Kim, Texas State University; Hassan Salamy, Texas State University

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Paper ID #11416Engaging Students in Sustainability Education and Awareness of Green En-gineering Design and Careers through a Pre-Engineering ProgramDr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education in the College of Educa- tion at Texas State University. Araceli is Director of the LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research and teaches graduate courses in Integrated STEM Curriculum and Instruction. She collaborates on various state and national STEM education programs and is PI on major grant initiates with NASA Educator Pro

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Environmental Engineering Pedagogy and Innovation

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech; Daniel S Brogan, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech

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and live LEWAS data, watershed-specific case studies, and virtual tours ofthe LEWAS watershed. By using an HTML5-driven web interface, the OWLS interactivelydelivers integrated live and/or historical remote system data (visual, environmental,geographical, etc.) to end users regardless of the hardware (desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone,etc.) and software (Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, etc.) platforms of their choice.We have built upon a prior study that used the expectancy-value theory of motivation to showthat exposure to live watershed data via the LEWAS increased students’ levels of motivation. Apilot test of the OWLS has demonstrated positive learning gains in engineering seniors and wasoverwhelmingly viewed by students as having helped

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1: Intercultural Competency-infused Teaching

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Inez Hua, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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competency. 9Fig. 2: Comparison of IDI scores pre- and post- program. Eleven students showed an increasingtrend and seven students showed a decrease.Conclusions The Sustainability Across Sectors – Sweden program impacted students’ short- and long-term academic and professional paths. The summative teaching evaluation scores reflect thatstudents gained new cultural perspectives and that the program integrated Swedish culture intothe curriculum. Students also recognized the program in the larger context of their engineeringmajor at Purdue University. The short-term benefits continued and evolved to shape studentschoices regarding graduate school, thesis research topics, additional intercultural

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Environmental Engineering Pedagogy and Innovation

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Butler Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Kathy Jackson is a Senior Research Associate at Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence. In this position, she promotes Penn State’s commitment to enriching teaching and learning. She works in all aspects of education including faculty development, instructional design, en- gineering education, online teaching and learning, learner support, and evaluation. In addition, she is an Affiliate Faculty in the Higher Education Department where she is the instructor for a course on college teaching. Page 26.1298.1

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Woo Hyoung Lee P.E., University of Central Florida

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extracurricular activities is voluntary andusually based on the inherent interests of the students [4], it can serve as an avenue for theindividual to develop student interests and talents, independent of the engineering curriculum [3].Typically extracurricular activities satisfy the following criteria [3]: (1) not a requirement forgraduation, (2) voluntary participation, (3) structured; participants meet regularly in a contextspecific to the activity, and (4) requires efforts; it must pose some measure of challenge to theindividual engaged in the activity. The motivations for getting involved in EPA P3 projects were to become more attractive topotential employers (e.g., resume builder), to learn hands-on experience on emergingtechnologies, and to