Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Llewellyn Mann, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland; Gloria Dall'Alba, University of Queensland

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

AC 2007-892: EXPERIENCES OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AMONG PRACTICINGENGINEERS ? IMPLICATIONS FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATIONLlewellyn Mann, University of Queensland LLEWELLYN MANN is a PhD student in the School of Engineering at the University of Queensland and a member of the Catalyst Research Centre for Society and Technology. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical & Space) and a Bachelor of Science (Physics) from UQ, as well as a Graduate Certificate of Education (Higher Education). Major research interests include; Engineering Education, Sustainability, Teaching and Learning, Engineering Design, Technology and Society.David Radcliffe, University of Queensland DAVID RADCLIFFE is the

Conference Session

Service-Learning in Developing Communities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Phillips, Michigan Technological University; Ann Brady, Michigan Technological University; Karina Jousma, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

combined. Because it involved something that is real and brought face-to-face at every level with all of the humans involved."Service learning experiences, with a societal impact focus, has a broad appeal to today’s youth asevidenced by the 2006 Cone, AMP Insights survey that show education, poverty, environmentand health and disease as the top 4 issues on the minds of the Millennial Generation.7 Solvingengineering related social problems resonates with today’s student, especially young women asdemonstrated by ISD participation.Table 2. Comparison of gender balance among undergraduate civil engineering andenvironmental students and participants in the International Senior Design (ISD) Program (datafrom annual surveys of the Engineering

Conference Session

Intersdisciplinary Courses and Environmental Undergraduate Research

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bott, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

treatability studies and applied experimental workthat directly supports local water and wastewater utilities. In order to grow the program andincorporate more students, assistance is required to mentor these students and to help managetheir projects. Clearly, a Ph.D. student that is interested in this type of position at anundergraduate engineering college would be a great candidate.With this idea in mind, the author recently worked with Virginia Tech to develop a collaborativeprogram whereby alumni from VMI will attend graduate school at Virginia Tech, but conducttheir research projects with author, supervised and externally-funded by the author. One criticalrole of these graduate students will be to mentor current our current undergraduate students