Conference Session

Intersdisciplinary Courses and Environmental Undergraduate Research

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Braun, California Polytechnic State University; Emmit B. Evans, California Polytechnic State University; Randall Knight, California Polytechnic State University; Thomas Ruehr, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

technicalrecommendations. The preceding steps constitute the milestones in the project, allowing studentsto receive timely feedback prior to project completion.The course webpage, http://www.ee.calpoly.edu/~dbraun/courses/TGE/UNIV350.html1, containsvaluable course resources in addition to those described in this work. Page 12.946.2Learning Objectives and OutcomesConceived as the capstone course for the Minor in Environmental Studies, the course seeks toachieve an ambitious scope of objectives; perhaps too ambitious. The course syllabus describesthe course goals: “This interdisciplinary course enables students to examine global environmental issues from

Conference Session

Environmental Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

- it stressed me out so much that sometimes it made it hard to focus on the information I was learning instead of the quickest way to get through the quizzes. M. I never took a course that was structured this way and I really enjoyed it. The minimum workload wasn't too much and there was room for the students to earn more if they wanted.” [6].And, “About the course [5605 Environmental Modeling] format: C. Please spend less time going over the 'rules'. Yes, the class has a unique structure, but students should read the syllabus. D. A major strength in this class is the grading system - any student who doesn't earn an 'A' is either lazy or stupid or both. E. The grading system encourages students to take

Conference Session

Inventive Opportunities for Research and Exposure

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Inez Hua, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Loring Nies, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lindsey B. Payne, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

certain assignments weren't always specified” Category of Investigation: Team Teaching Increase coordination between instructors and among modules; share content; Construct consider one overarching syllabus “Sharing materials and assignment information between modules” Example Excerpts “Having the previous module instructor provide a brief outline of assignments and major takeaways from the course to the upcoming instructor” Category of Investigation: Thematic Approach Construct Increase clarity in connection between modules “Some modules were in continuity others weren't” Example Excerpts

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Pedagogy and Innovation

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramanitharan Kandiah P.E., Central State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

evident from the evaluation that theConnect2U approach stimulated students’ interest in water resources, raised awareness aboutwater resources, provided basic knowledge and guided how to gather water-related informationpertaining to the students’ neighborhoods. In this way, Connect2U assisted in fulfilling theobjective of the course, Introduction to Water Resources Management, as a general education-natural science requirement course. However, this study was based only on the sessions that theauthor taught. To assess the full impact of Connect2U, a collaborative study with the data on thesessions taught by the other faculty should be done.The instructor is currently working on an online version of this GeDC course that could helpdistance learning

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3: Teaching Environmental Engineering in the COVID-19 Era

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

. The majority of the students chose to attend class online via a live Zoomvideoconference feed. A smaller portion of the students attended class in a traditional classroomusing social distancing and following the university COVID safety protocol. The students whowere in-person we able to communicate in real-time with the online students and faculty throughthe use of the classroom audio visual equipment, as shown in Figure 2. The class syllabus andrequirements for the same for students attending online and in-person. Figure 2: In-Person Classroom and Zoom Online Synchronous InstructionMethodologyA sophomore sustainability course with two sections and 92 total students (10 of which weregraduate students) was taught in the fall semester

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Engineers.” The new course leverages available online materialsdisseminated by The Johns Hopkins University as well as materials disseminated by the NationalEnvironmental Health Association (NEHA) to emphasize environmental health practice indiverse communities – from urban settings in developed nations to rural villages in lessdeveloped countries. The new course employs a previously reported format including blendeddelivery, a flipped classroom, and mastery learning (D.B. Oerther, “Reducing costs whilemaintaining learning outcomes using blended, flipped, and mastery pedagogy to teachintroduction to environmental engineering,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, Columbus, OH, USA, June 25-28, 2017. [Online

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

buffet of optional summative assessments used to assign a final grade, it isessential to include a course module to introduce these concepts13. The author prefers tointroduce these concepts to students using “Happy Saint Syllabus Day” as the title for theinaugural course meeting. The author distributes a hard copy of the detailed syllabus to all of thestudents, and then proceeds to deliver a “traditional” didactic lecture introducing the details ofthe syllabus through a series of hand written notes on a white board. This in the one-and-only“traditional” lecture delivered during the entire semester. Between the first and second meetingsof the course, students are instructed to complete a series of online activities delivered using aLearning

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

invitations for anonymous feedback at the endof each semester; anonymous, online surveys at a mid-point and at the end of each semester; theresults of a common quiz administered in the first week of a follow-up course on water andwastewater treatment; and in-depth, qualitative feedback from a selection of high-performingstudents collected during face-to-face interviews during a follow-up course of independent,undergraduate research. In brief, a portion of didactic class meetings was replaced with pre-recorded, online digital lectures providing students with an opportunity for asynchronous, self-paced learning. The remaining twelve, ‘required’ face-to-face, inductive learning sessionspromoted improved learning in the cognitive domain and introduced

Conference Session

Sustainability and Hands-on Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University ; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

into groups of 2-3 people depending onclass size. In addition to the primary instructor, two graduate students helped conduct hands-onactivities.The environmental engineering course curriculum has evolved over the past 5 years. A syllabus(Table 2) for the environmental engineering mini-course was developed for students tounderstand the expectations of the course. Learning objectives were set for each topic coveredthroughout the course paired with expected outcomes. Learning objectives and expectedoutcomes were applied to all age groups. The difficulty of design calculations and number ofdiscussion questions increased for high school aged campers. The older students were askedthought provoking discussion questions following activities for

Conference Session

A Focus on Sustainability

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

used toengage underprepared students while creating an inclusive whole-group discussion. Theassessment of the pre-class preparation on student engagement and learning has been shown tobe impactful [34]. This course included a total of eight assignments over the course of thesemester. Three assignments required students to work with peer-reviewed scientific articles onair pollution health impacts, hazardous waste, and ethical case studies. Two assignments taskedstudents to do mini research: personal water footprint and waste analysis of a fast foodrestaurant. In addition, three purely pedagogical homework tasks were assigned to develop self-regulation of learning, such as syllabus review, letter to future self, and mid semester evaluation[32

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo K. Cornejo, California State University, Chico

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

social, environmental, and economic aspects ofsustainability and triple bottom line decision analysis. As we face growing populations andlimited resources, innovative approaches decision analysis will be important for engineers of the21st century and beyond.A key challenge in the course was the integration of life cycle assessment (LCA) software intothe curriculum due to (1) accessibility to the proprietary software and (2) a lack of previousexperience with the software. SimaPro 8 is proprietary software that was available to students inone computer laboratory. Unfortunately, online versions of this software were not readilyavailable and some students expressed frustrations in accessing the laboratory. Future versions ofthe course could include

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathaniel P. Sheehan, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke, United States Military Academy; David C. Zgonc, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

. Several students commented to their instructors thatthey watched online videos about treatment technologies discussed in class. Other studentsstated that they watched online videos on how to solve problem types presented in lecture. Inboth cases, students felt they understood course content better after watching this online content.This could serve as an opportunity to better instruct digital natives in a way they are willing tointeract with the material and could lead to better learning. However, the students sometimes over-relied on technology. One interesting phenomenonencountered by an author hit upon the worst stereotype of the digital native. One studentresponded to a problem by writing that they had entered the problem’s main question

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qiong Zhang, Michigan Technological University; Julie Zimmerman, Yale University; James Mihelcic, Michigan Technological University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

guest speakers delivered via distance, it has several uniquefeatures: 1) non-traditional syllabus where students and faculty will collectively make decisionson course structure and rules. Through this exercise, students will understand that they are partof the course and learn how to measure their performance in the course. 2) team-based, open-ended problems where students will actively learn the course content and apply it. For example,students can take apart of common household products to identify and sort material types,perform a life cycle analysis, and analyze the design for potential improvements in terms ofsustainability. Students can use inexpensive kits available on the market to convert solar energyinto electricity, with subsequent

Conference Session

Innovative Development for Various Faculty Lines

Collection

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

major parts. Part 1was demographic information (4 questions). Part 2 was the main survey consisting of 33questions. Topics surveyed in the main survey included: efficacy and structure of department-level developmental programs, responsibilities for faculty development, developmental areas,developmental best practices, frequency of mentorship, time allocated to mentorship, juniorfaculty developmental goals, Academy-level knowledge repositories, mentorship in the fivefaculty domains, classroom observation, scholarship, course directorship, and academicpromotion. Parts 3 and 4 were two separate “follow-on” surveys that asked questions regardingfaculty recruitment, new faculty integration and training, and more specific questions concerningtopics