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Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Scambilis, Sinclair Community College; Jennifer Wise, Sinclair Community College

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Environmental Engineering

evaluation team will present the preliminary findings before they depart from the institution. The timeline starts from the day they depart and includes:3 • Within fourteen days: Provide any additional information and or corrections. This is the time to lay out your plan for correcting any findings. • Draft Statement is prepared by the Team Chair and forwarded to the institution. • Within thirty days: Institution responds to the Draft Statement. The responses, if appropriate, are incorporated into the Final Report. Page 11.1191.3 • Month of July: Team Chief presents final report at the ABET Annual Meeting. It should be noted that

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vered Doctori Blass, University of California-Santa Barbara; Mary Hong Loan Dinh, University of California-Santa Barbara

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Environmental Engineering

apresence of two months in the community by staggering the stays of two groups. One memberstayed for the entire two-month period to maintain communication and continuity between thetwo groups. Page 11.813.3For phase III in 2006, the team plans to expand the water purifcation system, facilitate access tomore educational resources in agriculture as requested by the community, establish a solid wastemanagement program, and explore energy-saving lighting solutions.Organization and ManagementProject Team, Organization, and ControlThe project members are diverse in their background and include undergraduate and graduatestudents from engineering (electrical

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Baldwin, Roger Williams University

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Environmental Engineering

treatment and water resources which would benefit greatly from thisfirst-hand experience. In addition, a design project for the senior capstone design course couldbe modeled on this project.Specifically, this project can be a learning tool to illustrate the determination of sustainability. InCriterion 3 Program Outcomes and Assessment, the ABET Engineering AccreditationCommission identifies skills that engineering graduates should possess. These include the abilityto design a system with realistic constraints including sustainability, economic, social, political,and manufacturability [3]. These constraints tend to be hard to incorporate into a design projectwhen the student is primarily focused on the technical aspects. My plan is to use this

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Josh Goldowitz, Rochester Institute of Technology; Karl Korfmacher, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

of Northeast Associations (CONEA), representing Upper Falls o The Northeast Block Club Alliance (NEBCA), representing North Marketview Heights Page 11.98.3These three local organizations form part of the umbrella planning and coordination initiative,known as The NorthEast Neighborhood Alliance (NENA). NENA is, “a resident driven planninginitiative committed to the revitalization of three neighborhoods in northeast Rochester, throughcitizen empowerment and ownership2.One solution to these problems envisioned by NENA and community leaders was thedevelopment of new mixed income properties within the community. In

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Cathy Maltbie, University of Cincinnati; Baikun Li, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Jin Li, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Amy Pruden, Colorado State University; Peter Stroot, University of South Florida

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Environmental Engineering

advisors providing independent, objective criticism; (e) local assessors at eachparticipating school using common elements of an evaluation plan originally developed at UC;and (f) a Co-PI as a lead assessor to coordinate the implementation of the evaluation plans at allfive participating schools as well as cross-comparing and analyzing the feedback received from Page 11.489.3each local evaluation in an overall ‘meta-assessment’ plan to research teaching and learning.As can be observed in Table 2, the five programs where these teaching materials will be adaptedand implemented represent a mix of programs with a variety of

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Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Bower, The Citadel; Kenneth Brannan, The Citadel; William Davis, The Citadel

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Environmental Engineering

Page 11.1119.3The expectation set forth by the ASCE-BOK is that civil engineering graduates with aB+M/30 program demonstrate a level of competency consistent with a prescribedstandard for each of the 15 program outcomes. How to implement, document andprovide evidence that graduates are meeting these expectations is left up to individualdepartments, with little more than philosophical guidance provided by ASCE’s publishedreports addressing these topics.Many Academic institutions have started the process of addressing how ASCE-BOKoutcomes and assessment criteria can be integrated into the civil engineering curriculumby conducting internal investigations, creating detailed assessment plans and maps, anddeveloping on-line assessment tools. The

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Bergendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Environmental Engineering

clearly seen (between about400 s and 1000 s for run 1). And the difference in acceptable runtimes for the two flow rates caneasily be discerned from the data. From this experiment, students can gain a betterunderstanding of the behavior of a dynamic system comprised of an activated carbon adsorber.Assessment of learning outcomes is being collected, which will include a specific comparison ofexperiences for on-site students to remote students.The experiment is currently planned for implementation in two undergraduate courses in Spring2006. Future plans are to add the ability to adjust flow rate remotely, provide for using twodifferent “contaminants”, and allow one of two different activated carbons to be selected. Otherinternet-controlled

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

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Environmental Engineering

environmental engineering student to environmentalengineer. Specific course objectives have the students:• form a community within the university;• establish friendships among students of similar academic interests;• develop an academic plan;• develop skills to deal with the many aspects of student life;• learn more about the university’s environmental engineering program;• develop a sense of the environmental engineering profession;• use some of the skills required by environmental engineers;• explore several of the specialty areas within environmental engineering;• master some of the basic environmental engineering language; and• use knowledge gained to make better career choicesWhile many of the topics in the list above are connected to

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder; Diana Shannon, University of Colorado-Denver; Jay Shah, University of Colorado-Boulder; R. Scott Summers, University of Colorado-Boulder; Jim Ruttenber, University of Colorado

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Environmental Engineering

Shannon, University of Colorado-Denver Diana Shannon has worked over 27 years in the areas of environmental health and environmental protection. She has worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Boulder County Health Department, City and County of Denver. She co-developed and co-taught the Environmental Health for Developing Communities course. She currently serves as Assistant Chair in the Department of Planning and Design, College of Architecture and Planning, at CU Denver.Jay Shah, University of Colorado-Boulder Jay Shah is earning his M.S. degree in Civil Engineering in the EDC program. Jay was a Research Assistant funded

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh; Gena Kovalcik, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Robert Ries, University of Pittsburgh; Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh; Laura Schaefer, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

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Environmental Engineering

-culturalenvironments. The University of Pittsburgh’s School of Engineering is addressing these issuesby educating a cadre of PhD researchers as part of a recently established Integrative GraduateEducation and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program in sustainability. We present our plan tocreate an innovative sustainable engineering graduate program, with primary research foci ingreen construction and sustainable water use. This interdisciplinary initiative will involvefaculty and students from across the School. To best address global concerns, we have partneredwith the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Sao Paolo, Brazil to provide an eight-monthinternational research rotation for all IGERT Fellows. In addition, to increase the number ofHispanic American

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Berdanier, Ohio Northern University

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Environmental Engineering

relation between the poverty in Haiti and the public discoursein the US and that today’s overwhelming environmental problems in Haiti have been caused bythe historical application of various governments’ economic development plans over the past twohundred years: “……. no singular solutions to the root causes of poverty identified by academics can come from the general discourse, without being related to the problem. This point is stated best by Paul Farmer 4:"But depicting Haiti as divorced from "the outside world" turns out to be a feat of Herculean oversight, given that Haiti is the creation of expansionist European empires - a quintessentially Western entity. “Although the CIA World Factbook5 currently lists annual

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Lynch, U.S. Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

engineering discipline. Disunited actionsthough will not result in long lasting results. Missing is the formulation and execution of amaster plan run by a professional society and backed by practitioners, researchers, and academia.Components of an image enhancing master plan are identified below.Professionals now practicing environmental engineering who have roots in other engineeringdisciplines should stand behind environmental engineering as their primary discipline and stopviewing it as a sub-discipline or specialty area. Environmental engineering needs its ownidentity. What will help is that “there is a growing number of graduates who will considerenvironmental engineering to be their primary discipline rather than a specialty area withinanother

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Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ross Gordon, Rice University; Alex Gordon, Rice University; Philip Bedient, Rice University

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Environmental Engineering

and an implementation plan. The students, throughout this process,work with the community in designing the project to ensure that the solution is appropriate forthe community and accepted by all. Before the implementation trip, students are trained in thenecessary construction and implementation skills. Once the team is ready, a team of seven to tenstudents returns to the country to work with the community to construct and complete theproject. Even after the project has been completed, Rice-EWB regularly returns to thecommunity to maintain ties and to work on improvements and other projects in the area. In addition to project team activities, Rice-EWB holds periodic training sessions for allmembers to teach skills that will be needed to

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Doheny-Farina, Clarkson University; Fa-Gung Fan, Xerox Corp.; Xiangwei Liu, Clarkson University; Cetin Cetinkaya, Clarkson University; John Mclaughlin, Clarkson University; Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University; Jeffrey Taylor, Clarkson University; David Schmidt, University of Maryland-College Park; Kambiz Nazridoust, Clarkson University; Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University

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Environmental Engineering

deposition bydiffusion, interception and impaction. The sections on interaction of particles with turbulence and turbulent depositionthat are normally taught in the second course. Computational modeling of turbulentflows was discussed, and classical models of turbulent deposition were described. Inaddition the process of aerosol charging and transport under the action of electrical forcesand turbulence were discussed. We have added a number of computational modules to make the coursepresentations of the materials more interactive. The plan is to have sufficient number ofcalculation modules for the student to experiment with. As a result the student willdevelop a physical understanding of some of the more complex concepts.Module II

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Berdanier, Ohio Northern University

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Environmental Engineering

smart board but is not readily available to the studentpopulation. The instructor must either make sure to convert the notes developed to a commonword processing or PDF format before loading to the course web site or must make sure that allstudents are given access to the proprietary software being used with the smart board interface.The “one note” software also appears to conflict with other software packages when they arerunning such as Adobe Reader.Future WorkI plan to implement an improved delayed time note archival system in the next course deliveryusing WebCT software. Additional, data will be evaluated to determine in the results areconsistent with 2004 results of maintaining the same overall course grade average while movingmore of the

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

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Environmental Engineering

Page 11.292.10Presentation: Overall appearance, appropriate use of verbal and visual 10materialsThe last three weeks of the semester are devoted to the execution of student-designedresearch projects. Student teams are required to plan, execute, analyze, and communicatetheir work, using as many statistical techniques as appropriate. The groups meet with theinstructor near mid-term to discuss their initial concepts and strategies then spend thenext month refining those plans. This may be the greatest opportunity for the sixth step ofthe Learning Spiral, Self-Directed Learning. Students are largely given creative control.The wealth of topics covered is impressive, the work even more so. The student projectsare presented in a public

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Pines, University of Hartford; Brian Gallant, University of Hartford

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Environmental Engineering

opportunity to travel to the village and implement their design andlearn about all the “on-location” issues that arise, which can not be duplicated in the classroom.To help offset part of this cost and to get the needed involvement of practicing engineers into thecourse, the University of Hartford is fortunate to have been included in Pratt & Whitney’sbusiness plan to include a pilot Engineers Without Borders1 project as part of their philanthropyprogram. While there are several organizations that are involved in design for developingcommunities projects, Pratt & Whitney has selected Engineers Without Borders because of theassessment and implementation process it has in place, which they feel has led to the success ofnumerous projects. To

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martha Garcia-Saenz, Purdue University-North Central; Maria Consuelo Garcia Alvarez, Universidad La Gran Colombia

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Environmental Engineering

aspects. They were able to determine the feasibility and sustainabilityof a solution for an existing problem in the community. Students improved their understandingof the social and cultural context of science and technology transfers.Student Background infoStudents who took part in this experience where taking a class of installations for AlternativeEnergies at their senior year. In class, students learned about the process of heating water using asolar collector; how to size the solar collector and select their components, the proper sizes forthe pipes and the tank. They studied the specifications for solar water heaters from the “Unidadde Planeación Minero Energética”4 (UPME – Energy and Minerals’ Planning Unit) and therelated standard norms

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Cinnamon Carlarne, University of Cincinnati; Eric Maurer, University of Cincinnati; Regina Lamendella, University of Cincinnati; Sarah Pumphrey, University of Cincinnati

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Environmental Engineering

plan team experiments that are self-selected and ultimately designed andperformed by the teams with a significant degree of autonomy. In particular, to complement theP3 project the course emphasizes the acid-base and precipitation chemistry of phosphorusrecovery as struvite and the microbiology of enhanced biological phosphorus removal foractivated sludge sewage treatment systems.The format for EVST 501 is significantly different from CEE 600/601. Students are providedwith reading assignments and an opportunity for self-paced, monitored, independent study.Reading assignments are selected to stimulate Socratic discussions of sustainability where theinstructors facilitate an open-ended discussion within the classroom among the students to self

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cyndee Gruden, University of Toledo; Defne Apul, University of Toledo; Maria Diaz, University of Toledo

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Environmental Engineering

undergraduate students were resistant to active learning techniques,particularly in-class collaborative learning which required full participation of students. Sincethese students commonly experience lecture-style formats, apprehension developed whichdiminished the efficacy of the activities. In this research, this type of active learning was onlyincorporated for the lessons related to precipitative softening (e.g., for one class period). It isanticipated that student response and learning outcomes would improve markedly if thesetechniques were employed over a longer period of time. Felder and Brent suggest that studentresistance may be encountered initially, but that perseverance will eliminate these problems5.Caution and careful planning should be

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Ciocci, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

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Environmental Engineering

. This analysisbecomes useful when making changes to existing courses and plans for future ones byidentifying what has worked well and what has not.Sustainable engineeringWhile the definition of sustainable development traces to the Brundtland Commission in 1989, aworking one for sustainable engineering continues to evolve. The Centre for SustainableEngineering defines the term as “Engineering technologies and services which deliver greaterresource productivity or efficiency and fewer emissions of hazardous substances and/oremissions presenting lower hazards.”1 Considering greater productivity and efficiency inresource use is not a new concept to design engineers. However, the increased awareness ofhazardous emissions and their effects is.As the

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Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lashun King, Tennessee State University; Thomas Byl, U.S. Geological Survey; Roger Painter, Tennessee State University

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Environmental Engineering

use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice).The assessment technique based on the performance of students in presenting the results of theirresearch was planned into the program for this purpose. The results of the assessment alsoprovide evidence of student outcomes with regard to ABET2000 criterion: (d) (an ability tofunction on multi-disciplinary teams) and (g) (an ability to communicate effectively).Graduate students have presented the results of their research at State and local competitions.The research presented by TSU students at the annual Tennessee American Water ResourceAssociation (TAWRA) poster competition have won first or second place during the last fiveyears. Undergraduate

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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olu Fasesan, Texas Tech University; Segun Ogunsanya, Texas Tech University; Lloyd Heinze, Texas Tech University

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Environmental Engineering

200 100 6 3 RPM II. Thickening Time: Slurry thickening time must correlate to actual planned pumping time, and must fall within reasonable industry standards. It impacts both cost and cement quality. Thickening times less that 2 hours are generally too short, and can significantly increase the risk of premature cement setting prior to proper placement; while thickening times greater that 6 hours are generally to long, leading to extended compressive strength development and/or formation fluid migration problems.III. Free water: This is both common to both the TRRC and operational constraints. Under the TRRC requirements

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Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Simeon Komisar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lupita Montoya, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Environmental Engineering

design specifications for their project, performed competitivebenchmarking and generated alternative system concepts. In order to evaluate the best systemconcept, the team used a decision analysis matrix. From these steps, each team emerged with aclear system design concept to pursue. At this point, each team performed a cost analysis,prepared a project plan. Each team prepared a 20-minute oral presentation of their project planand submitted a written report (Milestone 2). The next step was to develop a scale model or prototype to evaluate the system concept.Teams conducted design reviews to evaluate the safety, environmental impacts, reliability, lifecycle issues, maintainability, durability, manufacturability and cost of their design

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

students who worked on theFiltrón was initially planning to do a full thesis, but due to a combination of funding challenges Page 11.1361.5and a lack of passion for lab work opted for an Independent Study report instead. These graduatestudents include 2 women and 2 underrepresented minorities researching the Filtrón or AST (of 3students total). Students working on other Environmental Engineering research under Dr.Bielefeldt’s mentoring from 2000 to 2005 include 5 women, 1 minority, and 1 internationalstudent (of six total).SurveyA written survey instrument was developed to evaluate the potential benefits of the studentresearch and independent study