Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A. House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kathleen Toohey, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael S. DeVasher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rebecca Booth DeVasher Ph.D., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark H. Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

hall is to provide the students a model formaking sustainability a foundational part of their engineering education and practice. Byassessing student knowledge of sustainability principles at the beginning and end of the freshmanyear, the effectiveness of the program is evaluated to show that the HERE program helpsstudents learn to view sustainable design methodologies and awareness of the triple bottom lineas integral to their understanding of the profession of engineering. Future plans are beingdeveloped to continue the program past the freshman year.IntroductionUndergraduates that earn bachelor degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) disciplines find themselves well positioned to become not only experts intheir

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Ross Pfluger P.E., U.S. Military Academy; David-Michael P. Roux, U.S. Army; Michael A. Butkus, U.S. Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

ABET accreditation since the Environmental Engineering ProgramCriterion (Criterion 9) states that students must have an ability to conduct laboratoryexperiments, critically analyze, and interpret data in more than one major environmentalengineering focus area, e.g., air, water, land, environmental health. Additionally, ABEToutcome “b” states that graduates will develop the skills necessary to plan, design, execute, andcritically interpret results from experiments. Students in the Environmental EngineeringProgram at the United States Military Academy have water-related laboratory experiences inlower-level courses, such as jar testing and biochemical oxygen demand experiments, similar tothose found in many undergraduate environmental engineering

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandeep Sathyamoorthy, Tufts University; Linda Jarvin, Paris College of Art; Michael Hollis, U.S. Air Force Academy; John Anthony Christ, U.S. Air Force Academy; C. Andrew Ramsburg, Tufts University

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Environmental Engineering

University. She has extensive experience with curriculum planning and development, designing and implementing professional development opportunities for teachers and faculty, and facilitating programmatic evaluation in the United States and abroad.Dr. Michael Hollis, U.S. Air Force AcademyDr. John Anthony Christ, U.S. Air Force AcademyDr. C. Andrew Ramsburg, Tufts University Page 25.105.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Student Centered Learning Lab to Increase Motivation & Interest in Environmental EngineeringAbstractProblem based learning (PBL) is a

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sudarshan T. Kurwadkar, Tarleton State University; Daniel K. Marble, Tarleton State University

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Environmental Engineering

student scholars and faculty mentors. Anyfull-time undergraduate student with at least a 2.8 GPA may apply for a research assistantship bydeveloping a research proposal with a faculty mentor. The faculty mentor submits a proposal forundergraduate research assistantship funding to OSRCA that includes the project title, projectdescription, expected outcome, role of the student researcher, and role of faculty mentor.Proposals are then evaluated based upon the following criteria: (1) Originality of the project, (2)the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor, and (3) the project’sdissemination plan. Although there are no fixed award amounts, typically OSRCA fundedundergraduate research assistantship have been in the amount of

Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noel E. Bormann P.E., Gonzaga University; Mara London, Gonzaga University; Andrew Douglas Matsumoto, Gonzaga University; Melanie Ruth Walter; Spencer Joseph Fry

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Environmental Engineering

used in African kitchens that can improve thehealth of families (especially women and children), and at the same time reduce resourceconsumption. Student deliverables include: (1) An improved ceramic water filter that uses lessclay material and require less fuel to fire in a kiln. These improvements reduce deforestation. (2)Investigation of the performance of corn stover bio-fuel pellets when used as a cooking fuel. Useof this bio-fuel also reduces deforestation and improves watersheds. (3) Evaluation of usingthermo-electric cells powered with waste heat from cooking fires to ventilate harmful smokewith high particulates concentrations from the kitchen. (4) The key project goal was to develop aproject implementation plan that focuses on

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Experiences and Assessment in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl J.K. Desha, Queensland University of Technology; Charlie Hargroves, The Natural Edge Project

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Environmental Engineering

structural adjustment (with Professor Peter Newman at Curtin University), and has been the co-author of four international books on sustainable development, with the latest two listed in the Top 40 Sustainability Books of 2010 by the Cambridge University Sustainability Leadership Program. He is a Sustainable Development Fellow at the University of Adelaide and a Co-founder and principal researcher with the Natural Edge Project, a collaborative partnership for research, education, policy development, and strategy for sustainable development, based in Australia. His main research interests include merging technological opportunities, capacity building, and community behaviour change with policy and strategic planning to

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Experiences and Assessment in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

-campus in dormitories; someexceptions were made for local participants. The students attended various orientation andresearch-related seminars in the first week (program expectations, overview of all researchprojects, responsible conduct of research, lab safety, literature research). A written researchproposal was due at the end of the first week. This proposal described the independent projectthat each student planned to execute over the summer, including a literature review, researchhypotheses, experimental plan and methods. During the rest of the summer there was typicallyone group seminar scheduled each week. Most of these seminars were 1-hour lectures by facultyon various topics (such as environmental policy, environmental ethics

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Parhum Delgoshaei, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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Environmental Engineering

monitoring and the impact of real-time monitoring on increasing theirenvironmental awareness. The authors plan to extend the use of this cost-effective yet highlyaccessible system to higher level civil and environmental engineering courses to provide anauthentic context for problem solving involving environmental parameters of an impairedstream.IntroductionThe LabVIEW programming language has been introduced to the freshman engineering courseat Virginia Tech since Fall 2007 as a successor to earlier modular and object orientedalternatives. LabVIEW follows a dataflow programming paradigm and is known for its strengthin acquiring, processing, and presenting data from engineering applications that involvemeasurement instruments/sensors. In addition

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sudarshan T. Kurwadkar, Tarleton State University; Daniel K. Marble, Tarleton State University; Jennifer T. Edwards, Tarleton State University

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Environmental Engineering

) Environmental Communication WeekEvery spring semester, Tarleton State University sponsors Environmental Communication Week(ECW) which provides environmental education and awareness opportunities for students,faculty and staff, and the surrounding community. The ECW is facilitated through the generoussponsorship of the Communication Studies Department, Library, Environmental AdvisoryCouncil, and the Staff Council at Tarleton State University.Daily three to four virtual workshops of 45-50 minutes duration each and 16 face-to-faceworkshops were provided. The ECW planning board and interns worked together to offer dailyactivities through social media tools (i.e. - Twitter and Facebook) and several excitingenvironmental education themed workshops such as

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Experiences and Assessment in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

competitions.One model for design competitions is to foster competition between teams at a university level.This typically involves a day when all of the different teams from across the engineeringdisciplines present their design projects, and these are then judged for awards. This model wasfound at Worcester Polytechnic Institute 4,5 and Widener University6. At Stevens Institute of Page 25.336.2Technology there is a Senior Day Exhibition with an “elevator pitch” competition.7 Similarly,there is an optional business plan competition at the University of South Florida to encouragecommercialization of capstone projects.8 It appears that normally each team

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Dunia Tania Periverzov, Drexel University (Tech.)

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Environmental Engineering

project is an underway project for MET 421/422/423 (Senior Project Design), preformed by Page 25.120.5a team of four students, two electrical and two mechanical seniors. MET 421/422/423 is asequence of three-quarter capstone project design courses required for all the BSET majors. Thecourse focuses on planning, development, and implementation of an engineering design project,which includes formal report writing, project documentation, group presentations, and projectdemonstrations. The goal of these courses is to demonstrate the ability to manage a major projectinvolving the design and implementation of products with a mixture of electrical and

Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Kathryn Bauer, Rowan University; Andrea Rose McFarland, Rowan University; Mary M. Staehle, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University

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Environmental Engineering

environmental laws. Therefore, they created a grantcalled “P3”, which stands for “People, Prosperity, and Planet”, in order to encourage studentresearch in sustainable engineering. A four-week time period of Sophomore Clinic I is dedicatedto the P3 grant assignment. The lectures during this time range from how to write an effectiveresearch proposal, key features and attributes that a sustainable design solution should include,environmental remediation and treatment technology, and budget preparation guidelines. Thisassignment allows students to develop a research plan to improve society through a healthierpopulation, a stimulated economy, and a greener planet.Wind Turbine ConstructionWind is an abundant domestic resource that can help meet the national

Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melanie L. Sattler, University of Texas, Arlington; Victoria C. P. Chen, University of Texas, Arlington; Brian H. Dennis, University of Texas, Arlington; Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas, Arlington; K.J. Rogers, University of Texas, Arlington; Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington; Madhu Rani, University of Texas, Arlington; Ketwalee Kositkanawuth

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Environmental Engineering

impact of a different color roof (e.g., light vs. dark), and we have a two-story house in Texas with a dark roof and a ranch house in Oregon with a light roof, then one could do a two-sample t-test to compare their electricity usage. The team presents to the class their arguments for how to collect appropriate data.“Is Transportation Transportation Junior This module focuses on examining sustainability impactsSustainable?” Engineering associated with transportation planning and facility design. The