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Sustainability Competencies in STEM Education at Secondary Schools: A Systematized Literature Review
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- Environmental Division Technical Session 4
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Jenny Patricia Quintana-Cifuentes, Purdue University; Paul Asunda, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)
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complex contexts. On the other hand, the findings from the deductive analysis revealed some of the (NGSS) and (STL) that align with sustainability components.Keywords: Sustainability education, K-12, Systematized literature review, STEM educationIntroductionReports on the future economic risks, due to climate change, highlighted the importance ofimplementing sustainability approaches into our lifestyles [1]. The Earth Summit by the UnitedNations in Rio de Janeiro resulted in a non-binding action plan, known as Agenda 21. This planacknowledges the urgency of implementing more sustainable approaches to our lifestyles, and thecritical role that education has on preparing students for future challenges [2]. For instance,Agenda 21 proposed the
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- Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Michelle K. Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Irene M.B. Reizman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Tony Ribera, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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of Chemical Engineering at the Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology. She holds a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and impacts of undergraduate research experiences.Dr. Tony Ribera, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Tony Ribera serves as the Director of Assessment in the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He most recently worked at the Indiana University School of Medicine where he served as the Director of Program Evaluation in the Office of Medical Student
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- Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Michelle K. Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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constructed treatment wetlands to be a helpful research and coursemodule platform. In both instances, students gained field-specific technical knowledge, as well asexposure to larger, more open-ended problems in the environmental engineering field whichprovided creative and sustainable-thinking opportunities for all students, research experiences forsome students, and career shifts for a couple of students.In terms of research students, it seems clear that the research opportunities had a large impact onstudents personally and professionally. To improve their experiences, I would like to try to ensurethat all students get to work with a partner. To grow as a mentor, I plan to create an “expectations”memorandum of understanding to help students know
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- Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Sanjay Tewari, Missouri University of Science & Technology
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asked to choose a category to identify themselves in the context oftheir learning styles. The details of the survey are provided in the results and discussionsection.4.0 MethodologyAt the start of the semester, students were not informed about the author's plan to collect thedata for this study. Students were assigned many out-of-class assignments over the durationof the semester as a part of the course activities. They were assigned with a good mix ofrequired and optional (extra) assignments. The author included a wide variety of assignmentssuch as videos, audios, news articles, textbook reading, search-it-yourself assignments oncertain topics, and certain USEPA/USGS webpages. The textbook assignments weresometimes assigned as a specific sub
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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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township, county and state level.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is responsible for monitoringworking conditions in the United States. OSHA has authority to inspect any place of work at anytime, but twenty-six states have approved plans. This means that OSHA has delegated authorityto them. OSHA directly runs the program in the other states [6]. OSHA plans inspections usingthree processes. First, programmed inspections are those that happen frequently because theindustry is hazardous. Second, complaint inspections are responses to worker(s) complainingabout working conditions. Third, referral inspections are responses to health inspectors referringissues to OSHA. Although inspections are rare at manufacturing establishments
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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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alone were a $7.5 billion market in the United States in 2016 (Smithet al. 2017). Traditional herbal medicine is a repository of knowledge regarding natural productswith medicinal properties (Miller and Su 2011). Availability of the required medicinal plants andtheir purity are rapidly becoming issues throughout the world. The looming antibiotic resistancecrisis is an excellent example of the need for MSPC research to produce new antibiotic molecules.A research-based education program, like iREP-4-PACE, to identify new antibiotics frommedicinal plants and then produce them using MSPC affords an excellent platform to train studentsin essential skills that can be applied to their career paths.3. Plan of Operation and MethodologyThe complete
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- Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology
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purpose, follow certain rules, andinteract with each other and with their surrounding environment.” A more general “handbook”defining the discipline and practice of “systems engineering”, available from the InternationalCouncil on Systems Engineering8, has been used to train engineers in a variety of topics,including: 1) technical processes (i.e., business mission, stakeholder needs, system requirements,design definition operation, maintenance, and disposal); 2) technical management processes (i.e.,project planning, risk management, and quality assurance); 3) agreement processes (i.e.,acquisition and supply); and 4) organizational project-enabling processes (i.e., life cyclemanagement, human resource management, and knowledge management). These
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- Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Byul Hur, Texas A&M University; Grace E. Tsai, Texas A&M University; Rogelio Casas Jr., Texas A&M University; Erika L. Davila, Texas A&M University
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. She has also helped catalogue lead fishnet weights from Uluburun, a late Bronze Age shipwreck, in Turkey. In her free time, she works as the co-founder and CDO of Bezoar Laboratories LLC, a R&D company focusing on probiotic supplements.Mr. Rogelio Casas Jr., Texas A&M University Rogelio Casas Jr. was an ESET student at Texas A&M University and graduated in the Fall of 2018. He was the Project Manager throughout the project and is currently working at General Motors in Austin, Texas as a Software Developer. He plans on continuing his education through hands-on training and a potential Masters in Computer Science.Erika L. Davila c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
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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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taught duringthe semester. During the proposal development (2-3 months), participants had a regular meetingwith the principal investigator (PI) to produce ideas and discuss their findings from literaturereviews. They also conducted a brief preliminary test on the ideas which were discussed andfinalized in the laboratory. For each project, a quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC)plan was created and their potential end users and partnerships were identified for theirtechnology applications.Leadership improvementThe engineering education community has begun to focus on leadership abilities ofundergraduate students in engineering fields [5]. Higher education institutions have beencriticized for their lack of success in instilling leadership
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- Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University; Nihal Sarikaya, Northern Arizona University; Adam Bringhurst
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lesson planning and questioning techniques give the teacher more control in establishing the problem/concept and in directing and modeling scientific thought.Anecdotal evidence indicates that students express misconceptions about inversion. The currentstudy explores the influence of adding a laboratory demonstration, centered on creating an artificialinversion layer, to improve students’ conceptual understanding of inversion layer and the airquality problems associated with it. This class activity was developed for the air qualityengineering class taught for juniors and seniors in environmental engineering by expanding uponthe original demonstration created by University of Utah and Rocky Mountain Power. Theexpected student outcomes
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- Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Nathaniel Sheehan P.E., United States Military Academy; Luke Plante, United States Military Academy; Erick Martinez, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke P.E., Marquette University
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in Environmental Engineering. Most recently, he graduated with his Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He teaches Water Resources and Planning, Environmental Science, and Environmental Engineering Technologies.Nathaniel Sheehan P.E., United States Military Academy Nathaniel Sheehan is a Captain in the United States Army and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. He is a 2010 graduate of the United States Military Academy with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering, and he earned an M.S. in Engineering with a focus on Sustainability from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 2013. He