, Texas A&M University Associate Professor of Environmental EngineeringProf. Kai Jin, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Kai Jin is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Co-PI of the MERIT project. Her research interests include Sustainable Energy, Green Manufacturing, Quality Control, and Multi Objective Decision Making and Optimization as well as Engineering Educa ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Documenting takes on recycling, honing rapid ethnographic skills:Transdisciplinary graduate student explorations in a rural U.S. southwestern campus communityAbstract While recycling has become a mainstream behavior in many urban U.S
a unit process and materials balance approach.Environmental topics explored include water transport and quality, drinking water treatment,wastewater treatment, and air pollution transport, quality and control. Due to the high studentenrollment, between four and six faculty teach the course each year. There are 40 lessons in thecourse, including 27 substantive lessons, 2 laboratories, 3 exams, 2 field trips, and 2 lessonsdesignated as engineering design project (EDP) work sessions. The two laboratories requiredgroup submissions for a jar test laboratory and a wastewater analysis laboratory. The two fieldtrips incorporated individual reflections based on a trip to the West Point water treatment plantand a trip to the West Point wastewater
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