Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 1 - Sustainability & Environmental Justice

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Rihana Abdallah, University of Detroit, Mercy; Katherine C. Lanigan, University of Detroit, Mercy

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

receiving lower gradesdue to randomly-assigned groups with students less inclined to put equal effort. Furthermore,students may know each other’s schedules and allow for better planning to work on the projectoutside of class. For example, athletes would need to work around sports events, so choosing topartner with other athletes may help ensure that group members are available to meet at the sametimes.Both classes were given a writing assignment designed to engage students through reading,writing, and reflecting on what they read about a topic. This writing-to-learn methodologyactivates background knowledge and extends the thinking about what the student read. Gupte et.al. described the use of writing-to-learn (WTL) assignments where students

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Schulz, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Suzanne Stathatos, The California Institute of Technology; Cassandra Shriver, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

engineering classroom is non-sustainability with currentwaste treatment plans. Littering is a significant issue that introduces the human element directlyinto the human-caused environmental challenges and has connections with the sustainabledevelopment goals regarding SDG 6 of sanitation. Over 11 billion dollars in the United States isspent yearly to clean up litter. A significant challenge with litter on places like highways is theinability to assess where the litter is located. Nathaniel Felleke has worked on solving this usingan edge device and the edge impulse online tools through a roadside liter detector [42].By combining a raspberry pi four board, a wireless notecard, and a computer webcam whiledriving along the highway, he generated a

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Laughton, The Citadel

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

, though it is not a direct application of the NSF PUI definition [30]. It is asimplified version of the institution classification scheme used by Slocum and Scholl [1].Additional quantification by location and institutional specialization was performed.4.3 Curricular InvestigationsUtilizing publicly available course plans and course catalogs at the previously identifiedinstitutions, the degree to which a student in a CivE program could specialize in EnvE topics wasanalyzed. Additionally, a curricular comparison between accredited EnvE PUIs was compiled.5. Results and Discussion5.1 Frequency of EnvE PUI Programs and ABET AccreditationOut of the 83 ABET accredited EnvE programs in the US, 75 are located within doctoral-degreegranting institutions