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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Victoria Matthew, Engineering for One Planet; Cynthia Anderson, Alula Consulting; Cindy Cooper, The Lemelson Foundation; Surbhi Godsay Lipkin-Moore, Amplify Evaluation

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tocomplex crises, and recognize the importance of sustainability to future national competitivenessand growth.1,2,5–7 Educators and students are similarly rallying for changes to better address andforestall environmental and social challenges through sustainability. Engineers are poised to helpcreate this sea change because they impact nearly every industry and everything human-made.Through their design and execution decisions, engineers directly and indirectly influence thecreation of everything from consumer goods to hardware and software products to buildings andmodes of transportation, thus their decisions make positive or negative impacts on the planet andits people, today and into the future.5 For engineers to contribute in a positive and

Conference Session

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey M. Bielicki, The Ohio State University; Yun-Han Weng, The Ohio State University; Emily T. Creamer, The Ohio State University; Matthew Judkins Mayhew, The Ohio State University

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of students,who, through involvement in the formal college curriculum and extracurricular activities, cannurture and apply these innovation capacities. This perspective underscores the importance ofdemographic and educational factors that may influence the development of these capacities.Several studies have investigated collegiate mechanisms or individual characteristics that maydevelop innovation capacities in undergraduate students. Key factors include engagement ininnovation-related coursework [10] and positive interactions with faculty [11]. Yet there is anotable emphasis on the importance of educational practices that are inclusive and considerstudent identities and academic majors [12], [13]. These studies highlight the crucial role

Conference Session

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Henderson, University of South Florida; Maya A. Trotz, University of South Florida; E. Christian Wells, University of South Florida; Maya Elizabeth Carrasquillo, University of California, Berkeley; Ruthmae Sears; Katherine Ann Alfredo, University of South Florida; Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, University of South Florida

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redlining and underbounding. While the environmental justice movement hasmade great strides in incorporating public health research into these issues, there has been lesseffort focused on integrating environmental engineering training into the movement. This paperdescribes research on developing and implementing a suite of integrated, interdisciplinary,community-engaged, anti-racism training opportunities for civil and environmental engineeringundergraduates to build capacity for addressing environmental justice challenges. For this project,we integrate environmental engineering, applied anthropology, and Science TechnologyEngineering and Mathematics (STEM) education to redesign existing civil and environmentalengineering courses to include