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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

equitable development within a particular community. Theredesigned curriculum provides broader educational training to address environmentalengineering challenges, meets community identified needs, and considers the impacts of structuralracism. Collaborations between university researchers and community leaders and members ledto an expansion of community-based research in civil and environmental engineering. This projectstudies the impacts of the new curriculum on student perceptions of racism and justice and onfaculty interest and capacity for catalyzing additional curricular and co-curricular change. Initialcollaborations from the community-based research have included diverse communication tools toshare information with and about the community