: Planning,Monitoring, and Evaluating. Reflection is a complex process, and it takes time to reach thelevel of critical reflection. The purpose of the study was to investigate the change in students'level of engagement in three dimensions of metacognition when reflecting on the third andtenth-week assignments of the environmental engineering course. Data collection took placein the Fall of 2023 at a large Midwest University. Students’ responses to the assignedreflection prompts for each dimension were coded for their level of engagement in eachelement of the three dimensions using a revised prior coding scheme. Results showed that forboth assignments, students' responses were mainly at the vague level for all elements of thethree dimensions
member of ASEE for over 30 years, Dr. John K. Estell was elected in 2016 as a Fellow of ASEE in recognition of the breadth, richness, and quality of his contributions to the betterment of engineering education. Estell currently serves as chair of ASEE’s IT Committee; he previously served on the ASEE Board of Directors as the Vice President of Professional Interest Councils and as the Chair of Professional Interest Council III. He has held multiple ASEE leadership positions within the First-Year Programs (FPD) and Computers in Education (CoED) divisions, and with the Ad Hoc Committee on Interdivisional Cooperation, Interdivisional Town Hall Planning Committee, ASEE Active, and the Commission on Diversity, Equity, and
progressionculminates in item 10, in which students are presented with the proposal that designingsustainably is a faithful act of stewardship. 1. God created, sustains, and affirms all creation, both human and non-human, as belonging to Him. 2. God gave human beings the responsibility of stewardship. 3. God desires for people to care for the non-human creation. 4. God desires for people to care for other humans. 5. Sin leads to all humans having a broken relationship with God and damaged and exploitative relationships with each other and the rest of creation. 6. God values justice for both the guilty and innocent but has mercy for those who repent. 7. God’s plan for the future culminates in a restoration of creation, both
, industry or government collaboration, and/or travel.Discussion topics will also include process requirements of applying, conducting, anddocumenting the outcomes of the sabbatical.The suggested layout of the panel session is: • 5-minute introduction of panel topic and panelists • Overview of each panelist’s sabbatical activity (5 minutes each) • Brief whole group Q&A session to engage audience and panelists • Small group activities with documentation of Q&A: o What resources did you find helpful in planning your sabbatical? o What was the timeframe of planning, applying for, conducting, and documenting your sabbatical? o What were the requirements of your sabbatical
authority, in a coordinated way, in order to foster systemic change.13Prior to commencing a CI initiative, it is recommended that three preconditions be in place tomotivate and enable the work, i.e.: “…an influential champion, adequate financial resources, anda sense of urgency for change.”14 From there, five conditions are adopted:12 1. A Common Agenda: Participants work together to develop a shared understanding of both the problem and how best to solve it collectively. 2. Mutually Reinforcing Activities: Participants engage in different activities, each determined by the strengths/areas of focus of the individual participating groups, all contributing to a coordinated plan
were addressing sustainability in education. Having examined thebaseline of sustainability education at RHIT and reviewed the availability of sustainabilityeducation at other peer institutions, this assessment provides an initial understanding of thecurrent opportunities at RHIT. To complement the value of this baseline assessment, commonpractices and comprehensive guides of integration of sustainability pillars and the UnitedNation’s Sustainable Development Goals in education are summarized to recognize other areasof potential. By acknowledging the existing efforts and identifying areas for improvement,further advancements in sustainability education are proposed that align with the localinstitutional strategic planning goals to enhance
, stone crop onthe right)New plants were irrigated at least once per week during summer 2022 and 2023. Plants wereevaluated and measured each year to help plan for the following year and determine the optimalplant mix. We plan to continue replanting the roof and removing weeds until the entire greenroof is rehabilitated.Community EffortsAs part of the Introduction to Environmental Engineering class, civil engineering students tourthe green roof and discuss maintenance issues with the green roof. Discussions of possiblycreating a group to work on the green roof has occurred during these tours. These discussionscontinued beyond the tour with students in other disciplines, which increased interest within theShiley School of Engineering. However, it
support learning and conversations about long-term investments under uncertaintyby making participants more familiar with the process of planning for extremes and climatechange impacts while minimizing risk. This work included three cohorts of students: twograduate level courses and one undergraduate level course. The students’ self-reportedquantitative and qualitative results were analyzed to determine the impact of the D4tD game inimproving student understanding of and attitudes towards uncertainty and robust decisionmaking for climate change adaptation and planning. Quantitative results implied that studentsfound it difficult to make beneficial decisions as uncertainty increased. Students seemed to bemore cautious when making collective
accessible as aprimary focus to engineering students with tight degree plan requirements within their majors.The proposed specialization is an important long-term programmatic creation effort to advancesustainability education within engineering. The department chair has supported a multi-yeareffort to support and create student-centric community-engaged learning opportunities. Thisdepartment driven (top-down) effort is also supported at college level by the Associate Dean andDirector for Academic Programs in the College of Food, Agricultural and EnvironmentalSciences.The Engineering for One Planet Mini-Grant resources were to develop General Education courseofferings within the Sustainability theme as well as technical electives that promote
REU mentors. He developed and runs NEWT’s Core Course, offered to the center’s first-year graduate students. Jorge collaborates with NEWT’s In- dustry Liaison Officer and Innovation Ecosystem Director, and the Student Leadership Council in the ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #39061 planning of educational opportunities for NEWT graduate students and postdocs with the center’s indus- try partners and other professional development activities. At Rice, Jorge is an Adjunct Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering and Bioengineering Departments, where he
endeavor.More details about courses in this curriculum are available in additional publications [13-17],including a deeper discussion about this specific course [18].Course ContextPrior to running the course, we studied the university’s Energy Master Plan (EMP), learned aboutthe current state of solar energy on campus, and identified four potential new solar projects. Theuniversity currently has a ~1.2 MW photovoltaic (PV) solar system that provides ~7% of theenergy consumed on campus. While a good start, this contribution is low considering theuniversity’s location in Southern California; there is an opportunity to greatly increase campusreliance on solar energy, and the university has committed to reaching carbon neutrality by 2035.The course was
earning Year designation graduates designation 2017 7 100 7 2018 9 89 10 2019 10 107 9 2020 8 84 10 2021 13 88 15 2022 14 82 17Each year, graduating seniors who earned the sustainability designation are surveyed about theimpact of the designation on their job search and future plans. Six of 16 students (38%) in thefirst two graduating classes self-reported their post
professionals to enhance their knowledge and experience.This paper aims to present the ongoing and planned efforts to address the environmental issuespertinent to the transportation industry in an ABET-accredited environmental engineeringprogram in a minority teaching institution.Transportation studies at Central State UniversityIn the past decade, the ENE program at Central State University identified the transportationindustry as a niche industry for which the workforce program can produce environmentalengineers. The ENE faculty enhanced the program with transportation industry-relatedcoursework, research, and internships with the support of the Department of Transportationfunding and collaborators. The faculty implemented these activities from the
2025 semester over spring break. The students will beimmersed in the bike-friendly city of Amsterdam, and visit several faculty and labs at TU Delft,including one of the only bicycle engineering labs in the world.Conclusion & Next StepsThe next steps for MEAM 1010 are to reconsider the content and implementation of the attitudestowards sustainability assessment and get IRB approval for administration so that results can bepublished in future work. The instructor will also work on better methods to evaluate the impactof including sustainability content in the course, potentially including the same attitudes towardssustainability assessment at the end of the course. For MEAM 2300, the instructor will continueto execute the plan to integrate
third-year course with 3 lecture hours and one 2.5-hour lab each week. The courseis required for all civil engineering students. This course includes learning outcomes connectedto ABET’s Program Outcomes 1-6. Several course learning outcomes focus on the application ofanalytical techniques used in environmental engineering, applying standards for drinking waterexperimentally, communicating in written and oral forms, and understanding the need for waterin various communities. During the first year the course was offered an initial version of theproject was planned and implemented in support of several of the course learning outcomes. Tohelp communicate environmental engineering topics and prepare students for the project, labactivities for the
EmPOWERment Program to be an external mentor.2.7 Advising and Mentoring (A&M) In addition to their primary Ph.D. advisor, and their external mentor, each trainee in the OhioState EmPOWERment Program has another mentor internal to the university. This internalmentor can be a faculty member or have a role in research, but they do not have to be involvedwith research or teaching at this university. This internal mentor can be a source of support tothe trainee as the trainee navigates their Ph.D. degree and their participation in the Ohio StateEmPOWERment Program.2.8 Individual Development Plan (IDP) and a Participation Agreement (PA) Each trainee in the Ohio State EmPOWERment Program completes an IndividualDevelopment Plan (IDP) and a
in Section 1 but didnot impact the broader range of topics covered in other sections. The reasons could be that asemester long course is not adequate to significantly change attitudes or career plans of thispopulation, although additional reasons for this could be manifold and warrant furtherinvestigation to understand the differential impacts of the intervention on various aspects ofstudents' learning and attitudes towards sustainability and renewable energy. The results presentedhere represent the preliminary findings from the initial year of a longitudinal study stretching overa three-year period. This first phase, encompassing data from Fall 2021 through Spring 2022,offers an early glimpse into the evolving understanding and perspectives
/wastewater utilities, understanding therole of mentoring K-12 students, and the impact of the project on their career goals.Conclusions: Efforts such as our WaterWorks project are much needed to develop a muchneeded workforce as the water/wastewater utilities in the USA face worker shortages. Wecontinue to develop some contemporary tools to excite the new generation and preliminaryresults indicate that our activities are exposing STEM and other careers to K-12 students andeducators. Initial response from our pilot highschool workshop are positive.Future Work: Currently site visits to the City of Camden schools are being planned along with ateachers workshop to be held in the Summer of 2023. Our partners at American Water andCCMUA will assist with
Students in the Climate Sciences,” Science and Engineering Ethics,19(4), 1491-1504, 2013.[13] H. W. Rittel and M. M. Webber, "Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning." Policysciences, 4(2), 155-169, 1973.[14] D.A. Kolb, Experiential learning: experience as the source of learning and development.Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984.[15] A. M. Prado, R. Arce, L. E. Lopez, J. García and A. A. Pearson, “Simulations Versus CaseStudies: Effectively Teaching the Premises of Sustainable Development in the Classroom,”Journal of Business Ethics, 161(2), 303-327, 2020.[16] ABET, Criteria for accrediting engineering programs. ABET, Baltimore, MD, 2021.[17] D. Merrill, “First Principles of Instruction,” ETR&D, 50(3), 17, 2002. [Online
was used to test this hypothesis. In addition, an analysis of individual grades,before and after a cooperative learning experience using various means of team formation, wasused to explore the influence of group learning on individual performance (and perhapslearning).2. MethodsThe environmental engineering program examined in this study is accredited by the ABETEngineering Accreditation Commission (EAC). ABET EAC has seven Student Outcomesdesigned to prepare graduates to enter the professional practice of engineering [2]. ABET EACStudent Outcome 5 states that students must have “an ability to function effectively on a teamwhose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment,establish goals, plan tasks
continuous learning, the first twoproject-based learning courses are intended to be team-taught. The team established guidelinesfor ensuring that collective decision-making remained part of the course development process fornew integrated PBL classes, while ensuring that lead instructors have the necessary autonomy tomove forward with course design and delivery. The intention is that at least three months prior tothe start of the semester, lead instructors will present their course syllabus to the full group fordiscussion and approval. The syllabus will include course outcomes, an outline of coursecontent, a breakdown of assessment plans, and their intended approach to project-based learning,including expected student deliverables. Once approved
CommunityRevitalization Partnership, and the City of Tampa. These organizations are committed to trainingindividuals for workforce development in the Tampa Bay Region, establishing communitygardens, and supporting a local government agency to plan and organize community revitalizationprojects. The goal of this research is to develop and implement interdisciplinary, community-engaged, anti-racism training opportunities for civil and environmental engineeringundergraduates at USF and UCB to build capacity for solving the complex and interconnectedchallenges of our time. The research questions associated with this work are: 1. How can civil and environmental engineering courses and curricula effectively focus on equitable development within
the studentsinterested in the internship program. The mentors, who are typically faculty, from participatingmember institutions have to submit project proposals in the STEM areas that are relevant to theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) mission and are aligned with theneeds of the future workforce. The student recruitment plan targeting women and members ofunderrepresented minorities was included. Each project included the learning outcomes, timeline,mentoring plan, and expected deliverables. For each project, financial support for one to twostudents was requested. The students need to be US citizens and either rising sophomores or juniorsor seniors majoring in STEM disciplines pertaining to the project. The interns
widespread use of Boyer’s Model may be the lack of a formalized system ofcareer planning among faculty of environmental engineering (i.e., future faculty as wellas early and mid-career faculty).Disseminating the value of Boyer’s Model and demonstrating the basic approach tocareer cartography – a tool of career planning – to a diverse audience of engineeringgraduate students, faculty, and administrators was the objective of a preconferenceworkshop, which was part of the 2021 (delayed until 2022 due to COVID) biennialconference of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors(AEESP), which occurred in St. Louis, Missouri. The 2022 workshop leveraged theplanning, format, execution, and dissemination of prior workshops. Briefly
curricularofferings from June 2020 to June 2022. They were tasked with changing or creating a minimumof one course and were asked to share teaching resources/tools created and to provide lessonslearned and feedback on the use of the EOP Framework in curricular changes. Grantees werealso offered up to $10,000 in supplemental funds to address challenges and opportunities thatemerged after the first year, which was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. The project wasguided by an evaluation plan co-created with VentureWell and The Lemelson Foundation, andVentureWell supported peer learning through a Community of Practice.2022 - Scaling for Impact WorkshopIn June 2022, with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the collaborationof The Lemelson
, what, where, when, why, and how) (1 pt) b. As a group, construct a final evaluation matrix with all alternatives scored across the limited list of relevant criteria (1 pt) 2 3. Prototype and test solutions (2 pts total) a. As a group, develop and execute a plan to collect information about the feasibility and viability of the top three alternatives (i.e., from interviews, from precedents, from history, etc) (2 pt) 4 4. Select a valid solution using engineering judgement (4 pts total) a. Group score (2 pts) – create a “one-pager” to argue for your team’s single best solution and post to
, software, or any form of business, and they work to helpthe student make it a reality. I have had infinite help and support in creating a business plan,getting design ideas and suggestions, and will eventually be set up with interns to help build andimplement my recycling bins as soon as possible. Additionally, by sponsors and the universityproviding funding to ESW, we have been able to accomplish our projects to an extent that we canbe proud of. However, with the 51,000 student population and numerous clubs, the amount offunding is incredibly limited. This being a factor, requesting funding can become troubling and itcan be hard to get the funding needed to complete our entire plan. Culturally speaking, there arelevers and barriers as well. Being
under thelens of sustainability. Next, students implemented the concept of linear economy to assess the fate of themedical device and formulated a plan to make it more sustainable using circular economy [26].In the following week, students were instructed on lean manufacturing practices and where these principlesalign with sustainability. Students learned about working on an assembly line to increase productionefficiency, scrap reduction, and how mass production could be modified when considering overstocking,i.e., push vs pull systems and inventory management. They researched distribution methods such as B2B,B2C and D2C to determine when medical devices implemented which delivery routes. They exploreddisintermediation and how that can save on
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consists of various constructs, this paper only reports peer learning and collaborationitems.Module DesignFigure 2 shows the well-developed modulus structure and how the Experimental CentricPedagogy was deployed. This has been given a detailed explanation by Fibrined et al [19].Figure 2: ECP Instructional module design [19].CEGR 338 introduces students to the planning and design of elements of water treatment plantsand elements of wastewater treatment plants, and the design of sewers and water distributionsystem hydraulics. The ECP laboratory experiment applies the knowledge of general chemistryto sanitary chemical analyses, which include pH measurements and total dissolved solids.Hands-on Activity during Module ImplementationThe pH