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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 3 - Innovative Pedagogy

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anu Singh, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Logan Andrew Perry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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: 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

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 4 - Engineering for One Planet & Sustainability Innovation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Cooper, The Lemelson Foundation; Cynthia Anderson, Alula Consulting; Lynn A. Albers, Hofstra University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

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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

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2 - Engineering for One Planet (EOP)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Brian Dittenber P.E., Cedarville University; Mackenzie Booth, Cedarville University

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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

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Mueller, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Samuel Thomas Walsh, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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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

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cara J Poor P.E., University of Portland; Jackson Kaye, University of Portland

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, 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

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marissa Webber, Carnegie Mellon University; Fethiye Ozis P.E., Carnegie Mellon University

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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

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2 - Engineering for One Planet (EOP)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cherish C. Vance, The Ohio State University; Patrick J. Sours, The Ohio State University

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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

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 4 - Engineering for One Planet & Sustainability Innovation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dustyn Roberts, University of Pennsylvania; Jarrett Stein, University of Pennsylvania; Tex Kang, University of Pennsylvania

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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

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 4 - Engineering for One Planet & Sustainability Innovation

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mackenzie Booth, Cedarville University; David Brian Dittenber P.E., Cedarville University

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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

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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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

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 3 - Innovative Pedagogy

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hang Song, Auburn University; Karen McNeal, Auburn University; John T. Solomon, Tuskegee University; Lauren E. Beckingham, Auburn University; Kelly Lazar, Clemson University

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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

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

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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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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

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2 - Engineering for One Planet (EOP)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Anderson, Alula Consulting; Cindy Cooper, The Lemelson Foundation

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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

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2 - Engineering for One Planet (EOP)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Victoria Matthew, Broadening Impacts; Andrew Schulz, Georgia Institute of Technology; Reese Emily Simancek; Emma Telepo, Michigan State University; Jo Machesky, Yale University; Hadley Willman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Abdulmalik Bamidele Ismail, The University of Alabama

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, 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

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2 - Engineering for One Planet (EOP)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University; Devina Jaiswal, Western New England University; Lisa K. Murray, Western New England University

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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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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 4 - Engineering for One Planet & Sustainability Innovation

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brainerd Prince, Plaksha University; SIDDHARTH SIDDHARTH, Plaksha University; Rukmani Keshav, Plaksha University

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]. Available: https://www.voced.edu.au/content/ngv:63792[9] L. J. Ball, J. St.B.T. Evans, I. Dennis, and T. C. Ormerod, “Problem-solving Strategies and Expertise in Engineering Design,” Thinking & Reasoning, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 247–270, Nov. 1997, doi: 10.1080/135467897394284.[10] G. Downey, “Are Engineers Losing Control of Technology?,” Chemical Engineering Research and Design, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 583–595, Jun. 2005, doi: 10.1205/cherd.05095.[11] E. S. Klochkova, M. V. Bolsunovskaya, and S. V. Shirokova, “The Significance of Humanities for Engineering Education,” in 2018 XVII Russian Scientific and Practical Conference on Planning and Teaching Engineering Staff for the Industrial and Economic Complex of the Region (PTES), Nov

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Gbeminiyi Famewo, Morgan State University; Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University; Gbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein P.E., Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

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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

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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