Conference Session

Merging Disciplines: Practice and Benefits

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debarati Basu, Virginia Tech; Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Thomas G. Westfall, Virginia Tech; James Edward Taylor; Serena Lise Emanuel, Virginia Tech; Mathew Verghese, Virginia Tech; Nick Falls, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

requirements.Figure 1. The system of the LEWAS labSo far, three PhD students (two in engineering education and one in civil and environmentalengineering) and six master’s students (five in civil and environmental engineering and one incrop and soil environmental sciences) have graduated by conducting LEWAS lab-basedresearch.16-24 From the educational perspective, LEWAS including the OWLS has been utilizedin 26 undergraduate courses at 8 community colleges and universities across 3 continentsincluding 15 courses in 5 colleges in Virginia Tech.11, 13, 14, 16-18, 25-31 For implementation incourses, numerous LEWAS lab-based learning activities have been developed including case-studies, projects, hands-on activities, week-long environmental monitoring activities