Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of expressions of North-South global inequality and its relationship to colonialhistories, each subsequent year presented new real-time insights into the same dynamics thatdeepened the case study and lent it continued currency.Module 1: Life Cycle Assessment in Mass and Energy BalancesCourse Context: A semester long project in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was implemented in asecond-semester first year mass and energy balances course. The course prepares students toformulate and solve material and energy balances on engineering systems and lays thefoundation for subsequent courses in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and advanced electivesin thermochemical processes. More fundamentally, it introduces the engineering approach toproblem solving