Mueller, J., & Marincel Payne, M., & Shrestha, N. (2025, June), Incorporating the Envision Rating System as a Teaching Tool for Sustainability in Civil Engineering Infrastructure   Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/56780

\bibitem{asee_peer_56780}
  Mueller, J., \& Marincel Payne, M., \& Shrestha, N. (2025, June), \emph{Incorporating the Envision Rating System as a Teaching Tool for Sustainability in Civil Engineering Infrastructure }
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada .
  https://peer.asee.org/56780

Jennifer Mueller PE, ENV SP, Michelle Marincel Payne, and Namita Shrestha.  "Incorporating the Envision Rating System as a Teaching Tool for Sustainability in Civil Engineering Infrastructure ".  2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/56780 Internet.  19 Aug, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_56780}
  Jennifer Mueller PE, ENV SP, Michelle Marincel Payne, and Namita Shrestha.
  "Incorporating the Envision Rating System as a Teaching Tool for Sustainability in Civil Engineering Infrastructure ".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/56780 Internet.  19 Aug, 2025

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AB  - The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Envision Rating System is becoming a widely used framework for guiding design work and assessing resiliency, social equity, and environmental justice of civil infrastructure projects.  To prepare our students and equip them with the knowledge base to proactively utilize this framework as a design tool, we have incorporated the Envision Rating System as a teaching tool with several touchpoints in the required civil engineering curriculum.  Envision is introduced in a required sustainable civil engineering course, examined in an engineering mechanics course, and applied in senior capstone design projects.  Through our approach, we are utilizing the credits and metrics of the framework to instill a mindset of design thinking that encourages students to consider all relevant Envision credit considerations in their designs, as opposed to training our students to rate projects or earn the Envision Sustainability Professional credential. At the initial introduction of the rating system, students develop an awareness of design considerations related to the environmental, social, and economic aspects of sustainable development.  Then, students delve into one credit category as it relates to a large-scale water infrastructure project in a fluid mechanics course.  Finally, students review the entire framework to identify and justify credits that apply to their senior capstone design projects. Through this approach, students are challenged to evaluate how their design meets criteria within relevant credits. Examples of student work show that Envision can be used as a tool to gain knowledge of how designs can be informed by the rating system beyond using it as a tool to retroactively evaluate a project.  This approach could be used by other programs as they desire to use a vetted framework to enable students to create sustainable, forward-thinking designs. 
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