Leitch, K. R., & Issa, R. J. (2014, June), Sustainability in Undergraduate Civil and Mechanical Engineering Instruction  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--23080

\bibitem{asee_peer_23080}
  Leitch, K. R., \& Issa, R. J. (2014, June), \emph{Sustainability in Undergraduate Civil and Mechanical Engineering Instruction}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--23080

Kenneth R. Leitch P.E. and Roy Jean Issa P.E..  "Sustainability in Undergraduate Civil and Mechanical Engineering Instruction".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/23080 Internet.  14 Mar, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_23080}
  Kenneth R. Leitch P.E. and Roy Jean Issa P.E..
  "Sustainability in Undergraduate Civil and Mechanical Engineering Instruction".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/23080 Internet.  14 Mar, 2025

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AB  -    Sustainability in Undergraduate Civil and Mechanical Engineering InstructionAbstract – Teaching sustainability in engineering curricula fulfills ABET 2000 Outcome 3c aswell as the codes of ethics of NSPE, ASCE, and ASME. The authors have investigated the useof sustainability concepts of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)criteria and have applied principles to several undergraduate research projects and incoursework. LEED is an optional sustainability guideline in private construction and ismandated or encouraged by many federal, state, and local governments for public constructionprojects. Learning about sustainability will help engineers understand how their creations willinteract with and operate in a more complementary manner with the natural world as well as toreduce water, energy, and material usage.Sustainability has been implemented in the engineering curriculum, particularly in courses suchas capstone senior design, thermal-fluid system design, and engineering research. The projectsimplemented in those courses were selected in such a way to establish an in-depth understandingof sustainability through analytical and experimental studies, and to build environmentallyfriendly and energy efficient systems. Some of these projects include: design and constructionof a three-stage wind tower with a bypass system for indoor cooling in rural dry and hot climates,design of a passive solar heating system for the distillation of wastewater produced in ruralagricultural processing facilities, incorporation of Phase Change Material (PCM) in garments forprotection against extreme temperatures, design of an outdoor civil engineering instructionallaboratory, and experimental studies on prototype green roofs with a top vegetative layer toinvestigate the effect soil type and soil moisture level have on the heat transfer through the rooffor comfortable roof temperature.These projects will be discussed in brief in this paper and future guidance on applications ofsustainability in the undergraduate civil and mechanical engineering curriculum is discussed.
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