Butkus, M., & Hinckley-Boltax, A., & Newhart, K., & Pfluger, A. (2022, August), The Green Escape Room: Part 1 – A Race to Solve an Environmental Engineering Problem by Applying Engineering Principles and Deciphering Clues and Puzzles  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40426

\bibitem{asee_peer_40426}
  Butkus, M., \& Hinckley-Boltax, A., \& Newhart, K., \& Pfluger, A. (2022, August), \emph{The Green Escape Room: Part 1 – A Race to Solve an Environmental Engineering Problem by Applying Engineering Principles and Deciphering Clues and Puzzles}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40426

Michael Butkus, Ariana Hinckley-Boltax, Kathryn Newhart, and Andrew Pfluger.  "The Green Escape Room: Part 1 – A Race to Solve an Environmental Engineering Problem by Applying Engineering Principles and Deciphering Clues and Puzzles".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40426 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_40426}
  Michael Butkus, Ariana Hinckley-Boltax, Kathryn Newhart, and Andrew Pfluger.
  "The Green Escape Room: Part 1 – A Race to Solve an Environmental Engineering Problem by Applying Engineering Principles and Deciphering Clues and Puzzles".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40426 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

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AB  - Educational escape rooms are a form of gamification that have been used in higher education and industry to enhance team building and increase motivation by making learning exciting.  In general, educational escape rooms have teams solve a problem using puzzles, clues, and hints in a limited amount of time.  Two escape rooms were developed for seniors in our environmental engineering program.  The first escape room was centered on a hazardous waste incineration problem that included, the Ideal Gas Law, gaussian dispersion, and risk assessment.  This escape room was used in our Solid and Hazardous Waste course to help our seniors prepare for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam.  It was also piloted with two faculty teams during a summer teaching seminar.  The second escape room was built around an engineering ethics case study in our capstone design course, which will be discussed in the companion paper.  Assessment and evaluation of these exercises revealed that most students and faculty appreciated this alternative approach to engage with the material.  A valuable lesson learned is that escape room creators must be careful not to design puzzles that are exceedingly challenging and time consuming.
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