Enhancing the Environmental Content of Undergraduate Engineering Curricula

克里夫岛戴维森 1999年10月19日- Pittsburgh，PA 152133815 1996财政年度98，520美元 课程和课程 工程 标题：加强本科工程课程的环境内容 该计划的总体目标是将环境问题引入卡内基梅隆大学（CMU）每个传统工程学科的课程，重点是大一和大二。 这将使每个学生都能接触到他们学科中的环境问题和解决问题的方法。 将开发能够容易地适应几个现有的所需循环的环境单元。 这将成为今后开展初级和高级课程工作的基础，作为当前项目的后续工作。 在整个过程中，可以广泛传播到其他美国工程学院和大学的课程材料将开发。 本建议中概述的方法比开发新的或必需的环境课程更受欢迎，原因有几个。 一个是现代工程课程已经对新课程或专业课程提出了过多的竞争要求。因此，实际上，在大多数机构的课程中很难引入新的要求。 然而，更重要的是，环境问题不应被视为与“主流”工程问题不同。 通过将环境因素纳入每个学科的基础工程课程，所有工程专业的学生都会看到环境因素是良好工程实践的固有组成部分。 对现有核心课程的课程进行相对较小的修改，可以对所有工程师的环境教育产生重大影响，而不仅仅是那些选择专攻环境工程的人。

Cliff I. Davidson DUE 9455399 Carnegie-Mellon University FY1995 $ 90,340 Pittsburgh, PA 152133815 FY1996 $ 98,520 Course and Curriculum Engineering Title: Enhancing the Environmental Content of Undergraduate Engineering Curricula The overall objective of this program is to introduce environmental issues into the curriculum of each traditional engineering discipline at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), focusing on the freshman and sophomore years. This will enable each student to gain exposure to environmental concerns and problem-solving methods in their discipline. Environmental units that can fit easily into several existing required cmurses will be developed. This will form the basis for subsequent efforts focused on junior and senior-level courses as a follow-on to the current project. Throughout this effort, course materials that can be widely disseminated to other U.S. engineering colleges and universities will be developed. The approach outlined in this proposal is favored over the development of new or required environmental courses for several reasons. One is that modern engineering curricula already have a surfeit of competing demands for new or specialized courses. Thus, as a practical matter, it is difficult to introduce new requirements into the curriculum at most institutions. More importantly, however, environmental issues should not be seen as distinct from "mainstream" engineering issues. By integrating environmental considerations into basic engineering courses in each discipline, all engineering students will come to see that environmental factors are an inherent part of good engineering practice. Relatively small modifications in the curricula of existing core courses can have a significant impact on the environmental education of all engineers, not just those who choose to specialize in environmental engineering.