A Multimedia Based Laboratory Course for Environmental Engineering Fundamentals and Process Design

全国各地的许多本科环境工程课程正在重新设计，以强调环境工程过程动力学的基本原理，并熟悉为水和废水处理和修复的全规模系统设计获得和确定设计参数的程序。这项建议的目的，是透过发展和推广使用多媒体学习工具进行本科教育，借以加强私隐教师以往的课程发展工作。具体地说，该提案将侧重于为名为“污染物的命运和运输”的课程开发交互式多媒体实验室模块。这些单元将包括DID练习教程，涵盖从实验室数据估计设计参数的过程理论和方法；一个互动视频/动画实验室，在该实验室中，学生通过对视频中显示的“实验室规模的反应堆”进行采样来收集数据；以及一个带注释的电子表格，用于分析互动视频中收集的数据。该模块的开发将由一个咨询委员会监督，该委员会由来自多所提供类似课程的大学的资深环境教师组成。拟议课程的一个独特特点是，它将允许没有时间、资金或其他资源的机构开发环境工程实验室，为学生提供直观、积极的学习体验，而不需要与开发和装备实验室相关的时间或费用。

Many undergraduate environmental engineering curricula across the nation are being re-designed to emphasize fundamentals of environmental engineering process dynamics and to acquire familiarity with the procedures for obtaining and determining design parameters for design of full scale systems for treatment and remediation of water and wastewater. The objective of this proposal is to build on the P.I.s' previous course development efforts by developing and promoting the use of multi-media learning tools for undergraduate education. Specifically, the proposal will focus on the development of interactive multi-media laboratory modules for a course titled "Pollutant Fate and Transport." The modules will include did actictutorials covering process theory and methods for estimating design parameters from laboratory data, an interactive video/animated laboratory in which students collect data by sampling "bench-scale reactors" displayed in the video, and an annotated spreadsheet for analysis of the data collected in the interactive video. The module development will be overseen by an advisory committee consisting of senior environmental faculty from a number of universities who offer similar courses. One of the unique features of the proposed courseware is that it will allow institutions that do not have the time, money or other resources to develop an environmental engineering laboratory to provide students with a visual, active learning experience without the time or expense associated with developing and equipping a laboratory.