Development of Undergraduate Laboratory Experience in Civil and Environmental Engineering

该项目通过在高级实验室课程中改编环境工程研究生本科实验室经验，弥合了教室理论和实际测量技术之间的现有差距。该实验的结构，让学生参与在环境工程中使用的共同领域和实验室测量，以设计空气，水，废水，危险废物和生态的监测方案和处理系统。学生直接参与评估数据可靠性和评估QA/QC问题作为执行实验的一部分。他们决定在课堂项目中使用他们的数据进行模拟评估或开发处理系统的设计参数。由AHPA，AWWA和WEF联合出版的环境科学现场评估方法的标准研究生水平方法是本项目的基础。 “标准方法”研究生课程基于这些标准，并在伊利诺伊理工学院（由PI开发）和克莱姆森大学教授，这些课程是材料的模型，这些材料将适用于本科教育，并与新的空气污染和生态场分析一起沿着实施。 一系列实验模块代表了环境工程中的一系列子学科，使学生能够接触实验室和现场技术。他们使用国家的最先进的方法，专业实践的代表，除了他们会遇到的研究工具，如果他们追求高级学位。六位教授的共同投入确保了实验室整体设计和现场经验的广泛基础技术知识。与该项目相关的设备确保了利用专用设备持续提供这种增强的教育体验的能力，并提供了以前无法提供的教育体验，除非是在临时和不可靠的基础上。

This project bridges the existing gap between class room theory and practical measurement techniques through adaptation of graduate undergraduate laboratory experience in environmental engineering within a senior level laboratory course. The experiments are structured to let the students participate in common field and laboratory measurements that are used in environmental engineering to design monitoring programs and treatment systems in air, water, wastewater, hazardous waste and ecology. The students are directly involved in evaluating data reliability and assessing QA/QC issues as a part of performing the experiments. They make decisions on the use of their data in classroom projects simulating assessment or the development of design parameters for treatment systems.The standard graduate-level methodologies for field assessment methodologies for environmental science published jointly by the AHPA, AWWA, and WEF are the basis for this project. "Standards Methods" graduate courses based on these standards and taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology (developed by the PI) and Clemson University are models for the materials which will be adapted to undergraduate education and implemented along with new air pollution and ecological field analyses. A series of experimental modules represent the range of sub disciplines within Environmental Engineering such that the students have an exposure to the laboratory and field techniques. They use state-of-the-art methodologies representative of professional practice in addition to the research tools they would encounter if they pursue advanced degrees. The combined input of six professors ensures a broad base technical knowledge in the overall design of the laboratory and field experience. The equipment associated with this project ensures the ability to provide this enhanced educational experience on a continuing basis with dedicated equipment and provides an educational experience not previously available except on an ad-hoc and unreliable basis.A broader underlying objective of the project is the preparation of a course man