Collaborative Project: Development of Materials for Teaching Design for Sustainability via Spiral Leaning

工程化学(53)可持续发展是工程教育中一个越来越重要的话题，因为世界各地的自然资源似乎正在迅速枯竭。然而，可持续发展是一个在范围、内容、空间/时间方面、思维方式和解决问题方面与传统工程截然不同的概念和实践。该项目的工作重点是开发一套涵盖基本可持续发展概念和可持续发展设计(DFS)方法的材料，整合整个课程的基于项目的学习方法，以及评估材料和学生学习效果的评估方法。在这个项目中，正在通过螺旋式学习方法在课程中编写和测试涉及外勤部的教育材料。这些材料正在合作机构的化学工程专业的一年级工程导论课程、二年级质量和能量平衡课程以及高级工艺设计课程中实施。螺旋式的学习策略和为不同教育水平的学生提供的机会，以可持续发展为重点，共同挑战现实世界的工程问题，正在激励学生改进学习，并帮助他们弥合学习和应用之间的差距。

Engineering - Chemical (53)Sustainable development is an increasingly important topic in engineering education due to the seemingly rapid depletion of natural resources around the world. Sustainability, however, is a concept and practice very different from traditional engineering in scope, content, spatial/temporal aspects, ways of thinking, and problem solving. The effort in this project is centered on the development of a set of materials covering basic sustainability concepts and Design for Sustainability (DfS) methodologies, a project-based learning approach that integrates the entire curriculum, and an assessment method to evaluate the materials and student learning effectiveness. In this project, educational materials covering DfS are being developed and tested in the curriculum via a spiral learning approach. The materials are being implemented in a first-year introduction to engineering course, a sophomore level mass and energy balance course, and a senior level process design course in the chemical engineering programs at the partnering institutions. The spiral learning strategies and the opportunities for students at different educational levels to work together on challenging real-world engineering problems with a sustainability focus is motivating students for improved learning and helping them bridge the gap between learning and application.