TUES: Transforming Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Laboratories for Sustainable Engineering

北卡罗来纳农工州立大学正在改革一门传统的实验室课程，将现实世界中的可持续主题和案例研究纳入其中。通过使用引导式探究方法，该项目正在创建一系列可移植的案例研究和基于问题的学习(PBL)模块，STEM教师可以使用这些模块来提高学生对与环境工程有关的课程材料的兴趣和记忆，并增强学生的批判性思维能力。案例研究是简短的、现实的场景，提供有关环境问题的相关细节，而PBL模块使用作为大型项目分配给学生团队的现实世界问题。目标是确定这些方法是否能改善学生对可持续实践和设计的想法、原则和实践的学习。一个教员社区正在努力推动这些方法在本科实验室课程中的使用，方法是招募其他教员来测试可持续发展模块，并开发更多基于指导性探究的STEM实验室。案例研究和PBL模块可供教职员工在课程中使用，以在大学水平的课程、初中到高中课程中介绍动手活动，并用于关注可持续发展的真实案例的外联活动。评估包括收集和分析有关学生和教职员工对可持续性的态度以及学生对材料的参与和理解的定性和定量数据。

North Carolina A&T State University is transforming a traditional laboratory course to incorporate real world sustainable topics and case studies. By using guided-inquiry methods, this project is creating a collection of portable case study and Problem Based Learning (PBL) modules that can be used by STEM instructors to increase students' interest in and retention of course material related to environmental engineering, as well as to enhance students' critical thinking skills. The case studies are short, realistic scenarios that provide relevant detail about an environmental problem, while the PBL modules use real world problems that are assigned as large projects to student teams. The goal is to determine if these methods improve student learning about the ideas, principles, and practices for sustainable practices and design. A community of faculty is working toward promoting the use of these methods in undergraduate laboratory courses by recruiting other faculty to test the sustainability modules and develop additional guided-inquiry based STEM labs. The case studies and PBL modules are available for faculty and teachers to use in courses to introduce hands-on activities in college level courses, middle to high school courses, and for outreach activities focusing on real-world cases in sustainability. Assessment includes collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data concerning student and faculty attitudes toward sustainability and student engagement and comprehension of the material.