GLRC Summer Practicum for Environmental Problem Solving

五大湖研究联盟(GLRC)提议让20名本科生教员沉浸在为期3周的暑期实践中，展示解决环境问题是激发本科生对环境科学兴趣的有效教学策略。参与的教师将学习环境分析技术，并为安大略湖一个受污染的港口的假设开发项目准备环境影响报告书。因为他们正在接触五大湖研究界为了解和解决环境问题而开发的新理论概念和技术。将向参与者展示如何将解决环境问题纳入其本国机构的课程。通过为现实项目准备环境影响声明，这些技术将被整合到整体环境分析和问题解决方法中，这一方法十年来激发了两个GLRC校区的本科生对科学的兴趣。参加实习的人将带着扩展和更新的专业技能以及改善本科教育和解决当地社区环境问题的新战略和技术返回自己的机构。

The Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC) proposes to immerse 20 undergraduate faculty in a 3-week summer practicum that demonstrates environmental problem-solving as an effective teaching strategy to stimulate undergraduates' interest in environmental science. Participating faculty will learn environmental analysis techniques and prepare environmental impact statements for a hypothetical development project in a contaminated harbor of Lake Ontario. As they are being exposed to new theoretical concepts and techniques developed by the Great Lakes Research community to understand and solve environmental problems. Participants will be shown how to integrate environmental problem-solving into curricula at their home institutions. Through preparation of environmental impact statements for a realistic project, these techniques will be integrated into the overall environmental analysis and problem solving approach that has stimulated undergraduate interest in science at two GLRC campuses for a decade. Participants in the practicum will return to their home institutions with expanded and updated professional skills and new strategies and techniques for improving undergraduate education, and addressing environmental problems in local communities.