Development of Undergraduate Laboratory Experience in Civil and Environmental Engineering

这个项目通过在高级实验室课程中改编研究生的环境工程实验室经验，弥合了课堂理论和实际测量技术之间的现有差距。这些实验旨在让学生参与环境工程中常用的野外和实验室测量，以设计空气、水、废水、危险废物和生态方面的监测计划和处理系统。作为执行实验的一部分，学生直接参与评估数据可靠性和评估QA/QC问题。他们决定在课堂项目中使用他们的数据来模拟评估或开发处理系统的设计参数。由AHPA、AWWA和世界经济论坛联合发布的环境科学现场评估方法的标准研究生级方法是该项目的基础。在伊利诺伊理工学院(由PI开发)和克莱姆森大学教授的基于这些标准的“标准方法”研究生课程是材料的模型，这些材料将适应本科教育，并与新的空气污染和生态领域分析一起实施。一系列实验模块代表了环境工程中的子学科的范围，使学生有机会接触到实验室和现场技术。除了他们在攻读高级学位时会遇到的研究工具外，他们还使用代表专业实践的最新方法。六位教授的共同投入确保了实验室总体设计和实地经验的广泛技术知识基础。与该项目相关的设备确保了使用专用设备持续提供这种增强的教育体验的能力，并提供了一种以前只有在临时和不可靠的基础上才能获得的教育体验。该项目更广泛的基本目标是准备一个课程管理人员

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