A Systems Approach to Civil and Environmental Engineering Education: Integrating Systems Thinking, Inquiry-Based Learning and Catamount Community Service-Learning Projects

这个系级改革项目将把系统和系统思维纳入佛蒙特大学的土木工程系。它将采取一种独特的系统方法来实施变革，不仅关注教授什么，而且关注如何教授以及学生如何学习。一些变化包括：1）重新制定和重新包装环境工程，运输和工程经济学课程，使其成为三个相互关联的系统课程的独特序列（一，二，三）; 2）作出其他实质性的课程变化，以保持更大的连续性和连通性，在整个程序和注入探究式学习; 3）在系统，教学和学习，团队合作和其他个人/人际关系技能以及服务学习方面对教师进行再培训; 4）以探究为基础的实验室经验; 5）将Catamount社区服务学习项目纳入本科课程。

This department level reform project will incorporate systems and systems thinking into the civil engineering department at the University of Vermont. It will take a unique systems approach to implementing change and will focus not only on what is taught but how it is taught and how students learn it. The intellectual merit of the proposed activity lies in our reforms and approach. Some of changes include: 1) reformulating and repackaging courses in Environmental Engineering, Transportation and Engineering Economics into a unique sequence of three interrelated Systems courses (I, II, III); 2) making other substantial course changes to maintain greater continuity and connectedness throughout the program and infusing inquiry-based learning; 3) retraining the faculty in areas of systems, teaching and learning, teamwork and other personal/interpersonal skills, and service learning; 4) laboratory experiences that are inquiry-based; and 5) incorporating Catamount Community service-learning projects into the undergraduate curricula.