Collaborative Research:Civil & Environmental Engineering Education (CEEE) Transformational Change Tools and Strategies for Sustainability Integration and Assessment in Engineer

工程-民用(54)这个项目是加州理工州立大学、密歇根理工大学和耶鲁大学之间的合作项目。它正在努力将可持续发展融入工程教育，方法是创建有效的学习材料和教学策略，使工程学教师能够将可持续发展方法纳入他们的课程。在开发教育设计和评估工具时，他们正在努力测试Fink的重要学习分类和随之而来的评估方法的价值。这一项目的主要内容包括一本环境工程教科书、关于科学和工程学科可持续发展的适应性课程单元、包含以团队为基础的开放式大学间项目的工程课程、传播这些创新教学实践的教员讲习班，以及一项评估研究，其中包括开发新的评估工具以衡量这些方法的有效性。虽然该课程专门针对土木工程和环境工程领域，但也可以推广到其他工程专业。他们将通过出版教科书，推广教学模块，以及提供几个关于材料和教学策略的教员研讨会来传播他们的材料和结果。在评估他们的项目时，他们使用了一系列现有的和新的评估工具来确定他们的新材料和策略对学生学习和保持的影响。更广泛的影响包括传播材料，主要是通过教科书和讲习班，以及提高工程学毕业生对可持续性问题的认识。

Engineering - Civil (54)This project is collaboration among California Polytechnic State University, Michigan Technological University, and Yale University. It is working to integrate sustainability into engineering education by creating effective learning materials and teaching strategies that enable engineering faculty to incorporate sustainability approaches into their courses. They are working to test the value of Fink's significant learning taxonomy and the accompanying assessment methodology as they develop their educational design and assessment tools. The key elements of this project include a textbook in environmental engineering, adaptable course modules on sustainability for science and engineering disciplines, engineering courses with team-based, open-ended, inter-university projects, faculty workshops to disseminate these innovative teaching and learning practices, and an assessment study including the development of new assessment tools to measure the effectiveness of these approaches. Although the curriculum is specifically targeted at the civil and environmental engineering community, it can be generalized to other engineering programs. They will be disseminating their material and results by publishing their textbook, by promoting their instructional modules, and by providing several faculty workshops on their material and instructional strategies. In evaluating their project, they are using an assortment of existing and new assessment tools to determine the effect of their new materials and strategies on student learning and retention. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the material, primarily through their textbook and workshops, and the increased awareness of engineering graduates to sustainability issues.