Collaborative Project: Development of Materials for Teaching Design for Sustainability via Spiral Leaning

工程-化学（53）由于世界各地的自然资源似乎正在迅速枯竭，可持续发展是工程教育中越来越重要的主题。然而，可持续性是一个概念和实践，在范围，内容，空间/时间方面，思维方式和解决问题方面与传统工程非常不同。该项目的工作重点是开发一套涵盖基本可持续发展概念和可持续发展设计（DfS）方法的材料，一种整合整个课程的基于项目的学习方法，以及一种评估材料和学生学习效果的评估方法。在该项目中，正在通过螺旋式学习方法编制和测试涵盖DfS的教材。这些材料正在合作机构的化学工程课程中用于第一年的工程课程介绍、大二的质量和能量平衡课程以及高级工艺设计课程。螺旋式的学习策略和机会，让不同教育水平的学生共同努力，以挑战现实世界的工程问题与可持续发展的重点是激励学生提高学习，并帮助他们弥合学习和应用之间的差距。

Engineering - Chemical (53)Sustainable development is an increasingly important topic in engineering education due to the seemingly rapid depletion of natural resources around the world. Sustainability, however, is a concept and practice very different from traditional engineering in scope, content, spatial/temporal aspects, ways of thinking, and problem solving. The effort in this project is centered on the development of a set of materials covering basic sustainability concepts and Design for Sustainability (DfS) methodologies, a project-based learning approach that integrates the entire curriculum, and an assessment method to evaluate the materials and student learning effectiveness. In this project, educational materials covering DfS are being developed and tested in the curriculum via a spiral learning approach. The materials are being implemented in a first-year introduction to engineering course, a sophomore level mass and energy balance course, and a senior level process design course in the chemical engineering programs at the partnering institutions. The spiral learning strategies and the opportunities for students at different educational levels to work together on challenging real-world engineering problems with a sustainability focus is motivating students for improved learning and helping them bridge the gap between learning and application.