IEECI: Reforming Environmental Engineering Laboratories for Sustainable Engineering

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这项工程教育研究奖授予北卡罗莱纳农业技术州立大学，将雇用研究人员开发四个新的环境实验室模块，使用基于问题的学习和案例研究来教授新的环境可持续性概念。这种方法与目前在实验课程中使用的传统“一步一步”的方法不同，它为学生提供了使用他们学到的概念来开发工程系统新思想的机会。学生的学习收益将使用定性和定量措施进行评估。开发的模块可用于完整的环境实验室课程，或单个模块可用于其他STEM领域或修改夏季K-12外展计划。项目团队将为当地一所学校开发实践活动，并通过项目提供扩展服务，使工程管道中的多个组成部分受益。这项工作将帮助更多的工程毕业生更好地理解环境的可持续性，以填补工程岗位。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This engineering education research award to North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University will employ researchers to develop four new environmental laboratory modules that use problem-based learning and case studies to teach new environmental sustainability concepts. This method diverges from the traditional "step-by-step" method currently used in laboratory courses and provides the opportunity for students to use the concepts they learn to develop new ideas for engineering systems. The student learning gains for this proposal will be assessed using both qualitative and quantitative measures. The modules developed can be used for a complete environmental laboratory course or individual modules can be used for other STEM fields or modified for summer K-12 outreach programs. The project team will develop hands-on activities for a local school and provide outreach through programs that benefit multiple constituents in the engineering pipeline. This work will help prepare more engineering graduates with a better understanding of environmental sustainability needed to fill engineering jobs.