Integrating Sustainability into Lower Division Core Engineering Courses

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。该工程教育研究奖授予圣何塞州立大学，将可持续发展的基本概念融入两个核心的低年级工程课程（工程导论和材料导论）。 该项目是工程学院的一项重大举措的一部分，旨在促进、协调和促进与绿色和可持续工程实践的发展和实施有关的研究、课程和活动。该项目的成果将是涵盖可再生和不可再生能源、能源转换和效率、能源和水以及产品生命周期分析等主题的教学单元。这些教学单元，连同沿着的设备和软件，将广泛传播，特别是传播给圣何塞州立大学接收转学生的社区学院。 总体目标是通过培养学生对环境可持续性的理解，更好地为工程实践做好准备。 这些技术预计将增加学生对工程的兴趣，并将增加完成工程学位并准备填补工程工作的人数。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This engineering education research award to San Jose State University will integrate fundamental concepts of sustainability into two core lower division engineering courses (Introduction to Engineering and Introduction to Materials). This project is part of a major initiative of the college of engineering to promote, coordinate and facilitate research, curriculum and activities related to the development and implementation of green and sustainable engineering practices. The outcome of the project will be teaching modules covering the topics of renewable and non-renewable energy sources, energy conversion and efficiency, energy and water, and product life cycle analysis. The teaching modules, along with the accompanying equipment and software, will be disseminated widely and in particular to the community colleges from which San Jose State receives transfer students. The overall goal is to better prepare students for the practice of engineering through developing their understanding of environmental sustainability. These techniques are expected to increase student's interest in engineering and will enhance the number who complete engineering degrees and are ready to fill engineering jobs.