Conference: Workshop on Mobilizing Our Universities for Education on Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and Climate Change

该项目旨在为国家利益服务，制定和传播以碳使用为重点的本科教育课程。 了解和量化能源使用对于有效改变我们的日常能源使用非常重要。 该研讨会将汇集环境工程界，组织关于能源使用，碳排放和环境变化的协调一致的STEM教育工作。 在过去的世纪，环境工程界已经承担了几个重大挑战，从废水处理和卫生开始，然后进入水处理和消毒，危险化学品的清理以及室内和室外空气污染的主题。 下一个挑战将是解决由于化石燃料的使用和土地使用的变化而产生的温室气体排放的规模和影响。 研讨会将讨论如何开发和传播有关这些主题的教学课程。会议将聚集碳使用方面的专家沿着环境工程方面的教师和讲师，探讨如何将能源使用融入本科STEM教育。 一系列的演讲将开始与现有的计划审查，然后将解决关键要素，如环境和气候正义，碳封存，和可持续的气候解决方案。 分组计划让参与者参与确定其机构背景下的下一个步骤，将碳和能源使用主题纳入本科环境工程课程，并为教师和教师在其机构实施课程改革做好准备。 NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by developing and disseminating curricula for undergraduate education focused on carbon usage. Understanding and quantifying energy use is important for making effective changes in our daily energy use. This workshop will bring together the environmental engineering community to organize a concerted STEM education effort about energy use, carbon emissions, and environmental change. The environmental engineering community has taken on several grand challenges over the past century, beginning with wastewater treatment and sanitation, then moving into topics spanning water treatment and disinfection, cleanup of hazardous chemicals, and indoor and outdoor air pollution. The next challenge will be addressing the magnitude and impact of greenhouse gas emissions due to fossil fuel use and land use changes. Developing and disseminating teaching curricula on these topics will be addressed in the workshop.The conference will gather experts in carbon use along with faculty and instructors in environmental engineering to examine how energy use can be integrated into undergraduate STEM education. A series of presentations will begin with a review of existing programs, then will address critical elements such as environmental and climate justice, carbon sequestration, and sustainable climate solutions. Breakout groups are planned to engage participants in identifying next steps in their institutional contexts to incorporate carbon and energy use topics into undergraduate environmental engineering curricula and to prepare faculty and instructors for implementing curricular changes at their institutions. The NSF IUSE: EDU program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.