Final Report for Project Title: Enhancing Crosscutting Sustainability Education in Civil Engineering Project Director: Amy E. Landis* Co-‐Directors: Melissa M. Bilec* and Piervincenzo Rizzo* Assistant Professors, Swanson School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Project Goals: Within the context of sustainability education, we proposed to connect three Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) courses: Design for the Environment (DfE), Introduction to Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), and Green Buildings: Design and Construction. Our primary goal is to infuse sustainability concepts into civil engineering courses using active, team-‐based learning by developing several cross-‐course activities. Project Outcomes: We have achieved success in many realms of the project; we have since secured a $200,000 NSF TUES (formerly CCLI) grant for Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM fields to further develop the ideas developed within this proposal. Drs. Bilec and Landis will be awarded Carnegie Science Awards Honorable Mention for their educational activities in sustainability on February 3rd. Related to the project goals, we developed several new activities that linked the three courses including (a) Mapping building energy loss with an infrared (IR) camera within the NDE & DfE classes, (b) Create a case study and associated video to calculate building’s energy through IR within the GB & NDE classes, (c) evaluate indoor environmental quality between green and regular buildings with the GB & DfE classes, and (d) created an energy loss from buildings and materials laboratory. An example of one of the improvements to the building energy activity is presented in Figure 1. We also created a video for the larger GB classroom activities that discusses the uses of an IR camera and the difference between different insulation materials, which is available upon request (see example in Figure 2). Future Work: We plan to submit an NSF Phase II TUES proposal to take our approach to integrating active learning via sustainability concepts to the entire Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. We also plan to publish the results of the study in peer-‐reviewed journals
Figure 1. Example of house survey by means of an infrared camera; taken from NDE 2008 and NDE/DfE 2009 student reports. Left to right: Exterior kitchen wall; Wall section where students calculated energy loss from the vent in 2009. The temperature on top left of each figure is the temperature associated with the center of the IR’s view-‐finder.
Figure 2. Sample shot from the IR camera and building materials. Left: the IR shot of the wall with a heat source behind it. Middle: wall section open, Right: wall section closed. The wall section was built with the funds from the grant. The wall section is on wheels and can be transported to different classrooms and labs.
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