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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