Changing an Entire Educational Program to Incorporate Sustainability Across the Curricula. Olga Petrov, M.Sc.

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1 15th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress Achieving Environmental Sustainability in a Resource Hungry World September 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia Changing an Entire Educational Program to Incorporate Sustainability Across the Curricula By Olga Petrov, M.Sc., School of Construction and The Environment 1

2 Overview Environmental Engineering Program Transformation Teaching Sustainability vs Teaching about Sustainability Examples of Selected Courses Questions and Discussion 2

3 Environmental Engineering Technology Program BEE Tech (B. Tech) Team: Lorne Sampson Barbara Dabrowski Olga Petrov Jennie Moore 3

4 Emissions, Airsheds & Climate Change (Air) Water Resources (Water) rse Map Th he BEE Tech Cou EENG 8294 Applied Meteorology & Climatology EENG 8262 Landfill Design & Operation EENG 8273 Sampling Methods for Contaminated Sites EENG 8291 Industrial Air Pollution Control tech EENG 8293 Climate Change & GHG EENG 8290 Air Quality Management EENG 7200 Principles of Sustainability LIBS 7001 LIBS 7002 EENG 7211 Chemistry & Organic Chemistry EENG 7213 Environmental Methods & Techniques EENG 8780 Environmental Law EENG 8281 Risk Assessment & Management EENG 8282 EMS & Reporting EENG 7215 Applied Hydraulics EENG 7217 Hydrology for EET EENG 7241 Contaminant Hydrogeology ENG 7242 Groundwater Modeling EENG 8250 Municipal Wastewater Treatment EENG 8260 EENG 7219 EENG 8221 EENG 7216 Integrated Survey Intro to Green Soil Mechanics Solid Waste Techniques Buildings & & Hydrogeol. Management For EET Infrastructure EENG 8270 EENG 8220 Contaminated EENG 8286 Foundations in Site EIA Sustainable Investigation Energy EENG 8272 EENG 7220 EENG 7221 EENG 8222 Contaminated Site Remediation Land Use & Restoration (Earth) Industrial Ecology Environmental Toxicology BUSA 7250 Management Skills & Application LIBS 1 LIBS 2 EENG 8300 Applied Research Skills EENG Graduation Project Bio fuels & Run of River IPP EENG 8255 Drinking Water Treatment EENG 8223 Solar & Wind Power EENG 8224 Geo Exchange 1 Energy Alternatives (Fire) 4

5 Embedding sustainability EENG 7200 Principles of Sustainability EENG 7220 Industrial Ecology EENG 8282 Sustainability Management Systems Air and Energy Stream Integrated Management (eg. solid waste) Throughout the program systems approach through topics, projects, integrated assignments with other schools 5

6 Teaching Sustainability vs. Teaching ABOUT Sustainability Create an experiential andinteractive learning environment Enhance students critical thinking skills and creativity Empower instructors to take different leadership roles, from coaching and instructions to delegating and supporting, depending on a given situation and persons involved Develop Trust, collaboration, respect 6

7 EENG 8293 Climate Change & GHG Management Midterm exam done in teams 7

8 EENG 7200 Principles of Sustainability Students self organized in teams for projects and class work Stakeholder role play Debate on population theory Population modeling Food degustation Chief Ian First Nations Design charrette Ecological footprint calculations 8

9 Team Gang Green: The Current State of Canadian Cultural and Amenity Services 9

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11 EENG 8290 Air Quality Management From local to global Natural & anthropogenic Adaptive management ; policy options 11

12 Summary The revised, second generation EET program has been inspired by nature, with courses being organized in a BEE like structure and pattern of relationships to reflect interconnections and interdependence among atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and energy choices in light of environmental, social, economic and management aspects. 12

13 Questions and Discussion Contact: Tel: