Integrating sustainability into your courses: a curriculum workshop for Engineering, Architecture and Urban Planning
Overview
TISED offered a workshop on integrating sustainability into the engineering curriculum on May 14 & 15, 2014. Led by McGill’s Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) and Dr. Cliff Davidson (Director of the Center for Sustainable Engineering, Syracuse University and formerly at Carnegie Mellon University), participating faculty members shared their ongoing efforts in integrating sustainability into the engineering curriculum, learned how to integrate tenets of sustainability into the curriculum, re-design their courses for enhanced student learning, and created a specific course plan during the two day event. The outcome of this workshop was to improve sustainability content within existing courses, which would make a significant advance towards enhancing sustainability into the engineering, architecture and urban planning curriculum.
Workshop Schedule
Activities with *: Workshop presentations can be downloaded below
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Day 1 |
Topic/Activity |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Coffee/Tea |
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9:00 – 12:00 |
Welcome and introductions Goals of this workshop: What will you walk away with? Principles of sustainable engineering: What are they? How do they apply in teaching and learning context? High-level explanation of relevant Learning Objectives, Learning Outcomes, Learning Assessment Presentation by participating McGill faculty members who have incorporated sustainability content and concepts in their courses* |
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12:00 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 – 4:30 |
Sustainability & Learning Objectives, Learning Outcomes, Learning Assessment |
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Overnight Homework: Reflect on Learning objectives, assessment, and outcomes; Identify 1 or 2 new strategies you could implement that reflect what you’ve learned |
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Day 2 |
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8:30-9:00 |
Coffee/Tea |
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9:00-10:00 |
Student perspectives and Q&A discussion* |
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10:00 – 12:00 |
Integrating sustainability actively into Learning Objectives, Learning Outcomes, Learning Assessment |
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12:00 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 – 4:30 |
Course Syllabus and Content presentations Workshop Evaluation and group photo |
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Workshop Resource & Presentations
Workshop resource:
Faculty member presentation:
- Integrating sustainability concepts in CIVE 324, Presentation by_Marianne Hatzopoulou.[pdf]
- Integrating sustainability contents and concepts in CIVE 418 & CIVE 612, Presentation by Dimitrios_Lignos.[pdf]
- Summay of main themes, topic and case studies in BREE420, Presentation by Jan_Adamowski.[pdf]
Student experience: Integrating sustainability content and concepts in course(s)