Integrating the Engineering Design Process (EDP) into a Sustainability Project
Judith Morrison, Washington State University-Vancouver
Prior to this activity, Preservice Teachers (PST) spend one class (3 hours) learning about the Engineering Design Process (EDP) and part of one class (2 hours) being introduced to the concept of Sustainability. The ...

Unit 1. Module Introduction
Steven Burian, University of Utah; Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia; Manoj Jha, North Carolina A & T State University; Gigi Richard, Fort Lewis College
Unit 1 introduces the Water Sustainability in Cities Module. The content establishes the foundational definitions of sustainability, sustainable development, and water sustainability in cities. Key sustainability ...

Unit 7. Low Impact Development and Green Infrastructure
Steven Burian, University of Utah; Manoj Jha, North Carolina A & T State University; Gigi Richard, Fort Lewis College; Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia
Unit 7 continues the use of the CME Building Case Study to explore water sustainability in the context of a building. The activity is extended to the catchment level, and a new tool for catchment level storm water ...

Assessing Water Resource Demand in New York City
Kyle Monahan, Clarkson University
An exercise assessing the water demand of New York City and population dynamics underlying that demand is provided. Visualization of first order water resource estimates using precipitation data and a known water storage volume are used to draw conclusions about drought risk and the sustainability of NYC water supplies.

Unit 9. Planning and Decision-Making
Gigi Richard, Fort Lewis College
Unit 9 is a group activity that requires students to apply the material they have learned in Units 1–8 in an urban water system design project. Students are presented with a scenario and are required to select ...

Unit 6. Rainwater Harvesting
Steven Burian, University of Utah; Manoj Jha, North Carolina A & T State University; Gigi Richard, Fort Lewis College; Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia
Unit 6 covers the preliminary design of a rainwater harvesting unit. Pre-class assignments provide background on rainwater harvesting. An active learning exercise steps student teams through the process of sizing a ...

Unit 4. Urban Landscapes and Water Use
Gigi Richard, Fort Lewis College
Students are introduced to evapotranspiration (ET) and how ET varies with meteorological factors and plant factors. A pre-class video and worksheet introduce students to estimating landscape water needs from ET and ...

Using MATLAB and smartphone to learn the measurement of motion
Supachai Vorapojpisut, Thammasat University
MATLAB Mobile is used to acquire motion movement from smartphone sensors. Then, students will use MATLAB to practice several modern engineering skills including data visualization, data analysis and application ...

Unit 6: Ocean Preservation: Sustaining Our Oceanic Resources
MICHELLE KINZEL, Southwestern College; Astrid Schnetzer, North Carolina State University; Cara Thompson, Arizona State University at the West Campus
Students are introduced to the concept of geoengineering, "the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system, in order to moderate global warming" (The Royal Society). The goal is ...

SSBW - Python Tutorial 4: Introduction to ObsPy
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using the basic syntax of Python commands, 2) use the functionality of the ObsPy library to load, plot, and analyze data or ...