This course is the capstone experience for a three-course environmental engineering sequence. It balances engineered solutions to technologic problems with economic, socio-cultural, and political considerations evaluated during a decision-making process. With a focus on water and sanitation challenges in the developing world, students assess various technologies and their ability to meet community needs. The course highlights the engineering design process to develop appropriate solutions and introduces decision modeling with consideration of social, political, and economic factors. A semester-long term project leverages real world case studies to provide cadet teams an opportunity to apply knowledge and creatively design sustainable solutions to ill-defined problems. Students must make logical assumptions throughout the project, present and evaluate solution designs, and prepare a formal written report defending their selected course of action.
Lessons
40 @ 55 min (2.500 Att/wk)
Labs
0 @ 0 min
Special requirements
Must be a First Class cadet. Each cadet will complete a paper and oral presentation on a contemporary water resources project.
