Virtual reality - a role in environmental engineering education?

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
pp. 303-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Barraclough ◽  
Ian Guymer
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Environment Agency ◽  
The Uk

The need for environmental education at several levels in society is discussed. The paper describes the role of the Environment Agency in the UK and outlines its responsibilities with respect to education. A brief description of the concept of virtual reality is provided together with an overview of some available tools. The possible application and subsequent benefits of employing virtual reality techniques to education related to environmental issues is discussed.

Environmental engineering education in Spain

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Rodríguez-Roda ◽  
F. Castells ◽  
X. Flotats ◽  
J. Lema ◽  
I. Tejero
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
Bologna Agreement

There is a growing demand for engineers and technologists who show multidisciplinary expertise to deal with environmental issues. As a result of this demand, most countries are adapting their old university programs on environmental engineering education. In Spain an official environmental engineering degree does not yet exist, but the Council of Universities is working to present a proposal, based on Bologna agreement concepts. The paper summarizes not only the future perspectives of environmental engineering education in Spain, but also the evolution of the approach during the last decades, which includes the role of the private initiative, the environmental sciences degree, and the intensification in different traditional engineering degrees. Finally, the paper briefly details and compares the syllabus developed in the only four Spanish universities where environmental engineering is offered as a non-official post-graduate course lasting two years.

scholarly journals Crisis and Water Services: How a 2007 Public Health Emergency in Finland Helped Shape Its Response to COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Tapio S. Katko ◽  
Jarmo J. Hukka
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Sound Management

This paper aims at shedding light on the significance of water epidemics and their potential positive impacts on improving preparedness in water and sanitation services. We explore the water epidemic of Nokia in 2007 and preparedness-related reactions since then. The corona case confirms the fundamental role of clean water for well-being in communities, the need for sound management of water services to proactively promote public health, as well as the need for expanding conventional water and environmental engineering education and research to offer more holistic views.

Environmental education for all engineers

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Jahan ◽  
J.W. Everett ◽  
R.P. Hesketh ◽  
P.M. Jansson ◽  
K. Hollar
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Wastewater Quality

Environmental engineering education at universities is a rapidly changing field globally. Traditionally it has resided in the civil engineering program addressing water and wastewater quality, treatment, design and regulatory issues. In recent years environmental engineering has become a much broader field encompassing water, wastewater, soil pollution, air pollution, risk assessment, ecosystems, human health, toxicology, sustainable development, regulatory aspects and much more. The need to introduce environmental engineering/green engineering/pollution prevention/design for the environment concepts to undergraduate engineering students has become recognized to be increasingly important. This need is being driven in part through the US Engineering Accreditation Commission Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology criteria 2000. Thus there has been a major shift in environmental engineering education and it no longer resides only within the civil engineering discipline. This paper focuses on the development of innovative curricula for a brand new engineering program at Rowan University that integrates environmental education for all engineers. A common course known as "engineering clinic" was developed for all engineering students throughout their eight semesters of engineering education. One of the clinic goals is to integrate engineering design and the environment. The program, in its seventh year, indicates successful implementation of environmental education in all four engineering disciplines in their course work and clinics.

scholarly journals Environmental Education for Students from School to University: Case Study on Biorefineries

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nogales-Delgado ◽  
Martín
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Right

Universities play an important role in society. On the other hand, more and more governments and international organizations are concerned about the environment. Thus, both in their educational programs and research, as well as in the case of public exhibitions, universities are increasingly including subjects related to the environment and its preservation. In the case of Spain, there are fewer university students than ten years ago (from approximately 140,000 to fewer than 130,000), and the number of students interested in technical and scientific degrees has equally decreased. Consequently, the importance of fostering a scientific culture with concerns in environmental issues is continuously increasing, from schools to universities. The role of real scientific environments, such as laboratories devoted to scientific research, could be an important support for environmental divulgation, as most research carried out at universities have to do with these subjects. The aim of this work was to show a specific case of environmental education in a laboratory devoted to the production of biodiesel and biolubricants, covering a wide range of academic levels and, depending on the audience, selecting the right content (both theoretical and practical). This guide was useful for the laboratory technicians, increasing the interest of the audience (considering the expositions good or excellent, depending on the academic level, and gaining enough or excellent knowledge about biorefineries).

scholarly journals La educación ambiental ante el problema ético del desarrollo

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Carlos Humberto González-Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
The Social

The objective of this literature review is to understand the complexity of the environmental issue in a context of civilizational crisis generated by the scientific paradigm and the prevailing forms of knowledge. From this research, the objective is to evaluate the pedagogical exercise and the role of the environmental education in the supreme task of forming a cognitive, ethical, political, and historical subject capable of taking the new planetary challenges on. The structural order of this essay focuses on a critical reflection on the environmental crisis; it also questions the restrictions of the environmental education, and, from the complexity, the reasons for trying to incorporate new fields of study with a transdisciplinary approach. This paper analyzes the structural causes of the discourse of development as factors that generate the social, political and environmental conflict in Colombia. These causes are reflected in an institutional crisis, absence of the State, and, therefore, in governability; for which education makes possible a pedagogical exercise in a critical formation that leads to a configuration of democracy and public management. The exercise of power, the decision-making and the role of human subjects must be accomplished in a conscious and ethical way (integrative values). In order to achieve this, an ethics of development is essential to understand and assume responsibility for environmental issues. It is understood, then, that the development supports an ethical dimension promoting sustainable interactions between the society and the nature.

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