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This page includes teaching research on the flipped classroom, student videos and outside resources related to environmental engineering.

Click here to read the PRISM article on Flipped

Click here to read the entire flipped article from Advances in Engineering Education
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Leonhard Center Video on Flipped Education

Video Projects CHE412: Chemical Engineering and the Environment, Fall 2019


Video Projects CHE412: Chemical Engineering and the Environment, Fall 2018
War on drugs 
​Brandon Leidy, Mikeala Roper 
Acid mine drainage, Amanda Stutzman​ 
Straws: Alec Altman, Bailyn Bench, Andrew Ciccorni, Joseph Stinziano 
Livestock, Marwan Al Mansoori, Abdulla Alawandhi, Yasin Alawadhi, Mouza Alblooshi 
​Bees, Seth Dugan 
Bromide – Prince Denson, Utsav Patel 
​Bioaccumulation – Austin Pollock 
​Orcas are dying due to PCBs
Emily Helm, Ben Heitsch, Taylor Urbancic 
Cleansers
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Brian Kim and Jaewook Lee 
Deep well horizon – William Buchanan, Mark Jones, Phillip Szotak 
Ocean acidification
Courtney Poorman, Spencer Wallace 
Deforestation – Tim Markow (39/40)
Coral bleaching – Alex Ondo, John Santos, Sam Stasko, Hitarth Ukani 
Population – Michael White
See below for a great video explaining BOD from Adam Uliana, a Penn State ChE student from Spring 2016.



The videos below are from CHE497 Spring 2016.
Links for videos created by CHE497 students during Spring 2017
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  1. Water acidification: 
  2. Acid Rain: 
  3. Ocean acidification: https://youtu.be/nTOelKS5Lbw
 
  1. Pharmaceuticals in water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLS1VG-6lHI&feature=youtu.be
  2. PCBs in water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsRTFpHDpXY&feature=youtu.be
  3. To bead or not to bead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs9fTdD_u-g
  4. What are fecal coliform? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn9AMOJla98&t=5s
 

  1. Clean coal: https://youtu.be/dodqqTrBmgY
  2. Fracking and water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEA3cFMvHr0&t=12s
  3. Deforestation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEMAvJqmWE
 

  1. Why does rust happen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6-hR31ahE
  2. Pervious concrete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mdjv8azHIw
  3. Microalgae for fuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eI5r8eFwtI&feature=youtu.be

Links for Environmental Engineering videos 

Reinvention of the toilet at University of Toronto (short video describing their research)
Tom's River NJ video
(Short video summarizing the book ~ 20 minutes)
BP Oil spill spoof on Comedy Central (~5 min)
Flocculation explained by MIT (~ 5 min)


Water Blues, Green Solutions (multiple videos to choose from - total is 90 minutes)
An inconvenient truth (entire documentary ~ 90 minutes)
American's Water Crisis (A three-part series about the sad state of freshwater in America.)
Tapped (Examines the role of the bottled water industry)
Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown (the crisis inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex)

Garbage island ( a mythical, Texas-sized island made entirely of our trash.)

Tallest Bridge in the World  (
About the Millau Viaduct -  343 meters above ground- taller than the Eiffer Tower!)
Megastructures China's Mega Bridges





Links for Environmental Engineering books
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr (1996)
An inconvenient truth by Al Gore (2007)
Toms River by Dan Fagin (2013)
Kochia Chronicles by Khanjan Mehta (2013)
Sacrificial Zones: The Front Line of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States by Steve Lerner (2012)
The Boom:
How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold (2015)

Links for Civil Engineering books

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough


The Hoover Dam by Joseph E. Stevens

The control of nature  by John McPhee (1990)


The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named  John Keay


The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (Thomas Dunne Book) by Samuel C. Florman

Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America Paperback by Henry Petroski 

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski

Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski

Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design Henry Petroski

An Engineer's Alphabet: Gleanings from the Softer Side of a Profession Henry Petroski

Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer Henry Petroski










 






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