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Teaching Enhancement Unit

Water and Waste Management

Name: Lorna Fitzsimons
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering & Computing
School: School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Module Name: Water and Waste Management
Approach Taken: Education for Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship Education, A wastewater engineering design module that incorporates environmental systems, economics and society.

Briefly describe how you have integrated these themes into your module

Content: engineering design theory to scaffold the CBL design challenge; CBL which accounts for 70% of the module; skills development (teamwork, sustainable systems thinking and design); engineering system design - application and integration of theory to design a sanitation system in a less developed country.

 

Briefly describe the impact you hope integrating these approaches will have on students who complete the module 

The student feedback has been extremely positive: 'The CA project was great because it really supported everything we were learning within lectures. I felt the project gave me more confidence and strengthened my understanding of the topics covered.'; 'I cannot fault a thing about this module. I learned a lot about team work, waste management and i worked on my transversal skills. Don't change this module'

 

Related Sustainable Development Goals