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Building the Sustainability Minor @ NMSU presentation to Department Head - Jeffrey Beasley
David Boje, Coordinator for Greening the Curriculum Presidents Fund project
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Building the Sustainability Minor @ NMSU presentation to - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Building the Sustainability Minor @ NMSU presentation to - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Building the Sustainability Minor @ NMSU presentation to Department Head - Jeffrey Beasley David Boje, Coordinator for Greening the Curriculum Presidents Fund project 1 THE MATRIX of Tracks in University-wide Sustainability Minor 2
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Finding a home for homeless Track 2?
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Our Requests
§ We have ADAC approval to start the process for University-wide
Sustainability Minor
§ We have Registrar’s approval to put into course catalogue § We want to replicate Track 1 already underway in Anthropology
Department and Track 3 in Management Department to other departments so we get Track 2 & 3 shared homes
§ We would like departments to work with the Catalogue changes
and get the University-wide definitions and objectives of Sustainability Minor into the catalog 4
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MILESTONES in Contract with President’s Excellence Fund
§ June 2014
Establish interdisciplinary undergraduate minor in sustainability
§ June 2014
Establish database of sustainability courses and prerequisites
§ Oct 2014
Use database to evaluate dept., course and student engagement
§ Dec 2014
Implement marketing campaign
§ June 2015
Establish graduate certificate in sustainability 5
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Topic for Engineering Technology & Surveying Engineering Department Meeting
! Table&2:&Track&One&Sustainability&Minor’s&housed&in&Engineering&Department!
Environmental Protection and Resource Conservation Economic Prosperity and Continuity Equity and Social Well Being
! ! ! ! ! ! What courses in engineering are have any sustainability content? 6
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Our preliminary Review of Courses in Sustainability in Engineering
Key: Sustainability-Focused Course
- r R is a Sustainability-Related Course
not yet in online database !
E T 115 Introduction to Environmental Technology R E T 128 Fundamentals of Sustainable Construction F E T 255 Applied Industrial Hygiene and Safety R E T 321 Environmental Engineering and Science F CH E 361 Engineering Materials R CH E 436 Environmental Process Design I R CH E 437 Environmental Process Design II R CH E 439 Environmental Modeling F C E 141 Mathematics and Hydraulic Engineering R C E 356 Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering F C E 485 Design of Earth Dams R ENVE 456 Environmental Engineering Design F ENVE 487 Air Pollution Control Systems Design F
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Table 1: Measures/Targets for Greening the Curriculum @ NMSU relate to Vision 2020 University Goals
Measures/ Targets
Dec 2014 Dec 2015 Dec 2016
Departments participating in sustainability programs
Set baseline database +5% +10%
Sustainability program enrollment diversity Female
Set baseline database +3% +5%
Sustainability program enrollment diversity Hispanic (& others TBD)
Set baseline database +2% +5%
Courses with international sustainability service and
- utreach components
Set baseline database 10% 15%
Courses with Energy savings Projects
Set baseline database +5% +10%
Estimated savings of those projects
Set baseline database $20,000 $40,000
Courses with sustainability projects
Set baseline database +10% +15%
Faculty with sustainability related donations, grants and contracts
Set baseline database +10% +15%
Sustainability related jobs found by students
N/A (set baseline database +5% +10% !
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