In a time of environmental and ecological dilemmas, students and graduates are working hard to come up with answers.
In addition to strengthening students' mastery of engineering theory and application, the graduate curriculum should provide core courses in ecosystem theory including quantitative ecology, systems ecology, restoration ecology, ecological engineering, ecological modeling, and ecological engineering economics.
In this paper, we studied how design and creative tasks in an interdisciplinary base directed to highlight theenvironmental issues, affect the change of ecological culture of students enrolled in different educational programs.
Center for Ecoliteracy - @Ecoliteracy The Center for Ecoliteracy supports ecological education for students in grades K-12 to promote sustainable living.
Hugh Pocock, a sculpture and video professor at the college, who is the founder and coordinator of this new concentration, stated that "fine art is one of the last fields to be engaged in social responsibility and ecological awareness," as students traditionally have been taught to express themselves without regard to the larger societal context in which their work exists.
Their analysis revealed a "surprisingly high genetic diversity," a sign of a far larger population in the past, says S. Elizabeth Alter, a graduate student in ecological genetics, who led the team.
A matching exercise requires students to assign various trilobite morphologies to their interpreted ecological niches, thus reinforcing the students' new anatomical knowledge and helping students to distinguish between primary and secondary interpretation of scientific evidence.
The study of ecological niches speaks to students' natural curiosity about how long extinct animals lived.
For example, students using ecological knowledge explained that aquatic animals belonged in the same group (Halverson et al. 2011).
In the Ecological Metagenomics course, 21 students sequenced novel DNA from microbes, metagenomes and marine mammals.
