Restructuring Of Ce4506 (Environmental Policy And Pollution Prevention Design) And Student Response Survey

This paper details the format change of a senior level environmental policy and pollution prevention class offered to 51 civil and environmental engineering students in Spring of 2005. The old format entailed 3 lecture hours per week, and traditional hour exams. The new format included class room strategies for active and collaborative learning, had no exams, and reduced the lecture to one class hour each week. The paper includes qualitative results from a survey regarding student preferences for the new class structure in comparison to the previous structure.