Stone Lab, OSU Campus, Lake Erie Monday, Wednesday and Friday June 23-July 24, 2002

Goals

The course will offer students in engineering and environmental sciences a unique opportunity to develop knowledge, attitudes and skills for 21st century careers in science, engineering and technology. Sessions will focus on Earth systems emphasizing relationships among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and biosphere of coastal and offshore areas. Instructional methods are a combination of high-tech, high-touch tools – satellite imagery, datasets on line, GIS, digital models – as well as traditional field technologies for environmental measurements and observation.  Instruction is based on constructing learning through experiences, group interactions and problem-solving.
 
A National Science Foundation grant allows us to support the room and board for 12 selected juniors or seniors and 6 PhD candidates from around the region. Materials for and products from the course will be made available nationally following the program.
 
Objectives:

          Students who successfully complete the course will be able to

• Apply an Earth systems approach to interdisciplinary science and engineering studies
• Identify, access and use available data on characteristics and issues of coastal environments 
• Demonstrate the advantages of combining technologies of digital and field techniques for addressing environmental and resource management topics
• Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of problem-based collaborative learning for studies in science and engineering
• PhD students in the course will be able to demonstrate how the course processes and materials can be used in other contexts for University teaching.

Grading is non-competitive. Pretesting will identify entry skills and understandings, and personal growth will be assessed from this baseline. Within the course, we will evaluate

• Participation in group process (graded by rubric)  10%
• Skill development in digital technologies (demonstration)  15%
• Skill development in field technologies (demonstration)    15%
• Growth in conceptual/systems understanding (concept map) 20%
• Term project (group presentation and paper or web-based product)  40%      

     Text materials:

• Fortner and Mayer, 1993. The Great Lake Erie. Columbus: Ohio Sea Grant.
• Readings and on-line materials as assigned
• Optional: Bolsenga and Herdendorf, Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair Handbook.

Instructors:
Dr. Rosanne W. Fortner OSU School of Natural Resources Phone 614-292-9826 Fortner.2@osu.edu	Dr. Carolyn J. Merry OSU Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Sciences 614-292-6889 merry.1@osu.edu

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