Category: Teaching Innovations

Shannon Belfield , Senior Project Manager at Sustainable Solutions and an alumna of the Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering at Drexel University, gave an engaging guest lecture to our ENVE 571 students earlier this week. She shared insights on a Life Cycle Assessment her company did for a circular economy program. Students appreciated learning from…

For the first week of my Architectural Engineering course about Building Envelope Systems, we talked about functions and performance aspects of the building envelope, from technical to environmental and sociocultural design considerations. We had a lot of fun with a 15-min class activity where I asked students to use AI to design the world’s worst…

Field trip day!! Had the pleasure to take my Building Envelope Systems students on a field trip to University Place 3.0, the first certified WELL Platinum and LEED Platinum lab building in the US! Thank you Marelisa Gibson, Chloe Bendistis, AIA, LEED AP, and the rest of the team at UPA | University Place Associates…

I feel energized! Today I tested an innovative teaching strategy I learned at Drexel’s Teaching and Learning Center in my Building Envelope Systems class at Drexel University College of Engineering. Here’s how it works: each team gets a double dice and a dry erase board (to keep score). A double dice has one number inside…

Today I’ve witnessed the power of bringing different disciplines to the classroom, especially bridging engineering and social sciences to explore eye-opening perspectives. I had the pleasure of hosting Jay Turner as a guest lecturer in my environmental life cycle assessment class for engineers. Jay is an environmental historian who writes on policy and environmental politics…