Grad Students Lead Summer Campers in Exploring Environmental Engineering
Sept. 27, 2016
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On June 28 and 29, CHEE graduate students Margarita Acedo and Sarah Moore led 30 local high school students in applying engineering to real-world environmental problems as part of the UA's Summer Engineering Academy's brand-new Engineering and the Environment Program.
The campers learned the fundamentals of environmental engineering – global and regional concerns related to surface and groundwater contamination issues, remediation methods, sources of contamination, and their health effects.
Acedo and Moore, both second-year chemical engineering doctoral students, learned how to collaborate on preparing a curriculum and earned valuable teaching experience in the environmental engineering discipline.