Teaching
CEE 265D: Water & sanitation in developing countries
Economic, social, political, and technical aspects of sustainable water supply and sanitation service provision in developing countries. Case studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Service pricing, alternative institutional structures including privatization, and the role of consumer demand and community participation in the planning process. Environmental and public health considerations, and strategies for serving low-income households. Limited enrollment; permission of instructor required.
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CEE 378D: Statistical analysis seminar
Description: Practical management and analysis techniques for primary data collected in multidisciplinary projects. Selection of appropriate statistical tests, interpretation of results, and effective communication of findings to lay audiences. Univariate, bivariate, and multivariate techniques, including hypothesis testing, nonparametric statistics, regression analysis, and matching. Use of SPSS statistical package.
CEE 277D: Water, health & development in developing countries
Description: Graduate seminar focused on emerging research in the areas of water supply, sanitation, hygiene, and health in developing countries.IPER 320: Design of environmental research
This course is designed to provide a broad introduction to the design of environmentally related research, and is designed for doctoral students who are in the beginning stage of their dissertation research. Following a brief introduction to major philosophies of knowledge, we review the strengths, weaknesses, and application of several research designs commonly utilized in environmentally related research (e.g., experiments and quasi-experiments, case studies, and meta-analyses). Limited enrollment; permission of instructor required.
CEE 177P: Sustainability in theory and practice
Like other courses with the word ‘sustainability’ in the title, the motivation of this course stems from a dissatisfaction with the current state of the world and from a desire to identify more positive – i.e., less environmentally and socially destructive – development pathways. The course will provide a brief introduction to the multidimensional concept of sustainable development and evaluate a number of engineered systems or artifacts using specific tools or methods. These tools/methods include: cost-benefit analysis (CBA); trade-off/positional analysis; systems thinking; and lifecycle analysis (LCA). We will also take a look at two approaches to strategic thinking – scenario analysis and participatory backcasting. This course is not utopian in nature. Instead, it will strive to strengthen your ability to evaluate what might be conceived as unsustainable activities and provide you with the tools necessary to craft potential solutions to these. During the course, we will begin to develop a decision-support toolkit for promoting sustainable development and explore the importance of viewing problems from a broad range of perspectives.