What
is ENVIROPOLIS?
ENVIROPOLIS
provides
Northeastern undergraduate classes in Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Law, Sociology or any other classes
where urban environmental issues are covered, the opportunity to enhance
Urban Environmental Education!
The program
adds components to individual classes that are typically not feaseable,
like Field Trip, Conference Attendance, Panel Discussion, Field Monitoring,
etc.
ENVIROPOLIS
2005 focused on Urban Water Managment
and took 12 undergraduates, with 3 faculty and staff, to Boston, Tampa
and Washington, DC. In Boston we toured the Deer Island Wastewater
Treatment Plant, the Cottage Farm CSO facility and the Gatehouses
#1 and #2, to learn about storm and wastewater managment in our hometown.
In Tampa we visited the Tampa Bay Regional Water Treatment plant,
the Regional Reservoir and the Desalination Plant, and learned about
drinking water supply mamagment in this Florida city. In Washington,
D.C. we atteded the WEFTEC conference, which is the largest Water
Quality Event in North America, partecipating in technical session,
facility tour and networking with students and professionals of the
water industry. Finally we organized a workshop with a panel of experts
to discuss an extremely important and current urban water issue: the
Environmental Impacts of Hurricane Katrina.
The ENVIROPOLIS
2006 theme is: Environmental Engineering in X-Treme
Environments. Planned activities include a close look at the wastewater
systems in the Pearl of the Sea cruise ship, and in Gillette Stadium;
we will visit the NASA wastewater lab (Huntsville, Alabama); we will
partecipate in the WEFTEC.06 Conference (Dallas, TX) and we will organize
a Workshop at NU.
