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Abstract

Transportation projects have significant environmental impacts including air, water and noise pollution, habitat disruption and land use alterations. These environmental impacts also affect the communities, some more than others. As ethical engineers, it is our responsibility to be guardians of public safety and to protect the environment. Transportation projects have great potential in engaging in and promotion of sustainable and equitable practices, however in engineering curriculum, we often skip discussions on the environmental and social impacts, and sustainability considerations of transportation practices. This is mainly due to lack of easily accessible and interactive resources. This project aims to fill this gap, through development of educational multimedia resources that faculty can easily access, adopt and share with their students. This project will integrate essential content on transportation projects with environmental impacts assessment of transportation applications, sustainability considerations of materials used for transportation projects, and the ethical and social justice dimensions of transportation projects. The educational resources will include materials (active learning activities, examples, discussion prompts), short informative videos, resources list for related content, interviews with experts in environmental impact assessment, sustainability and social justice in transportation. The multimedia materials will be hosted through the website created by the CSU CEE Department.

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