Environmental Engineering Intersociety Board

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Third Annual Report

A Board Game for Teaching Internet Engineering

This paper describes elements in the development of a board game for teaching Internet peering as part of an Internet engineering class.

Canalization and environmental engineering

Canalization is an umbrella term a leading C. H. Waddington introduced in 1960’s. The term describes the ability of a population to buffer disturbances in phenotypic development. There are two major types of canalization based on the sources of disturbances: genetic and environmental. Genetic canalization describes the ability to express the same phenotype from different genotypes, while enviro...

Dimensions of Environmental Engineering

The impact of human activity on the biosphere has produced a global society context in which scarcity of natural resources and risks to ecological health such as air pollution and water contamination call for new solutions that help sustain the development of human society and all life on earth. This review article begins by recalling the historical and philosophical context from which contempo...

Supplementing the Traditional Institutional Review Board with an Environmental Health and Community Review Board

BACKGROUND Community-based research often involves additional ethical, legal, and social considerations beyond those of the specific individuals involved in the study. The traditional institutional review board (IRB) typically focuses on protecting the rights and ensuring the safety of the individuals involved. For projects involving community members, IRBs should be more sensitive to issues re...