Using Blogs and Labview and Lego Robotics in a Freshman Seminar Course to Teach about Sustainability Concepts

Sustainability at Suffolk is freshman seminar course that explores the science of sustainability and contemporary issues related to sustainability; and has the students develop an experiment that teaches other Suffolk students about energy and sustainability.The goals of the course are: to provide students with a context for learning how to frame and solve complex problems using an integration of science, engineering and the humanities; how to do independent research and work in teams, and how to communicate complex scientific issues to others by blogging, and by designing an experiment.To that end, the students' final project is to design a lab activity that teaches about the science of sustainability which they instruct to students of another class.