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BROGAN  \nWALTER M. MCDONALD  \nVINOD K. LOHANI  \nRANDEL L. DYMOND Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA  \nAND  \nAARON J. BRADNER NEON, Inc.  \nOak Ridge, TN  \nABSTRACT  \nEducation is essential for solving the complex water-related challenges facing society. The Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) and the Online Watershed Learning System (OWLS) provide data creation and data sharing infrastructures, respectively, that combine to forman environmental learning tool. This system collects, integrates and stores real-time, high-frequency environmental monitoring data and imagery from a small urbanized watershed and makes it available to users at anytime from anywhere they have internet access. This paper discusses both the developmental and maintenance challenges associated with the LEWAS and the design details of the OWLS. A pilot test of the OWLS was implemented in a senior level hydrology course as a part of an NSF funded project. Results indicate that 80% of students (n = 30) valued the anywhere, anytime access to the data and 97% of students believed that access to the OWLS helped them to learn hydrologic concepts. A similar pilot test implemented in a community college freshman engineering course as part of the same project indicates that students (n=27) who used the OWLS felt that the OWLS assignment was valuable and relevant to their coursework even when their academic performance was underwhelming (40% correct on multiple choice questions) . Future plans to expand the scope of the LEWAS-OWLS to cover environmental data from other geographical regions are discussed.  \nKey words: Real-Time Monitoring Operational Challenges, Water Sustainability Education, Online Learning Systems  \nSPRING 2016 1  \nADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION  \nDevelopment and Classroom Implementation of an Environmental Data Creation and Sharing Tool  \nINTRODUCTION  \nA recent report on Challenges and Opportunities in Hydrologic Sciences by the National Academy of Sciences states that the solution to the complex water-related challenges facing society today begins with education (National Research Council, 2012) . Foundational to Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) education about the hydrologic cycle are the data that represent physical and chemical processes of water. The breadth and depth of environmental data is increasing due to contemporary sensing and computing technologies that can remotely measure environmental data in real-time and at high-frequencies. As these types of technologies become more integrated into modern society, it is critical that we harness this technology to educate people about water sustainability issues.  \nIn this paper, we describe a data creation and sharing infrastructure that facilitates the flow of data from measurement instruments to end users via the Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS), which utilizes recent technological advances to improve water sustainability education. In the context of this paper, we define water sustainability education as education that addresses water availability, quality or reuse, water health impacts, or the relationship of water to a changing climate. The LEWAS is a real-time, high-frequency environmental monitoring lab at Virginia Tech that employs environmental sensing instruments to collect flow, water quality, and weather parameters. In this paper, high frequency sampling refers to a temporal rate of measurement collection on the order of once every few seconds to once every few minutes and real-time monitoring refers to the availability of measurement data within a few seconds. This real-time, high-frequency data from the LEWAS has been used in engineering courses at Virginia Western Community College (VWCC","cbCaidSzoxsn1PSy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidSzoxsn1PSy","pdf",6576258,34,"English","# Introduction\n## Environmental learning infrastructure (LEWAS and OWLS)\n## Real-time, high-frequency monitoring concepts\n## User access and classroom pilot studies","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the paper address in engineering education for water sustainability?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses how education can help solve complex water-related challenges by using hydrologic-cycle data that represent physical and chemical processes of water.\"},{\"question\":\"How do LEWAS and OWLS support the environmental learning tool?\",\"answer\":\"LEWAS creates and stores real-time, high-frequency environmental monitoring data, while OWLS provides a data sharing interface for users to access historic and live information remotely.\"},{\"question\":\"What results did the OWLS pilot test show in hydrology and engineering courses?\",\"answer\":\"In a senior-level hydrology course, 80% of students valued anywhere, anytime access and 97% believed OWLS helped them learn hydrologic concepts; a community college freshman engineering pilot indicated students found the OWLS assignment valuable and relevant.\"}]","Development and Classroom Implementation of an Environmental Data Creation and Sharing Tool - Spring 2016 | PDF",1792067406,86]