Course Description
People, perspectives, values, and ecosystems. Properties and principles of ecosystems. Interdisciplinary teamwork in ecological engineering. Status of ecosystems around the world. Salmon life history and status. The professional realm of ecological engineers. Professional ethics in ecological engineering. Reasoning about ecosystems and the scientific method. Framing ecological problems and conceptual mapping. Design of ecological studies. Obtaining, analyzing and presenting ecological data. Ecosystem monitoring. Economics of ecosystems.
Course Objectives
The student, upon completion of this course, should be able to:
- show, compare, and contrast how people's attitudes, values, and perspectives afect how they interact physically with ecosystems;
- describe and give examples of key properties and principles of ecosystems;
- understand the characteristics of effective team approaches to problem solving and use team approaches successfully;
- explain, at a general comprehension level, the status of ecosystems around the world;
- illustrate ecosystem concepts and impacts using salmon case studies as examples;
- describe the types of professional activities in which ecological engineers may be engaged;
- analyze professional ethical issues and identify professional misconducts;
- demonstrate how ecosystem questions and issues may be investigated using the scientific method;
- explain ecological problems and show how conceptual mapping may be used as a tool to show important relationships between elements and issues;
- explain and show, at a freshman level, how ecological studies are designed and how data are obtained, analyzed, and presented;
- describe common methods for monitoring ecosystems; and
- describe predominant approaches for valuating ecosystems.
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