Environment Education :

Environmental monitoring involving school children : Schools in rural and urban Bangalore are the partners in the programme. Wetland monitoring (ecosystem approach – soil and water quality monitoring, catchment mapping) using SIMPUTERS. To enable school children to handle SIMPUTERS, user friendly GUI’s were developed and the response of the school children is very good to this programme. Raising awareness among school children would certainly contribute towards sustainable development.

Capacity Building : In-service professionals – developed environmental engineering modules in self learning format for launching in distance education mode. These modules are being validated and pilot tested.

Environment Engineering Courses : COL-IISc (Commonwealth of Learning, Canada – Indian Institute of Science, India) developed Series of Learning Materials in environmental engineering for teaching environmental engineering professionals through ODL. The courses with student relevant examples were directed at practicing professionals in India and the developing Commonwealth countries for continuous professional development. Based on the analysis of target audience, instructional goals and objectives, and desired course content for India, an outline of the content was created, which was reviewed by a committee of content and instructional design experts.  Five Courses developed are:

1. Management of Municipal Solid Waste
2. Environment Management
3. Soil and Groundwater pollution from agricultural activities
4. Air pollution control
5. Water and wastewater treatment

The development of five environmental engineering courses included formative evaluation by project review committee and electronic list discussions. The summative evaluation included validation and pilot testing and brainstorm sessions to ascertain the suitability of materials to meet the project goals and objectives.  The five environmental engineering courses were revised based on the suggestions from validation and pilot testing exercises. The courses are being offered through ODL at Indian Institute of Science and details are available at  http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy.

Environment Engineering Courses :

1. Ramachandra T.V., 2006. Management of Municipal Solid Waste, Commonwealth Of Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore .
2. Ramachandra T.V., 2006.Soil and Groundwater Pollution from Agricultural Activities, Commonwealth Of Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
3. Vijay Kulkarni and Ramachandra T.V., 2006. Environmental Management, Commonwealth Of Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
4. Mahajan S.P., 2006. Air Pollution Control (Ed. T.V. Ramachandra), Commonwealth Of Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 
5. Rakesh Kumar, R.N. Singh, Municipal water and wastewater treatment, (Ed. T.V. Ramachandra), Commonwealth Of Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.