On April 20, 2010 one of the greatest natural disasters in America began. An offshore drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon, exploded and began to release an estimated 200,000 gallons per day of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. A disaster of this magnitude necessitates classroom emphasis in order to educate engineering students in the areas of safety and the environment. In response to this educational exigency, Tuskegee University College of Engineering and Physical Sciences incorporated content from the oil spill into an introductory chemical engineering course required for all chemical engineering students and an engineering ethics course required for all engineering students. Based on anecdotal and statistical evidence, both activities increased student awareness of the safety and environmental issues associated with the spill.
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