Project teams discuss allwork-approach methods and make decisions as a group. While team members areresponsible for contributing to all aspects of a project, each student also isassigned individual tasks. But every teammember must become familiar with all project data and theoretical knowledge. As components of the project are integrated, each team member must learn todefend and explain the project as a whole, Christensen said. At the end of thesemester, student teams present their projects to committees of facultymembers.
Discussions follow, and faculty members evaluate the knowledge andskills acquired by the students.
Each team member is given an individualgrade. We are taught to feel responsible-asindividuals for the group, and as a group for the individuals. Andersen and Christensen have conducted projects in water and wastewatertreatment, hydrology, highway construction, and other areas. Last year, theirteam conducted an environmental assessment of resource consumption andpollution at a slaughterhouse. This project was used as a preliminary study forenvironmental certification of the slaughterhouse.