Beena Sukumaran has been on the faculty at Rowan University since 1998 and is currently Vice President of Research and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She served as Department Head for 7 years. Under her leadership, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Program saw considerable growth in student and faculty numbers. Her area of expertise is in micro-geomechanics and has published over 100 peer reviewed conference and journal papers including several papers on engineering education and the unique undergraduate curriculum at Rowan University, especially the Engineering Clinics. She has been involved in various outreach activities to recruit more women and minorities into engineering and is Program Chair Elect of the Women in Engineering Division of ASEE.

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is Interim Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University (USA). Dr. Farrell has contributed to engineering education through her work in inductive pedagogy, spatial skills, and inclusion and diversity. She has been honored by the American Society of Engineering Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning, and she was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).

Rowan University received funding from the USEPA for watershed assessment of two local creeks in the state of New Jersey. The project draws on two creeks in watershed management area (WMA) 18 in New Jersey. WMA 18 is the lower Delaware River WMA and encompasses eleven watersheds. Both of the selected projects are in close proximity to campuses of the university, the main campus in Glassboro and a satellite campus in Camden, respectively. One project in the Boroughs of Glassboro and Pitman, focuses on the Chestnut Branch of Mantua Creek. This Creek is of environmental importance because it is the headwaters for Alcyon Lake in Pitman, and flows adjacent to a nearby superfund site -the LiPari Landfill. The other, Newton Creek, in Waterfront South in the City of Camden, is close to another superfund site, the Welsbach and General Gas Mantle Company.The project is multidisciplinary in nature and requires expertise from various disciplines. Tasks include watershed characterization through hydrologic and water quality assessment and modeling and outreach. Water quality parameters being monitored include ph, DO, temperature, solids, organics, metals and nutrients (nitrate and phosphate). HEC-HMS is being used to develop a model to show the impacts of development on the watersheds. Outreach activities include faculty and student presentations on watersheds, nonpoint source pollution, its impact on human health and the environment, and prevention options. Contamination of soil and groundwater via nonpoint source pollution and cleanup of contaminated water are also demonstrated using simple visual experiments for a non-technical audience.Finally, to create a bridge between environmental professionals and the local community, environmental information will be made available in easy to understand and visually engaging mediums for both watersheds developed to equip the local residents with an interactive means to access information after the project. This innovative program for community outreach utilizes newly available multimedia technologies for a more effective dissemination of environmental information among government entities, schools and community groups. The deliverables include an interactive website and a CD-ROM for local government planners, environmental specialists, developers, and citizens.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University, with support from NSF, has adopted "Sooner City", a virtual city developed by the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma. A more portable version of Sooner City has been developed, which makes it easier to adopt at other institutions. Called "Garden City" at Rowan, the virtual city is used in the undergraduate civil engineering program. Faculty use Garden City to demonstrate the context (i.e., human communities) of many civil engineering projects and provide continuity for design projects that extend over multiple courses. Undergraduates go to the Garden City website to access projects and related data and design information. They are also able to store reports at the website, creating an electronic portfolio. Finally, the Garden City website provides a central location for course webpages, tutorials, modules etc. The purpose of this paper is to provide detail on the Garden City project, particularly as it affects teaching design principles throughout the curriculum.