Teaching
Professor Gray is a creative educator who strives to keep things interesting for her students, a collaborator with diverse faculty across the University, a committed mentor to young women in science and engineering, and a social advocate helping disadvantaged individuals and communities. Her research and teaching are tightly interwoven with the many issues that underpin environmental health and the drive toward sustainability. She has taught traditional environmental engineering courses, innovative interdisciplinary courses on energy and sustainability and project based courses focused on solving environmental problems in low-income communities.
Since 2010 Gray has co-directed the Global and Ecological Health Engineering Certificate Program for MS students in Environmental Engineering. We are working with the Jal Bhagirathi Foundation in Jodhpur, India on water scarcity and public health issues, as well as strategies to recover and recycle water for Rajasthan textile industries and to restore ecological and environmental quality of the Luni River. To learn what our students have done, see the final reports and presentation below:
Water Scarcity in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India (Summer 2013)
Presentation: Water Scarcity in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India (Summer 2013)
Solar Distillation in Rajasthan, India (Summer 2013)
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
- Sustainability: Issues and action, Near and Far, CEE 395 (2006-present)
- Energy and the Environment: The automobile, Envr Sci 203 (2005-2010)
- Community Based Design, CEE-398-1, 2 (1996-present)
- Urban Neighborhoods: Issues and Action, Soc-376 (co-taught, W. Espland; Cross School Initiative, 2002)
- Environmental Engineering Analysis CE 261 (co-taught, B. Rittmann, J-F Gaillard)
- Introduction to Water Chemistry and Treatment (UND)
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Design (UND)
- Water Quality Management (UM)
Graduate
- Sustainability Practicum, CEE 395 (co-listed with Law School, PPTY TORT 616 SEC 1 Practicum: Sustainability Solutions & ISEN 440)
- Sustainable Product Design and Development, DSGN 495 (2009, 2010)
- Physicochemical Processes in Aquatic Systems, CE-444 (NU & UND)
- Physical Principles in Environmental Systems CE-440 (co-taught, J-F. Gaillard)
- Unit Operations in Environmental Systems CE-445
- Environmental Analytical Chemistry CE-446 (co-taught, J-F. Gaillard)
- Sustainable Manufacturing, IEMS-497-40 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 MMM)
- Energy and the Environment IPLS -492
- Changing Views of Nature MALS- 403 (2006, 2012)
- Cities and the Environment: Past, Present and Future, MALS-403 (2004)
- The Environmental Legacy of Modern Industrialized Societies, MALS-403 (2001)
- Aquatic Chemistry/Advanced Aquatic Chemistry (UND)
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Design (JHU)
- Water Supply and Drainage (JHU)