2007 Entries and Abstracts: Resource Development 
Richard Corsi, Jeffrey Siegel
Civil Engineering
Building Mass and Energy Balances (BMEB): A Multi-Level Web-based Educational Tool
Engineers model the physical world by describing real-world phenomena using scientific principles and mathematics, such as the laws of conservation of mass and energy. Engineering students write and solve equations based on these laws to calculate mass and energy transport and balances when modeling building systems. Siegel and Corsi, in collaboration with the Faculty Innovation Center (FIC), created a Web site that combines real-world scenarios with variable parameters and an interactive calculator to illustrate how varying factors can change outcomes, providing students with a practical tool to recognize and calculate design problems.