Training Future Engineers to Be Ghostbusters: Hunting for the Spectral Environmental Radioactivity

• Main Authors: Matteo Albéri (Author), Marica Baldoncini (Author), Carlo Bottardi (Author), Enrico Chiarelli (Author), Sheldon Landsberger (Author), Kassandra Giulia Cristina Raptis (Author), Andrea Serafini (Author), Virginia Strati (Author), Fabio Mantovani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Although environmental radioactivity is all around us, the collective public imagination often associates a negative feeling to this natural phenomenon. To increase the familiarity with this phenomenon we have designed, implemented, and tested an interdisciplinary educational activity for pre-colleg...