(2019) and DAC Ph.D. Forum (2016) and track (co)-Chair of CICC (2017-2019), ISLPED (2017-2018) and ISQED (2016-2017). Dr. Ghosh is a recipient of Intel Technology and Manufacturing Group Excellence Award in 2009, Intel Divisional Award in 2011, Intel Departmental Awards in 2011 and 2012, USF Outstanding Re- search Achievement Award in 2015, College of Engineering Outstanding Research Achievement Award in 2015, DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) in 2015, ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2016, YFA Director’s Fellowship in 2017, Monkowsky Career Development Award in 2018, Lutron Spira Teaching Excellence Award in 2018 and Dean’s Certificate of Excellence in 2019. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and the
Career Award from the University Council on Water Resources (2020) and the Villanova College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award (2021). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Teaching with GIS: Developing a project-based framework to teach civil engineering using softwareAbstractGeographic information systems (GIS) technology is a platform for creating, managing,analyzing, and visualizing the data associated with developing and managing infrastructure.Faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University havedeveloped a project-centric course focused on the application of GIS within