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2011 North Midwest Section

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Eric Musselman

Ci i E gi ee i g a he U i e i f Mi e a Duluth is to prepare graduates for professional practice and graduate study through a program firmly based in strong technical skills, fundamentals, hands-on learning, sustainability, and professionalism. To meet this goal, the Civil Engineering curriculum vertically integrates oral and written communication, contemporary issues, successful teamwork, significant design experience, and the skills needed to engage in life- g ea i g i ge e a ed ca i a d e gi ee i g c e. 2 Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section ConferenceThe projects that will be discussed within this paper both incorporate many of the principlesdescribed in this mission statement

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2011 North Midwest Section

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Seraphin C. Abou

surface or deep levelprocessing) to study the impact of collaboration in these online learning environments, Pena-Shaff and Nicholls, (2004), [11].To be truly effective, safety culture and community learning structures must be built to facilitatethe interaction of researchers, educators and students from multiple disciplines. This effort isaimed at integrating multiple interests into one community, a community of safety practice. Inaddition, educational programs must be recast to produce a new breed of researcher prepared andsuited to working at the interface of multiple disciplines, thereby creating a second type ofintegration, a new learning community. However, several barriers must be overcome to achieveboth forms of integration effectively

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2011 North Midwest Section

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Kristine Guzak; Kurt Paterson

an unconventional job after graduation. For the femalesthis includes the desire to help a community with their needs, career goal, the influencefrom a class they had taken (university or high school), and hands-on experience. Somesimilarities between males and females are evident in this second tier of reasons, but thefew differences are noteworthy. Classes have an impact on females in a way that they donot for males, universities should work to attract women to these kinds of programsthrough positive classroom experiences (e.g. relating engineering practice to helping Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conferencecommunities). In general many men might be receptive to messaging about theprofessional value to