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- Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development
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- Kleio Avrithi P.E., Mercer University; Samuel Alan Fong, Mercer University
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- Multidisciplinary Engineering
for improving the crumbling US infrastructure. It is especially important to incorporateprojects in a construction course that can significantly ameliorate the students’ soft skills, such asleadership, creativity, and interpersonal skills [18, 19]. These projects can further help studentsgain knowledge on sustainability, risk estimation, and decision making. Figure 5: Layered construction topics for progressive knowledge acquisitionConclusionsAn online search of civil engineering programs and undergraduate catalogs of 200 USuniversities revealed that 29% of them offer a mandatory course in construction, 45% offer it asan elective, and 26% do not offer a course dedicated solely to construction. We identified andranked the topics taught by
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- Multidisciplinary Learning and Teaching Experiences
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- 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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- Susan J. Ely, University of Southern Indiana; Jotam E. Chen, University of Southern Indiana
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- Multidisciplinary Engineering
-century skills for workplace success: A contentanalysis of job advertisements.” Educational Researcher, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 80–89, 2002.[2] United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dept. of Labor. “Soft skills: The competitiveedge.” Web. March 2021. www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/publications/fact-sheets/soft-skills-the-competitive-edge.[3] W. Schneiter, “Writing and undergraduate engineers – a continuing problem.” Proceedings ofthe ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2003.[4] K. Sura and N. Romond, “An outcome-based assessment of engineering writing proficiencyclasses.”, Proceedings of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, 2017.[5] C.Prusty, A.K. Dwivedy, and J. Khuntia, “Why and how do engineers communicate?”, IUPjournal
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- Multidisciplinary Experiences: Teaching in a Pandemic
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- Carolyn Kelly Ottman, Milwaukee School of Engineering
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- Diversity
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andcolleagues in campus offices. In part, these elements make us good teachers. Prior to March2020, face-to-face interaction was the way we taught, collaborated, served and learned. Then,COVID-19 became real and, within a week, we could no longer be physically present with ourstudents and peers. We shifted instruction to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT). We alsoshifted the way we collaborated in our scholarship and service. Informed by research, this paperhighlights aspects of our journey, challenges along the way and lessons learned to apply to thefuture.As educators in a predominately engineering university, the courses we teach address identifiedgaps in traditional engineering education and focus on the “soft skills” [1]. Team-based learningand team
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- Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development
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- Karl D. Schubert FIET, University of Arkansas; Manuel D. Rossetti P.E., University of Arkansas
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- Diversity
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- Multidisciplinary Engineering
development of theprogram discussed in this paper. A main finding is that data science programs tend to have moreprogramming, statistics, and higher mathematics requirements than programs that focus on dataanalytics. This is an important aspect to communicate to students and their parents. In addition,the authors called for more analysis of how programs teach the soft skills that are important tocareers in data analytics and data science. Borne et al. [7] describe the need for computationaland data science programs, especially within science related fields. This need is being driven byemerging interdisciplinary areas in bioinformatics, geoinformatics, astroinformatics, andmaterials informatics. An important point to emphasize is the broad nature of