Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Andrea Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

demographics and the politicaland social impacts of technology.ABET 2000 criteria also highlighted the need to quantitatively measure the development ofnontechnical (or “soft”) skills. For many programs, this created a need to develop course contentspecific to these outcomes. As Felder and Brent4 state, “the work of equipping students with theattributes specified in [ABET] program outcomes must be done at the individual course level.”It also created a necessity to develop assessment tools to measure non-quantitative studentlearning outcomes, a difficult challenge for engineering faculty far more comfortable in therealm of the technical and quantitative than in the assessment of more qualitative outcomes.In addition to the logistical challenges related