Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barb Howe, FishSafe B.C.; Gina Johansen, Fish Safe

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

12.1427.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Fishing Vessel Stability Education Program An Informed Blueprint for Program DesignAbstractA fishing vessel capsizes and the call for stability education resumes, suggesting that past andcurrent training programs are not contributing significantly to education and prevention ofcapsizings. This paper introduces an industry driven educational program where fishermen’sprior experience is central to their learning. Instructional design is problem based and includes ahands on model. The program, informed by research literature on learning, is described withinthe framework of an adult education planning model, including epistemology, needs assessment

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Mays, The Citadel; Kevin Bower, The Citadel; Robert Dullanty, ATM; Kelly Rutkowski, Applied Technology and Management

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

, design, and detailing. Where applicable, thestandard references other national standards such as ACI 3186 and AASHTO LRFD BridgeDesign Specifications7.Structural Capstone Class at The CitadelAll civil engineering students at The Citadel are required to take a capstone course in one of fourareas of their choice: • Structural Engineering • Environmental Engineering • Subdivisions • Transportation (Evening Students Only)All students that take the structural engineering capstone class are required to develop plans,specifications, and a concise set of calculations for a group building and an individual project oftheir choice. Given the lead author’s vast design experiences with buildings, bridges, and pierand wharf type structures

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Brown, Virginia Tech; Owen Hughes, Virginia Tech; Leigh McCue, Virginia Tech; Wayne Neu, Virginia Tech; Betsy Tretola, Teaching and Learning,

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

final grade with the remainder of the course gradedetermined by performance on 7 homework assignments, four of which contain a largesimulation component 12 , and a final project. To accommodate the schedules of workingstudents, the open-book midterm exam was allowed to be taken during any two-hour periodwithin a one week window. In addition, to stress the importance of the final project, one third of Page 12.554.12the midterm was devoted to forcing each student to describe their planned project and formulatea realistic time-line for completion. In future offerings, the instructor is likely to remove themidterm exam altogether and instead