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- Professional Practice and AEC Education
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- 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
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Gouranga Banik, Southern Polytechnic State University
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Architectural
first drafts of the questionnaires for customer (i.e. employer andgraduate) satisfaction and used for curriculum revision. The questionnaires were revised toaccommodate suggestions from an advisory group of employers and two rounds of pilot testing.Employers value communication skills highly.The final thirty five closed response items selected for the survey form were used for bothgroups- graduates and employers. The questions asked students and employers about howimportant they felt it was for graduates to have gained a series of skills and abilities, rangingfrom practical skills such as technical expertise and communication skills to value opinion areassuch as the importance of ethical standards or an ability to exercise professional judgment
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- Sustainability in AEC and AEC Education
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- 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
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Jason Kirby, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Hilal Ozcan, Prairie View A&M University; Fouad Fouad, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Architectural
-establishedconsiderations such as ethics, economics, aesthetics, and structural integrity. Architecture andcivil engineering departments should take the lead and responsibility for promoting sustainabledevelopment, and the topic should be treated as a major consideration similar to protection of thepublic health and safety in design. Ultimately, the objective should be to graduate a new breedof design professionals (engineers and architects) who are knowledgeable of sustainable designand can integrate its concepts in real-world design projects.Diversity in Architectural Design and its Relation to SustainabilityIn recent years, the discipline of architecture has been impacted and reshaped most dramaticallyby two critical understandings: 1) the awareness of