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Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephan Durham, University of Colorado at Denver; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Seamus Freyne, Manhattan College

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Civil Engineering

AC 2008-2564: CLASSROOM TEACHING AIDS AND LABORATORYEXPERIMENTATION TO ENGAGE STUDENTS IN MATERIALS LEARNINGStephan Durham, University of Colorado at DenverMicah Hale, University of ArkansasSeamus Freyne, Manhattan College Page 13.296.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Classroom Teaching Aids and Laboratory Experimentation to Engage Students in Materials LearningAbstractMost civil engineering programs require one course in materials and materials testing. Thesecourses are designed to provide students with general knowledge of the production, properties,and behavior of common structural materials. Emphasis is often placed on the

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; Senro Kuraoka, Nippon Koei Co., Ltd.

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Civil Engineering

conducting tests in a conventional laboratory session.Cross-cultural discussions at a professional level provided appreciation for standardized testingmethods, the importance of research in civil engineering practice, and differences in approachingdesign problems in different countries. Reports submitted to an external client providedincentive for strong student performance. The new teaching methodologies described in thispaper (global video-conferencing with an overseas practitioner and development of laboratoryassignments as short films) are well suited for teaching softer aspects of the BOK related todevelopment of broad communication skills and providing global context for engineeringproblems. Experiences, challenges, and opportunities

Conference Session

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Ronald Welch, The University of Texas-Tyler; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; Norman Dennis, University of Arkansas; Debra Larson, Northern Arizona University; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University; Tonya Nilsson, San Jose State; Jim O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers; Thomas Lenox, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

universities.Currently, the registration fee is $425 per participant and the university pays the travels costs fortheir participants. ASCE still heavily subsidizes the workshop by awarding $2300 fellowships toeach participant to cover the remaining ETW costs.IV. Workshop ContentThe schedule for the 2005 USMA five-day workshop is shown in Figure 1 and is representativeof all the other workshops. The workshop activities can be sub-classified into seminars,demonstration classes, laboratory exercises, and social events.Seminars: The course schedule for the 2005 ETW contained 12 Seminars which varied incontent and were designed to provide theoretical background, teaching hints, organizationalstructure, and communication techniques. All 24 participants (6 teams) are

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part One

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Richard Weggel, Drexel University; James Mitchell, Drexel University; Charles N. Haas, Drexel University

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Civil Engineering

CAEE210 and the breadth of its content make the assignment ofappropriate teaching assistants difficult. The use of outside speakers also has its perils since lastminute changes in their schedules often overrides their appearance in class. Needless to say,contingency lectures and/or speakers should be available.The commitment of individual faculty in both CAEE201 and CAEE210 generally amounts totwo lectures and the oversight of a two-hour laboratory during one week of the 10-week term.The laboratory in CAEE201 is mostly computational in nature and is usually overseen by thefaculty member. The laboratory in CAEE210 is usually taught by a teaching assistant.One of the challenges is having faculty recognize that the sophomores in these courses lack

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Civil Engineering

engineering (CE) materials course along with the other courses in the U.A. WhitakerSchool of Engineering (WSOE) at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) is taught in anintegrated lecture lab style. In this non-traditional setting, instructors use an integrated, active,and collaborative instructional technique. Also, unlike many other universities, there is not aseparate time slot allocated in the schedule to conduct the laboratory experiments for this CEmaterials course. Instead, the lab is embedded into the course structure. Although it has beendocumented in the literature that this technique represents effective teaching pedagogy only afew engineering programs have adopted this method. In addition, the WSOE is only in its thirdyear since students

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part One

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jakob Bruhl; Eric Crispino

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Civil Engineering

Training Civil Engineers to Communicate Effectively: Teaching Technical Communication in a Student’s First Engineering CourseAbstractABET requires that graduates of accredited institutions have “an ability to communicateeffectively.” The importance of effective communication of technical information is alsoaddressed in the ASCE Body of Knowledge. How schools meet this outcome varies byinstitution but about half of the schools surveyed for this paper require a specific course on thesubject. Constraints at the United States Military Academy (programs can not extend beyondfour years and a very large core curriculum) make it impractical to require a technicalcommunications course

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University; Diane Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Civil Engineering

AC 2008-721: LET’S ROCK THE BOAT: EVALUATING THE CONCEPT OFSTABILITY IN FLUID MECHANICSTanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University TANYA KUNBERGER joined FGCU as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering in August, 2007. She graduated cum laude from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's of Civil Engineering and a certificate in geochemistry. Her MS in Civil Engineering, with a minor in Soil Science, and her Ph.D. were obtained at North Carolina State University. Dr. Kunberger was a recipient of the 2003 Center for Transportation and the Environment's Student of the Year Award and a 2007 recipient of NC State's UGSA Outstanding Teaching

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Three

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Karen Lozano, University of Texas-Pan American; Karl Kiefer, Invocon, Inc., Houston, Taxes; Xinqing Ma, Inframat Corp, Farmington, Connecticut.

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Civil Engineering

the themes center on the nanotechnology for civil engineering,some proposed course and lab modules include currently available smart materials, e.g. ShapeMemory Alloys (SMAs) and Piezoelectric (PZT) materials, and micro/nano-scale technologies,e.g. silicon fume and micro-fiber modified concrete and MEMS (Micro-Electro-MechanicalSystems) sensors, and concrete maturity method, due to availability of applicable technologyand operational feasibility at the current civil engineering teaching laboratory. Even though thesetechnologies may not constitute real nanotechnology, they do demonstrate analogies of hownanotechnology will impact students’ careers and civil infrastructures in the future, and inspirestudents’ desire for creativity and

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Dong, California Polytechnic State University

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Civil Engineering

AC 2008-1509: KINESTHETIC STRUCTURESKevin Dong, California Polytechnic State University Page 13.830.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Kinesthetic StructuresAbstractThis paper describes how students are engaged in hands-on activities that reinforce complexengineering principles. In addition to utilizing chalk board examples for design and analysisproblems, physical modeling, not necessarily traditional laboratory testing, is implemented tolink engineering theory with building behavior. Students design, build, and learn how structuresbehave in three dimensions.IntroductionFive years ago, the author switched careers and from practice to

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part One

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Bronzini, George Mason University; Michael Casey, George Mason University

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Civil Engineering

AC 2008-2395: SIMULATING CONSULTING ENGINEER RELATIONSHIPS IN ASENIOR DESIGN COURSE AND ASSESSING THE RESULTSMichael Bronzini, George Mason University Michael S. Bronzini currently holds the Dewberry Chair in Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering (CEIE) in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and is also the Chair of the CEIE Department. Prior positions include Director of the Center for Transportation Analysis at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Penn State University, and Director of the Transportation Center and Professor of Civil Engineering at the

Conference Session

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh -Johnstown; Norman Voigt, Penn State, New Kensington

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Civil Engineering

their institution. In one Page 13.1257.8 recent case, a well-qualified Ph.D. student at a major research university was interested in teaching a hydraulics and hydrology course and two sections of laboratory as an adjunct faculty member at another institution. The compensation for the course and laboratory section, however, did not justify the time involved in preparation, travel and actual teaching, and as a result, the individual had to decline the position.Insights from Personal ExperiencesWhen discussing the role of adjunct faculty in engineering education, personalexperiences provide a sense of reference and add insights

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Richard Gash, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

AC 2008-1100: DESIGNING A CIVIL ENGINEERING PROGRAM FOR THENATIONAL MILITARY ACADEMY OF AFGHANISTANStephen Ressler, United States Military Academy Colonel Stephen Ressler, P.E. is Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. He earned a B.S. degree from USMA in 1979, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering degree from Lehigh University in 1989, and a Ph.D. from Lehigh in 1991. An active duty Army officer, he has served in a variety of military engineering assignments around the world. He has been a member of the USMA faculty for 16 years, teaching courses in engineering mechanics, structural engineering

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; Richard Gash, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Farid Momand, Kabul University; Qaium Fekrat, Kabul University; Aziz Gulistani, Kabul University

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Civil Engineering

instruction, Conley conductedtraining on the use of total station surveying equipment, which would be employed in CE303.Subsequently Gash trained the CE301 instructors on the uniaxial tension testing machine, whichhad just been installed in the newly constructed Civil Engineering Testing Laboratory. Toprepare the Afghans for their roles in developing courses and delivering classroom instruction,Ressler conducted a one-day faculty development workshop, using materials adapted from theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Excellence in Civil Engineering Education(ExCEEd) Teaching Workshop.3 The NMAA workshop emphasized techniques for organizingclassroom instruction, to include the use of learning objectives and board notes.4The Afghan adjunct

Conference Session

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Brent Nuttall, California Polytechnic State University; Cole McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University

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Civil Engineering

, Page 13.1043.6constructability, interaction with mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, aestheticconsiderations, coordination with architectural layouts, and sustainability issues. ARCE 452,Concrete Structures Design and Constructability Laboratory, will be specifically examined laterin this paper.These systems design courses are typically taught in a project based studio format byprofessional practice tenure track faculty with extensive professional experience in the design ofsystems. Experience has shown that while not impossible, it is difficult for faculty to develop theexpertise required to teach a systems design course without the experience of actually designingnumerous systems in professional practice. Regarding practical

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Fred Meyer, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

posit to apply widely researched educational psychology principles and practicesto the engineering curriculum. These practices include: ‚ vignette-based instruction, ‚ embedded signature assignments, ‚ rubric judged laboratory experiences, ‚ value judged internships, and ‚ concept inventory assessments in all courses in the courses.All five of these teaching practices combine assessment to instruction and are linked tostudent performance. Vignette-based instruction is described as a provision of instructionwhere students are provided with real world vignettes or workplace problems and mustsolve these vignette based issues or problems using principles perspectives and practicesthat they have learned in courses1. These are often group

Conference Session

Use of Summer Research Programs in Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Ramseyer, University of Oklahoma

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Civil Engineering

experienced by the structural engineering group at the University of Oklahoma(OU), Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES). These constraintsstarted with the loss of all structural engineering faculty between mid 1999 and late 2000. Asnew faculty members were hired, there was a period of time during which very little researchwas conducted at OU's Fears Structural Engineering Laboratory. While the undergraduateprogram in structural engineering had been relatively unaffected, the graduate program wasvirtually non-existent. Opportunities included nearly unlimited access to Fears StructuralEngineering Laboratory, a fairly large undergraduate student body wanting to focus on structuralengineering, and a very understanding

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Provide Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California; Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Nazila Mokarram, University of Southern California

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Civil Engineering

AC 2008-1449: ONTOLOGIES AND WEB-SEMANTICS FOR IMPROVEMENT OFCURRICULUM IN CIVIL ENGINEERINGJean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California Jean-Pierre Bardet is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair of the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California Dennis McLeod is currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, and Director of the Semantic Information Representation Laboratory at USC. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT. Dr

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fred Meyer, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky

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Civil Engineering

, and structural system design. He has served as a senior mentor and seminar presenter in the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Workshop from 2000 through 2007.Christopher Conley, United States Military Academy Chris Conley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy. He earned a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts (1978), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Cornell University (1980, 1983). He has served as a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, and an Assistant Professor at the

Conference Session

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Welker, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

AC 2008-1406: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING:MEETING AND EXCEEDING THE NEW CIVIL ENGINEERING PROGRAMCRITERIAAndrea Welker, Villanova University Andrea Welker, PhD, PE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University. Among other duties, Dr. Welker serves as the assessment coordinator for her department.Frank Falcone, Villanova University Frank Falcone, PE is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University. In addition to his teaching experience, Mr. Falcone spent many years as a consulting engineer and as an officer in the Navy. He has commanded a SEABEE

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Provide Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jakob Bruhl, United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky; Elizabeth Bristow, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

leisure4. Education repositories such as ED-CAST orMERLOT5 contain examples of these. Other professors have integrated digital videos to provideaccess to demonstrations6 or present laboratory preparation guidance or even allow for conductof a laboratory experiment from a remote location7.The authors recently implemented an alternative method of using recent technology to providestudents with a learning resource that they can use at a time and place of their choosing. Themethod is referred to here as “Video AI” (AI stands for “Additional Instruction”) and has beenimplemented in the United States Military Academy’s Department of Civil and MechanicalEngineering with measurable positive effects on both academic performance and studentperceptions of

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Provide Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; shannon sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

often simplified using a pen. On severaloccasions, students who had taken ill joined the class from their residence hall. In those cases,they even completed in-class example problems on their own, despite missing the instructor’soral presentation and some instructor annotations in Private Ink.OutcomesEvaluation of the findings is still under way, plus the course will be taught using the technologyin the fall of 2008, so the findings reported in this study are preliminary. The effectiveness oflearning using pen-based technology with DyKnow was assessed in four different ways: (a)student surveys, (b) institute assessment, (c) student performance on tests, and (d) instructorreflection. Institute administered standard teaching evaluations were also

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Use of Summer Research Programs in Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamim Younos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Civil Engineering

AC 2008-1402: IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF ANINTERDISCIPLINARY NSF/REU SITE ON WATERSHED SCIENCESVinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VINOD K. LOHANI is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education and an adjunct faculty in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995. His areas of teaching and research include engineering education, international collaboration and hydrology & water resources.Tamim Younos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University TAMIM YOUNOS is a research professor in the Geography