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Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Our Classrooms

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xi Wang, Drexel University; Hans M. Tritico, University of Mount Union; Kathleen M. Short; Vahraz Honary

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Paper ID #38740Service Learning Capstone Projects to Enhance Civil Engineering EducationDr. Xi Wang, Drexel University Xi Wang is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Construction Management program at Drexel University. She received her Ph.D. and M.Eng both in Civil Engineering from the University of Kentucky and Auburn University. Her research interests include technology adoption in building trades, learning motivation, and engineering student success.Dr. Hans M. Tritico, University of Mount UnionKathleen M. ShortVahraz Honary ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Service Learning

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Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Our Classrooms

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin A. Waters, P.E., Villanova University

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

GIS to perform tasks across various stages in their respective projects,including map creation, site assessment, design, and 3D visualization. Former students applyingGIS in their capstone projects, when there is no requirement to do so, is an encouraging outcomethat speaks to the true benefit of this course model.Assessment of student learning in this course will continue, emphasizing the impact of courseprojects and connection between software skills and engineering concepts. Additionally, courserevisions are continually being considered whether exploring new project sites (IPs and ICPs) orworking with other faculty to better integrate concepts with other CEE courses at Villanova suchas CEE Fundamentals, Project Development, or Capstone

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Committee on Effective Teaching Presents: Models, Models, & More Models

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Francis McMullen, United States Military Academy; Adrian Biggerstaff, P.E., Stanford University; Christopher H. Conley; Jakob C. Bruhl, P.E., United States Military Academy; Kevin Arnett; Paul Moody; Aaron T. Hill Jr., United States Military Academy; Lynden Damon Crosbie

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Aaron has served in the military for 24 years as an Engineer Officer with assignments around the world to include Afghanistan, Egypt, and Bosnia- Herzegovina. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Virginia and a Project Management Professional. Aaron’s primary areas of research are engineering education, the behavior of steel structures, and blast. Aaron mentors students by serving as an advisor for capstone projects and through service as an Officer Representative for Women’s Volleyball and Men’s Basketball. His passion for teaching and developing tomorrow’s leaders resulted in his selection for the 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers

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Committee on Effective Teaching Presents: Creativity

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shinae Jang, University of Connecticut; Christa Taylor, University of Connecticut

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

infrastructure resilience, and engineering ed- ucation. She taught 11 courses at UConn, including Statics, Structural Analysis, Senior Capstone Project, and new Structural Health Monitoring and Sensors courses. Dr. Jang is the recipient of the 2018 Civil Engineering Educator of the Year award from the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, the 2021 Dis- tinguished Engineering Educator Award from the UConn School of Engineering, and the 2021 ASEE Emerging Leader Fellow Award from the Civil Engineering Division. She is the newsletter editor of the ASEE Civil Engineering Division and the treasurer of the ASEE Northeast Section. In addition, she is a faculty advisor of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) UConn Chapter

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Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Our Classrooms

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

institution, Seattle University, has an ABET accredited Civil Engineeringprogram. The average class size in a civil engineering discipline specific course is around 25.One of the missions of the department is for graduates to possess strong written and oralcommunication skills. Communication skills of the students are developed throughout the civilengineering curriculum starting with laboratory reports in the sophomore year through a year-long, industrially sponsored capstone design experience where students prepare writtenproposals, design reports, memos, reflection papers, and posters for an external project sponsor. CEEGR 3530 - Soil Mechanics is a 5 (quarter) credit junior level course required of allcivil engineering majors for graduation

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Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Our Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Gutierrez-Bucheli, Monash University; Alan Reid, Monash University; Gillian Kidman, Monash University; Julia Lamborn, P.E., Monash University

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

) highlyinfluence the adoption of educational responses towards sustainability in the civil engineeringcurriculum. The accreditation requirements ensure that sustainability is addressed in specificdiscipline-based units, and to a greater extent, in the capstone unit. Barriers, however, occur inboth cases because sustainability considerations are not scaffolded. The cross-case analysisalso shows that while project-based environments were the most common type of educationalresponses implemented to strengthen students’ sustainability-based knowledge and skills,findings suggested projects do not always encourage the same complexity of problems and,consequently, do not generate the same level of learning outcomes. Results also reveal thathidden-curriculum

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Committee on Professional Practice Presents: Topics in the Academic-Industry Zone

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brad Wambeke, United States Air Force Academy; Joel Sloan, United States Air Force Academy; Timothy E. Frank, United States Air Force Academy; Daphne DePorres, United States Air Force Academy

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

organizational management, this paper discusses how the use of practitioners supports the“leadership” aspect of the fifth ABET student outcome. The seven ABET student outcomes and nineUSAFA institutional outcomes are shown in Figure 1: Figure 1: ABET Student Outcomes and USAFA Institutional OutcomesLiterature Review on Utilization of Practitioners in Education:Academic partnerships with industry provide many learning benefits that include opportunitiesfor field trips (Welch et al. 2018), service-learning experiences (Oakes 2011), and internships(Tener 1996, Saviz et al. 2011, Weatherton 2012, Welch et al. 2018). Partnerships with industryfor realistic projects in capstone courses is quite common (Akili 2010, McGinnis and Welch2010, Aktan et

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Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Student Development

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

roles for the second vignette, a capstone design scenario. One student was designated the “Team Leader”, one the “Team Member”, and the rest were “Observers”. In this vignette, the Team Member was to express concerns about calculation results, and the Team Leader was to respond in a such a way as to promote psychological safety. During the debrief for each vignette, the Observers led the discussion by sharing what they saw that promoted psychological safety and what they saw that hindered or removed it.Methods: This project was predicated on the research question: Does teaching psychological safety improve teaming experiences for first-year students? We hypothesized that we could improve students’ team interactions by directly

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ellen Zerbe, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kevin Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alexandra C. Muscalus

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

capstone design course about theirdesign decisions. From the interviews, the authors analyzed the students’ interactions withstakeholders and their perception of the interaction. They found that in order for students toconsider a stakeholder interaction as “useful,” the students would either predefine clear goals forthe interaction, only interact with stakeholders whose expertise closely-aligned to their project, orgive control of the decisions to the stakeholder entirely. Information variability and interpretationand application of that information are a key part of engaging stakeholders that is avoided by thesestrategies. Expanding engineering students understanding of the value and purpose of stakeholders isincreasing in engineering

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Battistini, Angelo State University

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

of the new assessment and grading format for the course as well asfailures or “cracks”. Qualitative and quantitative student survey data will be presented.MotivationIn the past 2-3 years, the instructor has been leading the Civil Engineering Senior Design courses,in which students work together to complete a capstone design project within one semester.Throughout the course, the instructor’s main duty is not to teach new content, but to serve as anengineering mentor and reviewer of the work performed. Compared to traditional classroomswhere topics are taught and students are evaluated, this course more accurately models therelationship of a practicing professional engineer who oversees entry level engineers. Throughthese close relationships

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Committee on Instructional Technology Presents: Gamers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin D. Goffin, University of Virginia; Lindsay Ivey Burden

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

prepare cross-disciplinary students to develop “an intuitive understanding of the physicscontrolling the relevant observations and […] an appreciation for how these observations can beused to learn something about the earth” [23].More and more, engineering graduates are also expected to apply coding and solve complex,interdisciplinary problems. Teaching engineering design is commonly accomplished throughproject-based learning [24,25]. However, the use and benefits of development boards such asArduino are still overlooked [26]. Therefore, we also recommend that a device such as ours befurther developed and validated by students in a project-oriented capstone course. Using Arduinohas been shown to effectively teach programming and strengthen

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Z. Dymond, Northern Arizona University; Davis Ray; Joshua T. Hewes P.E., Northern Arizona University; John Tingerthal P.E., Northern Arizona University; Robin Tuchscherer, Northern Arizona University

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

primary research project is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, and focuses on improving engineering education methods. I am also contributing to a research project sponsored by the US Department of Energy, in which I am assisting with the solid mechanics modeling of moisture swing polymers for use in low-energy carbon capture. For my senior capstone, I led the development of a theoretical offshore wind farm for the 2022 Collegiate Wind Competition, and helped our team earn second place at the competition. This experience led me to become the current president of NAU’s Energy Club, where I now manage two interdisciplinary engineering teams who are working to complete the Collegiate Wind Competition and

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samantha Elizabeth Paucarina; Josué David Batallas; Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador; Vanessa Guerra, University of Virginia

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Paper ID #39821Board 44B: Work in Progress: TikTok Format Videos to ImproveCommunicating Science in Engineering StudentsSamantha Elizabeth PaucarinaJosu´e David BatallasDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador MiguelAndr´es is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, an M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University as a Fulbright Scholar, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from Virginia Tech

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Committee on Professional Practice Presents: Topics in the Academic-Industry Zone

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yufeng Hu, Western Michigan University; Elise DeCamp, Western Michigan University; Osama Abudayyeh, Western Michigan University

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Paper ID #37085Teaching Climate Change in an Introductory Civil Engineering CourseDr. Yufeng Hu, Western Michigan University Dr. Yufeng Hu is a lecturer in the Civil and Construction Engineering Department at Western Michigan University. He teaches a variety of engineering mechanics and civil engineering courses. He is the coordinator of the senior Capstone design program in the department.Elise DeCamp, Western Michigan University Elise DeCamp received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a Fac- ulty Specialist I in the Institute of Intercultural and Anthropological Studies at Western

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ASCE Liasion Committee Presents: All Things ASCE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew K. Swenty, Virginia Military Institute; Brian J. Swenty. P.E., University of Evansville

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

and instructorspresenting licensure content to students. It is important for students to understand thatunlicensed faculty teaching licensure topics are not violating licensure laws in most states andare typically “practicing engineering” under an exemption. Instruction should be supplementedby guest speakers, advisory board members, project sponsors (capstone or similar classes), andemployers who are licensed engineers. They can provide different viewpoints and explain careerpaths that may or may not require a license.The study results indicate that licensure laws and rules should be presented to students. In manyways licensure should be coupled with ethics instruction. Ultimately, licensure is intended toprotect the health, safety, and

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Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Our Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brent Nuttall, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Peter Laursen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michael James Deigert, P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Cole C. McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

third-year architecture studio and the creation of some electives. A numberof support courses could not be fully replicated in the semester curriculum. Courses such asdynamics, engineering economics, surveying, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, electricalcircuits, were listed in the three Fundamental Engineering (FE) elective courses where studentscan choose which they wish to take from a prescribed list. The is also an ARCE TechnicalElective which has a much larger list of courses from which a student can choose.The ARCE quarter program had four culminating experiences to include the three design labsand a separate senior project. The concrete/masonry lab becomes the senior capstone project andthe independent senior project is now an elective

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Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Our Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

sustainability offers the only viable path to human safety, equity, health, andprogress” [21, p. 6]. There are strong synergies between ideas of generational equity andsustainable development, for example [22], [23]. Within civil engineering, the infrastructuresustainability rating system Envision [24] is commonly used. Envision has been integrated intoengineering education as a method to educate students about sustainability [25], [26], [27]. DEIissues are included within the Envision credits including the following examples: • QL1.2 Enhance Public Health and Safety [24, p. 32] • “Measures taken to increase safety and provide health benefits on the project site, surrounding sites, and the broader community in a just and equitable