Conference Session

Innovation in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

expected, a large portion (40%) of the total project grade is based on the draft. Aguideline entitled “Effective Engineering Writing,” which was adapted from Parker,(8) isgiven to the students (and included as Appendix E).The students turn in one copy of the draft report for the instructor, with all group mem-bers identified. Each group also turns in additional anonymous copies with no identifica-tion of group members. These anonymous copies are randomly distributed to othermembers of the class who have one week to perform a peer evaluation of the draft. Moredetails on the peer evaluation are given in the “Peer Assessment” section below. Thegrade on the final draft is determined using the student peer assessments and a gradingrubric used by the

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

their research. Also included are literature research techniques, methods for acquiring off-site material, and strategies for pursuing their research interests once the students leave this program and return to their classrooms. The workshop is conducted in a PC-Lab and the participants are actively engaged in first-hand experience in using the search engines for their literature search. 2. Communicating Science Effectively Workshop. Is held in the first week and consists of three components: “Writing Science,” which will support trainee co-authorship of research results; “Speaking Science,” a means to prepare undergraduate trainees for effective slide presentations; and “Presenting and

Conference Session

International Aspects of Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineer and background experience.5 Incontrast, a first year instructor at Kabul University receives only $80 per month and $200 permonth during their second year. Eventually through academic promotion at Kabul University, asenior instructor can earn up to approximately $650 per month at the time of this writing. It iscritically important to the future success of engineering education at NMAA and at KabulUniversity that both schools be able to retain a highly qualified faculty. Page 14.694.4Developing Faculty in a Developing NationBetween January and August 2008 we deployed from West Point to Afghanistan to developcourses for the civil engineering

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Welker, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

28 65 2 5 4 9 9 21 2003 2006 54 51 42 82 1 2 4 8 4 8 2004 2007 48 47 37 79 4 9 2 4 4 8 *This figure is the number of student still in the CE Program as of the expected graduation date. At the time of writing 17 eventually completed their degree requirements. **This figure includes students who transferred to other programs at Villanova, but did not earn a VU degree by the expected graduation date, students who transferred to other programs at Villanova and then left the University, and students who left Villanova directly from the

Conference Session

International Aspects of Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Balling, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

and enhanced my ability to interact with my peers and professors." "I felt a uniting between the students and the faculty, [both] individually and as a group" "I also believe it was a good experience for the undergraduates to get to know the graduate students."College Emphasis: Global awarenessProgram Objective #4: Expose students to the culture, politics, and economics of China.China is one-fifth of humanity, is the world's largest carbon emitter, has the world's fastestgrowing economy (soon to be the largest), and is the world's biggest consumer of constructionmaterials2. By 2020 the urban population of China is expected to increase from 42% to 60% ofthe total population in the country2. This movement of people from rural

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, illustrate, interpret, operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use, or write.(4) Analysis: Instruction using the following are applicable to this level-analyze, appraise, calcu-late, categorize, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, ex-periment, question, or test. (5) Synthesis: Instruction using the following are applicable to thislevel-arrange, assemble, collect, compose, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, manage,organize, plan, prepare, propose, set up, and write. (6) Evaluation: Instruction using the follow-ing are applicable to this level-appraise, argue, assess, attach, choose compare, defend estimate,judge, predict, rate, core, select, support, value, or evaluate. However

Conference Session

Sustainable and Urban Development

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshad Rajabipour, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Aleksandra Radlinska, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

determine how life style changes (for example usingpublic transportation) can reduce the user’s environmental impact. This assignment was designto evaluate students’ mastery of the performance objective #1 and to evaluate the ability ofstudents to perform an independent research and write a short report. The submitted reports wereof higher than expected quality reflecting that students have a good understanding of thechallenges caused by global warming and climate change. The homework grades were in therange 90-100 with an average of 94.0. It should be noted, however, that since no beginning-of-the-semester pre-test was administered in this class, it was not possible to determine the extent ofstudents’ familiarity with these subjects prior to start

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

fall of senior year, Fig 2) to ensure the firstgroup of seniors had at least one environmental course to meet growing East Texas needs.CENG 3333 Codes, Contracts, and Specifications was combined with CENG 3338 CEMaterials (w/lab) (Fig 1) into CENG 3434 CE Materials, Codes, and Specifications(w/lab) (Fig 2). The combining of topics seemed natural in that codes and materialcapabilities (ASTM specifications within the labs) ultimately leads to the specificationsprepared for contractors. Contract writing was moved to a graduate level. Combiningthese two courses allowed for the addition of CENG 3371 Introduction to EnvironmentalEngineering (Fig 2) for those students graduating in 2010 and later. Once the studentstake CENG 3371, CENG 4371 will focus

Conference Session

International Aspects of Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

simply writing on boards orlecturing to include visual opportunities for their students to learn.Teachers have successfully brought in pictures, videos and demonstrations to improve studentlearning. A three year study from 2000 to 2002 was conducted in the Mechanics of Materialscourse in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at West Point. In the first year,very few physical models and demonstrations were used in the classroom. In the two subsequentyears, several props and demonstrations were added to the course. Despite virtually no change incourse content, the instructors saw a significant improvement in their course end feedback thefinal two years. Students noted the instructors’ use of effective teaching techniques, their

Conference Session

ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Nelson, American Society of Civil Engineers; David Hornbeck, Southern Polytechnic State University; James Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Joe Manous, United States Army Corps of Engineers; Robert Stevens, Arcadis U.S., Inc; Leo Titus, ECS, Ltd; Jeffrey Russell

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and his MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University and is a registered professional engineering in Wisconsin. He has published over 200 technical papers in the areas of contractor failure, prequalification, surety bonds, constructability, automation, maintainability, warranties, quality control/quality assurance, and engineering education. He has published two books—Constructor Prequalification (1996) and Surety Bonds for Construction Contracts (2000. His research has been recognized by his peers through his selection for over