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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nathaniel Jensen; Philip Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

1 PEER ASSESSMENT (JURY) OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING Nathaniel Jensen, Civil Engineering Technician, FHWA Philip Brach, Ph.D., P.E., F-NSPE Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Ahmet Zeytinci, Ph.D., P.E., Professor University of the District of Columbia Washington, DC Abstract The use of a student’s work experience involving the investigation, inspection, collection, and analysis of data for the rating of park service bridges in the United States, is presented as a Senior Capstone Project for Civil

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alfred A. Scalza

Learning and Development”3 published in 1984 has become the foundation for the subject andmost, if not all, future work on this subject. David A. Kolb’s ideas have had a dramatic impact on thedesign and development of lifelong learning models. His work can be traced back to that famous dictum Proceedings of the 2007 Middle Atlantic Section Fall Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2of Confucius around 450 BC: "Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me,and I will understand."The concept of experiential learning explores the cyclical pattern of all

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Paul Stanton; Duane Fairfax

the three courses that comprise our ComputerScience Engineering Sequence and then evaluate their learning using a group project. The first course isstrictly individual effort, the second course combines group and individual work, and the sequenceculminates with an exam-less, group project course. Students benefit from opportunities to learn how tosucceed in a group setting over time, while we increasingly adjust the allocation of evaluation points fromindividual to group effort. In our final course, we employ cooperative learning using vertical slicingwhere students select a component of the system whose development they are responsible for throughouteach phase of the engineered solution. This vertical slicing allows us to develop homework