Conference Session

Teaching and Assessing Sustainability and Life Long Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Katherine Watson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University; Thomas A. Wall, Georgia Institute of Technology; Caroline R. Noyes, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael O. Rodgers, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

for capturing the extent to which studentsengage in sustainable design are not currently available. Given that the ultimate goal ofsustainable engineering education is to train engineers to incorporate sustainabilityconsiderations into their professional practices, it is critical that a tool be developed to evaluatesustainable design skills.Study OutlineThe goal of this study is to develop and apply a sustainable design rubric that can be used toevaluate student abilities to incorporate sustainability principles into capstone design projects.Specifically, the rubric was designed to answer the following research questions: (1) What arethe expectations related to sustainable design for student projects? (2) To what extent dostudents actually

Conference Session

Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Dulaski PE, Northeastern University

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Civil Engineering

“real-world” project, others continue to offer a traditional project that falls under therubric of “textbook” problems. Although there may be sound, legitimate support for offering a“textbook” capstone, including the magnitude of work involved for instructors, using a real-world project offers tremendous benefit.In order to ensure that the students’ capstone experience is true-to-life, and emulates consultingfirms, the transportation capstone program in the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (CEE) at Northeastern University (NU) has created a program that benefits thestudents and the surrounding communities. The 14 week semester emulates a major project in aconsulting firm with project requirements, deliverables, and community

Conference Session

Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University; Kevin D. Hall, University of Arkansas; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

. Size of Capstone TeamLogistics of the Course Figure 9: Student team size based on institution type.In respect to the basic logistics of theculminating design experience: team size, course length, course units and required weekly workhours per unit, there are some differences between the institution types as highlighted in Figures9 – 13. Undergraduate Only institutions are the most likely to have individual projects, whileUM and Ph.D. universities have a strong preference for team sizes of four to five students.Semester long courses are the most common lengths and definitely predominant for Ph.D.granting and public institutions. Departments at UO, UM, and private universities are morelikely to have yearlong programs.The

Conference Session

Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College; David S. Hurwitz, Oregon State University; Rhonda K Young, University of Wyoming; Rod E. Turochy, Auburn University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Joshua Swake, Oregon State University; Andrea R. Bill, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kevin Heaslip, Utah State University; Michael Kyte, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Civil Engineering

primary areas of research are in intersection operations, traffic signal control systems, highway capacity, and transportation engineering education. Page 23.68.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Model for Collaborative Curriculum Design in Transportation Engineering EducationAbstractThe National Transportation Curriculum Project (NTCP) has been underway for four years as anad-hoc, collaborative effort to effect changes in transportation engineering education.Specifically, the NTCP had developed a set of learning outcomes and associated

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogy in Civil Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaac W Wait, Marshall University; Jeffrey T. Huffman P.E. P.E., Marshall University; Christopher T. Anderson, Huntington (WV) Sanitary Board

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #6575Fostering Critical Thinking Through A Service-Learning, Combined SewerAnalysis Project In An Undergraduate Course in Hydrologic EngineeringDr. Isaac W Wait, Marshall University Dr. Isaac Wait is an associate professor of Engineering in the Division of Engineering at Marshall Univer- sity in Huntington, W.Va. He conducts research and teaches courses in water resources and environmental engineering, and is a registered professional engineer in the states of Ohio and West Virginia.Prof. Jeffrey Thomas Huffman P.E., Marshall University Jeffrey T. Huffman is an assistant professor of Engineering in the Weisberg

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University

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Civil Engineering

metric that requires our graduates to demonstrate an ability to evaluate differentcommunication styles. We present the methodology used to assess this performance metric,along with assessment results gathered over the past six years. These results play an importantrole in the program's assessment of communication-related outcomes.IntroductionA number of years ago we revamped our civil engineering capstone design sequence bychanging it from an individual study course into a directed study offering.1 In the new course,students work in six-person teams to complete an integrated design for a private sectordevelopment or public works project. We consider the teams multi-disciplinary since teammembers represent different civil engineering specialty

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University

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Civil Engineering

-specific assignments.Recognizing that these criteria could be challenging to implement, especially in capstone andlaboratory courses, program administrators developed periodic discipline-specific workshops, anannual Faculty Summer Institute, and a professionally staffed, discipline-specific communicationstudio to aid faculty development and student instruction. These resources and how theyevolved are illustrated using sample innovative communication assignments. Facultycommitment has grown to the point that all engineering disciplines have certified C-I courses orlabs as a part of their capstone experiences. Many disciplines have at least two and some asmany as the four required courses designated C-I.Student interest was enhanced by establishing

Conference Session

Using Student Competitions to Enhance Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock E. Barry PE, U.S. Military Academy; Karl F. Meyer, U.S. Military Academy; Kevin P. Arnett P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Berndt Spittka P.E., Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, West Point, NY

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Civil Engineering

finding an activity that challenges all butdoes not overwhelm the weakest students. However, that concern is applicable only to class-level or course-level competitions.Intercollegiate competitions are not generated by an individual instructor/course director.Beyond this obvious difference, there are many other differences that the casual observer couldidentify, which make inferring greater learning-value seem plausible. Fortunately there is amodest body of evaluative work on the intercollegiate competition approach.Cooley et al.[6], evaluated a West Virginia University (WVU) capstone project in electricalengineering, where rather than a typical project, the students chose their work with the specificintent to enter it into an intercollegiate

Conference Session

Using Student Competitions to Enhance Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Carroll, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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Civil Engineering

aswell as problem/project-based learning activities, and while most laboratories may classify as anactive learning activity, large laboratory groups and too much structure coupled with excessivegiven information can essentially eliminate the problem/project-based learning atmosphere. In the traditional curriculum, the first exposure to a true open-ended project for moststudents is the capstone, senior design project, which to a student can be immenselyoverwhelming. At UL Lafayette an exit interview is given to each graduating senior. Includedin the exit interview are opportunities for students to comment on program weaknesses and makegeneral comments for improvements. Multiple times, students have made comments such as“limited open-ended

Conference Session

Activities and Assessment for “Awkward ABET Outcomes”

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Douglas H. Fehrmann, The Krause Center for Leadership and Ethics, The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

3 CIVL 317 5 - public policy concepts 2 CIVL 302 4 - highway construction contracts 3 CIVL 317 3 - project management 2 Notes: 1. Levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy 1.) Knowledge; 2.) Comprehension; 3.) Application; 4.) Analysis; 5.) Synthesis; 6.) Evaluation 2. Senior Capstone course are currently being adjusted and are not included in this matrix

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Ali Khasawneh P.E., Jordan University of Science and Technology; Mohammad Obadat P.E., The University of Tennessee at Martin

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Civil Engineering

as an assistant professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. Here he devel- ops and teaches general engineering and civil engineering courses, works on transportation engineering projects, and holds membership with a number of organizations and committees. From September 2003 to August 2008 he was a research assistant in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Akron. He worked on a number of Transportation/Pavement Engineering research projects, and Geotechnical En- gineering research projects. Then from September 2003 to August 2008, he was a teaching assistant with the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Akron. His work has been published in

Conference Session

Activities and Assessment for “Awkward ABET Outcomes”

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton B. Farnsworth, Brigham Young University; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Michael J McGinnis, University of Texas at Tyler; Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University

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Civil Engineering

in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. Prior to joining academia, he worked for nearly five years as a project manager and structural analyst for Electric Boar Corporation. Dr. McGin- nis’ research interests include nondestructive evaluation of structures, response of structures to extreme events such as fire and earthquake, and improving undergraduate engineering education. He has published numerous articles concerning the application of digital image correlation, a non-contact photographic method of determining deformations, to study the behavior of unique structures under various loadings. In teaching and mentoring areas, Dr. McGinnis has been recognized by his peers as the

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Civil Engineering

Machine Design II ME 481 – Senior Capstone Design Design Project Documentation: Problem Definition, Progress report, Formal Design Reports Project Report (1 @ 35- 200 pages) Detailed description of design approach, results, and conclusions, with supporting documentation Teamwork 3-5 Students/Team Multiple industry interactions, small group

Conference Session

Using Student Competitions to Enhance Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven D Hart, U.S. Military Academy; Johnette C. Shockley, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center; Leah R Ellis, University of Nebraska, Peter Kiewit Institute; Berndt Spittka P.E., Unitee States Military Academy- Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

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Civil Engineering

the students they focus on and the types ofproblems they address. Many, if not most civil engineers are familiar with the Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoecompetitions. The first national level steel bridge competition was held in 1992 and continuesthrough today. It is sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction and the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers and its mission is“to supplement the education of civil engineeringstudents with a comprehensive, student-driven project experience from conception and designthrough fabrication, erection, and testing, culminating in a steel structure that meets clientspecifications and optimizes performance and economy” (14). In this competition, the all bridgedimensions are set and the