Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monique H. Head, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi PE, Morgan State University; Petronella A James-Okeke, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

penalized. Another tidbit when using MasteringEngineering® is that advancepreparation is recommended for an instructor to acquire the course access code through Pearsonafter a login has been established for the instructor. Doing this in advance allows the instructor toinclude the information on the syllabus to alert students on what is needed for the course and tolessen student frustrations to a friendly tool that can assist their learning by completinghomework online. Academic dishonesty is always a topic of concern, where it is not alwayscertain whether or not a student has received or given help. To help overcome this issue,Professor A and B also gave in-class quizzes to also assess student learning of topics. From theseresults, it was quite

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

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

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

whether or not a class instruction is adequateby itself and vice versa. Question 2 and question 3 are under the second category that measuresthe advantages obtained from adding DARWin 3.1 to the course syllabus. Questions 6, 7 and 9represent the third category, they evaluate the software as an engineering tool in terms of ease ofoperation, extent of tutorial required to get students started and its rank amongst other softwaresthey used in their undergraduate study thus far. The last category includes question 8 andquestion 10. These two questions are used to assess students’ satisfaction concerning the numberof assignments they had to work on using the software and the quality of assistance they receivedfrom the instructor to help understand the

Conference Session

Activities and Assessment for “Awkward ABET Outcomes”

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte P.E., Cleveland State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Cleveland State University’s General Education requirements, it wasnot approved for Gen Ed listing by the University Curriculum Committee. As a result, few, ifany, non-engineering students take the course.A complete description of the course is provided in another paper 4. The earlier paper alsodiscusses similar courses at other universities, as well as the assessment of the course atCleveland State University and some preliminary results. The course syllabus is provided as anAppendix.Student Learning OutcomesThe requirements that civil engineering programs have to meet now, and will have to meet in thefuture, are contained in a number of documents. The requirements are written in terms ofoutcomes, which include technical knowledge as well as the

Conference Session

Involving Undergraduates in Research

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tarek Abdoun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Usama El Shamy P.E., Southern Methodist University; Anthony Tessari; Victoria Bennett, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; John E Lawler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

project for the semester and were part of an early preliminary version of themodule. The main advantage to this approach was that potential problems, both information andlogistics based, were addressed before the remote undergraduate class students were involved.Approximately two weeks prior to an actual task, the host students would be given theopportunity to run through an initial trial. There were six students involved in this operation,which ensured that several opinions and experiences would be documented. The group containedthree students that had already taken a class with a similar syllabus and three students that werecurrently enrolled in a comparable course. This created an environment where some of thestudents knew what to expect and