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Matthew S. Barner

Pacific Northwest Civil Engineering Programs’ Structural Design Courses: Elective or Required? Matthew S. Barner, Ph.D., P.E. Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at University of PortlandAbstract The Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam in civil engineering (CE) covers all themajor sub-disciplines: water/environmental, structural, geotechnical, transportation, andconstruction. However, structural engineering is a significant portion of the exam whenconsidering that structural engineering courses further reinforce statics and mechanics ofmaterials, which have their own sets of questions on the exam. All CE students take anintroductory structural

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Stephanie Wettstein

aprofessional context. One student mentioned “My favorite was Speaker 3’s water treatmentjigsaw because I thought it was a good mix of learning about cost-benefit analysis (bothcapital/operating costs and system trade-offs)." Finally, approximately 30% of studentsmentioned a topic that related to connections, particularly with the connection to the real-worldand client conversations. For example, one student stated “[Speaker 4’s activity] made us thinkoutside of the world of strictly engineering and showed us what the other side does.” Theseresponses illustrate how the jigsaw activities reinforced key engineering concepts while alsointroducing students to EM. They fostered curiosity, value creation, and recognition of real-worldconnections which are

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Jonathan Steffens; Charles Pezeshki

learning: Knowledge-building andknowledge-telling in peer tutors’ explanations and questions. Review of Educational Research,77(4), 534–574.[2] Cohen, P. A., Kulik, J. A., & Kulik, C. C. (1982). Educational outcomes of tutoring: A meta-analysis of findings. American Educational Research Journal, 19(2), 237–248.[3] Chen, A., Wei, Y., Le, H., & Zhang, Y. (2024). Learning-by-teaching with ChatGPT: Theeffect of teachable ChatGPT agent on programming education. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15226.[4] Topping, K. J. (2005). Trends in peer learning. Educational Psychology, 25(6), 631–645.[5] Goodlad, S., & Hirst, B. (1989). Peer Tutoring: A guide to learning by teaching. London:Kogan Page.[6] Biswas, G., Leelawong, K., Schwartz, D., & Vye, N

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Yuliana Flores; Jennifer A. Turns

asked applicants to explaintheir interest. After reviewing submissions, I selected students based on graduation needs,relevant coursework, and interest. After reading S's application, I met with her to offer a co-lead position. I envisioned herleading DRG sessions and providing feedback on my curriculum development. The fourundergraduate students would support data analysis scaffolding and create session slides andhandouts. However, this plan evolved as the quarter and project began, particularly since I hadn'tfully developed the 12-week curriculum during winter break. S and I met one-on-one tobrainstorm weekly focuses and activities. The undergraduates created handouts, and eventuallyeach student (including S) became a "grader" for a

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Abdelouahab Abrous

Fluid Dynamics. 2002.[6] Higgins, Brian G., “2D Navier Stokes solution lid-driven cavity flow”, Notes, 2009.[7] Kosti, S , Rathore V. S. (2015). “Numerical study of lid driven cavity at different Reynoldnumber”, Trends in Mechanical Engineering & Technology. 5(3). 2015.[8] Ambatipudi, V, “Simple Solver for driven cavity flow problem”, ASME. 2006.[9] Salih A., 2013, “Streamfunction-vorticity formulation”, department of aerospace engineering,Indian Institute of Space Science. 2013.

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Naga Korivi; Maurice Gunderson

, June 20-23, 2010.3. N. Duval-Couetil, T. Reed-Rhoads, and S. Haghighi, “Engineering students and entrepreneurship education: Involvement, attitudes and outcomes,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 425-435, 2012.4. About ABET, https://www.abet.org/about-abet/5. ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2025 – 2026, https://www.abet.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2025-2026_EAC_Criteria.pdf6. N. Duval-Couetil, A. Shartrand, and T. Reed-Rhoads, “The role of entrepreneurship program models and experiential activities on engineering student outcomes,” Advances in Engineering Education, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 1-15, 2016.7. V. Matthew, T. Monroe-White, A. Turrentine, A. Shartrand, and A.S. Jariwala