AC 2012-4932: A FULL-SCALE RUBBLE-HOUSE CONSTRUCTION ANDTESTING PROJECT POWERED BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT VOL-UNTEERS WORKFORCEDr. Fatih Oncul, Southern Polytechnic State University Fatih Oncul is an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering Technology program, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Ga. He received his doctoral degree from University of Colorado, Denver, in 2001. He is currently teaching geotechnical and foundation engineering related courses. His main research interest areas are finite element analysis, subsurface exploration, soil-structure interaction, and geotechnical earthquake engineering.Dr. Wasim Barham, Southern Polytechnic State UniversityDr. Metin Oguzmert
incorporating appropriate engineering standards andmultiple realistic constraints.” 1 ABET does not define the required course content or length, thetypes of projects that are considered a culminating design experience, requirements related toindividual and/or team projects, or which skills to assess. It is reasonable, then, to ask whatconstitutes an appropriate major design experience. There are a significant number of papers inthe literature by individual departments describing their approach, but few that provide acompendium of common themes and methodologies.An exception is the 2005 national survey of all engineering departments conducted by Howe andWilbarger.2 Their study was a follow-up to a 1994 survey conducted by Todd et al.3 Theoriginal 1994
AC 2012-3868: CIVIL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE CONSULTANTS: FROMRFP TO REALITYMr. William P. Manion, University of Maine William P. Manion, M.S., P.E., is an instructor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine in Orono. He has taught courses in materials, soil mechanics, computer applications, graphics, and project management since 1998. He has also performed laboratory research, worked for a heavy earthwork construction company, captained charter boats, and managed a land development project. Al- ways interested in new effective teaching strategies, he employs many different pedagogical methods and techniques.Ms. Judith A. Hakola, University of Maine
AC 2012-4616: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SOPHOMOREENGINEERING STUDENTSDr. Edward F. Glynn P.E., Villanova University Ed Glynn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University.Prof. Frank E. Falcone, Villanova University Page 25.1074.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Professional Development for Sophomore Engineering StudentsAbstractThe development of project management skills and interaction with the regional professionalengineering community are integral parts of Civil Engineering Fundamentals, a required
University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, M.Sc. (1995) in research methods in psychology from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and a Ph.D. (2003) in psychology from South Bank University, London. She is currently Project Manager for the MemphiSTEP project at the University of Memphis,a project funded by the National Science Foundation, designed to increase the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduates. She is also a Co-PI on the Transforming a Civil Engineering curriculum through Geographic Information Systems Project at the University of Memphis, also funded by the National Sci- ence Foundation. Best has an extensive research background and served as lead researcher on a range of
teaming exercises that involvedstudents from two universities. Students were assigned to groups containing membersfrom both universities to complete laboratory assignments. Activities were established formeaningful and entertaining introductions between the individual team members prior totechnical interactions. Assignments were developed to require sharing of data andcollaborations amongst all team members, with special focus on inter-universitycollaborations and communications. Detailed electronic communications of the teamswere evaluated for assessment of project success. In addition, surveys were conductedand focus group discussions (facilitated by an external assessment coordinator) wereundertaken after the experiences to provide depth to
Architectural Engineering Department at California Polytech- nic State University (Cal Poly) at San Luis Obispo, Calif. Nelson came to Cal Poly with more than 25 years of structural design and project management experience. She is a registered Professional Engineer and Structural Engineer in the states of California and Washington. Nelson received a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno and a M.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Washington.Prof. Brent Nuttall P.E., California Polytechnic State University Brent Nuttall is an Associate Professor for the Architectural Engineering Department at California Poly- technic State University in San Luis Obispo. Until 2003
AC 2012-3881: CAPSTONE DESIGN: INSIGHTS FROM AN INTERNA-TIONAL COLLABORATIVE STUDENT TEAMProf. James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology James Hanson is an Associate Professor of civil engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where his teaching emphasis is structural analysis and design. Over the last nine years, he has taught or co-taught capstone design. For eight of those years, he has been in charge of recruiting external clients and coordinating projects for capstone design.Dr. John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Page 25.285.1 c American
, he has written a number of peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers, as well as co-authored a book chapter and a technical guidance manual.Dr. David A. Veshosky, Lafayette College David Veshosky has a bachelor’s of civil engineering degree from Catholic University; a master’s in sci- ence, technology, and public policy from George Washington University; and a Ph.D. in business and economics from Lehigh University. He teaches courses in engineering economics and project manage- ment at Lafayette College. His current research interests involve sustainable development. Page 25.7.1
significantly from the pre- to the post-phases of design activities. In addition, students’ ability to evaluate the quality of the verticalalignment generated with the driving simulator increased significantly after they completed thatpart of the highway design project. As a result, including a driving simulator as a virtual realitytool for analyzing the quality of highway design can improve the way students perceive andengage in the highway design tasks. This was especially useful since the target students were partof mandatory courses not directly related to their major. Students’ suggestions for expanding theuse of the driving simulator to other parts of the course complemented the above findings.MotivationThe new generation of students identified
learning with this sub-discipline. In the mid to late 1990’s,the department’s water resources design course began to include modules on low impactdevelopment and best management practices. So sustainable design had by that time infiltratedenvironmental and water resources course learning. In May of 2002, the department freshmantrip included a tour of a green building redevelopment project in Chicago, and in the fall of 2002,learning about sustainable design was adopted into the department’s required Civil EngineeringCodes and Regulations course. That course was oriented towards guidelines for civil engineeringdesign across all sub-disciplines. The lessons in sustainable design in that class focused mostlyon reading and reflection by students, and
in the introductory courses of civil engineering. He is also co-teaching the project management and design courses for the seniors. Page 25.1060.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Preparing Students for Writing in Civil Engineering PracticeAbstractThis paper describes a project designed to investigate characteristics of effective writing in civilengineering practice and improve writing instruction for students. The project analyzesdocuments written by civil engineering practitioners and compares them to papers written byundergraduate students in civil engineering
solutions. The exams were an individual effort; thus, giving the Instructor anopportunity to gauge each individual student’s level of understanding and competency with thepavement design concepts and MEPDG software. Because of the smaller class size, the graduate course was structured more of a project-centric course and included very few traditional problem-based homework assignments. Amajority of the homework assignments required the MEPDG software for generating solutionsand were to be completed individually. There were two exams which were take-home, open-note format and individually completed. Because the graduate students are challenged to a morerigorous level, the MEPDG software was required to solve 50 percent of the problems in
perspectivesOutcome 12 Risk and Uncertainty Outcome 21 TeamworkOutcome 13 Project Management Outcome 22 Professional Values and AttitudesOutcome 15 Technical Specialization Outcome 23 Lifelong LearningOutcome 16 Communication Outcome 24 Professional and Ethical ResponsibilityOutcome 17 Public Policy Table 1: Experiential Outcomes Page 25.1331.6The EI is expected to attain the outcomes through
nonlinear elements and unseating of bearings on bridge decks. Head’s academic, teaching, and research experiences are directly related to assessing bridge performance. Her research and teaching interests include structural dynamics, earthquake en- gineering, innovative experimental testing, performance-based design, reinforced concrete design, and seismic retrofitting of bridges. Her additional research interests include hybrid simulation of bridges, multi-hazard mitigation of transportation structures to establish guidelines for new design and retrofit cri- teria, and structural health monitoring of bridges. Currently, Head is working on a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), focusing on performance
created to monitor internship programs andensure proper depth and breadth of experience for new engineers.14 Industry should providefeedback to academia on how well prepared graduates are as they enter internship programs. Byusing feedback from the industry perspective, faculty can drive the right curriculumimprovements that best prepare engineers to meet the demands of professional practice.The Perspective of Students on their Preparation for Professional PracticeBielefeldt’s recent study at CU investigated how civil engineering students perceived theeducational outcome requirements in the BOK2.15 The project had three main goals: 1) Introduce the BOK2 to first year civil engineering students and determine what information they perceived
sequencecovers a wide variety of ways to find information (general web and free and paid databasesearches), obtain information (web pages, open-access and paid journals, conferences,handbooks, specifications, codes, and syntheses), and use information (case studies, researchpapers, evaluation of multiple sources, and design projects).Relationship to ABET Accreditation Criteria and the Body of KnowledgeInformation literacy is related to three of the outcomes in ABET criterion 37 as well as three ofthe outcomes described in American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Body of Knowledge8: • an ability to communicate effectively (ABET g, BOK 16) and • a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, life-long learning (ABET i, BOK 23
project, the importance of professional licensure and continuing education, and/or other professional practice issues.ABET Civil Engineering Outcomes and Program Criteria are part of a living document. As civilengineers continue to define the needs of future engineers through documents such as theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Body of Knowledge (BOK) 1,2, these outcomes andcriteria are updated by ABET 3. In response to the most recent update of the ABET CivilEngineering Program Criteria, the objective of this study was to find how civil engineeringdepartments in the United States: measure the multiple items in the new mathematics and science program criterion, interpret “the ability to apply” within the new
of sources, to includeembedded indicators, which are preselected requirements in courses across the program20, 21.One of the primary embedded indicators is the effective use of software in engineering problemsand design projects.CE390: Site Civil Engineering DesignCE390 Site Civil Engineering Design is a site design and land development course required byall civil engineering majors in the first semester of their junior year. This course providesstudents with the necessary background to select and develop sites for civil engineeringinfrastructure as well as review the work of others. Proper site selection and engineering have asignificant impact on the economics of a project and the long term utility of a constructedfacility. Specifically
/uncertainty Engineering analysis xii. probability & statistics Data analysis 10. sustainability 8. sustainability 13. project management 16. project management Management skills 17. public policy 18. bus/pub admin 17. business /public administration Business knowledge 20. leadership 18. leadership Leadership 22. Attitudes 14. Breadth 15. Technical specialization 4. In-depth competenceCriterion 5 3. Humanities
of the groups, the differencein perceived effort was smaller, but consistently the engineers felt that the non-engineers did lesswork on the project. Non-engineers' performance as assessed by engineering students Engineers' performance as assessed by themselves 5 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 CATME s core 1.5 1 0.5 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Group NumberFigure 2 - CATME survey results for
that problematizes its ownconstruction, highlights researchers’ vulnerabilities and positionality, makes claims aboutsocially constructed meanings, and reveals the indeterminacy of knowledge claims even as itmakes them (p. 4). It is a nontraditional approach to research that allows for the weaving ofdifferent genres of information into themes of life. Because the issue of sustainability and thedevelopment of new ways of thinking about design are issues that require many disciplines,crystallization offers an appropriate methodology for investigation.Participant RecruitmentLindlof and Taylor14 explain that a sponsor facilitates gaining access to individuals byintroducing the researcher to potential participants. In this project, the sponsor is
engineering community and as stewards of society, are primary program constituents.Many engineering programs make use of industry professionals to affirm program educationalobjectives and to provide input about general preparation of engineering graduates. For example,program industry advisory boards need to cyclically affirm overall program educational Page 25.230.3objectives and participate in program strategic planning, and sometimes teams of industryprofessionals participate in evaluation of student learning through capstone projects (Scales etal., 1998; Napper and Hales, 1999). These efforts are more “top level” reviews or evaluations ofthe
be adopted in2013For delivery of the completed modules, the WEI began a cooperative project with NEES(Network of Earthquake Engineering Simulations) to host the WEI developed courseware ontheir NEESacademy powered by the NEEShub infrastructure. Starting in late 2010, the intent ofthe collaboration was to apply developed methodologies to the NSF sponsored NEES EducationOutreach and Training (EOT) programs. In the spring quarter of 2011, the pilot program waslaunched using Moodle, an open-source learning management system, housed and maintained byNEES (www. nees.org). The pilot program, using the online course content provided by WEI,launched the hybrid /blended timber undergraduate design courses at two separate universities asa first step
difficulty, the problem or project must be engaging enough tosummon the motivated effort deep learning requires. Students have to care about learning andabout the problem to be solved. Unfortunately there is neither a sure-fire collection of ready-made problems nor a well-defined set of guidelines for producing these problems.After an introduction on knowledge building, the instructor presented examples of possiblegeotechnical knowledge building problems (such as understanding the levee failure in HurricaneKatrina or the consequences of a major earthquake striking the eastern United States). Thestudents then worked together to generate their own knowledge problems and voted to select theproblem they would all work on. These included: • What are
In some respects the course title is a misnomer. Rather than teaching engineering history per se,the course teaches engineering through history.The course also included a final group project. Students were assigned to groups of 4 or 5 by theinstructor. Each group selected a historical case study topic, wrote a technical paper, andpresented it on the final day of the class.A similar course is taught by Dr. Billington course at Princeton University. The course isentitled “Engineering in the Modern World,” numbered CEE 102A (also EGR 102A, MAE102A). The course description is “Among the works of concern to engineering are bridges,railroads, power plants, highways, airports, harbors, automobiles, aircraft, computers, and themicrochip. Historical
AC 2012-3327: THE RAISE THE BAR EFFORT: CHARTING THE FU-TURE BY UNDERSTANDING THE PATH TO THE PRESENT - THE BOKAND LESSONS LEARNEDDr. Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, D.WRE, and F.NSPE, is an independent consultant provid- ing management, engineering, education/training, and marketing services. Prior to beginning his consul- tancy, he worked in the public, private, and academic sectors serving as a Project Engineer and Manager, Department Head, Discipline Manager, marketer, legal expert, professor, and Dean of an engineering college. Walesh authored or co-authored six books and many engineering and education publications and presentations. His most recent
more than 70 articles and given more than 150 presentations to various groups. His primary teaching and research interests include pavement design, materials, construction, and rehabilitation, in addition to the topics of professionalism, licensure, and ethics. On the education front, he serves as the co-Chair of the ASCE Body of Knowledge Education Fulfillment Committee (BOKEdFC), and is an active participant in the Civil Engineering Division of ASEE. In terms of technical/research efforts, he currently serves on eight committees, task groups, and panels through the Transportation Research Board (chairing one standing committee of TRB and one NCHRP Project Panel), and numerous committees with ASTM and industry
AC 2012-5085: RESPONSES TO AN UNFAMILIAR THING: HOW LEARN-ING ABOUT A STRUCTURAL SCULPTURE CAN MAKE IT MORE AP-PEALINGDr. Charles E. Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology Charles Riley has a background in transportation structures and structural mechanics. He teaches across the curriculum from the interdisciplinary freshman experience through the mechanics sequence, project management, structural design, and into the senior capstone. His interests in engineering education are varied, but are ultimately focused on excellence in the classroom and student retention (both retaining them in the program and having them retain information!).Dr. Sean St.Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology Sean St.Clair is an Associate