Conference Session

Global and Cultural Issues in Construction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca N. Macdonald, East Carolina University; David L. Batie, East Carolina University; Ryan T. Goodman, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

assignments inwhich they have greater interest, and that they will think more deeply about the materialinvolved.Assignments were returned with ample feedback, providing students the opportunity to revisefuture assignments based on that feedback. Emphasis was placed on clarity, conciseness, andself-reflection. Writing assignments themselves were evaluated for content, clarity, andgrammar, all necessary for professional communications, and many (particularly opinion papersand journal critiques) promote both seeing the global and societal context of construction andincreasing knowledge of contemporary issues (failures, social networking, etc.).The first style was the use journal critiques of academic peer-reviewed articles. Journal critiquesallowed

Conference Session

Capstone Courses in Construction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose L. Fernandez-Solis, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

separate ranking isdone for the oral presentations. Grades are influenced by team rankings asdetermined by outside jurors. Students peer evaluate each other for performanceaccording to posted rubrics; student project grades are affected by the peerevaluation. This approach has been very successful in the past four years and thecurrent class of 23 attracted 1 landscape urban planning, 6 civil, 7 architecture,and 9 building construction students, resulting in a truly interdisciplinary classand team composition.The goal of this paper is to showcase the framework, structure, and logic forintegrating the two courses and compares the results in terms of grades andquality of the responses from the faculty and the jurors. All classes were asked tokeep