Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

support one or more strategies throughout the academic program Figure 3. The strategy for teaching and learning creativity/innovation could be embedded in undergraduate and graduate curricula.As suggested by Figure 3, the strategy includes explaining the need forcreativity/innovation to first-year students, providing them with some neurosciencebasics, and introducing them to a subset of tools and basic, mostly hypotheticalapplications. This introduction to creativity/innovation could occur primarily within andas a small part of an exploring engineering, introduction to engineering, or similarpreferably first-semester course. Of course, the Need, Neuroscience, and Tools elementsof the strategy could be mentioned in other

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. A. Karim, Kennesaw State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

found in PBLhandbooks for teachers, projects are complex tasks, based on challenging questions or problems,that involve students in design, problem-solving, decision making, or investigative activities;give students the opportunity to work relatively autonomously over extended periods of time;and culminate in realistic products or presentations1,2. Other defining features found in theliterature include authentic content, authentic assessment, teacher facilitation but not direction,explicit educational goals3, cooperative learning, reflection, and incorporation of adult skills4. Tothese features, particular models of PBL add a number of unique features. Definitions of"project-based instruction" include features relating to the use of an