Page 26.1063.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Learning Challenges and Opportunities from Seismic Retrofit Capstone ProjectsAbstractCivil and Environmental Engineering students at Seattle University are required to complete athree-quarter capstone project that is team-based and industrially-sponsored under thesupervision of a liaison engineer from industry and a faculty member. These projects offerstudents opportunities to apply concepts from analysis and design classes to solve real-worldproblems. In the last two years, student teams have completed three seismic retrofit projects ofdifferent complexity levels. Benefits to the students that are
University, Marietta Campus, Georgia as a full-time faculty in Civil and Construction Engineering (Since January 2015, it is Kennesaw State University). He is a registered professional engineer for the State of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has more than twelve journal and proceeding publications and three professional reports in the area of soil and sediment remediation, environmental management, and statistical hydrology. He is a member of ASCE and ASEE. Page 26.1270.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Project Based Learning of Environmental Engineering
Multidisciplinary Term Project in Low Level CoursesAbstractCurrent engineering students need to be equipped with a wider knowledge base in terms ofenvironmental, economic, and social attributes of engineered systems, work, and materials.Sustainability is a perspective that can be introduced in early classes and not only as a technicaltopic in upper level classes. Lower level sustainability courses can be related to the knowledgegained in the required math, science, humanities, and social sciences through “mind mapping.”This paper presents a comprehensive term project entitled “Greening the Engineering Building”that was utilized to simulate sophomore civil engineering students’ interest in green buildingsthrough the development of a sustainable alternative
Paper ID #12295Opening the Classroom to the Civil Engineering Profession through Web-based Class Projects: Assessment of Student LearningWilliam Greenwood, University of Michigan William Greenwood is a doctoral student in Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environ- mental Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research interests in geotechnical earthquake engineering include post-disaster site reconnaissance, geophysical methods for site investigation, and dy- namic properties of waste materials. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Vermont in 2013.Prof. Dimitrios Zekkos
- versity of Pittsburgh, Freshman Engineering, 126 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261; 412-624-6474. [budny@pitt.edu]Mr. Sina ArjmandDr. David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh Page 26.156.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 ADDING AN INTERNATIONAL SENIOR DESIGN COMPONENT INTO THE CIVIL CURRICULUMAbstractInternational exposure as well as project-based service learning for undergraduate students hasgained much attention for their positive impact on students. Additionally, ABET engineeringcriteria require international exposure for all undergraduates. As
experience in their senior year, formed the first all-female capstone team. The project the team selected was the conceptual design of a performance and visual art center for an existing nonprofit “village” that houses physically and emotionally abused girls. Each team member was responsible for the design of a component of the project based on her civil engineering subdiscipline. An all-female group of industry practitioners agreed to serve as mentors to the capstone team throughout the project cycle. With significant input from the practitioner-mentors, the students designed the project and not only presented to faculty and advisory board members, they also presented to the local chapter of a female-based construction industry
, problem-based learning, and impacts of the learning environment. To improvestudent teamwork experiences in any course, faculty have an opportunity to apply a wealth ofknowledge from fields such as organizational or industrial psychology 5. Some argue thateffective team-based learning in capstone courses require that teams be heterogeneous and haveshared goals, meaningful activities, timely internal feedback, and external comparisons andfeedback 6. Thus, for faculty to facilitate an effective team-based learning experience, they mustbe very deliberate in the planning of team projects, milestones, activities, feedback methods, andtiming.Other research has focused on problem-based learning approaches. One study, focusing on astructural engineering
. This paper describes an approach taken to meet thischallenge with a collaborative learning experience that combines students from two institutions.Students from CVEEN 6460 Sustainable Urban Water Engineering at the University of Utahwere teamed with students from CIVE 6670/8670 Life Cycle Engineering at the University ofToledo in a semester project experience. The design project required the students to complete thedesign of a rainwater harvesting project, servicing an institutional building, based on technical,economic, environmental, and social performance criteria. The project was setup to includeseven deliverables, each of which included a report submission and a team presentation update atboth institutions. Each deliverable encouraged
Paper ID #12107History and Heritage as a Vehicle for Contemporary IssuesDr. Douglas G Schmucker, University of Utah Dr. Schmucker has 15 years experience focused on high quality teaching following the T4E, ExCEEd, and NETI teaching models. A full-time teaching professional, he focuses on practice, project, and problem- based teaching methodologies.Dr. Steven J. Burian, University of Utah Page 26.847.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 History and Heritage as a Vehicle
Impact of Engineering Solutions:A Collaborative General Education-Engineering Effort Page 26.721.2AbstractAt the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), General Education (GenEd) requirements forBachelor Degrees include six credit hours dedicated to project work that brings students from allacross the university to work in teams that resemble a professional work setting. These inter-professional student teams work with faculty and/or industry mentors on a wide range ofprojects. Students assume different roles in the team and are encouraged to approach the projectfrom their own perspective and to contribute their respective discipline-specific knowledge whileperforming within their
Paper ID #12608Students Writing for Professional Practice: A Model for Collaboration amongFaculty, Practitioners and Writing SpecialistsProf. Susan Conrad, Portland State University Susan Conrad, Ph.D., is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and head of the Civil Engineering Writing Project. She has written numerous articles and books about English grammar, discourse, and corpus linguistics.Dr. William A Kitch P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kitch is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the
Paper ID #12294Introduction to Sub-Branches of Civil Engineering Fields through a CreativeFreshmen Civil Engineering Design CourseMr. John E. Shamma John E. Shamma is the Facility Planning Team Manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California overseeing Metropolitan’s infrastructure reliability and vulnerability investigations. He was the Project Engineer for the Inland Feeder Water Conveyance System’s Arrowhead Tunnels project from 1993 – 2005. He was responsible for the design and construction of two 12 foot diameter tunnel seg- ments totaling approximately 11 miles in the San Bernardino Mountains
a specialty in building design and construction with over 10 years of industry experience on private and public projects and 2 years of teaching experience at the university level. Page 26.1019.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Intra (Sub)-Disciplinary Integration in Civil Engineering Education: An Approach to Integrate the Various Civil Engineering Sub-Disciplines with the Use of a Design Studio LabAbstractTypically, Civil Engineering education
simulation and modeling. She has served as the principal investigator in 80 projects and authored/co-authored over a 160 technical papers. Dr. Sisiopiku has been recognized by many organizations for her professional achievements including the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Federal Highway Administration, the Illinois Association of Highway Engineers, IEEE, and the Women’s Transportation Seminar. She is the recipient of the 2007 President’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2010 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship, and a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.Dr. Robert W. Peters, University of Alabama at Birmingham Dr. Robert W. Peters is a Professor of Environmental Engineering at the
in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He retired at the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Lenox spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA – including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Di- vision. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initiatives – collectively labeled as Project ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education). As ASCE’s Executive Vice President, Dr. Lenox led several educational and professional career-development projects for the civil engineering profession – with the overall objective of
present information on how and whypractitioner involvement has been beneficial. A special topics course offering that allowedstudents access to a construction project is highlighted since it provides opportunities to describehow practitioners can assist with producing balanced and well grounded graduates. The primaryassessment of this paper is the program as described seems to be working.IntroductionOver the past few years, the materials area within the Civil and Environmental Engineering(CEE) department at Mississippi State University (MSU) has prioritized producing engineeringgraduates that are balanced and well grounded in fundamental concepts. To do so, emphasis hasbeen given to development and sustainment of a sound program at bachelors
spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA – including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Di- vision. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initiatives – collectively labeled as Project ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education). As ASCE’s Executive Vice President, Dr. Lenox led several educational and professional career-development projects for the civil engineering profession – with the overall objective of properly preparing individuals for their futures as civil engineers. An example is his staff leadership of
be made more truthful and productive. He is the leader of the NSF funded project KredibleNet, whose goal is to set the agenda for computational social science analysis of authorship, leadership, trust and credibility in knowledge markets. He has published papers and developed software that aim to make this into a reality. Among the tools he has created are: KredibleNet: kredible.net Visible Effort: veffort.us Alterpode: alterpode.net Visible Past: visiblepast.net Ubimark: ubimark.com/inDr. Esteban Garcia Page 26.127.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
junior-level. Collaboration with writing studiesfaculty ensured that the material in the writing guide was consistent with content taught in thosecourses. The writing guide is currently being piloted by civil engineering faculty in selectcourses and by the UMD’s writing center, the Writers’ Workshop, which offers one-to-onesessions led by graduate student or faculty consultants. Lessons learned from this pilot will beused to improve the writing guide before implementation across the civil engineering departmentin the Fall 2015 semester.The following sections first summarize the projects designed to improve writing in theengineering department and then describe the development of the writing guide and assessmentrubric, including the roles of the
control, decision analysis, and optimization. • T4 (Level 3): Explain the impact of historical and contemporary issues on civil or construction engineering. • T5 (Level 3): Develop solutions to well-defined project management problems within civil or construction engineering. • T6 (Level 5): Develop a system or process in more than one program-relevant civil or construction engineering specialty field to meet desired needs, including sustainability and within other realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, and constructability. • T7 (Level 2
the New York Times and theNational Film Board of Canada by Katerina Cizek — is an experimental, award winninginteractive documentary outlining the history of vertical living around the world [2]. Thedocumentary allows viewers to sit back and watch a narrated history, told in rhyming coupletsand narrated by Leslie Feist, or to interact with material on high-rise living from the archives ofthe New York Times. Viewers could choose to read or listen to material that was not part of thedocumentary proper, but that was built into the website for the project, and even, in the lastcomponent, contribute their images to the fourth part of the film. Students were introduced to thefirst few minutes of the documentary prior to class, shown the interactive
special prominence ofconceptual understanding to students in engineering hydrology courses, it is particularlyimportant for instructors to have direct measures of students’ proficiency in the range of topicscovered, such as: the hydrologic cycle, the origin and mechanisms of precipitation, causes andinfluencing factors of evaporation, infiltration of precipitation into the subsurface, watershedcharacteristics, and others.The primary research question addressed by this project was, “can a concept inventory be usedfor direct assessment of an engineering hydrology course?” To answer this question, a conceptinventory was developed and pilot tested in two undergraduate engineering hydrology courses,with the results of this pilot-testing described
STEM9–11.Introductory engineering courses taught with forms of active learning such as project-basedlearning and problem-based learning have led to increased retention of engineering majors12–15,improved student performance13,15, higher quality of peer interactions13, and more positivestudent attitudes about engineering13,16. In addition to the strong case for adopting active learningin introductory engineering classrooms17, there is growing concern about how to effectivelydisseminate innovations in engineering education18. Recommendation for adoption anddissemination include attending to the specific needs of varied university cultures and curricula,supporting educators in becoming reflective teachers, and providing long-term support
possible use of anonline repository at their institution. 23 While there is evidence that the use and amount ofcontent within these repositories is growing, the growth appears slow, and there is littleevidence of active faculty participation. 24MethodsBackground: Project DesignBecause there has been no research on a web-based repository of curriculum materials,results from prior studies discussed above are being used to inform the development of theweb-based repository and the decision-making research. The project utilizes Rogers’components of adoption in several ways. Relative advantage is addressed through both of thestudies. The usability testing allows for potential user feedback on the usefulness of therepository, while the decision-making
Paper ID #13026Assessing the Ethical Development of Students in an Undergraduate Civil En-gineering Course using a Standardized InstrumentDr. Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Donald D. Carpenter, PhD, PE, LEED AP is Professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University where he teaches courses on ethics/professionalism and water resources. Dr. Carpenter has served as the University Director of Assessment and the founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. He conducts funded pedagogical research and development projects, has published numerous engineering education papers
1995, respectively.Mr. Nephi Derbidge, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA After completing my undergraduate studies at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, I worked for a private geotech- nical consulting firm in California for over 15 years. My consulting career provided a broad range of experience on mostly public works projects. Over the last 10 years I have managed the geotechnical laboratory which served more than 5 offices throughout the state for domestic and international projects. I have been teaching mostly geotechnical laboratory courses at Cal Poly for over 10 years. Utilizing Cal Poly’s ’Learn by Doing’ mantra, I share my practical project experience with my students during laboratory activities
andrelationship of individual course components in the inverted model (recorded lecture videos,concept quizzes, problem sets, laboratory exercises, and design projects) are presented. Impactson faculty planning and preparation are discussed. A review of the changes made between eachsuccessive course offering based on lessons learned is also provided.In addition to the authors’ (faculty) perspective, the students’ perspective is also addressed basedon the results of extensive end-of-the-semester surveys asking students for feedback on theinverted model. Student responses to numerous multiple choice “rating” questions about courseformat and course components are provided. Student performance is also addressed through abroad comparison of examination grades
included:3. an ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs8. the broad education necessary to understand the impact of solutions in a global and societalcontext10. a knowledge of contemporary issues13. an understanding of the elements of project management, construction and assetmanagement14. an understanding of business and public policy and administration fundamentals15. an understanding of the leader and leadership principles and attitudesAn analysis of these outcomes reveals that, while some understanding of various aspects of thehumanities and social sciences are needed to meet the outcome, there are no direct outcomes inthe humanities and social sciences.Humanities and Social Sciences in BOK2Building on BOK1, those
professional activities have included projects in East Africa, Central America, the Middle East, Alaska’s North Slope, and throughout the ”lower 48 states.” His current activities at Texas A&M cover a wide spectrum from K-12 outreach and recruiting to undergraduate curriculum design to retention, monitoring, and post-graduation engagement.Dr. Debra A Fowler, Texas A&M University Dr. Debra Fowler serves the Associate Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M Uni- versity. Following 16 years working in industry she completed a Ph.D. is in Interdisciplinary Engineering with a specific focus on engineering education from Texas A&M University. Her research areas of focus are faculty perspectives
Long Island University, and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University. Dr. Lenox served for over 28 years as a commis- sioned officer in the U.S Army Field Artillery in a variety of leadership positions in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He retired at the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Lenox spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA – including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Di- vision. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initiatives – collectively labeled as Project ExCEEd