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Fostering Business and Professional Skills in the Engineering Classroom

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashraf Badir P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Long Duy Nguyen P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Kristoph-Dietrich Kinzli, Colorado School of Mines; Simeon J. Komisar, Florida Gulf Coast University; Jong-Yeop Kim, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Civil Engineering

contributions of industry involvement in the capstone design course fromthe perspectives of both students and practitioners. Practitioners have been involved in variousroles, including project mentors for capstone design projects and/or judges for students’ capstonedesign project presentations. Practitioners, through the students, are provided with new ways oflooking at and solving problems. Practitioners, through their involvement, provide valuablefeedback to the faculty and students that enriches the overall experience gained in the capstonedesign course. This feedback helps improve student performance on their projects and providesthem with additional tools to carry forward to their engineering careers. However, there was agap in perception between

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meg E. West, Ohio State University

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Civil Engineering

programs including civilengineering. As of 2016, civil engineering programs must create opportunities for students to“design a system, component, or process in more than one civil engineering context” in order tobe accredited [1]. This requirement of a design experience has led to the necessity of a seniorlevel design course or capstone within civil engineering programs. Since there are a wide rangeof focuses available within civil engineering, many programs offer transportation engineeringdesign project options as part of the larger civil engineering capstone course. In this section, theneed for design courses is discussed further along with a discussion on the positive outcomes ofan engineering design course and two examples of capstone design

Conference Session

Accreditation and the BOK

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C. Bower P.E., The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

partnerships to provide anumber of different academic resources. These resources support capstone projects, advising andevaluation of capstone projects, research projects as well as financial support for the projects,adjunct professors, dedicated internships and active members for advisory boards providingfinancial support and curriculum input. In a time of ever decreasing resources at the state level,public universities are moving to operate similarly to a private institution. Additionally, duringthese times the building of new programs requires the leveraging of the resources of privateorganizations. Analysis of examples of program development and enhancement using industrypartnerships will provide a number of best practices.IntroductionIndustry

Conference Session

Sustainability in Civil Engineering

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan McWhirter, Virginia Tech; Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech

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Civil Engineering

ofthe case projects. Relevant concepts from behavioral decision science were identified whileinterviewing the engineering design teams. The developed modules were tested with over 280undergraduate engineering students. Methods to evaluate learning include pre and post-modulesurveys and free-response questions. After the module, students were more likely to mention andarticulate the role that humans’ mental barriers, like choice overload, bounded rationality, andsatisficing play in decision making for sustainability. They also recognized how tools likeEnvision can help reduce these cognitive biases. In addition to integrating diverse topics anddisciplines into a unified and relevant teaching module, the intention is that other faculty can

Conference Session

Course Structuring for Effective Student Engagement

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan L. Solonsky P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Civil Engineering

with other disciplines and in generating structural drawings  Detailing software to design connections  IT technologies to communicating and collaborating with other design professionals. Education  Video-Conferencing with industry professionals in capstone settings  Immersive displays/ environments to show projects at true scale  Education game software that take students non-linearly through a scenario that educates  Flipped classroom videos and site that support them  Discussion Boards where students comment to one-another to with

Conference Session

Course Structuring for Effective Student Engagement

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Conrad, Portland State University; Kenneth Lamb, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

specific analyses for passive voice are describedin the next section. In addition, civil engineering practitioners conduct holistic scorings ofsamples of student papers so we investigate whether there is overall improvement in addition toany specific language changes. Students' reactions to the materials are also gathered throughsurveys, reflective writing, and interviews.3. Practitioner and Student Use of Passive VoiceIn phase one of the Civil Engineering Writing Project, we investigated the use of passive voice in60 workplace reports, 60 student reports and 50 journal articles. The student reports mimickedthe workplace context: they were written to specific clients for specific projects (usually realpeople and real projects, such as in capstone

Conference Session

Sustainability in Civil Engineering

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Bhaskar C. S. Chittoori, Boise State University; Sondra M. Miller, Boise State University; Thomas A. Robbins

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Civil Engineering

undergraduate civil engineering programs address sustainability, it tends to belimited to individual courses, and resiliency concepts are rarely incorporated. To address theseshortcomings, we are incorporating sustainability and resiliency conceptual threads and activitiesthroughout our curriculum, from our first-year engineering course through senior design.To understand the effectiveness of this initiative, at the beginning of this project we conductedinterviews with senior civil engineering students to collect baseline data on our current students’views and understanding of sustainability and responsibility. Thematic analysis of theseinterviews suggests that there is significant variability in students’ understanding ofsustainability, with some

Conference Session

Course Structuring for Effective Student Engagement

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Z. Dymond, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University

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Civil Engineering

the industry. A study reported that when external judgesand faculty judges both graded the same capstone project, the external judges gave higher grades[16]. Other studies have conflicting reports about whether tenured versus non-tenured facultygraded easier [5], [7], [8]. Additionally, a study showed that bias might occur if grading isextended over a long period and breaks are taken between grading sessions, but the bias is notpredictable nor significant [17]. This is a type of interrater reliability that occurs when a grader isnot consistent in his or her grading over time [18].Knowledge Gap Filled There are many factors that can affect how exams are graded for civil engineeringstudents, especially in design-based courses. The

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suzette R. Burckhard, South Dakota State University; Calvin Wampol, South Dakota State University

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Civil Engineering

groups) existing model, lab groups) Column Buckling (lecture with Deflection of simply supported and demonstration, lab groups) cantilever supported beams (short introduction, full lab with small groups) Application of strain gauges to a steel beam (lecture with hands-on activity, lab groups) Capstone final project (short introduction, Deflection of a beam (lecture with manual full lab with small groups, final presentation calculations and verification with single pre- and report) existing model, lab groups) Written Final Exam Written Final Examparticipate in each lab activity. Documentation of participation was

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Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession and ASCE

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Pamalee A. Brady, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Peter Laursen

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Civil Engineering

datafor student communication skills, technical expertise, and even things like global,economic, social understanding of engineering. Industry partners are often providers ofthis opinion. The measures need to be taken in a structured manner.Some programs create special instruments to provide direct measure data on studentperformance. If the curriculum is covering all of the student outcomes, there should beenough indicators embedded in the curriculum that specially created additional activitiesare not necessary. The most available and versatile embedded indicators18 are the resultsof course activities such as quizzes, texts, projects, laboratory experiments, presentationsand papers. The course event needs to correlate directly to the student

Conference Session

Accreditation and the BOK

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelly Brumbelow, Texas A&M University; Luciana R. Barroso, Texas A&M University; Debra Fowler, Texas A&M University; James Michael Kaihatu, Texas A&M University; Veronica S. Rodriguez Chavarria

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Civil Engineering

for 7 years. His 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. Luciana R. Barroso, Texas A&M University Luciana R. Barroso, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. Luciana has been with Texas A&M University since 1999, and in that time has taught 15 different courses ranging from the

Conference Session

Creating a Positive Environment for Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Kevin C. Bower P.E., The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Ally Kindel Martin, The Citadel

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

teach in each learning style improves working with special needs studentsMarch Leadership Symposium Present senior capstone, research, service and competition projects to freshmen and sophomores May, Fall Study Abroad Engineering focused study abroad in May for rising juniors. Fall semester abroad

Conference Session

Fostering Business and Professional Skills in the Engineering Classroom

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Goncher, Charles Sturt University

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Civil Engineering

students commenced their placements in July 2017, after 18months of project-based and self-directed online learning.Figure 1. Engineering students on industry placementsSeventeen students enrolled in workplace learning placements and the planning and review-focused class. Students on placement worked with 15 host organizations, where theorganizations exist at the local, national, and international levels. Students were involved invarious projects across the civil engineering discipline. Example projects that studentsworked on included a pedestrian and cyclist river bridge, dam safety upgrade, commercialbuilding upgrade, local effluent disposal investigations, and road and roundabout design.Local government organizations hosted the majority of

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Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession and ASCE

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; Decker B. Hains, Western Michigan University; Brock E. Barry P.E., United States Military Academy; Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College; Leslie Nolen CAE, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects throughout the United States. He is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states. Dr. Barry’s areas of research include assessment of professional ethics, teaching and learning in engineering education, nonverbal communication in the classroom, and learning through historical engineering accomplishments. He has authored and co-authored a

Conference Session

Accreditation and the BOK

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian J. Swenty P.E., University of Evansville; Matthew K. Swenty, Virginia Military Institute

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Civil Engineering

and the director of Missouri’s Dam and Reservoir Safety Program. Since 1993, he has been at the University of Evansville, serving as a professor, department chair, and interim dean. He continues to work as a consultant on projects involving the design and construction of new dams, modifications to existing dams, and the investigation of dam failures.Dr. Matthew K. Swenty, Virginia Military Institute Matt Swenty obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from Missouri S&T then worked as a bridge designer at the Missouri Department of Transportation. He went to Virginia Tech to obtain his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and upon completion worked at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center

Conference Session

Accreditation and the BOK

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering

-EWB participants. A higherpercentage of those with internship experiences rated teamwork in the top five importantoutcomes, and a lower percentage rated attitudes among the five least important outcomes. Thosewith future career interests in construction engineering rated project management in the top fiveimportant outcomes with higher frequency; students with structures career interests believeddesign to be more important; fewer students with water and/or environmental career aspirationsrated globalization among the least important outcomes. Content analysis of an open-endeddiscussion of the BOK2 found that the majority of students (93%) had overall positivestatements. Some promoted the inclusion of creativity and innovation as a new outcome

Conference Session

The Evolving Classroom

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Sharon L. Beaudry, Oregon Institute of Technology; Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2016.[10] Retherford, Jennifer Q. and Joseph K. Amoah. "Incorporating ASCE's ExCEEd Principles in Capstone Project and other Active Learning Courses" In Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Southeast Section Conference, 2014.[11] ASCE. EXCEED. http://www.asce.org/exceed/[12] Morse, Audra. "Application of the ExCEEd Teaching Model to Improve Graduate Teaching in Environmental Engineering Courses (AC 2009-606)." In American Society for Engineering Education, 2009.[13] Retherford, Jennifer Q. and Angelica M. Palomino. "Departmental Implementation of ASCE's ExCEEd Teaching Principles." In Proceedings of the American Society of

Conference Session

Creating a Positive Environment for Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad R. H. Gorakhki, Colorado State University; Kimberly Catton P.E., Colorado State University; Nabila A. Huq; Anthony J. Marchese, Colorado State University; Daniel W. Baker Ph.D., P.E., Colorado State University

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Civil Engineering

of Colorado (CU) Boulder [6] concluded that a hands-on approachto engineering education greatly benefited overall retention, particularly in underrepresentedpopulations. The researchers implemented a course called First-Year Engineering Projects,which required hands-on design experience which emphasized teamwork and successfulimplementation of a student-researched plan [6]. Traditionally, such an experience would notoccur for engineering students until the final year of their program, in the form of a SeniorDesign or Capstone project. Alternatively, low retention rates in engineering curriculum have been attributed todifficulties insufficient support in non-engineering core math and science courses required to betaken by engineering

Conference Session

Fostering Business and Professional Skills in the Engineering Classroom

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Decker B. Hains, Western Michigan University; Bret J. Wagner, Western Michigan University

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Civil Engineering

scenarios, namely six for this course, for teams to execute the business and beevaluated both on their performance operating the business and on their leadership andteamwork. For each scenario, the authors provided the teams with a mission document thatdefined the problem and established objectives for the scenario. In all scenarios, the objectivewas to maximize net income for the firm. As the course progressed, the scenarios became morecomplex with added decision-making variables. Figure 2. The Simulation Learning ProcessWith the mission clearly defined, the student teams we required to develop a business plan thatincluded a projection of net income for the company during the simulation, which lasted for onesimulated