Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

A. Richard Vannozzi; Leonard Anderson

the topics and tasks related to both their civil engineering education and their careers in civilengineering. Trends in the data indicate that including an active learning component in atraditional passive lecture series adds value for students in two worthwhile ways. The first beingan increased awareness of less traditional, yet critically important, professional communicationskills and second, students develop a sense of self efficacy in a public facing aspect ofprofessional life.Overall the structured active learning approach to the planning and execution of a traditionalweekly lecture series by the students was a success. The students found that both theplanning/execution of their weekly lecture and attending the lectures offered by their