Conference Session

Collaborative Projects in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Setterfield, Sinclair Community College; Eric Dunn, Sinclair Community College; Russell Marcks, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

of each student discipline. Forexample, this graduating class only had three HVAC graduates while there were over 20architectural technology graduates. We did consider that each discipline form a disciplinarygroup to act in the fashion of a consultant to provide the IPD approach we were promoting.However, we felt there was to high a probability of students reverting to the typical segregatedapproach most prevalent today. To prevent this, we used an integrated team approach used bymany local industry consultants. We ended up with three teams, each to develop their ownbuilding. This still resulted in some teams not being staffed with certain disciplines. Forexample, two teams had no environmental personnel. However, since each of the three

Conference Session

Structural Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith E. Hedges, Drury University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

structural material itself (wood, steel, reinforced concrete),”while extricating and distancing the big idea of lateral forces, “The problem of designing astructure to withstand the forces of gravity, wind, and earthquakes is usually addressed throughanother series of courses.”[7]The History of DiscourseThe pedagogical approaches shifted from the Beaux Arts to the Bauhaus tradition between 1925and 1950 thereby inducing an ongoing turmoil in architecture education. Henry Kamphoefnerdescribed the Beaux Arts education as having a focus on the rendered drawing of the façade withthe students being informed to “ignore the structure,” as this would be accomplished byothers.[10] He continued that structures pedagogy began a transformation as Walter Gropius