communications for the Depart- ment of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in Rhetoric and Writing Studies and an M.A. in English from Montana State University. His research focuses on land management policy in two discrete areas. The first relates to civil infrastructure projects and landscape-scale impacts on habitat, community resilience, and long- term land use planning; the second involves the utilization, conservation, and management of big game wildlife resources. For the past five years he has led various transdisciplinary teaching and research projects examining land and wildlife resource management conflicts vis-`a-vis
on methods to attract and retain women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields.Mr. Thomas A. Robbins c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Senior Civil Engineering Students’ Views on Sustainability and ResiliencyIn recent years, civil engineering education and workforce development have evolved to includea greater emphasis on sustainability and resiliency. Sustainability balances economic, ecological,and societal needs by being responsive to community impact, human health, and theenvironment. Resilient infrastructure lasts, retaining functional and structural capacity andsupporting interconnected transportation, energy, water, and social systems after a distress event.While many
, and an aspiring gentleman farmer at Hart Burn Farm. His research areas of interest include infrastructure engineering, infrastructure education, infrastructure resilience and security, and grass-based sustainable agriculture.Dr. Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC Dr. Carol Haden is a Principal Evaluator at Magnolia Consulting, LLC. Her areas of expertise include evaluations of science and engineering education curricula and programs, informal education and outreach programs, STEM teacher development, and climate change education programs.Dr. Michael K Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Dr. M. Keith Thompson is currently a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of
concepts or implied by the infrastructure components, 3. The number of correct links between technical concepts (infrastructure components, in- frastructure sectors, or engineering concepts), 4. The number of concepts for non-technical aspects of infrastructure (e.g., economic growth, ethics, pollution, etc.), 5. The number of correct links between a non-technical concept to any other concept, and 6. The number of engineering concepts (e.g., constructability, design, resilience, etc.).The six numeric scores from each category can then be compared between the pre- and post-testto determine student learning gains. Detailed instructions for scoring the concept maps are in-cluded in Appendix 1. Further details on the development and
Environmental Engineering.Dr. Steven D Hart, Virginia Military Institute Dr. Steven D. Hart, P.E. is an adjunct professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute, the Chief Engineer of Hart Engineering, LLC, and an aspiring gentleman farmer at Hart Burn Farm. His research areas of interest include infrastructure engineering, infrastructure education, infrastructure resilience and security, and grass-based sustainable agriculture.Dr. Matthew W Roberts, Southern Utah University Dr. Roberts has been teaching structural engineering topics for 14 years. He recently joined the faculty in the Engineering and Technology department at Southern Utah University
Paper ID #27144Board 16: Work in Progress: Design of ”Risk and Resilience” Focused Coursesfor Undergraduate Engineering Education Towards a Hazard-Resilient BuiltEnvironmentProf. Lei Wang P.E., University of the District of Columbia Dr. Lei Wang is an Assistant Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Graduate Program Director of Civil Engineering Department at the University of the District of Columbia. His research interests include geotechnical risk and reliability, resilient geotechnical infrastructure, foundation engineering, supported excavation and tunneling, earthen levee and dam, soil liquefaction and geotechnical
thefollowing educational objectives and participant outcomes for the Goethals’ InfrastructureChallenge: Challenge Educational Objectives: 1. Lead in the discussion, understanding, and making of public infrastructure policy. 2. Employ creative and critical thinking in the resolution of “wicked” problems. Page 24.646.3 Participant Outcomes: 1. Solve interdisciplinary problems as a member of a team. 2. Formulate problem and solutions sets to ‘wicked’ problems. 3. Present and defend a proposed infrastructure solution in a public forum. 4. Integrate social, political, economic, sustainability, resilience, and technical factors in
teaching Introduction to Infrastructure and Infrastructure and Society, he teaches a variety of courses in structural analysis and design. He professional background is in reinforced concrete behavior and design, but he has a research interest in engineering education, student retention, and best advising practices.Dr. Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin, PlattevilleProf. Barb A. Barnet, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Barb Barnet has a Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University. She is currently Chair of the Mathematics Department at UW, Platteville. Page 25.832.1
Infrastructure and You3 IS-3 The Infrastructure of the United States4 IS-4 Stakeholder Analysis5 IS-5 Network Theory6 IS-6 Network Modeling7 IS-7 Building Resilient Networks8 W-1 Water Resources and Distribution Systems9 W-2 Dams and Levees10 W-3 Water System Demand11 W-4 Water Treatment Models and Methods12 W-5 Waste Water Treatment Models and Methods13 W-6 Landfills (US and Afghanistan)14 W-7 Water Treatment and WW Treatment Plant Tours15 CS-1 Case Study I16 WPR-1 Written Partial Review 117 E-1 Introduction to the Energy Sector18 E-2 Electrical System Overview and Terminology19
Academy (CGA) on the global impacts of climatechange, an elective course, Coastal Resiliency was introduced into the curriculum. The objectiveof the course is to provide exposure to the impacts of climate change and foster a generalunderstanding of the analytical and adaptation methods used to improve the resiliency of civilengineering infrastructure. The course is structured to foster student focused learning byengaging students to research key issues of climate science and engineering adaptation thatpromotes the development of information literacy skills. The interdisciplinary make-up of thestudents and term project requirements reinforce the development of teamwork, problem-solving,and communication skills. The use of a variety of learning
Infrastructure Report Card and Economics Studies in the STEM ClassroomAbstractEvery four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers releases a national report card forAmerica’s infrastructure systems with the latest release occurring in March 2017. The ReportCard provides not only an assessment of our infrastructure, but also an opportunity to engage andeducate both the public and students in conversations about engineering. Beyond providinggrades similar to a student’s report card for 16 different categories of infrastructure across thecountry, the Report Card also addresses topics such as condition, capacity, resilience, and areasof innovation. Presented through a highly interactive website and mobile app, this can be aliving
engineeringcourses if the proposal is funded. Infrastructure topics have grown in prominence in engineeringprograms as evidenced by an NSF to Clemson University for the establishment of a master ofscience program in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (8) and the Sustainable and ResilientInfrastructures Program launched in 2012 at Illinois University (9). If asked over dinner or at the water cooler, a civil engineer is very likely to say,“Civilengineers have been building infrastructure for 2,000 years.” Even though this is true, the use,understanding, and interest in all things infrastructure has grown in the mind of the public in thepast ten years to the point that is a common element of public and private discourse. Academic,professional, and
. 6Table 1. Use of lessons by survey respondents. Lesson Name Number of times used Infrastructure and You 22 Triple Bottom Line 20 Infrastructure as a system 18 Basic infrastructure systems and functions 16 Social Impacts of Infrastructure 16 Resilience and risk 16What skills have faculty members gained from their association with CIT-E, and has it made ameaningful impact on faculty professional networks?Survey respondents who had utilized course materials were asked to rate the impact of CIT-E
Biodiversity • Climate and Resilience – Emission and ResilienceEach of these categories is further divided into specific criteria which allow the designer toassess the environmental, social and economic impacts of the design. Credits are associated witheach of the 5 categories, the specific criteria within each category and a basic yes or no responseto an assessment question. The credits are weighted within each category based on the impact,ease of implementation and sustainability tradeoffs. The result is a clear and simple method toevaluate the sustainability for any type of infrastructure. The number of credits determines theEnvision Award Level the design achieves: verified (20% of total points), silver, (30% of totalpoints), gold (40% of
from increased temperatures,washouts from precipitation, and settling from thawing permafrost [7]. Smart infrastructure isalso needed to better detect air quality challenges and combat polluters [8], [9]. Communities arealso feeling the social impact of climate change. For example, residents in Louisiana andMaryland are leaving their homes and retreating inland to escape rising floodwaters [10], [11].Additionally, the U.S. Military is concerned about climate change because of increased humanmigration and the risk of geopolitical war [12].The issue of climate change is inherently a challenge for sustainability, broadly defined asmeeting the “needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meettheir own needs”[13
has done recent contributions on international journals for the valuation and monetization of the environmental impacts of the residual life of building stock in North America. His contributions add a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) perspective to the decision-making methodology involved in adaptive reuse of buildings, in order to contribute to sustainability and climate change through mitigation of CO2 emissions. Benjamin is a Civil Engineer with a doctorate in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is originally from the city of Puebla in Mexico. Before initiating his doctoral studies, he worked as infrastructure construction supervisor and environmental inspector of the State of
Paper ID #22676Development and Assessment of Three Envision Case Study Modules Con-necting Behavioral Decision Science to Sustainable InfrastructureMr. Nathan McWhirter, Virginia Tech Nathan McWhirter is an M.S. student in the Civil Infrastructure Engineering program at Virginia Tech.Dr. Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech Tripp Shealy is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Development and Assessment of Three Envision Case Study Modules Connecting Behavioral Decision Science to Sustainable
-lasting, durable, resilient to external factors, and so on – ideas discussed during the lesson. Explanation/Reflection: Students did poorly on this question, and it is attributed to lack of reinforcement in the Envision exercises and application to the particular project for this class. Envision does contain a Risk element, but it was not carefully considered. This is an area for improvement in the future. Some students made appropriate (and high level) observations that designing to mitigate hazards may be life-cycle best approach instead of designing to not withstand, saving money, and then having to rebuild.6. What is Envision from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure? a. long-term view of what the civil engineer will
sustainability in design to engineers.Sustainability in Design within the Course and Final ProjectCourse Scope, Objectives, and Structure. The CE350 – Infrastructure Engineering21-23 coursehas six primary objectives: 1. Identify, assess, and explain critical infrastructure components and cross-sector linkages at the national, regional, and municipal levels 2. Calculate the demand on infrastructure components and systems 3. Assess the functionality, capacity, and maintainability of infrastructure components and systems 4. Evaluate infrastructure in the context of military operations 5. Prioritize and recommend actions to improve infrastructure resilience 6. Apply the principles of sustainability in design to infrastructure
control, etc.) listed as concepts or implied by the infrastructure components, 3. The number of correct links between technical concepts (infrastructure components, infrastructure sectors, or engineering concepts), 4. The number of concepts for non-technical aspects of infrastructure (e.g., economic growth, ethics, pollution, etc.), 5. The number of correct links between a non-technical concept to any other concept, and 6. The number of engineering concepts (e.g., constructability, design, resilience, etc.).The six numeric scores from each category can then be compared between the pre- and post-testto determine student learning gains. To date, faculty members from eight institutions have usedthe Infrastructure Concept Map
Anonymous 2015(removed for blind reviews). In addition to presenting the different components of civilengineering infrastructure, we have also presented the students with some of the largerchallenges that will be encountered by the future civil engineers such as climate change,resilience and sustainable development. This was done by using case-studies to present thecurrent conditions of the U.S infrastructure. Some of the lecture modules used in the course weredeveloped in collaboration with University of as a part of grant. We havemodified some of the lectures for the Spring 2018 semester to include the case studies fromhurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.The lectures were covered by two instructors, Instructor1 and Instructor2. During the first
Missouri. His research interests include resilient infrastructure, protective structures, and engineering education.Prof. Joseph P. Hanus, United States Military Academy Colonel Joseph Hanus is the Civil Engineering Program Director at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Platteville; M.S. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is an active member of ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in Wisconsin. His research interests include fiber reinforced polymer materials, accelerated bridge construction, and engineering education.Lt. Col. Kevin P. Arnett P.E., United States Military Academy
and include topics in structural engineering, earthquake engineering, construction man- agement, transportation engineering, and engineering education. She also advises the Student Chapters of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at New Mexico Tech.Ms. Janille A. Smith-Colin, Southern Methodist University Janille Smith-Colin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Fellow of Caruth Institute for Engineering Education at Southern Methodist University (SMU). She also leads the Infrastructure Projects and Organizations Research Group at SMU, whose mission is to advance sustainability and resilience goals through
technical concepts (infrastructure components, in- frastructure sectors, or engineering concepts), 4. The number of concepts for non-technical aspects of infrastructure (e.g., economic growth, ethics, pollution, etc.), 5. The number of correct links between a non-technical concept to any other concept, and 6. The number of engineering concepts (e.g., constructability, design, resilience, etc.).The detailed instructions for scoring the concept maps are included in Appendix 3.Initially, we planned to have the concept maps scored by a trained evaluator who did not haveextensive civil engineering infrastructure expertise. However we found, similar to Cañas et al.,25that deep conceptual understanding was needed and so course instructors
achievement will include major legislative, regulatory and policy changes, increased infrastructure funding, and leading significant improvements in the delivery of infrastructure investments through innovation, performance- based standards, life-cycle cost analysis, and enhanced resiliency” [24]ASCE also described the BOK as means of changing the way future civil engineering ispracticed. Therefore, the BOK plays a principal role in delivering the Grand Challenge. TheBOK provides the conceptual framework and rationale for educating future civil engineers onhow civil engineering provides a special function in our society and economy by followingestablished project and program management principles in conformance with well
Page 15.115.1 Director in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at West Point where he teaches and supervises five senior level design courses. His current areas of emphasis are infrastructure analysis, protection, and resiliency, capstone course development, and integrated structural analysis and design. He is currently teaching a new course in Infrastructure Analysis and© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Protective Design and is supervising a faculty team developing another new course in Infrastructure Engineering.James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy Led Klosky is an Associate Professor and acting Deputy Head in the Department of Civil and
learners to apply new knowledge to ISIEnvision credit ratings, 2. student motivation metrics which are linked to students’ ability toemploy learning strategies and 3. student reflective observation and conceptualization on theirown ability to apply new knowledge. Findings of this study are preliminary and includequalitative measures but point to potential teaching/learning mechanisms which may be furtherexplored in successive studies.IntroductionThe civil engineering profession faces an increasing range of demands including preparingstudents for evolving challenges including design and maintenance of aging infrastructure,development of sustainable infrastructure and resilient design. The shift from an industrializedeconomy to the knowledge economy
, Soil Mechanics and Geoenvironmental Processes.Dr. Virginia Smith, Villanova UniversityProf. Patricia Gallagher P.E., Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Dr. Patricia Gallagher is an Associate Professor in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at Drexel University. She specializes in geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, and sus- tainability and resilience of infrastructure. She has researched soil improvement for hazard mitigation and contaminant remediation, the use of recycled materials in geotechnical engineering applications, and the use of life cycle assessment to develop metrics assessing the environmental sustainability of geotechnical engineering works. Her current focus is
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development 15. Protect, restore and promote
understanding of the impactengineering solutions have in global, economic, environmental and societal contexts. Studentsare required to understand the shifts in the global population and the increasing demands forenergy, transportation, drinking water and the need for improved infrastructure.This paper focuses on how using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals along withthe ASCE Envision Rating System will increase Civil Engineering undergraduate students’awareness of sustainability as they complete their capstone designs. The 13 design projects allfocus on the design of infrastructure; vehicular and pedestrian bridges, mixed use multi storybuildings, flood control projects and a hydro-power dam. Prior to beginning the design process,each