and Teaching/Research Assistant at Moss School of Construction, Sustainability and Infrastructure, Florida International University. Her research interest includes Sustainable and resilient infrastructure, Engineering Education, and Sustainable transportation system.Mr. Mohamed ElZomor P.E., Florida International University Dr. Mohamed ElZomor is an Assistant Professor at Florida International University (FIU), College of Engineering and Computing and teaches at the Moss School of Construction, Infrastructure and Sustainability. Dr. ElZomor completed his doctorate at Arizona ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring Civil Engineering and Construction Management
Engineering. He is a licensed Professional Engineer with over 30 years of consulting, academic and research experience. He is currently a Professor of Civil Engineering at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Enriching student learning through compelled active participation in a coastal resiliency courseAbstractAs the primary commissioning source for civil engineers for the U.S. Coast Guard, it isimperative that our graduates understand the projected impacts of climate change – sea level rise,altered hurricane patterns, and other associated hazards – on coastal infrastructure. At the UnitedStates Coast Guard
. Students ended the course with the sameconcept map exercise as the other institutions that were part of this study (Figure 1). The courseused interstate highways as a case study to explore how infrastructure impacts society from bothhistorical and modern perspectives. Students were tasked with developing their own case studiesin other areas of infrastructure and presented these to the class during the final weeks of thesemester. The course also looked at the future of infrastructure in terms of climate resiliency andemerging technologies using ASCE’s Future World Vision platform.At the University of Colorado Boulder, a large public institution, students were introduced toideas related to equitable infrastructure (EI) in a first-year Introduction
from the American Society of CivilEngineers (ASCE) requires that curriculum include application of the “principles ofsustainability, risk, resilience, diversity, equity, and inclusion to civil engineering problems,”application of “an engineering code of ethics,” and application of “professional attitudes andresponsibilities of a civil engineer” [1]. The importance of these criteria is reflected directlywithin the preamble to ASCE’s Code of Ethics, which provides four fundamental principles forengineers to govern their professional careers, the first being to “create safe, resilient, andsustainable infrastructure” [2]. The importance of sustainability, both within civil engineeringeducation and the civil engineering profession, is well
/Research Assistant at Moss School of Construction, Sustainability and Infrastructure, Florida International University. Her research interest includes Sustainable and resilient infrastructure, Engineering Education, and Sustainable transportation system.Mr. Mohamed Elzomor, P.E., Florida International University Dr. Mohamed ElZomor is an Assistant Professor at Florida International University (FIU), College of Engineering and Computing and teaches at the Moss School of Construction, Infrastructure and Sustain- ability. Dr. ElZomor completed his doctorate at Arizona ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Fostering infrastructure equity through leveraging Envision rating
engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts” [11].Furthermore, the program criteria for Civil Engineering or similarly named programs states thecurriculum must include the application of “... iii) principles of sustainability, risk, resilience,diversity, equity, and inclusion to civil engineering problems; v) an engineering code of ethics toethical dilemmas” [12].With these considerations in mind, the authors of this paper developed a framework to facilitatethe creation of lessons based on infrastructure related case studies that can address JEDI issues.This paper will explain how this framework was used to create lesson outlines based on two casestudies that highlight inequity in housing and urban
courses on infrastructure empower students tounderstand the complexities of networks and metasystems, assess systems under both normal anddisrupted conditions, identify and classify stakeholders of infrastructure projects or failures, andidentify requirements for infrastructure to remain resilient in serving the needs of society.Similar to survey-type courses like history and art, introductory infrastructure courses typicallycover a wide variety of topics, and enduring themes have emerged as critical content, to includeenergy, water, and transportation [7]. For many students, water’s basic properties are well-understood. Direct observation and physical interaction with water concepts like pressure andflowrate result in an innate knowledge upon
the NSF Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Fellowship in 2015 and the UIUC Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research Faculty Scholar in 2021. Her research interests are in the general areas of risk-based decision-making for civil infrastructures subjected to natural hazards, includ- ing climate adaptation, community resilience, life-cycle analysis, probabilistic hazard impact simulations for buildings and other infrastructure exposed to extreme events including earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods, and structural safety target optimization. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work-In-Progress: What Goes into an Engineering Decision: An
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Dr. Cha holds a Ph.D. (2012) and a M.S. (2009) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. (2006) in Architectural Engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea. Her awards and honors include the NSF Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Fellowship in 2015 and the UIUC Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research Faculty Scholar in 2021. Her research interests are in the general areas of risk-based decision-making for civil infrastructures subjected to natural hazards, including climate adaptation, community resilience, life-cycle analysis
reinforced the needfor the civil engineering profession to address the complex challenges of designing, operating,and maintaining civil works infrastructure that is both sustainable and resilient. This need isreflected both within the Engineering Accreditation Commission’s General Criteria and theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers’ Civil Engineering Program Criteria required forundergraduate programs in Civil Engineering to be ABET accredited. By the time of graduation,students must have the ability to apply the engineering design process to arrive at solutions thatare more than just technically sound. Their solutions must also serve to protect the public health,safety, and welfare of society, as well as address the triple bottom line of
personal resilience and infrastructure resilience. The lecture focuses on learningobjectives 1, 2, and 4. For the first objective, the prevalence of health issues reported by studentsare presented (e.g., stress 42%, anxiety 34%, depression 26%, sleep difficulties 24%, loneliness54% [10]). Reporting the high percentages of college students facing mental health challenges isintended to reduce the stigma that often accompanies mental health. Student resilience data fromour campus based on the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale [11] is also discussed (i.e., able toadapt when changes occur, bounce back after hardships). Toward the second learning objective,students are introduced to the idea of self-care and the eight dimensions of wellness [12
. It is one of the mosturgent issues our global community is facing. According to the UNEP 2022 Global Status Reportfor Buildings and Construction [1], the buildings and construction sector consumes about 34percent of global energy use and accounts for 37 percent of global energy and process-relatedcarbon emissions in 2021. Civil engineers who are responsible for the design and construction ofthese physical systems play an essential role in reducing carbon emissions, thereby mitigatingclimate change. In terms of resilience, the infrastructure systems civil engineers design andconstruct typically have long service lives. That said, the increasing severity of hazardsattributable to climate change places these systems at significant risk, where
graduates and projected needed civil engineerscontinues to grow. With recent investment in infrastructure through the Infrastructure Investmentand Jobs Act, additional civil engineers will be needed to design, build, and maintain civilinfrastructure. An innovative summer course at Purdue University aims to decrease the spacebetween the needed civil engineers and students graduating with an undergraduate civilengineering degree by helping pre-college students understand what types of problems civilengineers solve. This one-week course focuses on exposing students to both the depth andbreadth of civil engineering and has explored various topics, including resiliency versussustainability, design for tomorrow’s loads and problems, the use of novel
. Currently, Claudia is a Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the Moss School of Construction, Sustainability, and Infrastructure at FIU where she focuses on multidisciplinary research on sustainability, equity, resilient and sustainable post-disaster reconstruction, engineering education, and well-being.Patrizia Bethania Santaniello, Florida International University Patrizia Santaniello is pursuing a master’s degree in the Construction Management program at Florida International University (FIU). Patrizia holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela. During her master’s program, she worked as a Graduate Assistant at the Moss School of Construction
Research, School of Engineering, and Human Rights Institute to promote and advance interdisciplinary research in engineering with a clear focus on societal outcomes. Davis is working with several faculty on campus to develop research and curriculum at the intersection of human rights and engineering, such as the one discussed herein. Davis completed his Ph.D. in Transportation and Infrastructure Systems at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 2018. His research interests include transportation equity, human rights, environmental justice, and economic resilience. He grew up in Cusco, Per´u, where he obtained his B.S. in civil engineering at the University of San Antonio Abad of Cusco. He also earned an MSCE
Paper ID #37250Preparing the Future Civil Engineer: ASCE’s Proposed Revision of theABET Civil Engineering Program Criteria – Implementation ToolsDr. David A. Dzombak, P.E., Carnegie Mellon University David Dzombak is Hamerschlag University Professor Emeritus in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. His professional focus is on water quality engineering, environmental restoration, and energy-environment issues.Wayne R. Bergstrom Dr. Bergstrom is a Principal Engineer and Fellow at Bechtel Infrastructure and Power Corporation.Dr. Jay A. Puckett, P.E., University of Nebraska, LincolnDr. Stephen J. Ressler, P.E
introductory information on the A) Resilience and Sustainability of Engineering for Sustainable ENVISION sustainability rating Civil Infrastructure: Toward a Development: Guiding system for infrastructure [24], pages Unified Approach, pages 1-8 [48]. Principles [49]. And 11-19. [Select if you are familiar with the Listen to ASEE community Listen to ASEE community panelist general idea of sustainability] panelist Chief Albert P. Naquin Chief Albert P. Naquin from Isle de OR from Isle de Jean Charles, Jean Charles, minutes 6:29-7:29, B) Chapter 1 and 3 of Engineering minutes 6:29-7:29, 24:30- 24
indispensable role in providing the infrastructure that enables society andcommunities to be healthy, efficient, and thriving. To fulfill this responsibility, civil engineersmust be trained to be leaders with an array of socio-technical skills, knowledge, and attitudes.Further, there must be a sufficient number of trained engineers to meet societal needs. Thepresident of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Dennis D. Truax, recently calledattention to “a workforce shortage that’s going to be exacerbated in the near future” and notedthat the ASCE’s Future World Vision (FWV) project could contribute to workforce development[1]. This paper begins by framing enrollment and student interest challenges in civil engineering.This is followed by a
such as reinforced concrete design, steel design, foundations, hydrology, and waterand wastewater design. In addition, the following classes were only required in fewer than 60%of the programs: surveying, engineering economics, construction/project management, andhydraulics. The 2024-2025 CEPC includes new material science, numerical methods,engineering economics, risk and resilience, and diversity, equity, and inclusion curriculumrequirements. The study results indicate that fewer than 23% of civil engineering programscurrently require classes on any of these topics except engineering economics. In conclusion,there is no uniform curriculum in civil engineering, a pattern consistently seen in the past sixyears.IntroductionAs the cost of higher
Virginia Tech in Engineering Education and Future Professoriate and from USFQ in Structures for Construction Professionals. MiguelAndres’s research includes Architectural and Civil Engineering Project Management, Sustainable and Resilient Urban Infrastructure, and the development of engineers who not only have strong technical and practical knowledge but the social awareness and agency to address global humanitarian, environmental, and social justice challenges. For him, social justice is a concept that should always be involved in discussions on infrastructure. Related to STEM education, Miguel Andres develops disruptive pedagogies for STEM courses as a tool for innovation, and assessing engineering students’ agency to
Morgan State University and Obafemi Awolowo University. With passion to communicate research findings and gleaned from experts in the field as he advances his career, Olaitan has attended several in-persons and virtual conferences and workshop, and at some of them, made presentation on findings on air pollution, waste water reuse, and heavy metal contamination.Dr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University faculty in 2010. He is the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER) at Morgan State Universit ©American Society for
Tsegaye, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. Seneshaw Tsegaye is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is the Backe Chair of Research for Sustainable Water and Renewable Energy. He has 10 years of experience in the fields of integrated urban water management, water-energy-food nexus, infiltration-based best management practices, flood modeling, and decision support systems for transitioning to vegetation-based stormwater systems. Dr. Tsegaye’s latest research project is focused on the application of Virtual Reality for flood resiliency and engineering education. With many years of teaching and research experience
in Engi- neering Education and Future Professoriate. MiguelAndr´es’s research includes sustainable infrastructure design and planning, smart and resilient cities, and the development of engineers who not only have strong technical and practical knowledge but the social awareness and agency to address global humanitarian, environmental, and social justice challenges. For him, social justice is a concept that should always be involved in discussions on infrastructure. Related to STEM education, Miguel Andr´es is in developing and applying contemporary pedagogies for STEM courses, teaching empathy studies in engineering as a tool for innovation, and assessing engineering students’ agency to address climate change
this step areshown in Table 1.Table 1: Examples of norms the students identified during the activity. Stakeholder Value Norm Property Owners Reliability Expect consistent power, even during storms Cost Expect expenses to remain the same Tourists Fun Regular visits to beaches that are clean Safety Expectation of lifeguarding or other public safety infrastructure Boaters Accessibility Maintained waterways and marinas Safety Participation in safety equipment checks Wildlife Quality of
. Oerther Missouri University of Science and Technology, 1401 North Pine Street, Rolla, MO 65409 Sarah Oerther Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College, 4483 Duncan Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110AbstractIncreasingly civil engineers are being asked to incorporate a more inclusive meaning of “public”(i.e., who) and “public value” (i.e., inherently moral concepts) when planning, designing, andsupervising the construction and maintenance of building and infrastructure projects. One way toimprove the meaning of public and value is to borrow from the adjacent profession of nursing.Nurses are well-known patient-centered care, whether the patient is an individual, a
degree in civil engineering from the University of Vermont in 1981.Dr. Kleio Avrithi, P.E., Mercer University Dr. Avrithi earned a Diploma in Civil Engineering, an MS in Structural Engineering both from the Na- tional Technical University of Athens, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include uncertainty and risk quantification for design, optimization, resilience, and systems design. She is member of ASCE, ASEE, ASME, and ASTM.Ms. Jennifer Hofmann, American Society of Civil Engineers Jennifer Hofmann, M.A.Ed, Aff.M.ASCE is the Manager of Professional Advancement at
Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndr´es is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, an M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University as a Fulbright Scholar, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from Virginia Tech in Engi- neering Education and Future Professoriate. MiguelAndr´es’s research includes sustainable infrastructure design and planning, smart and resilient cities, and the development of engineers who not only have strong technical and practical knowledge but the social awareness and agency to address global
, engineering economics, first-year engineering experience, matrix analysis, mechanics, probability and risk in engineering, statics, and structural analysis. His research aims to better society by exploring how infrastructure materials can be made to be more environmentally sustainable and resilient; and by exploring how engineering can be structured to be more welcoming of diverse perspectives, which can fuel solutions in challenging societal inequities.Afeefa Rahman, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignCasey J Rodgers, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPatricia Clayton, Wake Forest University Patricia Clayton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Wake Forest University. They formerly served as
infrastructure resilience, and engineering ed- ucation. She taught 11 courses at UConn, including Statics, Structural Analysis, Senior Capstone Project, and new Structural Health Monitoring and Sensors courses. Dr. Jang is the recipient of the 2018 Civil Engineering Educator of the Year award from the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, the 2021 Dis- tinguished Engineering Educator Award from the UConn School of Engineering, and the 2021 ASEE Emerging Leader Fellow Award from the Civil Engineering Division. She is the newsletter editor of the ASEE Civil Engineering Division and the treasurer of the ASEE Northeast Section. In addition, she is a faculty advisor of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) UConn Chapter
Missouri at Rolla and the University of Illinois at Ur- bana/Champaign, and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Missouri. His research interests include resilient infrastructure, protective structures, and engineering education.Kevin ArnettPaul MoodyCol. Aaron T. Hill Jr., United States Military Academy Colonel Aaron Hill is an Assistant Professor and Design Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from West Point, a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from Missouri S&T, a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and