investments in OneNSF in addition toinvestments in core research, education, and infrastructure programs. 7CISE’s mission is to uphold the nation's leadership in computerand information science and engineering through its support forfundamental and transformative advances that are a key driverof economic competitiveness and crucial to achieving nationalpriorities.contribute to the development of a computing and informationtechnology workforce with skills essential to success in theincreasingly competitive, global market. 8The budget request includes substantial increases for coreprograms in frontier
Paper ID #37932Towards Goal-Oriented Experiential Learning forCybersecurity ProgramsEman Hammad (Assistant Professor) Dr. Eman Hammad is a cybersecurity professional & interdisciplinary professional focusing on trustworthy & resilient complex systems and emerging technologies. She obtained her PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. Dr. Hammad is an is an assistant professor with Texas A&M University - Commerce. She combines practical experience and theoretical research to shape her vision for resilient-by-design solutions in the connected world. She is the
specializing in Transportation Engineering and the associate director of the Utah Transportation Center. He received his Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2007. Prior to that, he received his master of sci- ence degree in Civil Engineering (Transportation) in 2003 and a bachelor of science in Civil Engineering in 2001 from Virginia Tech. His research interests include vehicle electrification and automation, alterna- tive fuels for transportation, sustainable and resilient transportation infrastructures, and traffic operations.Dr. Michael Kyte, University of Idaho, Moscow Dr. Michael Kyte is a professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Idaho, and teaches courses in transportation engineering. His
copingwith problems frequently encountered in the intrinsically chaotic disaster-relief operations. A life-support system is the real need, not just an emergency shelter to be deployed rapidly after naturaldisasters strike.Disaster education, as such, becomes crucial to propel the creation of resilient communities.It is offered in various countries based on local socio-economic and cultural contexts. Shawet al. [10] provided a comprehensive and easy-to-understand overview of disaster educationbased on field experiences. Through a series of case-studies including those from Japan andNepal, they discussed the ongoing efforts in promoting disaster education. 1This paper examines the influence of different
discussions about the definition of the respectiveprojects and the final products was an ongoing feature of the Cohort Challenge each year. Themanner of stakeholder engagement and accountability were crucial to team interactions early inthe Cohort Challenge process. After several conversations with Caras con Causa’s staff about their educationalprograms, the team members for DRR-2019 proposed preparing a set of interactive maps thatidentify infrastructure, nearby nature preserves, and other features shaping resilience to naturaldisasters. The maps were designed to include community input, thus supporting the citizenscience Caras con Causa conducts. Through the course of developing the maps, the teammembers learned the challenges of working in a
treatment, and water reuse. 5. Estimate energy requirements for urban water sector, specify energy recovery techniques, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 6. Determine life-cycle cost and complete life-cycle assessments for urban water infrastructure systems. 7. Compare resiliency and vulnerability of water infrastructure alternatives. 8. Complete an ISI Envision Rating for a water infrastructure project. 9. Recommend a vision for sustainable urban water infrastructure systems.Students are assessed with individual homework assignments, a midterm examination, and ateam project. The team project was modified to implement the CICL activity. In the fall 2014semester, the course had 17 civil and environmental engineering graduate
in Civil and Environmental Engineering. As a result, theCE/ENVE faculty collaborated with the student leaders to integrate social and environmentaljustice into the CE/ENVE program educational objectives (PEOs). PEOs reflect the goals thatprogram graduates will achieve within a few years of graduation, reflect the mission of theDepartment, and provide guidance for specific student learning outcomes in the classrooms. Assuch, they are the principle tool for guiding lasting and significant modifications to thecurriculum. As part of the student-initiated PEOs revitalization, additional educationalobjectives were incorporated, including: resilient, sustainable, and safe design; systems-thinking;and, inclusive communications. This paper discusses
bachelor of science in Construction Engineering from American University in Cairo. Dr. ElZomor moved to FIU from State University of New York, where he was an Assistant Professor at the college of Environmental Science and Forestry. Mohamed’s work focuses on Sustainability of the Built Environment, Engineering Education, Construc- tion Engineering, Energy Efficiency Measures and Modeling, Project Management, and Infrastructure Resilience. Dr. ElZomor has extensive professional project management experience as well as a diverse cross-disciplinary academic knowledge. Mohamed, distinct expertise supports fostering interdisciplinary research in addition to embracing innovative pedagogical approaches in STEM education. Dr
ASU, Dr. ElZomor received a master’s of science degree in Architecture from University of Arizona, a master’s degree in Engineering and a bachelor of science in Construction Engineering from American University in Cairo. Dr. ElZomor moved to FIU from State University of New York, where he was an Assistant Professor at the college of Environmental Science and Forestry. Mohamed’s work focuses on Sustainability of the Built Environment, Engineering Education, Construc- tion Engineering, Energy Efficiency Measures and Modeling, Project Management, and Infrastructure Resilience. Dr. ElZomor has extensive professional project management experience as well as a diverse cross-disciplinary academic knowledge. Mohamed
purpose of this paper is to highlight how military engineering activities in communities mapto the frameworks of humanitarian and peace engineering that are increasingly being used inhigher education. Building partner capacity is a primary consideration during military training incommunities outside of the military installation. Every engagement is described as acapacity-building opportunity contributing to security and stability in the country, starting at thecommunity level. The Department of Defense Security Cooperation Humanitarian Assistanceprogram reviews country requests for a partnership to build needed infrastructure. Militaryconstruction units from all services then apply for the training opportunity to build roads,schools, clinics
Sustainability Programsand Curricula at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels" [1] and our independent literaturereview, in the US, there appear to be no undergraduate engineering degree programs that arebroadly oriented around sustainability in the sense of the three pillars commonly referred to as the3P's (People, Planet, Prosperity) or the 3E's (Equity, Environment, and Economics).[2][3]Further, the local conditions in Puerto Rico - a multi-hazard risk region with vulnerablepopulations and infrastructure embedded in a struggling economy - have inspired new urgency andresolve to respond to our common challenges that are at once local and global. The availablenatural resources, combined with the tangible entrepreneurial spirit of our current generation
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
: Attitudes. Demonstrate attitudes supportive of the professional practice of civilengineering.” 5Two other reports that are relevant to civil engineering education are “The Vision for CivilEngineering in 2025” 6 and “Achieving The Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025: A Roadmapfor the Profession.” 7 The 2nd edition BOK has a direct linkage to the Vision.The vision document notes (p. 3) that “For many years, civil engineering leaders sounded thealarm about the lack of investment in maintaining and improving the infrastructure. Some ofthose shortcomings were tragically illustrated by the death and destruction caused by failures inwhich engineering designs, government funding, and the community oversight systems were allcalled into question. Civil
for the incorporation of earthquake preparatory knowledge andpractice into engineering programs across Lebanon and for the engagement of the Lebaneseengineering sector in earthquake disaster risk reduction efforts.Keywords: Engineering students, Earthquake awareness, Lebanon, Earthquake preparednessIntroductionEarthquakes have proven to be one of the most terrifying and costly disasters which can pose areal and serious threat to a country’s infrastructure, population, economy, and social structure.They have the power and the potential to knock down buildings, to wreck cities, and to destroycommunities in only seconds. The uncontrollable physical and social consequences of suchphenomenon will remain the main challenge for every vulnerable
components of the system are replaced over time. The College of Engineering atUNIVERSITY can be conceived of as a complex system with its own set of values, structures,hierarchies, resources, and relationships, which interact together to influence the emergentcharacteristics of the system as a whole. Systems thinking philosophy, exemplified by the workof Donella Meadows (2009) and Ervin Laszlo (1975, 1996) provide useful frameworks formaking general statements about complex systems such as a college of engineering. DonellaMeadows observes that well-functioning systems typically have at least one of threecharacteristics: resilience, self-organization, and hierarchy.The first system characteristic discussed is resilience, which can be thought of as
adaptable to larger infrastructure projects and has been used by the authors to select green infrastructure projects for funding. The Envision rating system was specifically developed for infrastructure projects and is thus a powerful tool for civil engineers [12] and examples of its use in the academic setting are plentiful, e.g., [13], [14], [15], [16], and [17].The Engineering for One Planet FrameworkThe EOP framework was developed by The Lemelson Foundation and VentureWell through anopen and iterative process. The foundation deliberately sought the input of hundreds ofacademics, practitioners, and students who were provided the opportunity to comment on theframework. The framework was revised to include the feedback
project in the island community of Roatán, Honduras, through the development of anew course in Ecological Engineering.Project LocationLocated 40 miles off the north coast of mainland Honduras (Figure 1), the island of Roatán ishome to a diverse set of ecosystems, socio-economic conditions, and immersive learningopportunities. The key facets which justify the launch of this initiative in Roatán include:• Favorable conditions for success: Isolated from complex economics of larger countries, island communities possess “micro grids” of energy, water, and economic infrastructure and offer excellent opportunities to engage in the deployment of sustainable and resilient technologies;• Unique setting for sustainable technology deployment: The warm
, housing construction, among others. He was also a Project Management Associate for a Habitat For Humanity housing project in the USA. (ii) RESEARCH: Miguel Andrés' research focuses on (1) decision-making for the design and construction of infrastructure projects, (2) the planning of sustainable, smart and resilient cities, and (3) the development of engineers who not only have solid technical and practical knowledge, but also social understanding for, through infrastructure, address local and global challenges on humanitarian, environmental, social and equity issues. (iii) EDUCATION RESEARCH: Related to STEM education, Miguel Andrés is developing and applying contemporary pedagogies and tools for innovation and
problem definition, multiple interconnectedproblems, consequences difficult to imagine, let alone characterize, and riddled with ideological,political, and cultural conflict. Climate change looms large as an example of a social mess thatengineers will need new capacities to effectively confront.The capacities engineers need include many attributes long discussed within the LiberalEducation/Engineering and Society Division of ASEE and echoed in the NAE Engineer of 2020report at the turn of this century: creativity, leadership, communication, lifelong learning, ethics,resiliency, and flexibility. There is increasing recognition that we additionally need to grow ourcapacity for holistic systems (or systems-of-systems) thinking, data-informed
AI-powered automation systems that ensure the sustainability and resilience of existing and new infrastructure, including energy, transportation, water and wastewater management, and buildings. I am also developing a modeling and simulation platform that provides what-if analysis using quantifiable sustainable life-cycle metrics as part of the performance evaluation when designing such automation systems. Another of her current research interest is STEM higher education, particularly in the engineering and technology areas. All data clearly show the fast-approaching cliff we all face, where’s the ”silver bullet?” What individual faculty can do – with no time and ever-increasing tasks, functions, and paperwork! Can
implement the RSU into existing infrastructure. The RSU could potentially facilitatecommunication between civilians, emergency units, traffic controllers, and even street lights (Drawil 2010and Kumar 2015).The VANET classifies collision avoidance solutions based on a number of varying parameters. Theseparameters may include routing data, collision algorithms, network structures, etc. (Fei 2009). All of thisdata is combined in some type of complex algorithm. The Kalman filter is one type of these algorithms(Alsbou 2016). The Kalman filter provides a “realistic dynamic model” of a specific event. In case ofcollision avoidance, the Kalman filter receives various inputs in the form of signals from the vehicle’ssensors and localization information from
the use of the lessons in the elementary classrooms during the fall semester, arepresented. Page 23.1123.2IntroductionProficiency in STEM education has been identified by the federal government and federally-commissioned committees as essential to US competitiveness in the global marketplace1. Inaddition, having a scientifically literate workforce of engineers and technicians is imperative toensure that infrastructural resources are effective and resilient enough to face dynamic andchallenging environmental and economic forces. Few examples better represent this loomingissue than our country’s aging urban water infrastructure. Outdated
culture phenomena to cultivate interest in learning STEM and environmental justice. Outside of research, I am an advocate for public education and serves as the leader of the Education Committee with Downwinders at Risk, a North Texas clean air advocacy group, leading community science initiatives to address local environmental justice issues.Janille A Smith-colin (Assistant Professor) 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
to absorb fluctuations in the flow of data.Since the broker will cache all incoming data, no data will be lost if an indexer cannot keep pace. Page 26.1233.8We suggest using the broker in some form of cluster. Using clustering and replication will helpto ensure resilience within the distributed broker cache. While we have yet to implement acomplete publish-and-subscribe infrastructure, our research has demonstrated a need for thismodel. With high processing loads across multiple categories, a publish-and-subscribeenvironment can help segregate the workload.To help ensure the resilience of the infrastructure, we suggest utilizing multiple
Education, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as industry organizations and partners, such as the National Masonry Concrete Association and Nucor. She served as the director of the National Science Foundation-funded Tigers ADVANCE project, which focuses on improving the status of women and minority faculty at Clemson. Previously, Dr. Atamturktur was the director of the National Science Foundation-funded National Research Traineeship project at Clemson, with funding for over 30 doctoral students and a goal of initiating a new degree program on scientific computing and data analytics for resilient infrastructure systems. In addition, Dr. Atamturktur was the director of two separate Department of Education
million in funded research.Dr. Julia Daisy Fraustino, West Virginia University Dr. Fraustino is an assistant professor of strategic communication and director of the Public Interest Communication Research Laboratory in the Media Innovation Center of the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University. She is a research affiliate in the risk communication and resilience portfolio at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a DHS American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #31927 Emeritus Center of
Paper ID #45014Exploring the role of engineering judgment in engineering educationthrough writing praxis in a 3rd year systems engineeringwriting-in-the-disciplines [WID] courseDr. Royce A Francis, The George Washington University Dr. Royce Francis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Sys- tems Engineering [EMSE] at the George Washington University. At George Washington, Dr. Francis’s engineering education research explores the relationships between professional identity formation and engineering judgment. His other research interests include infrastructure resilience and risk assessment
automated trucking (CEAT) can help reduce drivershortages, supply-chain disruptions, service delays, emissions, fuel demand, and road crashes.CEAT can also improve agility, safety, and predictability, and can enable innovations throughoutsupply chains and transit networks. Electrification can significantly reduce fossil fuel usage,GHG emissions, environmental criteria pollutants, and noise pollution. Research is needed onhow transport and logistics providers and road authorities can best use automation andelectrification to address supply-chain resilience, mobility for disabled and underserved people,lower emissions, infrastructure utilization, traffic congestion, flexible manufacturing, workforceshortages, work-life balance, and the safety of
major group. One of the ways information is shared is through the Global Sustainable Development Reports (GSDR). For the reports, the UN Division for Sustainable Development crowdsources briefs from the global science and technology community on sustainable development issues that policy makers the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) should be aware of. The 2016 GSDR will focus on several areas of particular interest to the engineering profession including “The infrastructure – inequality – resilience nexus.” This paper reviews past contributions related to engineering education, and provides an update on the continuing process of developing and providing engineering input into the High Level Political Forum process. 1. Introduction
transportation.This importance is underscored by the work of the ASCE Committee on America’sInfrastructure. In its 2021 report card, this committee gave US Infrastructure an overall grade ofC- (Mediocre, requires attention). They used the following criteria: a) capacity, b) condition, c)funding, d) future need, e) operation and maintenance, f) public safety, g) resilience, and h)innovation (ASCE, 2021). These criteria represent a systems view of transportation. We needfuture transportation engineers to develop these viewpoints to ensure a sustainable transportationinfrastructure for all. However, developing understanding of transportation engineering issuesand acquiring expertise requires long-term engagement including education pathways inundergraduate