grades.Correlation analyses indicated that the relationship between the performance on the homeworkand the final grades in the course were stronger for the spring semester (0.877) than for the fallsemester (0.712). For each of the seven summative tests and associated homework assignments,the relationship between the scores were examined. For fall semester, the correlations were in therange [0.18-0.58], whereas for the spring semester they were in the range [0.47-0.69]. However,descriptive statistics of the homework scores and test scores, suggested that the 35 studentsduring the fall 2022 semester generally performed better than the 38 students during the spring2023 semester on both the assigned homework and tests. That observation was confirmedthrough a
ASEENational Conference, documented the formation of CEPCTC and its development of an initialdraft of proposed CEPC revisions. The second paper, presented at the 2022 ASEE NationalConference, focused on a) the solicitation and collection of feedback from a broad community ofstakeholders regarding the initial 2021 draft of proposed CEPC changes, and b) further revisionsto the proposed CEPC in response to that feedback. This third paper describes the changes to theCEPC resulting from the first phase of the ongoing ABET review and approval process andfocuses on the development of commentary and training materials to support the proposed CEPCimplementation and use. These materials support programs and program evaluators (PEVs).Although not officially part
. This may be partially due tostudents not perceiving civil engineering as exciting. ASCE’s Future World Vision project(FWV) may provide a way to spark student interest in civil engineering. This paper explores thereception of first-year students enrolled in an introductory CE course to FWV. In 2022 FWV wasintegrated at multiple points during the semester by making small modifications in the topics andassignments that were already part of the course. The FWV video was shown on the first day ofclass. On the first significant homework assignment of the semester, students were given achoice of learning about civil engineering by selecting two of four readings or websites; amongthe four options, FWV was the most popular, selected by 59% of the
topics of ethics and sustainability, as well as being a stand-alonetopic in 2020-2022. Each of these three topics had an associated individual homeworkassignment supported by readings and/or online videos. The specific prompts and readings/videos changed over time. The DEI teaching practices aligned with self-determination theory(e.g., autonomy). Evidence of the effectiveness of the DEI integration approaches is provided viacontent analysis of a homework assignment and the final reflective essay. In addition, there wasno evidence of student resistance to DEI topics in the course. The results provide specificexamples that can support civil engineering programs in fulfilling the new proposed ABET civilengineering program criterion related to
Sp 23 Before 21 43 24 33 Sp 23 After 18 22 22 56 Au 23 Before 28 46 21 32 Au 23 After 25 13 23 64 1. Results are reported as percentages of the total number of respondents (N) who answered “nothing”, “everything” or “some dollar value”. 2. The surveys were performed before or after the delivery of the module in the spring (Sp) or the autumn (Au) semester in the year 2021, 2022, or 2023. 3. For each matched pair (before and after), the higher percentage response is emphasized in BOLD. Of note: in each
of environmental engineering: air quality andwater quality. The classes were structured to encourage student discussion and interaction, withan activity in the second half of class. The same class structure of lecture followed by activitywas used in 2021; however, only one class was dedicated to social justice discussions, andclasses were held in person. The air quality aspect was removed in the second year, and the classengaged in a general discussion of environmental injustice and a water-focused case study ofTooleville, a disadvantaged community in Central CA. In 2022 and 2023, the lecture materialwas broadened to include discussion of three economically disadvantaged communities aroundthe US, all facing water-related challenges: Jackson
earning D and F grades in thecourse.The second course, CVE 446-546 Transportation Engineering is a combined undergraduate andgraduate introduction to transportation engineering course. The course has two midterm examsand a final exam. Two different implementations were tried over three years, 2020-2022, oneallowed students to replace both midterms with a single retake exam, the other allowed studentsto retake the first of two midterm exams. The scores on the retake exams were compared to theoriginal exam scores to quantify the benefit to the students. For the undergraduate students, thedifference in the percentage of students earning D and F grades was determined. There are no Dgrade in the grading scale for graduate courses, so for graduate
theUniversidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ who are focused on Water Resources studies weresurveyed. They were asked to use AI programs as a tool to be prepared and have backgroundinformation before class, and data was collected to identify whether their performance hadimproved after using these programs.INTRODUCTIONToday the use of artificial intelligence is becoming more common both for tasks related toelectronics or telecommunications and for new areas such as education [1,2]. Tools likeChatGPT have gone from being niche to having broader use [3,4]. It is becoming increasinglycommon to interact with products that appear "intelligent", although the label "artificialintelligence" may have been replaced by other euphemisms [5,6]. Since November 2022
Paper ID #38447Teaching Civil Engineering through Integrated Projects in GISDr. Kevin A. Waters, P.E., Villanova University Dr. Kevin Waters is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University. He teaches numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in water resources engineering including fluid mechanics, hydrology & hydraulics, and open channel hydraulics, as well as a general civil engineering course in GIS. In 2022, he was the recipient of the Villanova University Engineering Alumni Society Award for Teaching Excellence
societies through gaining additional technical and professional knowledge andskills through continuing education offerings, networking with peers, and leadershipopportunities through participation in scholarly publishing, standards development, and thoughtleadership as part of a committee or other governance body (Hein, et al. 2016). Involvement inthese activities by members also advances the mission of a professional society.Despite these benefits, membership in professional societies has declined in recent years.Marketing General, Inc.’s (MGI) 2022 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report showedthat 38% of individual membership organizations reported a decline in membership over the pastyear. While this represents an improvement over 2021 when 48
projects would be one letter grade different in their finalcourse grade if Student A is complete and accurate on all homework while student B is completeand never accurate. For example, in Spring 2022, the homework grade category scores rangedfrom 66% to 104% with an average of 88%.While the initial submission with immediate assessment implementation continues to incentivizestudents to attempt all problems through “completion” points, it removes the grade incentive forreviewing the instructor-provided solution. In this way, students must become more independentin their metacognitive skills and find ways to incentivize their own learning from mistakes. Atthe start of the semester, students ask multiple questions about the format requirements
planning,development, execution, and continuous improvement of the ETW) took steps in 2019 to engagein a multi-year, multi-stage program evaluation process for the ETW, a project dubbed asAdvancing the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop. In this effort, CFD recruited external evaluatorswho had extensive program assessment experiences from the broader engineering educationcommunity to conduct two successive, comprehensive program evaluations for the ETW inSummer 2021 and Summer 2022. To diminish confirmation bias in the evaluation efforts, CFDintentionally sought external evaluators who had no prior connection to CFD or the ETW. Theevaluations of the ETW in Summer 2021 and Summer 2022 focused on identifying the ETW’sstrengths and areas for improvement in
. 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
engineering instructors of the seven labcourses in the summer of 2021; therefore, the guides did not impact their lab report writinginstructions in the academic years of 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. We define the lab writinginstructional materials in these two academic years as the control. In the summer of 2021, thelink to the web-based engineering lab writing draft modules was emailed to the instructors of theparticipating lab courses in Table 1. The instructors agreed to improve their lab writinginstructions using the module content. They did not participate in any formal professionaldevelopment training about the module content. The instructional materials developed in theacademic years of 2021-2022 are defined as the experiment. We collected the
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Utilization of Real-life Hands-on Pedagogy to Motivate Undergraduate Students in Grasping Transportation Related ConceptsAbstractReal-life hands-on pedagogy adequately grounded in workable social learning theory is aprecursor to motivating students to grasp transportation-related concepts. At a historically blackuniversity, an evidence-based, experiment-focused, hands-on method of instruction was adoptedin the transportation discipline from the fall of 2020 until now. This paper outlines thedevelopment and implementation of hands-on pedagogy in the transportation systems disciplinefrom fall 2020 to fall 2022. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ
), confirmationbias: the tendency to seek out and interpret information that supports one’s existing beliefs (Calikli& Bener, 2015; Hallihan & Shu, 2013; Nelius et al., 2020), and in the case of interdisciplinaryteams, disciplinary bias: a preference towards data that is relevant to one’s own discipline (Harriset al., 2009; Horn et al., 2022). A common recommendation for mitigating bias in engineeringdesign is the inclusion of varying perspectives as contributors. This often is understood“horizontally,” referring to interdisciplinary engineering teams, but can also be done “vertically”with the inclusion of representatives from engineering, policy, management, and other keystakeholder groups. Stakeholder analysis is not a new concept
principal objective, beclear and precise and get to know the audience, helping to lead the topic presented and making theknowledge deeper and beneficial [28], [29].MethodsThis study uses a qualitive and multiple-choice approach to measure how the Tik Tok style videoscontribute to improving communication skills among civil engineering students. The data wascollected during the Fall 2022 semester with students from the engineering courses ConstructionCost (n=16), Construction Project Management (n=18), and Structures-1 (n=21) to a total samplesize of n=55 students. For the study, the researchers conducted a survey with civil engineeringstudents that fulfilled the task of the Tik Tok video. The survey contained both closed- and open-ended questions to
choices). Results are shown in Table 1.Interestingly, among the female students twice as many were stressed compared to happy, whilefor male students a higher percentage were happy vs. stressed. This generally poorer mentalhealth among female college students has also been found in other studies.Table 1. Percentage of male and female students selecting different clicker options Year: 2023 2022 Year: 2023 2022 M-F M-F My main M-F M-FI currently feel: n=32-19 n=31-15 self-care is: n=28-19 n=31-14Happy, things are going well
PolytechnicState University in San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO) would convert to the semester systemstarting in the Fall semester of 2025. The reasons cited for the conversion were articulation andequity, student success, and administrative efficiency. In March 2022, the deadline was extendedto Fall 2026 to accommodate Assembly Bill 928: Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act [2]a revision to general education in the CSU system that will include course unit requirements andwill not be finalized until Spring 2024. Full General Education (GE) course proposals cannot besubmitted until the Chancellor's Office releases AB 928 requirements and new GE template.The university timeline for completion is specified in Table 1 and was taken from AcademicSenate
oftime with no learning that may end up in temptation for cheating. This article presents the resultsfrom a conducted pilot study.MethodologyThis exploratory study proposed frequent unannounced evaluations in civil engineering andarchitecture courses. At the end of the semester, an anonymous survey was administered tostudents taking the courses Structures 1 (n=21 students) and Structures 2 (n=18 students) inarchitecture and Structural Analysis 1 (n=22 students) and Construction Costs (n=16 students) incivil engineering. The survey provided contained open-ended and multiple-choice questions.This pedagogical strategy was applied to all students of the previously mentioned courses. Datawere collected at the end of the fall semester 2022 to find out
Reflect components. The students work in teams for each module completing ashort team project related to the module topic. They also complete a self-reflection exercise at theend of each module as well as a culminating reflection at the end of the course. Of the 61 studentsin the fall 2022 cohort, 37 were civil engineering majors and 24 were environmental engineeringmajors.Exploring CEE: Stories There were multiple story-telling interventions throughout the course. During the firstweek, the instructor and TA shared their personal stories about how they ended up in college andstarted their personal career path. The students were then asked to share their personal storieswithin small groups about how they ended up at Georgia Tech. The small
skills. When compared to individual learning alone, teamwork cansupport deeper understanding of the material, a more interactive class environment, and improvedknowledge retention. Therefore, the senior-level design course Coastal Engineering was modifiedin 2022 with the addition of teamwork elements in two course components: homeworkassignments and in-class quizzes. The homework assignments were completed in small groups,with teams submitting a joint homework solution. The objective of assigning homework to groupsrather than individuals was to have students work together and discuss the problems and courseconcepts. To discourage “divide and conquer” approaches and hold students accountable forunderstanding the full homework assignment, students
that to some students, courses are a numbers game to earn the bestgrade possible because it is perceived good grades are what is needed to obtain the career theydesire.The Re-Mix Design: 2021-2022 Reinforced Concrete Design Grading StructureIn researching several mastery based assessment models, the instructor was presented theopportunity to reevaluate the student learning outcomes for the course and determine the ways tobest achieve those outcomes. As the instructor reviewed different assessment models [1-5;7], someelements were selected and others discarded.For instance, some mastery based models assign students a pass/fail grade, requiring students topass a progressively increasing number of topics to achieve grade levels of D, C, B, A [3;5
the projects. Students were given anotheropportunity to address any errors or add missing information after they had received thefeedback on their final project. They had the choice to present their project as a written report,poster, short video, PowerPoint Slides, or any other preferred format. The SBPs carried 15% ofthe final grade for the course.Principles of Construction I (CE 3220): CE 3220 is an introductory course in constructionengineering and management. It is a required course for students from Civil and a few otherrelated engineering majors and Construction Engineering and Management minor. This course istaken by mostly juniors and seniors at undergraduate level. The total enrollment was 88 studentsin Fall 2022. The purpose of
al. 2011, Knikiewicz 2017, Welch et al. 2018, Stanford et al. 2020, Khalid 2022).Industry involvement helps to ensure balanced graduates who are well-balanced in thefundamentals of civil engineering (Howard 2015) and can occur with either private or publicentities (Howard 2015, Knakiewicz 2017). Industry participation on advisory committees orboards helps ensure graduates are properly prepared to practice their profession upon graduation(Casey and O’Donnell 2008, Welch et al. 2018). Industry partnerships are also commonly usedin engineering technology programs (Dobrowski 2008, Knakiewicz 2017), baccalaureateprograms (Welch et al. 2018) and even post-bachelors, masters, and doctoral programs (Bolo andVentura 2011, Howard 2015).Benefits to
observedinstitutional variation.These recommendations seek to increase the resilience of engineering education by enhancing itspreparedness for natural disasters, pandemics, energy crises, wars, or other unexpectedcircumstances.References[1] G. Salmon, E-tivities, 2nd ed., Taylor and Francis, 2013. [E-book] Available:https://www.perlego.com/book/1624376/etivities-the-key-to-active-online-learning-pdf (Originalwork published 2013). [Accessed April 8, 2022].[2] D. C. E. Teng, N. S. Chen, Kinshuk, and T. Leo , “Exploring students’ learning experience inan international online research seminar in the Synchronous Cyber Classroom,” Computers &Education, 2012. 58(3), pp. 918-930. [Online]. Available:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2011.10.018 [Accessed April 10
designed to take, at most, one ninety-minutelecture. The “Water Filtration Activity” was first implemented in the engineering design coursein Spring 2022. (See Appendix C.) It is designed to take a maximum of two ninety-minute lectures.In addition to engaging students in STEM, the activities also bring awareness to potential socio-economic differences and public policy. This is a work-in-progress and the research teamhypothesizes that there is also the potential for an understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion.The activities are presented to first-year courses but are also part of upper level courses. It ishypothesized that by repeating the activities, students will gain a deeper understanding of diversity,equity and inclusion.Literature
integration of engineering justiceinto a statics course [16].In addition to responding to ABET and professional expectations and aspirations, courses thataddress issues of equity in infrastructure have the potential to attract more, and more diverse,students to the civil engineering profession. Civil engineering has been struggling to attractstudents, as compared to disciplines like mechanical engineering that have experienced largeincreases in enrollment over the past decade. For example, based on ASEE data, the number ofBachelor’s degrees awarded in Civil plus Civil/Environmental Engineering increased by 977between 2013 and 2022 as compared to an increase of 11,065 in Mechanical Engineering [17],[18]. Embracing equitable infrastructure as a
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Design of Steel and Course Wood Structures Structural Analysis (CE403) (CE404) Credit Hours 3.5 3.0 Lessons 35 @ 75 minutes 40 @ 55 minutes Iteration - 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lessons on Wood 17% 15% 21.3% 22.5% 22.5% 22.5% 22.5% (% of total course) Credit Hours on 0.60 0.45 0.64 0.68 0.68 0.68 0.68 Wood (hrs) Course Grade for
to the civil engineering profession [2]. This was true during the development oflicensure laws in the early 20th century and is true today. In 2021, sixty-four percent of allengineers who completed the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying(NCEES) Principles and Practice Exam (PE) took one of the five civil engineering exams ratherthan an exam in the eighteen other engineering disciplines [3]. Still, not all civil engineers aspireto obtain a PE license.Knowledge of engineering licensure laws and rules is important to civil engineering programs,faculty, and students. The 2022-2023 Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET (EAC-ABET) civil engineering program criteria (CEPC) requires programs to have curriculums