Conference Session

Technical Session 1d

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Medha Dalal, Arizona State University; Jean S Larson, Arizona State University; Claudia Elena Zapata, Arizona State University; Wilhelmina C. Savenye, Arizona State University; Edward Kavazanjian Jr., Arizona State University; Nasser Hamdan, Center for Bio-mediated & Bio-inspired Geotechnics

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section

steady pipeline of students into the geotechnicsspecialty, alerting them of a significant short fall of approximately 90,000 geoscientists andgeotechnical engineers by the year 2022. Thus, to spark interest, create awareness, and motivatestudents to consider careers in biogeotechnical engineering, we decided to create an introductorymodule for freshman civil engineering students.Learner characteristicsDefining the characteristics of your target audience helps with design decisions4. Our targetpopulation was freshmen planning to major in civil engineering. To understand learnercharacteristics, the student member of the design team interviewed a faculty member in theSchool of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at ASU. While the