Conference Session

Proven Strategies in Classroom Engagement Part II: Activities for Creative Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Roth, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College

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Civil Engineering

their knowledge and using a rubric or grading system toevaluate the students’ knowledge. Students can be asked to develop a concept map with paperand pencil or by using specialized software, and scoring can be holistic, relational, structural, orby methods specific to a particular application6. Stoddart et al.7 provide an overview of the useof concept maps to assess student learning in science, and Carey8 was one of the first researchersto compare concept maps produced by students over time as a means to understand howstudents’ knowledge develops.In engineering education, concept maps have been used to assess knowledge integration acrossan engineering program9, conceptual understanding in a engineering dynamics course10, andstudent

Conference Session

Around the Water Cooler: Ideas and Issues in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cassandra J. McCall, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida; Courtney Zongrone, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #30624Leaving Civil Engineering: Examining the Intersections of Gender,Disability, and Professional IdentityDr. Cassandra J. McCall, Virginia Tech Dr. Cassandra McCall is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Education Vir- ginia Tech. Her primary research interests include professional identity formation in undergraduate civil engineering students, grounded theory methods, and theory development. Currently, she is principal in- vestigator on an NSF sponsored project exploring the professional identity formation of civil engineering students who experience disabilities. In particular, she is

Conference Session

Proven Strategies in Classroom Engagement Part I: Artifacts for Creative Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel J. Pickel, University of Waterloo; G. Wayne Brodland, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Civil Engineering

. This resulted in several publications in this educational research areas. Dr. Al-Hammoud won the ”Ameet and Meena Chakma award for exceptional teaching by a student” in 2014 from University of Waterloo. Her students regard her as an innovative teacher who introduced new ideas to the classroom. Such ideas include using ”props” to increase students’ understanding of the materials, as well as using new technology such as i-clickers and IF-AT cards. Dr. Al-Hammoud also organized a bridge-building contest in one of her courses where she worked with other professors in the department to integrate the project horizontally across the curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016

Conference Session

Around the Water Cooler: Ideas and Issues in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicolas Ali Libre, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Stuart Werner Baur, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Mark Fitch, Missouri University of Science and Technology; William Eric Showalter P.E., Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Civil Engineering

renewable energy technology includ- ing various methods techniques that involve energy efficient lighting design and daylight integration. As an educator Baur has participated several session on various lighting design techniques including the Philips’ Lighting Application Center. He has also co-authored a book entitled, Civil Engineering and Architecture to be used as a textbook for all Project Lead the Way CEA curriculum. The book highlights some of the drivers to energy-efficient design including the use different types of lighting systems including daylighting.Dr. Mark Fitch, Missouri University of Science and Technology Mark Fitch is an Associate Professor and Assistant Chair for Environmental Engineering in the

Conference Session

Accreditation and the BOK

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian J. Swenty P.E., University of Evansville; Matthew K. Swenty, Virginia Military Institute

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Civil Engineering

engineering course was required in most curricula (91.9%) and had the secondlargest range of credits (1.0 to 6.0 credits). An additional four courses were required in at least80% of the programs: structural analysis, soil mechanics, transportation engineering, and thecapstone design course. Many civil engineering specialty courses, such as steel design,foundation design, hydrology/hydraulic systems, and water/wastewater were required in less thanone third of the programs.In his 2000 paper that examined the impact of ABET’s 1997 civil engineering program criteria,Koehn found that practitioners favored civil engineering graduates who had courses in structuralengineering, hydraulic engineering, and design integrated throughout the curriculum [10]. In

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; Thomas A. Lenox , Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

and Similarly Named Programs; therefore, this paper alsoprovides an overview of the new commentary.Current and Proposed Civil Engineering Program CriteriaThe ABET/EAC accreditation criteria for baccalaureate-level civil engineering programsincludes both general criteria and program-specific criteria. Requirements stipulated in theprogram-specific criteria are limited to two areas: (1) curriculum topics and (2) facultyqualifications. The focus of this paper is on civil engineering curriculum topics, noting that thefaculty qualifications area has not changed in many years nor have any changes to the facultyqualifications been proposed. The current (2015/2016) civil engineering program curriculumcriterion6 is provided here: The program must

Conference Session

Accreditation and the BOK

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Tara Hornor, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C. Bower P.E., The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

and referencedASME’s Vision 203010 which stated, “Our students will need to lead not only technically butalso socially, politically and ethically.” Additional recommendations included ethics andprofessionalism integrated into the curriculum. The ME profession clearly wanted ethicseducation in the curriculum and assimilated in different formats and levels. Additionally, ABETrequires students to “demonstrate an ability to design a system, component, or process to meetdesired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political,ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.”11 The MECH programdeveloped a multilevel approach to meet the requirements of the QEP: 1. Freshmen - exposed to the

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Hall, University of Arkansas

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Civil Engineering

specifically to address BOK outcomes.The Fall 2009 curriculum is presented in Table 2, which follows the accustomed ABET/EACself-study standard format. Highlights regarding the curriculum follow: Core Curriculum: The university has a core curriculum requirement which includes 6 semester hours of english composition, 6 hours of humanities, 6 hours of social sciences, and 3 hours of U.S. History or political science. Technical Electives: A total of 12 semester hours of “technical electives” are allowed in the Page 15.1210.4 curriculum. Only in rare cases would an elective course outside the Department of Civil Engineering be allowed for credit

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead MacNamara; Clare Olsen; Laura Steinberg, Syracuse University; Samuel Clemence, Syracuse University

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Civil Engineering

relationship to researchand design, or explicitly integrate it into an undergraduate student’s training.On the other hand, creativity in structural engineering design is celebrated in thearchitectural design curriculum. History courses and design studios study works ofrecent and contemporary structural engineers such as Peter Rice, Cecil Balmond, TedHappold, Jorg Schlaich, and Mutsuro Sasaki are well known to architecture students andfaculty. These engineers’ capacity to integrate technical innovation and aesthetic merit ineither their own design projects or collaborations with prominent architects (such as ToyoIto, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Kazuyo Sejima, and Renzo Piano) iswidely acknowledged. In this Digital Age, architects are

Conference Session

Who Should Teach the BOK

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Large Seagrave, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

, 2002. 3. Body of Knowledge Committee of the Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice, 2004. 4. Pappas, E.C. and Hendricks, R.W. “Holistic grading in science and engineering,” Journal of EngineeringEducation, vol. 89, pp. 403-408, Oct. 2000. 5. Miller, R., Olds, B. "A Model Curriculum for a Capstone Course in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design."Journal of Engineering Education, October, 1994, pp. 1-6. 6. Hodges, Colley, Wilmot, Cari-Sue, Askew, Robert, and Bannerot, Richard. “Teaching TechnicalCommunications in an Introductory Design Course through Interventions from the University’s Writing Center.”ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, 2004. 7. Barrett, Edward and Waitz, Ian. “Integrated

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Thinking Outside the BOKs: ABET, Ethics, Civil Engineering as Liberal Education, and 3-Year Degrees

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily F. Cutrer, Texas A&M University-Texarkana; Melissa M. Nelson; James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., Texas A&M University System

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

infrastructure development and redevelopment, and the associated trillion-dollar cost,will be addressed by civil engineers. In that regard, there are two areas in which a civilengineering education can make change, namely:  Reinforce the links between the core curriculum and the practice of civil engineering. Develop within the student a stronger integration between the technical and the non- technical subjects.  Reinforce the concepts of public responsibility, of service in an elected office.Concluding RemarksIn this paper, the authors have documented the relationship between an education in civilengineering and the need for individuals with liberal education in the 21st century workplace.They have concluded that a

Conference Session

ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Musselman, CMA Engineers

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Civil Engineering

management is integral to everything that engineers do. We teach Page 14.1024.5 engineering students rudimentary probability and statistics, and apply that to predicting how many ping pong balls might be black as opposed to white (perhaps an understatement, but not by much), but we don’t teach engineering students how to apply risk analysis and management techniques to engineering applications so that risk considerations are incorporated in the engineering thought process. We do that in engineering practice on an hour to hour basis, to varying degrees

Conference Session

Accreditation and Continuous Quality Improvement -- What the Experts Are Saying!

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

, optimistically, thatchanges could be formulated by 2011, approved for public comment by 2012, and approved forimplementation in the 2013-14 accreditation cycle). If a criteria change cycle of less than sixyears is demonstrably too short, then a change cycle of seventeen years is clearly too long—particularly in an era of profound and accelerating change in the world around us.Programs’ resistance to increasing content in the baccalaureate-level curriculum is well-foundedas well. Even as the engineering BOK continues to expand, many programs are facinginstitutional or governmental pressure to reduce credit-hour requirements in their baccalaureatedegree programs.17 Logically, however, ignoring the expanding BOK cannot be an acceptableanswer to this

Conference Session

The Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge, 3rd Edition: Preparing the Future Civil Engineer

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kevin G. Sutterer P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Derek Guthrie Williamson, University of Alabama; W. Edward Back, University of Alabama

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Civil Engineering

assess this in civil engineering. Perhaps level 3 occurs to some extent in the context ofsustainable civil engineering but I do not think we ‘call it out’ to students as applying principlesand concepts of social sciences.Rose-Hulman. For the first two levels, all of our students are required to take classes in thehumanities and social sciences, so I am confident this outcome is being fulfilled in the cognitivedomain in our curriculum. Institute-wide, we do not assess this outcome specifically, so wewould have to identify an efficient, reliable, and sustainable way to collect evidence of thislearning in classes in our curriculum but outside of our department. For level 3, this is present atleast subtly in our application of the LENSES [4] method

Conference Session

Key Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession - and ASCE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott R. Hamilton, York College of Pennsylvania; David A. Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Camilla M. Saviz P.E., University of the Pacific

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

; Exposition, 2014.[9] R.D. Burke, C.L. Dancz, K. J. Ketchman, M.M. Bilec, T.H. Boyer, C. Davidson, A.E. Landis, and K. Parrish, “Faculty Perspectives on Sustainability Integration in Undergraduate Civil and Environmental Engineering Curriculum,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 144(3), 2018.[10] D.L. Bondhegan, S.J. Komisar, and R. O’Neill, “Assessing Achievement of Sustainability Skills in the Environmental and Civil Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2016.[11] J.M. Stache, J.P. Hanus, and J. Gonser, “Assessing Sustainability in Design in an Infrastructure Course through Project

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey C. Evans P.E., Bucknell University; Michelle Oswald Beiler P.E., Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

opportunities for improvement. Recommendations regarding humanitiesand social sciences for BOK3 are presented based on the findings of this student. Therecommendations are grounded in previously established curriculum guidance including ABETprior to ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000, EAC/ABET 3(a) through 3(k), BOK and BOK2.Integration of Humanities and Social Sciences into BOK, ABET and other CriteriaThere is a large body of literature, going back in time, which provides support for humanities andsocial science (H/SS) in the education and the practice of engineering.1-6 There is a commonagreement that an engineering education must be supported with a fundamental education inmathematics, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences. The graphic

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Byungik Chang P.E., University of New Haven; Erick Benjamin Butler, West Texas A&M University; J. Arn Womble P.E., West Texas A&M University; Nathan Howell, West Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

. More equipment has been procured for civil materials and faculty are currentlybuilding up the introduction to environmental engineering laboratory course with a largepurchase of equipment at the start of the fall 2015 semester.The other major concern was to require a third natural science course in the curriculum.Chemistry and physics, each with two courses, are integral to the curriculum. It was determinedthat biology could be used as that third science course. Fortunately for this accreditation cycle,transcripts for all six initial graduates indicated that the students had taken a biology course. Forall current and future students, an immediate curriculum change was instituted to requirebiology. In the future, the third science course may be

Conference Session

The Teacher as Manager: Best Practices for Culminating Design Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Jill Nelson P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Brent Nuttall P.E., California Polytechnic State University

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Civil Engineering

,construction and landscape architecture students to complete the schematic level designof an actual building for a real client.The challenges in creating and executing such a course fall into three major areas:institutional, logistical and pedagogical. Institutional issues include university supportand concurrence from four different department heads. Logistical issues range fromfinding open time within the four schedules to offer the course and securing physicallocations for small and large group meeting areas to the seemingly mundane tasks ofensuring all students are in the correct location and finding common times for theinstructors to meet. Pedagogically, the course needs a unified and integrated approachthat must be agreed to and implemented by

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Conley, U.S. Military Academy; Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

faculty interaction. These events can be tied to specific milestones in the academic year such as start of the term, end of the term, FE exam, or tied to a holiday, an organization’s special project or just an opportunity to get students together.6. Host Branch/Section meetings: Allows students to interact with local professionals on their home turf and integrates them into professional societies. This also serves as a way for the local ASCE Sections and Branches to see what students are doing and to meet with them.7. Attend Branch/Section meetings: Provides an introduction to professional society activities.8. Organization business meetings: Gives students the opportunity to become involved with running an organization, running a

Conference Session

Implementing the CE BOK into Courses and Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Tocco, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

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Civil Engineering

of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological Universitydecided to adopt the BOK2 in spring 2008 as part of the annual program objectives/outcomesreview process. There was extensive debate on the prudence of adopting a new standard just twoyears before the ABET accreditation visit in 2010. The department’s commitment to continuousimprovement, however, was the eventual impetus for adoption of the BOK2. This paperprovides an overview of the challenges faced and the various approaches taken by thedepartment in its mission to integrate the BOK2 into the civil engineering program. Similar tobattling the mythical Hydra, every time it appeared that a question was satisfactorily addressed,two additional questions arose in its place. It became clear

Conference Session

Training Faculty to Teach CE

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Mark Evans, U.S. Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

can also be displayed in theclassrooms and in the department areas. All of these activities can be embedded into coursesand many programs may just need to take credit for what they already probably do.Professional & Ethical ResponsibilityAnother professional outcome that can be integrated throughout the curriculum is professionaland ethical responsibility. At USMA, our cadets are required to take over 70 hours ofeducation in professional and military ethics where they discuss honor and integrity issues,leadership and officership. To focus on the civil engineering professional standards and ethics,each civil engineering major in our program takes a mandatory one-credit hour senior seminarcourse taught by an endowed chair with years of

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessing Sustainability and Life Long Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L. Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University; Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Yusuf A Mehta, Rowan University

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Civil Engineering

with the skills involved in life-long learning. Since there are manyother factors beyond the scope of this paper that could impact the level of learning, more datawill be collected and future analysis performed. More self-learning exercises will beincorporated in other classes across the curriculum in order to encourage investigative,critical thinking and an improved learning outcome.References 1. Villiers, C., Y. Mehta, and R. O’Neill. 2008.“Effective Use of Integrated Lecture and Lab to Teach Civil Engineering Materials,” ASEE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. 2. ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission 2012. “Criteria for accrediting engineering programs: Effective for evaluations during the 2012-2013 cycle. http

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How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Dennis, University of Arkansas; Kevin Hall, University of Arkansas

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Civil Engineering

others, like Kolar [9], and Wood et.al.,[10] suggest an integrated and systematicapproach to design which spans the entire four year curriculum. In the Civil Engineeringprogram at the University of Arkansas the culminating design experience prescribed in Criteria 4has been satisfied with a course titled Senior Design, CVEG 4494, a four credit hour, singlesemester course dedicated to a culminating design experience that requires the application ofdesign principles learned in previous course work.Senior Design, CVEG 4494, was introduced to the Civil Engineering curriculum in 1989. Itsintroduction was a direct result of the program self study prepared for the 1990 ABETaccreditation visit to the department. Through that self study the faculty

Conference Session

Expanding Access and Opportunities for M/30

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea L. Welker PE, Villanova University; Leslie Ann McCarthy P.E., Villanova University; John Komlos, Villanova University; Alfred Andrew Fry

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Civil Engineering

more successfully embark upon thepath of life-long learning. To ensure that information literacy skills were adequately imparted tostudents, six modules were introduced into the civil and environmental engineering (CEE)curriculum at Villanova University. These modules, which were first introduced in 2005 and areintegrated throughout six courses in the curriculum, were developed jointly by faculty andlibrarians. Since the initial development of these modules, there have been several changes to thecurriculum and the faculty teaching the courses, and some of our assessment tools have beenimproved. Educational outcomes based on Association of College and Research Libraries(ACRL) outcomes were developed and an assessment protocol was implemented

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

both be considered along with the inevitable other ideas that will begenerated.Fitting Creativity/Innovation into an Already-Full Curriculum: A Strategy andSome TacticsAssume, for discussion purposes, that creativity/innovation became an integral part of theCEBOK. That would motivate some faculty members to consider ways to integrate thatKSA set into their programs. Even without that incentive, some faculty have and willcontinue to incorporate creativity/innovation on its merits as suggested, in part, by themini-survey, published articles, and my observations. Page 26.421.11How can we fit creativity and innovation into an already full academic program

Conference Session

BOK2 - Influencing Changes to the ABET Civil Engineering Program Criteria and Civil Engineering Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; John V. Tocco JD, Lawrence Technological University

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Civil Engineering

continuous improvement was the eventual impetusfor adoption of the BOK2 student outcomes for our program. This paper provides an overviewof the challenges faced and the various approaches taken by faculty to integrate the BOK2outcomes into the civil engineering curriculum. The paper also documents the successful ABETreview in 2010 in which the program was granted full accreditation and the maximum six-yearreview cycle. Finally, after six years of the Department functioning with BOK2 as studentoutcomes, the faculty can reflect and comment upon the successful and more the problematicaspects of the experience.I. IntroductionA. Overview of the Department of Civil EngineeringLawrence Technological University is located in Southfield Michigan. There are

Conference Session

Active and Out There: Labs and Active Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University; Benjamin S. Magbanua Jr., Mississippi State University; James L. Martin P.E., Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

      No  7a. Do you consider this activity or course to be a high‐impact learning activity?  Yes      No  This activity allowed me to   Reflect          Apply          Integrate  8. Did you participate in “Service Learning” or “Community‐based Learning” activity or project?   Yes      No  8a. Do you consider “Service Learning” or “Community‐based Learning” to be a high‐impact learning activity?  Yes      No  This activity allowed me to   Reflect          Apply          Integrate  9. Did you participate in an internship?   Yes

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the BOKs: ABET, Ethics, Civil Engineering as Liberal Education, and 3-Year Degrees

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin G. Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kyle Kershaw P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michelle K. Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael Anthony Robinson P.E., Harding University

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Civil Engineering

Missouri-Rolla. Michelle is co-leading an Undergraduate Research Community to support students learning through research, efforts to integrate open-ended problems throughout students’ curricula, research to remove stormwater pollu- tants via engineered treatment wetlands, and development of appropriate technology courses and research with strong emphasis on social sustainability.Dr. Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Jennifer Mueller, PhD, PE, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental En- gineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She obtained her BS in Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University, and she earned her MS and PhD in Civil Engineering

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Fridley, University of Alabama

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Civil Engineering

curriculum and holds HU core designation. The importance of the humanities to the practice of civil engineering is discussed in several courses, including the concept of form and function – that is consideration of civil works as both art and engineering – within the context of design. The program outcome, however, requires students to “explain” versus “demonstrate.” How one “demonstrates the importance” was a concern of the faculty, but “explaining the importance” seemed more assessable. While many students may be able to “demonstrate” the importance through, for example, integration with certain design projects, most may not be exposed to such a broad experience

Conference Session

Creating a Positive Environment for Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Phillips, University of Waterloo; Kayleanna Giesinger, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Scott Walbridge P.E.; Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University

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Civil Engineering

did not have the opportunity to participate in the CivE Daysevent. It was found that student grades and performance improved, indicating a betterunderstanding of the bridge design project and how the information from the different coursesare integrated.IntroductionDiversification of teaching methods is vital for an inclusive and deeper learningenvironment. Instructors are constantly working towards improving student learning and stepshave already been taken to do this in the civil engineering curriculum. Two years ago, changeswere made to incorporate a horizontally integrated bridge design project in the second-year civilprogram. This bridge project requires students to design, build, and test a bridge, using conceptsfrom their core courses