Finance from Long Island University, and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University. Dr. Lenox served for over 28 years as a commis- sioned officer in the U.S Army Field Artillery in a variety of leadership positions in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He retired at the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Lenox also spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA – including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Division. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Soci- ety of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initiatives – collectively labeled as Project
) ______ Page 24.762.15BONUS! This Presentation Rocked!! (0-5) ______ CE350 Modified January 4, 2014 DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGCE490: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING - ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS Three Minute Follies Conveying Technical Information Quickly and Effectively Communication…your ability to convey information, often technical and complex, will be of crucial importance throughout your career. Can
, Lafayette College Arthur D. Kney has been a resident of Bethlehem, Penn. since 1993. He lives with his lovely wife Linda, their brilliant eight-year-old daughter, and two wonderful cats. Kney received his doctorate of philosophy (Ph.D.) in environmental engineering from Lehigh University in 1999 and his professional engineering li- cense in 2007. He is currently serving as an Associate Professor and Department Head in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College. Throughout Kney’s career, he has been active in the community, at the local, state, and national level. He has served as chair of the Pennsylvania Water Environment Association (PWEA) research committee, Chair of the Bethlehem
to the Three Gorges Dam in China. In that way, all students were required to thinkabout an international project to some degree. This was another suitable model to teach studentsabout globalization. The older Three Gorges Dam assignments were no longer available forcontent analysis as part of this research. Final Reflective EssaysIn the first part of the final essay assignment, students were required to write about oneprofessional society meeting (such as ASCE, AGC, SWE, etc.) or professional developmentactivity (such as the career fair, design expo, civil engineering graduate seminar) that they hadattended during the semester. Of these options, EWB represents the opportunity that is the mostobviously global in nature. The percentages
students for engineering practice, the importance of writing isoften emphasized. The need for improved writing skills is a regular finding in surveys ofemployers and graduates.1,2,3 Practicing engineers note the importance of communication skills,including writing, for advancing their careers.4 Accreditation criteria since 2000 have alsoreflected the importance of writing.Within civil engineering practice, writing takes on an even more important role than in manybranches of engineering. There is a vast array of writing behind any civil engineering project –qualifications proposals, cost proposals, scoping notes, technical memos, design reports, site visitreports, reports for regulatory agencies, e-mails among the team, plan sheet notes and
“in my opinion, the learningcurve in practice is shorter when folks have the additional education.” Several noted that supportof this policy will require a monetary commitment from employers to help defray the costs ofobtaining additional formal education. Lastly, three of the practitioners pointed out that moreemphasis needs to be placed on the “experience” requirement of Policy Statement 465.18 One ofthem highlighted the importance of “…mentorship and apprenticeship under experiencedprofessionals (on the job training).”Students considering a career in geotechnical engineering should expect the field to grow at thesame pace as the general civil engineering field. To improve their employability upongraduation, they should obtain internships
orientation andcommitment to professional practice. The D4P is a four-year sequence of classes that werecarefully designed through a joint industry and university effort to provide all engineeringstudents with hands-on learning and the continuous practice of a broad set of professional skillsin better preparation for careers as engineering practitioners. The program builds these technical,managerial, and professional skills by increasing project intensity, technical difficulty, andprocess complexity one step (course) at a time. EGR 186 and 286 are multi-disciplinary coursesfollowed by the disciplinary CENE 386W, 476, and 486C. Each preceding D4P course serves asa prerequisite to the proceeding one and fosters the accumulation of skills and knowledge
positions in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He retired at the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Lenox also spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA – including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Division. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Soci- ety of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initiatives – collectively labeled as Project ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education). As ASCE’s Executive Vice President, Dr. Lenox led several educational and professional career-development projects for the civil engineering profession – with the overall
allowedstudents to reflect on experimentation and interpretation of results. Future work will explorecurriculum planning and design at the departmental level to continuously improve technicalwriting for civil engineering undergraduate students from their first-year courses to their seniorcapstone design projects.IntroductionCompetent technical writing is an essential communication skill for civil engineering students toimprove in undergraduate programs. Engineering students with strong technical writing skills arecompetitive in engineering job searches and career promotion [1]. Engineering educators haverecognized the importance of technical writing for decades and various approaches have beenimplemented to redesign the writing curriculum and improve
and testing challenges can arise, having multiple perspectives is essential to solving them.ConclusionsIn summary, the objectives of this new project-based learning approach included providing thestudents with a hands-on opportunity to understand the construction, performance, and failuremechanisms of solid and FTAO plywood shear walls. Knowledge of the construction of a shearwall provides the student with a deeper appreciation for all the working pieces that comprise thisstructural element. It also aids in their future structural engineering careers in their ability todesign walls and develop creative solutions to non-standard situations. The design of the testwall is like what they experience in the lecture portion of the class, yet
development, earthquake engineering, diversity and inclusion in engineering programs.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor and Associate School Head in the School of Civil and Environmen- tal Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize prac- ticing engineers’ understandings of core engineering concepts. He is a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Matthew Stephen Barner, Mackenzie Structural Engineer at Mackenzie Research interests include: engineering education, diffusions of innovation
University (2014-2017). Throughout his career, his primary responsibility as a faculty member has been teaching students, for which he aspires to provide them with a quality and enjoyable experience. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 AMechanics Race: An Exam Review ActivityAbstractReviewing for exams can sometimes be tedious and overwhelming for students. While it isimperative the students know the content for the exams, reviewing concepts only or usinginstructor-solved examples may not help prepare the students as well as if the students practicedproblems.Welcome to AMechanics Race! In this engaging activity, teams of students race around
the studentcan follow the steps, more like a technician than an engineer, they are not internalizing the depthof knowledge required for understanding and solve problems of greater complexity that they maysee in their careers. The regurgitation of in-class problem steps is due in part to the limited timecadets allocate for their out-of-class assignments.Creating homework assignments that challenge students to think critically and do not exceed theexpected out-of-class time is difficult. Additionally, free response questions that do challengethe students’ comprehension is burdensome to grade when providing meaningful feedback.USMA does not employ Teaching Assistants, and instructors are required to manage courseadministration, write the course
engineers, and efforts for inclusion and diversity within engi- neering. His current work explores how students describe their own learning in engineering design and how that learning supports transfer of learning from school into professional practice as well as exploring students’ conceptions of diversity and its importance within engineering fields.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor and Associate School Head in the School of Civil and Environmen- tal Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize prac- ticing engineers
designer and reviewer in peer critique, andtransition to a small-group activity.There is both qualitative and quantitative evidence that the critique provided a novel aspect totheir engineering communication education, and students are willing to engage with the topic.However, presenting this visual design workshop in the last quarter of their senior yearunderscores how little time engineering students have to construct their knowledge of qualitative,design-based visual communication skills before they are asked to perform them in theirprofessional careers. In order to provide students with better scaffolding for building thisknowledge, students should have earlier and more frequent exposures to learning that scaffoldstheir ability to make meaning
, leadership, the socio- political process, effecting change, career management, increasing discipline knowledge, understanding business fundamentals, contributing to the profession, Page 12.201.13 self-employment, additional graduate studies, and achieving licensure and specialty certification Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge ABET Engineering Criteria Outcome BOK-Compliant CE
inhumanistic as well as technical terms.IntroductionWhat is the role of engineers in society, and how is that role changing? The NationalAcademy of Engineering Report, The Engineer of 20201 identifies three visions for “OurImage and the Profession” as follows: • By 2020, we aspire to a public that will understand and appreciate the profound impact of the influence of the engineering profession on socio-cultural systems, the full spectrum of career opportunities accessible through an engineering education, and the value of an engineering education to engineers working successfully in non-engineering jobs. • We aspire to a public that will recognize the union of professionalism, technical knowledge, social
Foundation, the University ofKentucky and several students who have participated in our survey and learning module testing.Bibliography 1. Wesier, M. (1991). The Computer for the Twenty-First Century. Scientific American, 265(3), 94-101. 2. Gambatese, J. and Dunston,P.( 2003).Design Practices to Facilitate Construction Automation, RR183-11, Construction Industry Institute, Austin, Texas. 3. Economist. ( 2005). The No-computer Virus. The Economist, 253(19), 65-67. 4. BLS. ( 2006). Career Guide: Construction. , U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. 5. O'Brien, W. J., Soilbelman, L., and Elvin, G. (2003).Collaborative Design Processes: An Active- and Reflective Learning Course in Multidisciplinary Collaboration. Journal
be a prerequisite for graduate study in geotechnical engineering.≠ Ethics, Risk Management, and Business Management. Several experts noted that new graduates are often not prepared to make ethical choices. While that knowledge is acquired over time, they noted that early in their careers, some geotechnical engineers can be faced with significant ethical decisions because of the uncertainty in geotechnical engineering. The experts also noted that new graduates are not often prepared to make choices appropriate to an employer’s risk management program. Similarly, some basic business management skills were identified as helpful for new graduates. This study notes these topics are all within the scope of the
broad statements that describe the career andprofessional accomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve. Programoutcomes are narrower statements that describe what students are expected to know and be ableto do by the time of graduation. These relate to the skills, knowledge, and behaviors that studentsacquire as they advance through the program.1 The ABET program evaluator (PEV) will expectto see that your program educational objectives are consistent with the mission of your institutionand that they support your program’s constituencies. The PEV will also expect your program Page 14.846.2outcomes to foster the attainment
educational basis for jurisdictional claims in relation to other professions ≠ Refine and expand the BOK through research Page 14.1252.7 ≠ Serve as the primary source of profession’s status and public identity ≠ Contribute to students’ commitment to the profession as a career ≠ Contribute to a shared identity and feeling of community among members of the professionOf all these purposes, Freidson places particular emphasis on the importance of research.Strengthening and expanding the BOK is seen as a critical tool for defending and expanding theprofession’s jurisdiction. In the civil engineering community, research is
AC 2009-168: F6H=CEESteven Hart, United States Military AcademyJoseph Hanus, United States Military AcademyAdam Chalmers, United States Military Academy Page 14.617.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 F6H=CEE Fake Firms & Funny Funds For Four-H=Civil Engineering EnlightenmentIntroduction Senioritis. Believe it or not, it is actually in the dictionary. Well, www.dictionary.comanyway, where it is defined as “decreased motivation toward studies displayed by students whoare nearing the end of their [college] careers.” Its causes are attributed to a variety of factorswhich revolve around the student’s desire to be
significant revisions to thecurriculum as part of its regular self-assessment. Among the changes was the elimination ofspecific tracks of courses geared towards students interested in infrastructure issues orenvironmental issues. Instead, students now take a common bank of courses with morespecialization occurring through selection of elective courses in the senior year. Part of thecurricular revision moved the Reinforced Concrete course from the second semester of thesophomore year to the first semester of the senior year. This was driven by what the instructorconsidered overall poor performance by students in the course. The primary cause of the poorperformance was somewhat weak analytical skills at that point in their careers, as they had nothad
Associate Professor and Mechanics Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects throughout the United States. He is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states. Dr. Barry’s areas of research include assessment of professional ethics, teaching and learning in engineering education, nonverbal communication in the
eleven years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy.Ally Kindel Martin, The Citadel Ally Kindel Martin is the Director of Student Engagement, Projects & Finance in the School of Engi- neering. In her position, she has worked with the Supplemental Instruction program, launched STEM Freshmen Outreach initiatives, created an Engineering Mentor Connection program, and revitalized the Engineering Career & Networking Expo. She holds a M.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of South Carolina. Previously she worked as a Student Success Adviser and focused on early intervention initiatives. She has taught courses including First Year Seminar, Keys to Student Success and
, early in their careers, learn not to make promisesthey cannot keep, yet our students consistently present the boss—the instructor—with the mostaggressive estimated construction times instead of more conservative ones.Finally, teams must roughly estimate the amount of equipment time this project will require.Much more rigor will be put into this decision later, but at this point, teams rely, again, onhistorical data. It is important to note, the equipment—a KNEX crane—is the most expensivehourly cost on the project. Contrary to the aggressive construction times, this equipment costestimate is often overestimated greatly inflating this initial estimate.Teams submit their initial estimates to their instructor. Any material errors are highlighted
Edmonton, Canada.Dr. Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University Dr. Carroll is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Saint Louis University. His experimental research interests focus on reinforced and prestressed concrete, while his engineering education research interests focus on experiential learning at both the university and K-12 levels. Dr. Carroll serves as a voting member on ACI Committee S802 - Teaching Methods and Educational Materials and is Chair of the Career Guidance Committee for the ASCE - St. Louis Section. He has eight years of formal experience with K-12 engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Enhancing Student Learning
creating designs that last: Participant 3: I guess to incorporate sustainability and resiliency into my future career I would, you know, be designing things to last. Uhm, not designing to just fix the problem, but also designing it to fix the problem and, you know, keep fixing the problem 10 years down the road.For Participant 2, the inclusion of sustainability in the civil engineering code of ethics providedevidence of the importance of sustainability to the work of practicing engineers. He said: It’s in there, it’s in the code of ethics. You’re supposed to think about your sustainability and as long as we practice those fundamental cannons, that’s what you’re supposed to look into all the time and make
flexibility, innovation, and creativity.References[1] C. H. Mann, “A Study of Engineering Education,” The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Bulletin 11, New York, N.Y. 1918[2] J. S. Russell and W.B. Stouffer, “Survey of the National Civil Engineering Curriculum,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, vol. 131, n 2, pp 118- 128, April 2005.[3] ABET, Inc, “Accredited Program Search,” [Online], Available: http://main.abet.org/aps/Accreditedprogramsearch.aspx [Accessed January 2018].[4] American Society of Civil Engineers, “Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century,” [Online], Available: https://www.asce.org/uploadedFiles/Education_and_ Careers/Body_of_Knowledge
Auckland, NZ, developer of the Xorro assessment authoring tool Xorro-Q. His entrepreneurial career spans education, health, energy and gaming sectors. Pablo is an enthusiastic advocate for solutions and practices which open new learning and collaboration horizons.Mr. Wyatt Banker-Hix P.E., California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo Wyatt Banker-Hix is a licensed professional engineer in the state of California with over four years of industry experience in structural and transportation engineering. He also serves as a part-time lecturer at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) in the Civil Engineering department. He enjoys teaching a hands-on materials laboratory course sprinkled